... like that person I knew who used to say, "I always see the divine Will in others." That can land you anywhere, there is nothing more dangerous, for if you think you see the divine Will in others, you are sure to do their will, not the divine Will. There too we can say that not one among many, many human beings acts in accord with the divine Will. You know the story of the irritable elephant, his mahout... knowledge, let the Divine Will work it out for me." Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end to be achieved. This is the first step... Source The Divine Will Is Unmistakable How are we to know, you will ask, when it is the Divine Will that makes us act... Source Knowing the Divine Will There are four conditions for knowing the divine Will: The first essential condition: an absolute sincerity. Second: to overcome desires and preferences. Third: to silence the mind and listen. Fourth: to obey immediately when you receive the order. If you persist you will perceive the divine Will more and more clearly. But even before ...
... There we are. How can one change into the divine Will? How can one change one's will into the divine Will? I don't understand your question. (Another child, repeating) How can one change into the divine Will? Well, it's because it is not well expressed that I don't understand. Change, that is transform one's will into the divine Will? Is that what you want to say? Yes. Well... Now, I said that if someone asks "reasonable" questions, I shall perhaps answer. What human will is at present particularly against the divine Will? You mean from what point of view? All human will which is against the divine Will is an anti-divine will. That's all. No matter where it manifests, even in you! There are no party politics in the divine life, you know. ( Laughter ) There are... over a given number of months approximately. Sweet Mother, here it is written: The final victory is certain. 5 If it is the divine Will, why is not each victory certain? (Mother not having heard the question well, the child repeats it.) If it is the divine Will, why is it not each victory, why only the final Victory? No, this is not what it means. It means that finally the Victory is ...
... sent me! The men are sinister brutes, the cruellest of all living creatures. 12 April 1933 The Divine is the true supreme goal of our life. We must fulfil the divine will. But who is the Divine, and what is the divine will? These are things one cannot speak about; they have to be discovered through personal experience. 13 April 1933 I have faith in my strength and believe I am... 112 Is it possible to know the divine will without having any experience of the divine Reality, without rising to the intuitive consciousness or entering into the depths of one's heart? Certainly, without at least one of these three conditions, one runs a grave risk of being mistaken and taking one's own subconscious will for the divine Will. 19 July 1935 "He who renounces... For two days I have been thinking of stopping my walks with Y; but will You please tell me why it is undesirable? I think I understand the divine will, but is it true? I think that one part of your consciousness does in fact perceive the divine Will quite clearly; but when you try to carry out this will integrally, your vital, thwarted in its desires and impulses, becomes depressed and refuses ...
... that the Divine Will manifests itself, intermittently, as if in a sudden flash, in the beginning, and afterwards more clearly, definitely and constantly, and the will of the divine worker unites with it in a rapture of ardent self-giving. If the primary and principal Page 318 object of Yogic action is union, the ultimate object is the flawless expression of the divine Will in the... Divine in Matter. And what is the best means of bringing about the fullness of this manifestation ? It is the fulfilment of the Divine Will "in all things and at every moment.” When our will, purified of all desire and egoism, unites and co-operates with the divine Will, then the latter can fulfil itself freely in our life and nature, "in every activity of our being, from our supreme heights to... seeking union and identification with the Divine through Yogic action as well as through love and knowledge, and, second, that in which he acts in the Divine, by the direct dynamisation of the divine Will. The whole attitude of the Yogin in the first state is summed up in the the following words, "Grant that more and more I may be perfectly awakened to the awareness of Thy constant Presence. Let ...
... integral rejection of desire for the discovery of the divine Will and its creative play in life, constitutes the cardinal principle of the second attitude, which we shall now consider at some length. Page 228 THE CONQUEST OF DESIRE PART II We have seen that (I) desire is a darkened and deformed splinter of the divine Will and that its elimination means a free and unhampered... and realise His Will and nothing but His Will, at every step and moment of our life, that desire is finally conquered and the divine Will installed as the undisputed sovereign of our nature. It is then only that we can be said to have free will, for it is the divine Will alone that is free and sovereign. Detachment, equality and surrender, as the Mother teaches us, will achieve the conquest... knowledge, renunciation of desire will cease to be an arduous and painful endeavour, but become, instead, a glad and natural sacrifice offered to the Supreme. Desire—a Distorted Splinter of the Divine Will It is said in the Upanishads that in the beginning there was the One without a second. That One desired to be many. This, then, is the first birth of desire; but it is better to call it Will ...
... as a preparatory stage, as steps on the way to the discovery of the Divine Will. But it insists again and again upon the necessity of making the discovery. Though in a certain sense everything happens by the sanction of the Divine Will discoverable. This is the problem set before Arjuna in the Gita. One may equate the Divine Will to a principle, to an idea, an ideal, a value - which one follows but... not even social morality or ethical idealism. The true source of action is the Divine Will in the individual discoverable by him. Gita teaches that Life and action are not to be renounced but their ignorant-egoistic - basis has to be rejected and it has to be changed into the true basis. It declares that a Divine Will is actively at work and can, and does, intervene. in a critical life-situation... When the individual gives up his egoistic initiation of action then an impersonal and even a Divine Will can be discovered and obeyed. This great truth is crucial because it has a direct bearing on the goal of life, the highest fulfilment of man on earth. The difficulty is that of discovering the Divine Will; for men have so many ideas, ideals, values etc. in life by which they seek to govern, partially ...
... to reject all these spurious forms of personal will and give expression, always and in all situations, to the "right Tapas", me Divine Will which is besides our own will in the deepest and highest sense. For, as Sri Aurobindo has pointed out, "The divine Will is not an alien Power or Presence; it is intimate to us and we ourselves are part of it: for it is our own highest Self that possesses... sadhaka renounce his self-will and seek to know the Divine Will in order to fulfil it? Is it for some personal interest, be that interest high and noble and Page 225 glorious or even garbed in some 'spiritual' guise? No, Surely not; for if such is the behind-the-screen motive of the sadhaka in his quest after the Divine Will, he can be sure that the Divine's Will will not... Will of the Divine will be nothing else in reality but the sole satisfaction of the camouflaged appetites of his own ego. Let us listen to what the Mother has said in this regard: "So long as there will be any personal aspiration, or a personal desire or preference, an egoistic will, this will always create a mixture and it will no longer be an exact expression of the divine Will. The only ...
... conscious Will moving with illumination on the straight path towards the immortal felicity. The mental will, kratu , becomes what it at present only represents, the divine Will, Agni. WILL AND KNOWLEDGE The essentiality of the divine Will is that in it Consciousness and Energy, Knowledge and Force are one. It knows all manifestations, all things that take birth in the worlds. It is Jatavedas, that... knowledge and action are one movement. SURRENDER TO THE DIVINE WILL This is the change that happens when, the mental will approximating more and more to the divine, Agni burns out in us. It is that increasing knowledge and force which carries us finally into the straight or good path out of the crookedness. It is the divine Will, one with the divine knowledge, which leads us towards felicity... Analysis Isha Upanishad VIII Fourth Movement [2] Action and the Divine Will Verses 17-18 17) The Breath of things is an immortal life, but of this body ashes are the end. OM! O Will, remember, that which was done remember! O Will, remember, that which was done remember. 18) O god Agni, knowing all things that are manifested, lead us by the good ...
... human will and the divine will by the constant movement of sacrifice in the fire of which the barrier is burnt and the human instrument is so purified that it becomes the vehicle of the operations of the higher Prakriti and the divine will, and the individual not only becomes but realizes in direct knowledge that he is a mere instrument (nimitta) of the Divine Will. That divine will, if followed or... response is the divine birth that descends into the movements of upward will of the offering. It is by the junction of the two that the divine will is injected into the aspiring individual; it is then in the purity of the individual's consciousness that the divine will begins to operate. That will is the transcendental will, the will that constantly unifies all the workings of Para Prakriti and Apara... to carry out the divine action as an instrument of the Divine Will which always works for the sake of the world-harmony and in union with the Spirit who dwells in it and all its creatures and in whom all its workings take place. Arjuna has now accepted that command with the knowledge of the divine consciousness and the knowledge of the divine will; his personal will is emptied of egoism and will act ...
... source of becoming, the source of the divine will and also of the operation of the divine will. That leads to the fulfillment of Karma yoga, since the specific aim of the karma yoga is to unite the individual being and will with the divine being and divine will, as a result of which the individual is rendered into the egoless and desireless instrument of the divine will that works itself out triumphantly... is not complete without the knowledge of the Divine Will and Divine Love. The divine will in being also is God and not the being or itself self-aware silent existence alone; and just as works find their culmination in knowledge, even so, knowledge also finds its fulfillment in works and the crown of the knowledge as also of the growth in the divine will is the divine love. Perfect knowledge leads to... ly through the individual. But there is also another consequence. With the knowledge of the divine being and the divine will as also with the dynamic operation of the divine will in the individual instrumentality, the individual grows not only into the divine Consciousness and divine Force but also into the divine Delight. There is then the rise of Bhakti, because Bhakti is essentially the delight ...
... think you see the divine Will in others, you are sure to do their will, not the divine Will. There too we can say that not one among many, many human beings acts in accord with the divine Will. You know the story of the irritable elephant, his mahout, and the man who would not make way for the elephant. Standing in the middle of the road, the man said to the mahout, "The divine Will is in me and the... If everybody expressed the divine Will, there would be no conflict any longer, anywhere, all would be in harmony. That is what one tries to do, but it is not very easy. But it is difficult to know the divine Will, isn't it? We have already studied the subject at length. Don't you remember what we said? There are four conditions for knowing the divine Will: The first essential condition:... relation to others. You are asked to be plastic to the divine Will—which is not quite the same thing! And that requires a great strength because the very first thing that will happen to you is to be exposed to the will of almost everyone around you. If you have a family, you will see the attitude of the family! The more plastic you are to the divine Will, the more opposition you will meet from the will of ...
... are those who say, who profess that everything that happens is the expression of the divine Will (I spoke about this last time, I think), there is an entire way of looking at life, understanding life, which is like that, which says, "All that is, the world as it is, all that happens, is the expression of the divine Will; therefore wisdom wants us, if we want to be in relation with the Divine, to accept... theories. I have met many people who claimed they had perfect equality of soul and perfect freedom, and hid themselves behind these theories: "All is the divine Will", and who, in fact, in their thought, were substituting their own will for the divine Will, and were very far from realising what they claimed. They were idlers who didn't want to make any effort and preferred keeping their nature as it was... accept without flinching and without the slightest emotion or reaction all that happens, since it is the expression of the divine Will, and it is understood that we should bow down before it." This is a conception which tends precisely to help people to acquire this equality of soul. But if you adopt this idea without adopting its opposite and making a synthesis of the two, well, naturally, you have only ...
... must be ousted and there must be revealed instead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this inner heart in which dwells the Divine, will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love and manifold Ananda. This is the definition of a divine humanity or a supramental race. This, not an exaggerated or... of our capacities of working into the hands of a greater Power behind us and our sense of being the doer and worker must disappear. All must be given for a more direct use into the hands of the divine Will which is hidden by these frontal appearances; for by that permitting Will alone is our action possible. A hidden Power is the true Lord and overruling Observer of our acts and only he knows through... only true freedom possible to man,—a freedom which he cannot have unless he outgrows his mental separativeness and becomes the conscious soul in Nature. The only free will in the world is the one divine Will of which Nature is the executrix; for she is the master and creator of all other wills. Human free-will can be real in a sense, but, like all things that belong to the modes of Nature, it is only ...
... inspired by the Divine Will. 'The Gita justifies all life to the spirit as a significant manifestation of Divinity and asserts the compatibility of a complete human action and complete spiritual life lived in union with the Infinite, consonant with the highest Self, expressive of the perfect Godhead. 'The central question is: "What is the Divine Will? We have to remember that Divine Will is not static;... static; it is dynamic; it is ever-progressive. You have no right to take a leaf from the book and declare that such and such is the Divine Will because such and such was the answer that the Divine Will had given at such and such a time in human history. What Sri Krishna had declared to Arjuna was indeed an injunction to take up arms to fight for the sake of justice and Dharma; but what was the injunction... inspired by the Divine Will when you are trying to fashion the design to employ violent means for achieving your ends? And what is your end? Is it a part of the Divine vision? 'The Gita is a guide to action, and you must, indeed, refer to its guidance; but you must understand the conditions that the Gita lays down. 'Of course, you may say that it is very difficult to know the Divine Will. But then ...
... "No, not at all. It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. So long as a personal aspiration or desire, a selfish will, get mingled in it, it always creates a mixture and is not exactly an expression of the divine Will. The only thing which must count is the Divine, His... the one most in accordance with the divine Will, and try to listen and receive the inspiration." (M C W, Vol. 6, pp. 340-41) When the sadhaka has tried to fulfil the eight above-mentioned conditions, he has created in him the requisite state of psychological receptivity and can then reasonably expect to receive an intimation of the divine Will that is operative in him at that moment... The Practice of the Integral Yoga XII THE PROBLEM OF RIGHT ACTION: HOW TO RECOGNISE THE DIVINE WILL? The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo aims at the perfect manifestation of the Divine in the field of earthly existence. A sadhaka of this path cannot therefore consider his sadhana fulfilled, simply when he has achieved union with the Divine ...
... illumination, he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony by his perceptions. Commentary Gotama Rahugana is the seer of this Hymn, which is a stoma in praise of Agni, the divine Will at work in the universe. Agni is the most important, the most universal of the Vedic gods. In the physical world he is the general devourer and enjoyer. He is also the purifier; when he devours... of Infinity are able to work out the manifestation and self-extension of the Divine ( devavīti, devatāti ) which is at once aim and process of the cosmic and of the human sacrifice. For he is the divine Will which in all things is always present, is always destroying and constructing, always building and perfecting, supporting always the complex progression of the universe. It is this which persists... It is this which makes the tree grow according to its seed and each action bear its appropriate fruit. In the obscurity of man's ignorance,—less than material Nature's, yet greater,—it is this divine Will that governs and guides, knows the sense of his blindness and the goal of his aberration and out of the crooked workings of the Page 280 cosmic Falsehood in him evolves the progressive ...
... kind of religious equality, submission to the divine will, a patient bearing of the cross, a Page 208 submissive forbearance. In the Gita this element takes the more ample form of an entire surrender of the whole being to God. It is not merely a passive submission, but an active self-giving; not only a seeing and an accepting of the divine Will in all things, but a giving up of one's own... the final attitude is that enjoined on Arjuna in a later chapter, "All has been already done by Me in my divine will and foresight; become only the occasion, O Arjuna," nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savyasācin . This attitude must lead finally to an absolute union of the personal with the Divine Will and, with the growth of knowledge, bring about a faultless response of the instrument to the divine Power... by our individual strength, the freedom of mastery only comes by our union with God, by a merging or dwelling of the personality in the one divine Person and the loss of the personal will in the divine Will. There is a divine Master of Nature and her works, above her though inhabiting her, who is our highest being and our universal self; to be one with him is to make ourselves divine. By union with ...
... make it better? And once again one is facing the same fact which it seems impossible to resolve. Here you are, then: The divine Will―and the Grace which manifests it―is Page 265 all-powerful and nothing can exist which is not the expression of this divine Will and this Grace which manifests it.... The logical attitude―precisely the one described in the little book I read to you on Fridays... Fridays now, Wu Wei 4 ―a perfect peace, a total surrender, putting aside all effort and all personal will, giving oneself up to the divine Will and letting it act through oneself. Mind you, this is not at all easy, it is not as simple as it looks. But still, if one sincerely takes up this attitude, it is certain that immediately there comes a perfect inner peace, an unmixed bliss, and whatever... progressive evolution one may continue to think that all is the expression of the divine Grace and Will, but that at the same time all is not as it ought to be. Everything is in accordance with the divine Will, but everything is not as it ought to be, otherwise things would not move. Page 266 And there we are faced with the problem once more. The question I have been asked is this: "Now ...
... finds that that flow of action is a spontaneous flow of the divine will and that one's individuality, which is freed from ego, is only a channel of the divine will and divine action. One acts in the world thereafter, but not out of desire nor out of the sense of doership, but as a simple and effortless instrument through which the divine will is manifested and accomplished. These are the methods and... the production of results and in the enjoyment that results of action provide. The aim in Karma yoga is the realization that is attainable through the methods of Karma voga: the realization of the divine will; and this realization is attained by a methodical elimination of desire and ego which are ordinarily inseparable from human action. The first step of the method of Karma yoga is to become engaged... begins to discover that there is a supreme originator of action, a supreme originator even of the universal Prakriti. The offering of one's action then is directed to that supreme originator, to the divine will. By constant offering of one's actions to that supreme will, the personal will and desire of action get ultimately eliminated, and the sense of egoistic doership is also annihilated. One becomes ...
... a surrender to the Highest and not to desire or ego, then the divine Will determines without stumbling or deflection and the divine Power executes freely without any nether interference or perverting reaction all works in the purity and safety of your transmuted nature. To allow your every act to be shaped through you by the divine Will in its immaculate sovereignty is the highest degree of the perfection... which the Gita teaches is not a human, but a divine action; not the performance of social duties, but the abandonment of all other standards of duty or conduct for a selfless performance of the divine will working through our nature; not social service, but the action of the Best, the God-possessed, the Master-men done impersonally for the sake of the world and as a sacrifice to Him who stands behind... society as its visible idol. At its best it is practical, ethical, social, pragmatic, altruistic, humanitarian. Now all these things are good, are especially needed at the present day, are part of the divine Will or they would not have become so dominant in humanity. Nor is there any reason why the divine man, the man who lives in the Brahmic consciousness, in the God-being should not be all of these things ...
... obey the Divine Will. In order to reach the higher Nature, have we not to prevent the lower Nature from disobeying the Divine will? Yes, but it is a free uncompelled assent to the Divine Will — in the higher Nature there is a spontaneous oneness of the Divine and the individual will. What exactly is the meaning of "Will one with the Divine Will"? ... meant that it was of no importance one way or the other. It is when you are free from the lower Nature that her will is the Law. The lower Nature is constantly disobeying the Divine Will. Page 108 What I meant to ask you was this: so long as we are bound to the lower Nature what does the Mother actually intend by leaving the responsibility to us by saying... Agrees and is the same as the Divine Will—does not follow after separate personal preferences and desires. Is it advisable to sometimes exceed our normal quantity of food and digest it by the will force? P Says he takes at times three or four times more food and sets everything right by his will. It is better not to try unless you are sure of the effectivity of ...
... dyspepsia? NIRODBARAN: They say it must be due to the Divine Will. SRI AUROBINDO: Everything is due to the Divine Will because the Divine Will is at the back of everything. But what is the Divine Will? The Will works through various factors—forces, one's own nature, etc. The murderer also can say that behind his murder there is the Divine Will. Then his being hanged also has to be taken in that light... light. Lele supported his queer acts by saying they were due to the Divine Will. If everything is taken like that, what is the use of doing Yoga? ( To Purani ) I hear that the Darshan was a very happy one. PURANI: Yes, many people say that. Plenty of people saw you smiling. NIRODBARAN: Dilip also said it was a very happy Darshan. But they want to know what your impression was. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... everything is done by the Divine Will, then a murderer can say that it is the Divine who is committing the murder and in that case there is no necessity of doing Yoga because everything is being done by the Divine Will and so everything is perfect; there is nothing to change. And we shall have to concede Shastri's demand to supply him with two thousand books because it is the Divine Will! He says everybody... it would create much difficulty. And, if, after proceeding on a wrong path, one realises it, he won't be able to come back because it is the Divine Will that has led him there. Then Nolin Bihari and some others would be quite right in saying that the Divine Will was behind all their actions. Even when we contradicted him, he was quite right in insisting on his own way. PURANI: Anilbaran would say... 13 SEPTEMBER 1940 EVENING PURANI: Anilbaran seems to hold that the individual has no selective action. He is only an instrument, a puppet, an automaton of the Divine Will. He has no individual choice. SRI AUROBINDO: The individual is also the Supreme. SATYENDRA: Yes, it is the Supreme that has become transcendent, universal and individual. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... and undiluted potency. An immixture takes place, and though the action may be felt as inspired or impelled from within or above, it does not carry on it the hall- mark of the divine Will. How to incarnate the divine Will and let it express itself freely and effectively in life ? This is the central problem of a dynamic Yoga, and the Mother gives us an inestimable guidance in it. "In my view... as a luminous, fully conscious direction lighting up the whole process and result of the action. These ways sometimes alternate and sometimes combine and make up the complex working of the divine Will in the Yogin till the channel has been completely cleared and tempered for its direct, uninterrupted self-fulfilment. The self-expression of the supreme Will, which is the sole end of Yogic... climber and refreshes and invigorates him on his upward way, just as an ascent induces a delivering descent. But this is not, according to the Mother, a very high, let alone the ideal state. In it the divine Will can manifest itself but intermittently and-with a modified force. For a glimpse of the ideal state, as the Mother envisages it here, and as many of her later experiences fully illustrate, and ...
... of Nature; to be beyond these conditions of her working is to be silent in the Spirit. The Ishwara, the Supreme who is master of all her works and functions and guides and determines them by his divine will, is indeed above this mechanism of quality, not touched or limited by her modes, but still it would seem that he acts always through them, always shapes by the power of the swabhava and through the... as is the human will, by the gunas. No doubt, since these modes are so universal in their action, they must proceed from something inherent in the power of the Spirit; there must be powers in the divine Will-force from which these from aspects of Prakriti have their origin. For everything in the lower normal nature is derived the higher spiritual power of being of the Purushottama, mattaḥ pravartate... when it puts on mental values, creates the reactions of desire, striving, straining, error of will, sorrow, sin, pain? It is a Page 464 will of the spirit in movement, it is a large divine will in action which is not touched by these things; it is a power 1 of the free and infinite conscious Godhead which has no desire because it exercises a universal possession and a spontaneous Ananda ...
... 1929 ) Many people accept certain theories, some of which are very convenient, and they say, "Everything is the result of the divine Will"; others say, "The Divine is everywhere and in everything and does everything"; yet others say, "My will is one with the divine Will, it is He who inspires me." Indeed, there are many theories and they say that. Naturally, their ego is as alive. They do all that... that they want to do, saying, "It is the Divine who is doing it in me." Whatever is supplied by their brain is the "divine Will". It is not a personal inspiration: "Everything is the result of the divine Will." "It is not I who am acting, it is the Divine who is acting through me." They do all that they wish to do. There are many people like that. Therefore I said, "Do not use the Divine as a pretty... (whether outer or inner), all the parts of the being, all of them, have one single will to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to will only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no other source of energy than that of the Divine. Page 5 And you find that there is not a day, not an hour, not a minute when you do not need to intensify, rectify your sincerity ...
... the instrument in the practical field. If the ignorant egoistic will is to be considered as a manifestation of the Divine Will, then there is no utility in Yoga—in that case the Yogi and the ordinary man stand on the same footing, they are both the Divine and their will is the Divine Will. The Divine can create his own instruments in an institution Page 589 as well as outside it. Whether... I send you back your friend's letters. As regards the question about his śiṣyā , I do not usually give directions in such matters—one has to follow the course that seems best relying on the Divine Will both for the choice and the consequence. It seems fairly clear that the course already suggested is the wiser one. As for his coming here, he must first prepare himself. For the time being we... be prepared who can be part of the creation and at the same time the means of developing it, I suppose. 25 July 1932 I don't know where to draw the line between the egoistic will and the divine Will. Can there really be anything like the will of the instrument in the practical field? As the physical mind would put it: Since only the Divine's Will is done, what is the need of your creating i ...
... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything whatsoever through identification with it. But the divine consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. For, mere awareness is not knowledge. To become aware of a vibration, for instance... death and dissolution. In conclusion, I should like to draw your attention to one point, for it very frequently obstructs true union. It is a great Page 169 error to suppose that the Divine Will is always acting openly in the world. All that happens is not, in fact, divine: the Supreme Will is distorted in the manifestation owing to the combination of lower forces which translate it. They... which falsifies its impetus and gives it an undivine result. If all that happened were indeed the flawless translation of it, how could you account for the distortions of the world?... Not that the Divine Will could not have caused the cosmic Ignorance. It is omnipotent and all possibilities are inherent in it: it can work out anything of which it sees the secret necessity in its original vision. And the ...
... but to put your will at the disposal of the divine Will." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 21 April ) How can one make an offering of one's will?... Some people, when they offer their will, stop willing! This is more convenient, but evidently this is not the right way. How to offer one's will to the Divine when one does not know what the divine Will is? This is a very interesting problem. ... Some men think that all that comes to them from out-side is the divine Will, and they accept it as such. Yes, unfortunately. But all that they do is to accept the collective will or that of the strongest. Should not one offer all one's willed actions to the Divine? That is, first do the willed actions and then offer them? Perhaps you could first silence your will and wait for the inner... perseverance, keep your little truth intact for the moment when it will be possible to realise it. The final victory is for the most patient. "You say, 'I give my will to the Divine... Let the divine Will work it out for me.' Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end ...
... The divine powers in us are carried to their goal in the Truth and Bliss by the force of the. Divine Will working in man. × Mental, vital, physical, the lower "births" all the knowledge of which the Divine Will, knower of our Births, possesses and through which it has to lead the ascending sacrifice to... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Fourth Hymn to Agni The Divine Will, Priest, Warrior and Leader of our Journey [The Rishi hymns the Divine Force that knows all the successive births of the soul on its ascending planes of existence and as priest of his upward and onward-journeying sacrifice gives him the purity, the power, the knowledge, the... × Agni is here the supreme Will dwelling in us, Father and Lord of our being; he is to act in us entirely by the divine will and knowledge. × Ila. × ...
... But to remain in works without desire is to act for the good of the world in general or for the kind or the race or for some new creation to be evolved on the earth or some work imposed by the Divine Will within him. And this must be done either in the framework provided by the environment or the grouping in which he is born or placed or else in one which is chosen or created for him by a divine direction... general interest or for expediency or because of the pressure of the environment or from any sense of duty, but solely for the sake of the Lord of works and because it is felt or known to be the Divine Will that the social law or rule or relation as it stands can still be kept as a figure of the inner life and the minds of men must not be disturbed by its infringement. If, on the other hand, the social... this last limitation is exceeded, because the nature is utterly fulfilled and its boundaries vanish. There the soul lives without any boundaries; for it uses all forms and moulds according to the divine Will in it, but it is not restrained, it is not tied down, it is not imprisoned in any power or form that it uses. This is the summit of the path of works and this the utter liberty of the soul in its ...
... automaton, a passive instrument of the Divine Will, here too he has to act only according to that Will. He has to reject and choose amongst all other forces which are not that. Then he performs the action of rejection. He is no more an automaton. And his very calling for the Divine Grace may be an interference. SATYENDRA: Besides, one has first to know what the Divine Will is. SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so... so. It is true that ultimately everything works out according to the Divine Will and fulfils the Divine Purpose. But that doesn't mean that the individual has no choice, no selection. SATYENDRA: These are truths of a higher spiritual consciousness where one knows what the Divine Will is and sees or perceives it acting everywhere through Nature. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, here in the Ignorance there are... and afterwards is merged in the Cosmic. Sri Aurobindo read the passage. SRI AUROBINDO: There is no difficulty. I have said here, "the dynamo selected"—I haven't said who selects. It may be the Divine Will or Nature. And even when the individual is merged in the Cosmic, the individual character remains. But the question of selective action of the individual doesn't arise from this passage. All this ...
... union even in the outermost nature, and a complete possession and government of the whole being by the divine Love, so that the divine Will, realized by the Mother in her union with the Eternal, may fulfil itself in her terrestrial existence. But what is this divine Will in regard to the Mother ? "To be the Life in all material forms, the Thought organizing and using this Life in all . forms,... surrender to the Supreme Principle, to become conscious of the Truth and the eternal Will which manifests it. By this identification, becoming the faithful servant and sure intermediary of the divine Will, and uniting this conscious identification of the Principle with the conscious identification of the becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming according to... insufficient compared with what has to be. The perfections of the past have no longer any force at present. A new puissance is needed to transform the new powers and make them submit to Thy divine Will.—'Ask and it shall be’, such is Thy constant reply...Let all these elements perish, so that from their ¹ prayer and Meditations of the Mother— May 16, 1914. ² ibid,- May 27, 1914 ...
... required of you is not a passive surrender in which you become like a block, but to put your will at the disposal of the Divine Will...Take the example of becoming conscious of your nights. If you take the attitude of passive surrender, you would say, 'When it is the divine Will that I should become conscious, ¹ Words of the Mother, p. 39. Page 45 then I shall become... and wait. The surrender comes in when you take the attitude that says, 'I will give my will to the Divine. I intensely want to become conscious of my nights. I have not the knowledge, let the divine Will work it out for me. Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the... your surrender is passive, you will do nothing and try nothing; you will simply go to sleep and wait for a miracle. Now, to know whether your will or desire is in agreement with the Divine Will or not, you must look and see whether you have aw answer or have no answer, whether you feel supported or contradicted, not by the mind or the vital or the body, but by then something which ...
... Hymn is a hymn of the Adhwara Yajna, the Sacrifice of the Path. Agni, the Divine Will-Force or Power of Consciousness, is the deity. 1) The Gotamas, illumined minds, are to proceed to the path of the sacrifice; let them then give voice to the thought in them which is to be the governing word of their progress for the Divine Will-Force to use; that Force hears the word and responds whether as the deity... That transformation is effected in the perfect bliss of the Divine Will-Force. 7-8) This great going & coming is effected in a silent spiritual rapidity; there is no rumour or clamour at all of the trampling hooves of the Vital Forces in their swiftness; but the chariot of the movement gallops swiftly. 9) Finally, the Divine Will-Force lodges in all our being for the benefit of the soul itself... deity realised within or as the deity of the universe seated in the highest and most distant worlds. 2) The Divine Will-Force is the first and supreme among divine powers; it protects our movement in the sacrifice from plane to plane and all the planes of our being on which the Work proceeds come together in a conscious harmony and stream forth their riches in response to our giving. 3) Let this ...
... are well trapped, they play a fine trick upon you and it is all over with you. We have said that there is only one safety, never to act except in harmony with the divine Will. There is one question: how to know that it is the divine Will which makes you act? I replied to the person who put to me this question (although this person did not agree with me) that it is not difficult to distinguish the voice... extremely subtle—a slight indication. When everything goes well, that is, when you do nothing contrary to the divine Will, you will not perhaps have any definite impression, everything will seem to you normal. Of course, you should be eager to know whether you are acting in accordance with the divine Will, that is the first point, naturally, without which you can know nothing at all. But once you are eager... continually, it would seem to you altogether natural. You can express this in two ways: either say, "It is quite natural, it is like this that things must happen, it is only an expression of the divine Will", or, each time you see on the material plane an intervention coming Page 84 from another plane, you ought to say, "It is miraculous!" So I may say with certainty that people who want ...
... progress from light to light on a surge of developing joy and power. It is the psychic alone that can give the readiest response to the divine call, and offer all itself for the fulfilment of the divine Will. Its love and devotion and self-surrender to the Divine are as unstinted and spontaneous as the ego's devotion and self-giving to its mundane pursuits. The psychic being is the temple of the Divine... alloy in such a one-sided seeking. Page 177 divine union, the psychic control and transformation of nature, and the unwearied insistence on service, on the perfect fulfilment of the divine Will and the manifestation of the supernal glory of the Divine upon earth, except in the Prayers and Meditations of the Mother ? THE PSYCHIC POISE The essential psychic poise is one... immortal enjoyment of unity in diversity— sambhūtyāmṛtamaśnute, as the Upanishads say. The liberated soul, the Jivanmukta, does not shrink from assuming any number of births for the fulfilment of the divine Will;—each birth of such a soul is, indeed, an invasion of light into the terrestrial darkness and an infusion of bliss into the mortal suffering. The particular line of divine consciousness influencing ...
... he who stands in front as the representative of the sacrificer, the conductor of the sacrifice, Adhwaryu; he combines all the sacred offices. It is evident that these functions all belong to the divine will or conscient power in man which awakes in the inner sacrifice. This Fire has built all the worlds; this creative Power, Agni Jatavedas, knows all the births, all that is in the worlds; he is the... renews the youth of these mystic cattle. He is triply extended in the Infinite. All these functions cannot be predicated of the god of physical fire; but they are all just attributes of the conscient divine Will in man and the universe. He is the horse of battle and the horse of swiftness and again he gives the white horse; he is the Son and he creates for man the Son. He is the Warrior and he brings to... Truth and Immortality and the head too of the march. It is the greatest power in the conduct of the mystic discipline, यजिष्ठ, the most mighty for sacrifice. Man's sacrifice is a pilgrimage and the divine Will its leader; therefore it is that which we must adore or pray to or ask for its presence in each sacrificial action. The second line of the Rik gives us a statement of the first discovery or birth ...
... abandon also all willed action. On the contrary, you can hasten the realisation by lending your will to the Divine Will. That too is surrender in another form. What is required of you is not a passive surrender, in which you become like a block, but to put your will at the disposal of the Divine Will. Page 18 But how can one do this before the union has been affected? You have a will... will and you can offer that will. Take the example of becoming conscious of your nights. If you take the attitude of passive surrender, you would say, "When it is the Divine Will that I should become conscious, then I shall become conscious." On the other hand, if you offer your will to the Divine, you begin to will, you say, "I will become conscious of my nights." You have the will that it should be done;... down idle and wait. The surrender comes in when you take the attitude that says, "I give my will to the Divine. I intensely want to become conscious of my nights, I have not the knowledge, let the Divine Will work it out for me." Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end ...
... create a great disturbance in the man. Yet in appearance the two ways are the same; but in one case you act because of the Divine Will and in the other for some personal motive. How are we to know, you will ask, when it is the Divine Will that makes us act? The Divine Will is not difficult to recognise. It is unmistakable. You can know it without being very far on the path. Only you must listen... They come by union with the Divine. They must be used by the will of the Divine and not for display. If you come across someone who is blind and you have the power to make him see—if it is the Divine Will that the man shall see, you have only to say, "Let him see" and he will see. But if you wish to make him see simply because you want to cure him, then you use the power to satisfy your personal ambition... listen to its voice, the small voice that is here in the heart. Once you are accustomed to listen, if you do anything that is contrary to the Divine Will, you feel an uneasiness. If you persist on the wrong track, you get very much disturbed. If, however, you give some material excuse as Page 8 the cause of your uneasiness and proceed on your way, you gradually lose the faculty of perception ...
... all possible resistances. Is there no means of uniting my will with Yours? Perhaps You have no special will, for You want nothing. I know perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will is, and it is that which will triumph in time. What we want to bring to the earth can hardly be called a revolution , although it will be the most marvellous change ever seen; in any case... tear up countries without bringing any great change after them, because they leave men as false, as ignorant, as egoistic as before. Page 153 I believe a day will come when the Divine will be seen quite naturally as one sees earthly things and then there will be no need to exclaim: "The Divine is everywhere"—for this will be a normal experience. If the realisation were to be limited... nobody." Page 176 The best thing is not to think oneself either great or small, very important or very insignificant; for we are nothing in ourselves. We must want to be only what the divine Will wants of us. All my good intentions, since my childhood, have been of no worth. My nature is just what it was when I was a child. I can scarcely hope that it will be transformed; and after ...
... around the jiva, which becomes more and more conscious as well as more and more organized. Ultimately it becomes a completely conscious individual being, master of itself and moved exclusively by the divine Will. That is to say, an individual expression of the Supreme. This is what we call the «psychic being.» Page 4 Power? It is usually the psychic which guides the being. One knows nothing... beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy. Only by giving oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires. The psychic being knows this definitely. Thus, by uniting with our psychic being, we can know it, too. But... conscious of one's psychic being and allow oneself to be entirely guided by it — in other words, to rise above ordinary humanity, free oneself from all egoism and become a conscious instrument of the Divine Will. The soul itself, being a portion of the Divine, is above all moral and ethical notions; it bathes in the Divine Light and manifests it, but it can truly govern the whole being only when the ego ...
... not take to any clever subterfuges to deceive himself and others. Now this 'best light' may not absolutely be the 'best' but that does not matter at all. If the sadhaka is sincere, the Divine will surely look after this deficiency and make the light grow more and more in the consciousness of the sadhaka so that his discrimination of his 'duty' of the moment will gain in clarity and pro... Life Divine and the other in The Synthesis of Yoga, where Sri Aurobindo has described in sufficient detail this complex process of progressive taking over of the initiation of action by the divine Will from the inept hand of the sadhaka's personal will. Those two passages are worth quoting here: "This consecration of the will in works proceeds by a gradual elimination of the ego-will... action or the light of Truth which then guides the seeker, may be a clarity or power or principle which he perceives on the highest height of which his mind is capable; or it may be a truth of the divine Will which he feels present and working within him or guiding him by a Light or a Voice or a Force or a divine Page 150 person or Presence." (The Life Divine, p. 903) ". ...
... detailed , and reasoned argument as also intricate knowledge of the steps of Yoga by which the knowledge of the Divine Will could be obtained in actual experience; but in the course of the dialogue he lifted up Arjuna's consciousness and provided to him a living experience and vision of the Divine Will in regard to the situation in which he (Arjuna) was placed. The argument was thus not merely intellectual... a state of universal harmony and for the promotion of world-harmony (lokasangraha) at every moment in the world-movement. To be one with that law of action, and to work as an instrument of the Divine Will and Action, would be not only a state of liberation, mukti from desire and egoism to which inadequacies and conflicts are inextricably linked, but also s ā dharmya mukti, liberation in which... delivered to Arjuna the supreme secret of the method of Karma Yoga in its synthesis with Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, namely, the method of progressive self-surrender culminating in the discovery of the Divine Will in actual vision and experience. That state of self-surrender is not only the third step and climax of Karma Yoga; it is also syntheses of Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga and also of Bhakti Yoga. Sri ...
... become a willing vehicle of the Divine Will. The great message of the Gita is that one should be freed from the clutches of dharmas and should surrender to the Divine Will. It is for this reason that the Gita is not a book of practical ethics but of the discovery of the necessity to transcend the level of ethics and arrive at the luminous perception of the divine will and equally luminous and even devoted... is fulfilled only when one discovers the ultimate source of will; that ultimate source, according to the Gita, is the divine consciousness (which is universal and transcendental) from which the divine will flows out spontaneously for the growth and maintenance of the unity of people, lokasangraha. Finally, therefore, the ultimate message of the Gita is to rise to a Page 152 higher... devoted submission to the divine will. 5 BG.,II.50 6 Isha Upanishad, 5 7 BG.,III..I 8 Ibid.,IV.33 9 Vide., Ibid., II.61, III.30, IV.10 10 Ibid.,VII.2 11 Ibid., XV. 17 12 Ibid.,XV.16 13 Ibid.,VII.5 14 Ibid., XVIII.65, 66 15 Vide., Ibid., II.16,II.30 16 Ibid.,IV9 17 Rig Veda (RV), I.164.20 18 Mundaka Upanishad, III.1.1-3 ...
... with Sri Aurobindo 25th June, 1940 Disciple : We say everything happens, happens according to the Divine Will i. e. nothing happens without it. So the defeat of France happened according to the Divine Will i. e. according to Sri Aurobindo's will! Sri Aurobindo : "Everything" does not mean every individual act or event. You can say Sri Aurobindo... the British Empire, but I see that it would push back the work tremendously. It is not mental utility but there are other utilities also. Disciple : Does not the Divine Will foresee? Sri Aurobindo : The Divine Will foresees everything, lays down lines of development and allows the play of forces to work out and in that play of forces it consents to certain things. It does not will for... Aurobindo 's will on another level of consciousness willed it. For instance, you can't say that I willed to break my leg!! People think of God as a kind of super-dictator. The Divine Will lays down general lines – but in actual play (Lila) it consents to limitations that are self-imposed. It has also to pay the price in the play of forces. Otherwise you can argue that Rama willed that Sita may be ...
... writes on the next day: Always the same harsh solitude .... Each turn of the propeller upon the deep ocean seems to drag me farther away from my true destiny, the one best expressing the divine Will; each passing hour seems to plunge me again deeper into that past with which I had broken, sure of being called to new and vaster realisations; everything appears to draw me back to a state of things... one chosen to scour the depths, and hers is the "God's Labour" to track evil to its source, and although she is a little diffident, she also knows that it is the Divine that is using her, and the Divine will see her through. She has only to surrender to the Divine with the total trust of a child as it runs to the arms of its mother. The bleakness, the diffidence and the sense of precipitate retreat... What has happened? The physical being, far from accomplishing the transformation, is only seized with dull impassivity, The constructing mind has recognised its mistake and surrendered to the Divine Will. The vital is both contained and contented. In the result, on the one hand there is an inner flooding of light, love and peace; on the other hand, the impression that outer facts are a falsehood ...
... activities, the perfection we aim at cannot be realised. The perfection of Karmayoga, as Sri Aurobindo understands it, must be a total perfection, in the fulfilment of the divine Will in the life of the human individual. And the divine Will can fulfil itself only in a divinised individual. The perfection of Karmayoga is attained when the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga has been liberated and Page... without division, which will permit of a relation of love and devotion and a free transmission of the divine Will, and sādharmya will ensure a likeness or sameness between the nature of the Divine and that of the individual being, enabling an unhindered and unflawed expression of the Divine Will and a perfect manifestation of the Divine glories upon earth. Then, perfection in Karmayoga demands... states, "a silence greater than any known ¹ Collected Poems and Plays of Sri Aurobindo Vol II. Page 319 to earth's dumb spirit." It is out of an abysmal silence that the divine Will blazes forth to fulfil itself in the world. The soul of the liberated Karmayogi becomes a foothold of Eternity, that is to say. Eternity takes its stand upon this soul for an undisguised self-ma ...
... have already the right attitude. Blessings. 2.4.1970 Without mental silence it is really difficult to know the Divine Will. It is almost impossible because always there is the risk of taking one's .own mental formation for the expression of the divine will. . A great intensity of aspiration can help towards this mental silence (an aspiration not formulated in words). ... me to solve the problem. 18.1.1970 Page 123 The day before yesterday I began to do the exercises given to me by Dada to improve my health. This is as a collaboration with the Divine Will. Here is something very good. Surely it will have a very good effect. The food has also to be taken care of. 20.1.1970 I pray to You to give me indications for food. ... the joy of being at the service of the Supreme Lord. 21.3.1970 Yesternoon I was feeling an aspiration which got formulated later as follows: An inner rhythm in harmony with the Divine Will. Here is a very good thing. It is in fact the source of true activity. 23.3.1970 In the night there were tiresome dreams, but I got up remembering you and I am fresh. ...
... ly, can participate in the general progress. But this is at a very, very advanced stage. When the psychic is fully developed and very conscious, when it becomes a conscious instrument of the divine Will, it organises the vital and the mind in such a way that they too participate in the general harmony and can be preserved. A high degree of development allows at least some parts of the mental... worker upon earth to help in the fulfilment of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses... present body, determine one's approach to the Divine. We can take a very... an over-simple example. If one is born in any particular religion, quite naturally the first effort to approach the Divine will be within that religion; or else if in former lives one has passed through a certain number of experiences which determined the necessity of another kind of experiences, quite naturally one will ...
... Life through the Eye of the Yogin The Hidden Forces of Life Human Will, Nature-Force and Divine Will … at least nine-tenths of our freedom of will is a palpable fiction; that will is created and determined not by its own self-existent action at a given moment, but by our past, our heredity, our training, our environment, the whole tremendous complex thing... evident and then, by unison with the Will which is above Nature, complete. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Fate, Free Will and Prediction The only free will in the world is the one divine Will of which Nature is the executrix; for she is the master and creator of all other wills. Human free-will can be real in a sense, but, like all things that belong to the modes of Nature, it is only... up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things ...
... only by the divine Will and for the divine Will. So much so, that effortlessly, spontaneously, we can have the deepest affection for our physical enemy. When you have felt that, you will understand. When we say, "we are at the service of the Divine", it is not just words. It is He who should act through us, not ourselves. The greatest objection is: How can we know the divine Will? But as a matter... because when you want something, it is the ego that wants. So, the ego... must be ignored. The first thing to do is not to act for yourself but to act in obedience to the Divine, to express the divine Will.... As long as it is a personal will, a personal desire, it is not the true thing, and you cannot.... Not only is it not the true thing, but you cannot know the true thing! That must be.. ...
... Person is a witness of its action. Sri Aurobindo The divine Will But why do we do this divine Work? It is to make ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It Page 90 is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. The Mother Belonging totally... The Divine Worker The liberated man The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings in, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining ...
... which is deformed into vital desire but which is originally the urge towards realisation must unite with the Divine Will, so that all your powers of volition mingle with it as a drop of water with the sea. No more then its own weakness and failings, but evermore the supreme quality of the Divine Will—Omnipotence! Page 21 ... by submission, winning the freedom and absence of responsibility which imparts to the mind utter quietness. Not otherwise can you hope to attain the union with the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Will. Of course, it depends on the path by which you approach the Divine whether the union with the Consciousness comes first or with the Will. If you go deep within, the former will naturally precede... am then in you ... I dare say it is all rather difficult for you to imagine, the experience being well-nigh indescribable. It is, however, less difficult to imagine the union of the will with the Divine Will, for you can imagine a Will which is effective without Page 20 struggle and victoriously manifest everywhere. And if all your will tends to unite with it, then there is something ...
... elaboration of a thought, to which is added a force, a power of fulfilment accompanied by an impulse to carry it out. That is the description of human will. Divine will is quite another thing. It is a vision united with a power of realisation. Divine will is omniscient and omnipotent, it is irresistible and immediate in its execution. Human will is uncertain, often wavering, always in conflict with opposing... opposing wills. It is effective only when for some reason or other it is in accord with the will of Nature—itself a transcription of the divine will—or with the divine will itself, as a result of Grace or Yoga. So one can say that personal will is one of the means that God uses to bring us back to Him. 20 April 1960 ...
... troubled or depressed or despondent, to go on in a steady faith in the Divine Will. But equality does not include inert acceptance. If, for instance, there is temporary failure of some endeavour in the sadhana, one has to keep equality, not to be troubled or despondent, but one has not to accept the failure as an indication of the Divine Will and give up the endeavour. You ought rather to find out the reason... not to be troubled, shaken or restless, but you have not to accept illness as the Divine Will, but rather look upon it as an imperfection of the body to be got rid of as you try to get rid of vital imperfections or mental errors. To be free from all preference and receive joyfully whatever comes from the Divine Will is not possible at first for any human being. What one should have at first is ...
... complete equality, an unsparing effacement of the ego, a transforming deliverance of the nature from its ignorant modes of action are the steps by which the surrender of all the being and nature to the Divine Will can be prepared and achieved,—a self-giving true, total and without reserve. The first necessity is an entire spirit of self-consecration in our works; it must become first the constant will, then... and pleasure, a joyful driving of the Divine Energy the kinetic need; the fulfilment of the propensities will no longer be an object or a necessity, there will be instead the fulfilment of the Divine Will through the natural dynamic truth in action of a free soul and a luminous nature. In the end, as the attachment to the fruit of the work and to the work itself has been excised from the heart, so... preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age. But this steadfast endurance of the flesh and heart and mind must be reinforced by a sustained sense of spiritual submission to a divine Will: this living clay must yield not only with a stern or courageous acquiescence, but with knowledge or with resignation, even in suffering, to the touch of the divine Hand that is preparing its perfection ...
... towards the divinity behind them. But the vijñāna or gnosis is not only truth but truth power, it is the very working of the infinite and divine nature; it is the divine knowledge one with the divine will in the force and delight of a spontaneous and luminous and inevitable self-fulfilment. By the gnosis, then, we change our human into a divine nature. What then is this gnosis and how can we describe... creative wisdom, power and joy of the Eternal. In the gnosis Sachchidananda gathers up the light of his unseizable existence and pours it out on the soul in the shape and power of a divine knowledge, a divine will and a divine bliss of existence. It is as if infinite light were gathered up into the compact orb of the sun and lavished on all that depends upon the sun in radiances that continue for ever. But... truths of the divine conscious-idea and nature. Its third power brings or looses out these things by the effective ideation, vision, authentic identities of the divine knowledge, movement of the divine will-force, vibration of the divine delight intensities into a universal harmony, an illimitable diversity, a manifold rhythm of their powers, forms and interplay of living consequences. The mental Purusha ...
... 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 243 There must, therefore, be stages and gradations in our approach to this perfection, as there are in the progress towards all other perfection on any plane of Nature. The vision... nature; if our nature is imperfect, the work also will be imperfect, mixed, inadequate. Even it may be marred by gross errors, falsehoods, moral weaknesses, diverting influences. The work of the Divine will be done in us even then, but according to our weakness, not according to the strength and purity of its source. If ours were not an integral Yoga, if we sought only the liberation of the self within... passivity, his silent presence compels all things to travel even in their ignorance towards a divine goal and attracts through division towards a yet unrealised oneness. Yet no supreme infallible Divine Will seems to be there, only a widely deployed Cosmic Energy or a mechanical executive Process, Prakriti. This is one side of the cosmic Self; the other presents itself as a universal Divine, one in being ...
... ī ś ś ś Page 63 unity, errors and sins are committed. The secret of karma yoga is to discover the Divine Will and to allow that Will to manifest through the instrumentality of the seeker. Right action results from complete submission of the individual to the Divine Will, which the illumination of Surya reveals in him. Perfection of right action necessitates perfection of the knowledge... knowledge that consists of unity that synthesizes the multiplicity of the rays of the light, vidya. The prayer to Agni is an exposition of the path or method of karma yoga. It addresses Agni, the divine will, to lead the seeker by the good path to the felicity (supathā rāye); this good path consists of the removal of the devious attraction of sin. Sin is that which excites and hurries the faculties... knowledge of the Lord as the One who manifests in and controls multiplicity. When Knowledge is combined with the Divine Will, and when this combination is perfected by the submission of the individual in the state of illumined devotion, then the seeker has possessed the three keys (of knowledge, action and devotion) that open up fully the divine gates, the gates of Immortality. In this brief analysis ...
... When a person descends to do some particular work for the Divine, he accepts the play of forces and works through that play so that ultimately the Divine Will may prevail and fulfill itself; for a time the opposing forces may conquer and the Divine Will withdraw, as is said in the Bhagavad Gita. Did not Sri Krishna have to leave the battle? The Divine foresees and provides for everything in the original... some places. Now it is more thorough. Japan and Germany are the most thoroughly organised countries. EVENING SATYENDRA: Some people here say that nothing happens without the sanction of the Divine Will and that nothing happens against Sri Aurobindo's will. I want to know if that is so. Germany's taking Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries and bringing about the war—was all this sanctioned... whole of him that wanted crucifixion. Some human part didn't want it and he prayed, "O God, let this cup be passed to somebody else." Everything that happens can be said to happen according to the Divine Will. SATYENDRA: That is a religious idea. SRI AUROBINDO: Only people who have reached a certain stage of consciousness can say that. For they see and know what is behind the play of things. For ...
... Thy dual form of Non-Being and Being ... the physical body is glorified, supple, vigorous. energetic; the mind is superbly active in its calm lucidity, guiding and transmitting the forces of Thy divine Will; and all the being exults in an endless beatitude, a boundless love, a sovereign power, a perfect knowledge, an infinite consciousness .... Thus the solid foundations of Thy terrestrial work... even the last closed vault shall open one day. And yet "the formidable fight, the onslaught of the adverse forces"! But there is no occasion to feel disspirited, for the "purer forces" of the Divine will manifest: What opposes is just that upon which it is the mission of these forces to act; it is the darkest hatred which must be touched and transformed into luminous peace. 9 All difficulty... Arya, after its seventh issue in February 1915. Even so, the publication of the two editions during the first months of the War was no ordinary editorial and managerial feat. "Without the divine Will which knows best what to use and what to throw aside," Sri Aurobindo wrote editorially in the July 1915 issue, "no human work can come to the completion hoped for by our limited vision." 15 When ...
... intentions.8 For the rest, one must do one's best to contain and reduce one's ego progressively and tune in to the Divine Will: Page 331 The energy in you which is deformed into vital desire but which is originally the urge towards realisation must unite with the Divine Will, so that allyour power of volition mingles with it as a drop of water with the sea. 9 III In another... they have brought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity which is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will." 14 IV In her brief talk on "Resurrection", the Mother gives the word an Aurobindonian connotation. Resurrection is not just a new lease of life after the holocaust of death. It is... increasingly a matter of daily experience. There are other talks too: "Chance"; "Different Kinds of Space and 'Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane"; "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World"; "True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth"; and "The Supramental Realisation". "Chance", says the Mother, "can only be the opposite of order and harmony"; and ...
... anniversary of Auroville. On that day—wherever we are—we shall meditate at the appointed hour 11.30 a.m. and resolve to work more and to work better than before and open ourselves ever more to the Divine Will. Mother wrote "Blessings" and signed it. * * * Aurela Soap Industries had charged the first pan for making 501 Brand soap on 21.2.72. One soap tablet was offered today to... moment are not there. We must... you see, being the organizers, our task is to set the example of what we want others to do. We must rise above personal reactions, be exclusively attuned to the divine Will— we must be impersonal, without any personal reaction. We must 'be' in all sincerity. What the Divine wants—let it be. That's all. If we can be that, then we are as we ought to be, and that is what... he makes, there will be others to use it. iv.Yvonne's exercises in consciousness— people should use discrimination. Whenever there is disharmony, be sure that it does not come from the Divine Will; it comes from the ego. * * * Page 272 12.2.73 Letter of Narad regarding tree plantation around Matrimandir. "Roger wants me to begin this work soon...I am ...
... surrender to the Highest and not to desire or ego, then the divine Will determines without stumbling or deflection and the divine Power executes freely without any nether interference or perverting reaction all works in the purity and safety of your transmuted nature. To allow Page 587 your every act to be shaped through you by the divine Will in its immaculate sovereignty is the highest degree... dynamic Spirit who originates all works and is Lord of the worlds and the Master of man's action and endeavour and sacrifice. This apparently self-acting mechanism of Nature conceals an immanent divine Will that compels and guides it and shapes its purposes. But you cannot feel or know that Will while you are shut up in your Page 585 narrow cell of personality, blinded and chained to your... works by the immanence of God in things and his presence in the heart of every creature. The Creator of the worlds is not limited by his creations; the Lord of works is not bound by his works; the divine Will is not attached to its labour and the results of its labour: for it is omnipotent, all-possessing and all-blissful. But still the Lord looks down on his creations from his transcendence; he descends ...
... approximation that becomes less and less inadequate in proportion as its thought grows in wideness and light and power; but it is always an approximation and not even a true partial figure. The Divine Will acts through the aeons to reveal progressively not only in the unity of the cosmos, not only in the collectivity of living and thinking creatures, but in the soul of each individual something of... we have to see how they stand in relation to that other standardless spiritual and supramental mode of working for which Yoga seeks and to which it moves by the surrender of the individual to the divine Will and, more effectively, through his ascent by this surrender to the greater consciousness in which a certain identity with the dynamic Eternal becomes possible. There are four main standards... sufferings and falsities into an image of the supreme Light, Power and Ananda. The culmination of the soul's constant touch with the Supreme is that self-giving which we call surrender to the divine Will and immergence of the separated ego in the One who is all. A vast universality of soul and an intense unity with all is Page 204 the base and fixed condition of the supramental consciousness ...
... fulfilment of the divine will and wisdom which works out its ends through apparent failure as well as and often with greater force than through apparent triumph. Arjuna, bidden to fight, is assured of victory; but even if certain defeat were before him, he must still fight because that is the present work assigned to him as his immediate share in the great sum of energies by which the divine will is surely... dies of inanition. Outwardly the liberated man seems to undertake works of all kinds like other men, on a larger scale perhaps with a more powerful will and driving-force, for the might of the divine will works in his active nature; but from all his inceptions and undertakings the inferior concept and nether will of desire is entirely banished, sarve samārambhāḥ kāmasaṅkalpavarjitāḥ . He has abandoned... surely accomplished. The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings him, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining or grief or sense of loss. His heart and self are under ...
... is deformed into vital desire but which is originally the urge towards realisation must unite with the Divine Will, so that all your power of volition mingles with it as a drop of water with the sea. No more then its own weaknesses and failings, but evermore the supreme quality of the Divine Will—Omnipotence! Page 135 ... by submission, winning the freedom and absence of responsibility which imparts to the mind utter quietness. Not otherwise can you hope to attain the union with the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Will. Of course it depends on the path by which you approach the Divine whether the union with the Consciousness comes first or with the Will. If you go deep within, the former will naturally precede... am then in you.... I dare say it is all rather difficult for you to imagine, the experience being well-nigh indescribable. It is, however, less difficult to imagine the union of the will with the Divine Will, for you can imagine a Will which is effective without struggle and victoriously manifest everywhere. And if all your will tends to unite with it, then there is something approaching a union. That ...
... the necessity of death and dissolution. In conclusion, I should like to draw your attention to one point for it very frequently obstructs true union. It is a great error to suppose that the Divine Will is always acting openly in the world. All that happens is not, in fact, divine: the Supreme Will is distorted in the manifestation owing to the combination of lower forces which translate it. They... which falsifies its impetus and gives it an undivine result. If all that happened were indeed the flawless translation of it, how could you account for the distortions of the world? Not that the Divine Will could not have caused the cosmic Ignorance. It is omnipotent and all possibilities arc inherent in it: it can work out anything of which it sees the secret necessity in its original vision. And the... which the Divine faces real oppositions, real difficulty and often real temporary defeat on the way to the final victory. It is just this reality of the whole play that makes it no mere jest. The Divine Will actually suffers distortion the moment it touches the hostile forces in the Ignorance. Hence we must never slacken our efforts to change the world and bring about a different order. We must be vigilant ...
... very easily, it is from one of my own writings where it is said: "It is a great mistake to suppose that the Divine Will always acts openly in the world." And then in Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga : "If we see unity everywhere, if we recognise that all comes by the divine will... etc." And something else, from my Prayers and Meditations : "It is Thou who art the doer in each thing... 10 December 1912 And so, I am asked how to reconcile these contradictions. But I don't see any contradiction. For in the first sentence it is said: "It is a great mistake to suppose that the Divine Will always acts openly in the world...." I should say: it is extremely rare for it to act openly. It always acts, but not openly. And when it acts Page 25 openly, that is what men call... not act. It doesn't act openly, that's all. So there's no contradiction. That was all I meant. It is an altogether superficial contradiction arising from a misunderstanding of the words. The Divine Will acts, but not openly. When it acts openly, well, men call that miracles. That's all. But that does not prevent it from acting. Page 26 ...
... You", the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere. 1 Something in the being... "I want only You."... the aspiration... and then one wants a hundred odd things all the time, isn't that so? At times something comes, just... usually to disturb everything—it stands in the way and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without... Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably. Then when all is removed, you begin to howl and complain; but later, if you are sincere and look at yourself straight in the eye... you have said to the Lord... takes. BUT THE GOAL IS SURE! Page 177 × "If earnestly you say to the Divine, 'I want only Thee', the Divine will arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled to be sincere." ...
... expelled! That is why alone, we are nothing at all. This is life. We do not act for ourselves. We do not act from our personal will and for a personal result. We act only by the divine Will and for the divine Will. So much so, that effortlessly, spontaneously, we can feel the greatest tenderness for our physical enemy. When you have felt that, you will understand. That is the whole limitation,... because when you want something, it is the ego that wants. So, the ego... must be ignored. The first thing to do is not to act for yourself but to act in obedience to the Divine, to express the divine Will. For your part, you have no orders to give. As long as it is a personal will, a personal desire, it is not the true thing, and you cannot... Not only is it not the true thing, but you cannot know... worthless, worthless. When we say, "We are at the service of the Divine", it is not just words. It is He who should act through us, not we ourselves. The greatest objection is: How can we know the divine Will? But as a matter of fact, I tell you: if you sincerely renounce your personal will, you will know. R: Yes, that is clear. Yes, that's it. ( Mother remains silent, concentrating on each ...
... evening—that is, the first contact with the higher Divine—and it completely changed my life. From that moment on, I was conscious that all one does is the expression of the indwelling Divine Will. But it is the Divine Will AT THE VERY CENTER of oneself, although for a while there remained an activity in the physical mind. But this was stilled two or three days after I saw Sri Aurobindo for the first time... consciousness was established in the psychic depths of the being, and from that poise issued the feeling of no longer doing anything but what the Divine wanted—it was the consciousness that the divine Will was all-powerful and that there was no longer any personal will, although there was still some mental activity and everything had to be made silent. In 1914, it was silenced, and the consciousness... fade slightly when I began having contact with people; but I really had the feeling that it was a first experience, new upon earth. For I have experienced an absolute identity of the will with the divine Will ever since 1910, it has never left me. It isn't that, it's SOMETHING ELSE. It is MATTER BECOMING THE DIVINE. And it really came with the feeling that this thing was happening for the first time upon ...
... with a personal, egoistic aim, for success, for glory, for gain, for material profit or out of pride, but as a service and an offering, in order to become Page 267 more conscious of the divine will and to give yourself more entirely to it, until you have made enough progress to know and to feel that it is the Divine who acts in you, His force that impels you and His will that supports you—not... ). This may be collective or individual, but the principle is the same—and so is the remedy: to cultivate in oneself order and harmony, peace and equilibrium by surrendering unreservedly to the Divine Will. 7 July 1965 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo says: "If the transformation of the body is complete, that means no subjection to death.... One creates a new body for oneself when one wants... interested in it. If it is from the moral point of view, morality is a shield which ordinary men flourish to protect themselves from the Truth. If it is from the spiritual point of view, the Divine Will alone is justifiable, and it is That which men travesty and deform in all their actions. 6 July 1966 Sweet Mother, I had asked my last question from the spiritual point of view and ...
... same desire, when viewed from above, presents an appearance far more deep and true. It then reveals itself to be just the deformation of a spiritual Will. That is to say, what exists as the divine Will-Power, the Seer-Will, Kavi-kratu, in the height! and depths of our consciousness undergoes a 'beauty-turned-into-beast' metamorphosis under the malefic spell of cosmic Ignorance and becomes... or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, later. But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single command or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above s... of us, the novice sadhakas of the Path. We have to start from where we are and what we are and proceed step by step in our unslackening sadhana of the replacement of personal desire-will by the divine Will. In fact, there are, broadly speaking, five rungs in this ascent of the Page 235 will Godward. These rungs can be summarily described as follows: Rung One: ...
... ly the knowledge of the will that issues from the Supreme. This enhances the pressure of karma yoga towards the knowledge of the Divine Will. The pressure increases to such a degree that there bursts in the seeker a vision, even of time-vision and of the divine will and action at a given epoch of time. One such vision has been described in the Bhagavad Gita in a most powerful poetic passage. In... that is yoga". The three stages of equality can be described in psychological terms, first, as the stage of Stoic equality. philosophic equality, and equality that comes by resignation to the Divine Will. It is here that we come to appreciate the rationale and usefulness of the Stoics, particularly, the Stoics of ancient Europe, such as Zeno, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The attitudes and... World-Spirit is made visible to the inner divine eyes gifted temporarily to Arjuna, the hero of the Mahabharata, where he sees God, magnificent and beautiful and terrible, and in that vision the divine will is made manifest. Appendix X (p. 162) (e) Yogic Experiences in Jnana Yoga Jnana yoga is primarily centred on cognitive faculties, and its first concern is with the development of ...
... living experience and realization. When a prayer expresses the will and aspiration of the seeker to come into a living experience of the touch with the divine will, one enters into the yoga of realization. One begins to understand that the divine will is universal will, and it cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty; one begins to understand that the divine is not only universal but... there is in that working a constant interaction of powers and forces, working from above and working from below, and through that interaction and, in the interaction between the human will and the divine will, Divine Events are created, and the world which was closed earlier is opened up by the transforming will in human consciousness and its offering and consecration; one then realizes that the world... the Bhakti yoga is not the anthropomorphic approach to God that aims at flattering the divine for egoistic satisfaction but the development of the relationship between the human aspiration and the Divine will. Prayer helps to prepare a conscious relationship between the human will and the divine consciousness. It is the contact of human life with God that is important, and this contact results in constant ...
... You", the Page 593 Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere.... Well, the Divine will come without showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably... neither the sophistries and half-lights of Falsehood nor the follies and duplicities of man, nor whatever tendency towards insincerity may lurk in oneself, Page 594 can stand up to the Divine Will. This is the Mother's charter of charters, the true Magna Carta. VI It was during 1955 that Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, paid two visits to the Ashram and met the Mother ...
... are two aspects, two powers of one self-existent being; the Soul is not only giver of the sanction, but lord of Nature, Ishwara, through her enjoying the play of the world, through her executing divine will and knowledge in a scheme of things supported by his sanction and existing by his immanent presence, existing in his being, governed by the law of his being and by the conscious will within it. To... by his will, now no longer distorted and disfigured by the ego-sense, the Nature works out the actions by the Swabhava; the individual soul makes the divinised natural being an instrument of the divine Will, nimitt-mātram . He remains even in action triguṇātīta , beyond the gunas, free from the Gunas, nistraiguṇya , he fulfils entirely at last the early injunction of the Gita, nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna... the consummation of the divine birth, rahasyam uttamam . When it is accomplished, the soul is aware of itself as the master of its nature and, grown a light of the divine Light and will of the divine Will, is able to change its natural workings into a divine action. Page 233 ...
... only on one of two conditions— (1) if he uses them during his sadhana solely to train himself in possessing things without attachment or desire and learn to use them rightly, in harmony with the Divine Will, with a proper handling, a just organisation, arrangement and measure—or, (2) if he has already attained a true freedom from desire and attachment and is not in the least moved or affected in... of the things he possesses is contrary to the spirit of sadhana. Even if he is free in spirit, he will not be fit for possession if he has not learned to use things not for himself, but for the Divine Will, as an instrument, with the right knowledge and action in the use for the proper equipment of a life lived not for oneself but for and in the Divine. 7 March 1932 I find it difficult to d... subconscient is not opened and awake. There is no harm in a Doctor who is a sadhak carrying on his profession and using his medical knowledge; but he should do it in reliance on the Divine Grace and the Divine Will; if he can get true inspirations to aid his science, so much the better. No doctor Page 784 can cure all cases; he has to do his best with the best result he can. 18 October 1932 ...
... fool for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. There is no question of C or D or anybody else in that. It is a question between the Divine and myself—whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for... myself but for Page 282 the earth and souls born on the earth, and certainly therefore I cannot object if anybody wants the supramental. But there are the conditions. He must want the Divine Will first and the soul's surrender and the spiritual realisation (through works, bhakti, knowledge, self-perfection) on the way. So there everybody is right. Any flaws in my argument? The central... to undergo Page 283 the conditions and stages needed for the achievement, (3) one is sincere and regards it as part of the seeking for the Divine and a consequent culmination of the divine Will in one and insists on no more than the fulfilment of that Will whatever it may be, psychisation, spiritualisation or supramentalisation. It should be regarded as the fulfilment of God's working in ...
... of the divine Will expressed without mixture, it is a question of what we call "chance". Then in the ordinary world many things are due to chance. But of course, I have not said anything else! In the ordinary world all is the reign of chance, except, from time to time, something of which the cause is indiscernible to the crowd but discernible to one who is in touch with the divine Will. That... through chance. We are here then by chance? One cannot generalise. Nor can one ask personal questions. So we shall say vaguely that for some it is a chance event, but for others it is a divine Will. Even in the ordinary world it is not only chance which acts. Thus for the molecules of hot gas there are two-movements which seem to be superimposed: a disorderly movement and a combined movement ...
... Anyway, here is Sri Aurobindo's answer. Try to think, and if you have a special question to ask I shall answer it. Listen: "The supramental world has to be formed or created in us by the Divine Will as the result of a constant expansion and self-perfecting." 1 That is to say, to hope to receive, use and form in oneself a supramental being, and consequently a supramental world, there... things, there is not much chance that it would come and do any serious work in you. Sri Aurobindo says this quite clearly and precisely. He does not tell you that you will do it, he says it is the Divine Will. So don't come and say, "Ah! I can't." No one is asking you to do it. But there must be enough aspiration and adhesion in the being to make the expansion of the being, the expansion of consciousness... × This note occurs in Sri Aurobindo's commentary on the fourth hymn to Agni in the fifth Mandala of the Rig Veda, "The Divine Will, Priest, Warrior and Leader of Our Journey": "O Knower of the Births, the man perfect in his works for whom thou createst that other blissful world,[The footnote occurs here.] reaches a felicity ...
... bondage to the habits that the possession of riches creates. The divine Will is all for him and the divine Ananda. Sri Aurobindo Money for the divine work How can one know if one's way of using money is in accordance with the divine Will? Page 36 One must first know what the divine Will is. But there is a surer way - to surrender money for the divine ...
... little more truly than an ordinary man. If the teacher who gives marks kept in mind that he was the representative of the divine truth, if he constantly took sufficient trouble to be in tune with the divine Will as much as this is possible for him, well, that could be very useful; for the ordinary teacher acts according to his personal preferences what he does not like, what he likes, etc. and he belongs... concentrate upon what one is doing instead of concentrating upon oneself. 13 May 1953 If you said to yourself, my children, "We want to be as perfect instruments as possible to express the divine Will in the world", then for this instrument to be perfect, it must be cultivated, educated, trained. It must not be left like a shapeless piece of stone. When Page-150 you want... be taught everywhere; it is the basic education which should be given to children. The reign of reason must come to an end only with the advent of the psychic law which manifests the divine Will. Page-203 8 January 1958 In reality, you should take this reading [of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine] as an opportunity to develop the philosophical mind in yourself ...
... feels inspired to do, is the best thing for one. Knowing the Divine Will There is a consciousness other than mind and vital—if there were not, there would be no use in doing sadhana. The true will belongs to that consciousness. When the mind is pure and the psychic prominent, then one feels what is according to the Divine Will and what is against it. For the actions to be psychic,... This Will must be founded on a right consciousness which sees what is wrong, ignorant, selfish, egoistic, moved by desire in the nature and puts it right. It needs a quiet mind [ to know the Divine Will ]. In the quiet mind turned towards the Divine the intuition (higher mind) comes of the Divine's Will and the right way to do it. Once the mental silence is attained, then in that the mental ...
... divine power in man, the energy of fulfilment through which they do their work in him. It is this work which is symbolised by the sacrifice. Psychologically, then, we may take Agni to be the divine will perfectly inspired by divine Wisdom, and indeed one with it, Page 65 which is the active or effective power of the Truth-consciousness. This is the obvious sense of the word kavikratuḥ... the condition of the effective sacrifice. It is the continual resort day by day, in the night and in the light, of the thought in the human being with submission, adoration, self-surrender, to the divine Will and Wisdom represented by Agni. Night and Day, Naktoṣāsā , are also symbolical, like all the other gods in the Veda, and the sense seems to be that in all states of consciousness, whether Page... Vast and Agni's own home are identical. Agni and other gods are frequently spoken of as being born in the truth, dwelling in the wide or vast. The sense, then, will be in our passage that Agni the divine will and power in man increases in the truth-consciousness, its proper sphere, where false limitations are broken down, urāv anibādhe , in the wide and the limitless. Thus in these four verses of ...
... consciousness is higher, not lower than the moral—it is founded on union with Page 422 the Divine and living in the Divine Consciousness and its action is founded on obedience to the Divine Will. The beliefs you speak of with regard to right and wrong, beauty and ugliness etc. are necessary for the human being and for the guidance of his life. He cannot do without the distinctions... permission. One has to get rid of selfishness and ego, not in this way, but by selfless service of the Divine and by merging the ego in the Divine Consciousness, submitting the personal will to the Divine Will, calling into the being the Divine Peace, Purity, Oneness, Knowledge, Light, Ananda, replacing the ego by the psychic being devoted and surrendered to the Divine. It is the love of the Divine that... commanded by the Divine. Non-violence is better than violence as a rule, and still sometimes violence may be the right thing. I consider dharma as relative; unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will the highest way. Buddha did not aim at action in the world, but at cessation from the world-existence. For that he found the eightfold Path a necessary preparatory discipline and so proclaimed it ...
... invariable rule of such suffering. It is not the soul that suffers; the Self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine... inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached... afterwards—good and bad fortune, outward happiness and suffering are to be taken with an unshaken equality and trust in the Divine Wisdom till one has attained a position in which, united with the Divine Will, one can dominate them. Suffering is not inflicted as a punishment for sin or for hostility—that is a wrong idea. Suffering comes like pleasure and good fortune as an inevitable part of life ...
... loses its value and becomes ordinary. It is often the experience that when one gives up the insistence of desire for a thing, then the thing itself comes. The right attitude is to wait on the Divine Will and seek that only—desire always creates perturbation and even its fulfilment does not satisfy. Aspiration is a different thing. The oscillation between the two conditions you speak of, is the sign... conditions— Page 257 (1) if he uses them during his sadhana solely to train himself in possessing things without attachment or desire and learn to use them rightly, in harmony with the Divine Will, with a proper handling, a just organisation, arrangement and measure—or, (2) if he has already attained a true freedom from desire and attachment and is not in the least moved or affected in... of the things he possesses is contrary to the spirit of sadhana. Even if he is free in spirit, he will not be fit for possession if he has not learned to use things not for himself, but for the Divine Will, as an instrument, with the right knowledge and action in the use for the proper equipment of a life lived not for oneself but for and in the Divine. It should not be difficult for the man ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda Agni, the Divine Will-Force The name of this flaming godhead, Agni, derives from a root whose quality of significance is a pre-eminent force or intensity whether in state, action, sensation or movement; but the qualities of this essential significance vary. It means a burning brightness, whence its use for fire; it... confusions of the world. The other gods awake with the Dawn, but Agni wakes also in the Night; he keeps his divine vision even in the darkness where there is neither moon nor star; the flame of the divine will and knowledge is visible even in the densest obscurity of inconscient or half-conscient things. The infallible worker is there even when we see nowhere the conscious light of the guiding mind. ... content to be a worker for man and the helpful deities. He is the doer of the great Aryan work and the pure and sublime mediator between earth and heaven. Disinterested, sleepless, invincible this divine Will-force works in the world as a universal Soul of power housed in all beings, Agni Vaishwanara, the greatest, most powerful, most brilliant and most impersonal of all the cosmic Deities. The name ...
... transformed into and replaced by impulsions of the divine will taking up the life movements. The heart's faith, emotional beliefs, assents are also needed upon the way, but cannot be always sure guides until they too are taken up, purified, transformed and are eventually replaced by the luminous assents of a divine Ananda which is at one with the divine will and knowledge. In nothing in the lower nature... action that may be demanded from the instrument, oneness, a participating sympathy, a free identity, with all energies in all beings and therefore a spontaneous and fruitful harmony with all the divine will in the universe. The intimate feeling of her presence and her powers and the satisfied assent of all our being to her workings in and around it is the last perfection of faith in the Shakti. And ...
... and struggle—of a universal harmony. The perfected human soul must always be an instrument for the hastening of the ways of this evolution. For that a divine power acting with the royalty of the divine will in it must be in whatever degree present in the nature. But to be accomplished and permanent, steadfast in action, truly divine, it has to proceed on the basis of a spiritual equality, a calm, impersonal... calm secret of divine working. The ordinary mental standards will be exceeded on the basis of this dynamic equality. The eye of his will must look beyond to a purity of divine being, a motive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected nature will be the engine, yantra . That must remain impossible in entirety as long as the dynamic ego with its subservience to the emotional... which will contain and base the blissful flowing and satisfied waves of a Page 707 divine knowledge. It is an equality of the divine Tapas which will initiate a luminous action of the divine will in all the nature. It is an equality of the divine Ananda which will found the play of a divine universal delight, universal love and an illimitable aesthesis of universal beauty. The ideal equal ...
... it is the will and intelligence itself that is at fault, then the trouble is more difficult to command, because then his chief aid and instrument becomes an accomplice of the revolt against the divine Will and the old sins of the lower members take advantage of this sanction to raise their diminished heads. Therefore there must be a constant insistence on one main idea, the self-surrender to the Master... and failure, honour and insult, praise and blame, justice done to us or injustice, everything that ordinarily affects the mind. If we see unity everywhere, if we recognise that all comes by the divine will, see God in all, in our enemies or rather our opponents in the game of life as well as our friends, in the powers that oppose and resist us as well as the powers that favour and assist, in all energies... fluctuation of the will. In the end it is found that there is no such thing as failure and the soul takes an equal passive or active delight in all happenings as the steps and formulations of the divine Will. The same evolution takes place with regard to good fortune and ill fortune, the pleasant and the unpleasant in every form, maṅgala amaṅgala, priya apriya . And as with happenings, so with persons ...
... free self-determination. It can hold all knowledge in itself and yet put forward in formulation only what is needed at each stage of an evolution; it formulates whatever is in accordance with the Divine Will in manifestation and the truth of the thing to be manifested. It is by this power that it is able to hold back its knowledge, hide its own character and law of action and manifest overmind and under... conflict between self affirmation of the ego and a control by super-ego; for since in his action of life the gnostic individual would at once express himself, his truth of being, and work out the Divine Will, since he would know the Divine as his true self and the source and constituent of his spiritual individuality, these two springs of his conduct would not only be simultaneous in a single action... This motive power would act in each circumstance according to the truth of the circumstance, with each being according to its need, nature, relation, in each event according to the demand of the Divine Will upon that event: for all here is the result of a complexus and a close nexus of many forces of one Force, and the gnostic consciousness and Truth-Will would see the truth of these forces, of each ...
... through the mind and the mind can only act individually and fragmentarily in a contented obedience or a struggling subjection to that universal Nature through which the divine knowledge and the divine Will are worked out in the cosmos. But the Spirit is in possession of knowledge and will, of which it is the source and cause and not a subject; therefore in proportion as the soul assumes its divine... objects, intentions, impulses; these, so far as they remain, must be harmonised with the universal. It must then submit its knowledge and will at their very source to the divine Knowledge and the divine Will and so arrive through submission at immergence, losing its personal light in the divine Light and its personal initiative in the divine initiative. To be first in tune with the Infinite, in harmony... sanctions, enjoys, knows and by the determinative power of knowledge controls. And when he universalises himself, his knowledge still reflects only the divine knowledge, his will effectuates only the divine will, he enjoys only the divine delight and not an ignorant personal satisfaction. Thus the Purusha preserves its freedom in its possession, renunciation of limited personality even in its representative ...
... silence ) Page 92 Really... really it can be expressed this way: only the Divine Will can save us—all circumstances are... ( Mother interlaces her fingers ). And so, we have to... you know, we have to get rid of everything that still holds us down in order to be really ready to receive that Divine Will. I understand very well, Mother, deeply. But I believe only in the Grace, you know—because... in a hurry because I see circumstances becoming more and more... acute—dangerous. Only a miracle can save us—that is to say, what we consider a miracle: an intervention... an intervention of the Divine Will in its purity, undistorted, uncontroverted, unobstructed—just That. ( silence ) Page 93 We have to be at our highest—and it is still far from being what it should be. ( Mother goes ...
... That is the ego—it is Mr. Ego trying to pass himself off as the true being. But the body has learned that even without ego it is what it is, because it is that by the Divine Will and not at all by the ego—we exist by the Divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means—a centuries-old means. Centuries old. Now, it's worthless, it's time is over. It had its time, it had its usefulness—it's over,... useless, perfectly useless, it is not in the least indispensable to its existence, it's perfectly useless. It exists by another power and another will, which is not individual, not personal: the Divine Will. And it will become what it is supposed to be the day it feels there is no difference between itself and the Divine. That's all. All the rest is falsehood—false, false, false, and a falsehood ...
... June 1935 My dear Mother, This year is a year for a very deep and high progress for the Ashram. All those who are open to the Divine will move forward towards the goal. And I humbly and quietly aspire to be in perfect union with the Divine Will. My dear Mother, my heart is flowing with goodwill, good heart, sympathy and a constant prayer for Peace. Yes, my dear child, your... your aspiration and your prayer will be fulfilled. Surely this year the Ashram will make a big step towards Peace and Harmony—and your union with the Divine Will will become more and more perfect. 19 June 1935 ...
... and curse you. But the Divine will be with you. 17 September 1953 To be plastic towards the Divine means not to oppose Him with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and fixed principles. And this requires a great strength, for the more you are plastic to the divine will, the more you come in conflict with the human wills that are not in contact with the divine will. Give your will entirely ...
... Surrender to the Divine Will Words of the Mother - II To Will What the Divine Wills Surrender: to will what the Divine wills is the supreme wisdom. To will what God wills―that is the supreme secret. Will one with the Divine will: a condition that triumphs over all obstacles. Divine Will―the will expressing the highest Truth. Let ...
... Surrender to the Divine Will Words of the Mother - II Difficulties of Surrender It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine's Will without having to face one or another of the difficulties. How many efforts and struggles again to give ourselves, to surrender, once the individuality is constituted! For if the struggle is... mean that it will not come one day in one form or another. For always, at least once in our life, we are placed in some circumstance to test whether we are ready for an entire surrender to the Divine Will; whether we are, before all, human beings striving to attain and manifest the Godhead; ready to renounce everything in the world―what seems to us good as well as what seems bad―for that supreme conquest... ready to accept all that comes to you from Him, with an equal peace; because He knows better than we what is good for our progress. 13 August 1960 The time is come to rely only on the Divine will and to let it work freely through you. I repeat, the time has come at last not to rely any more on one's own petty will, to hand over the whole affair to the Divine's will and let it do its ...
... and against which he reacts violently. But since you are told that everything is the expression of the divine Will and must be accepted as the divine Will, there comes this problem, which crops up almost constantly and every minute: if you accept those things as the expression of the divine Will, quite naturally things will follow their habitual course towards disintegration, but what is the TRUE ATTITUDE ...
... stillness". The indication will then surely come, sooner or later, depending on the state of perfection of the sadhaka's attitude, and he will receive intimations of the precise nature of the divine Will operative in his life at that very moment. We are tempted to cite in this connection a very valuable passage from the writing of a well-known Western mystic: "When we are in doubt and ... come. He will wait in calm patience and continue praying till a clear indication comes from the Divine that his prayer is misplaced and the thing he is asking for is not in conformity with the divine Will but is arising only out of his egoistic ignorance. 4.The sadhaka is not debarred from taking some ancillary outward aid but his first and foremost reliance, and a confident reliance at... able to deliver me from my difficulty; or who knows whether the Divine exists at all." Even the slightest intrusion of doubts like this or any egoistic complaints addressed to the ever-loving Divine will throw a spanner in the effective action of the divine Grace. Let us close our essay on śaranāgati-sādhanā with a final mantra meant for the sadhakas: "Watch for God in the events of your ...
... 405-6. ² Mother's Agenda, Vol. 1, pp. 421-2. Page 50 changed my life. From that moment on, I was conscious that all one does is the expression of the indwelling Divine Will. But it is the Divine Will AT THE VERY CENTRE of oneself, although for a while there remained an activity in the physical mind. But this was stilled two or three days after I saw Sri Aurobindo for the first... consciousness was established in the psychic depths of the being, and from that poise issued the feeling of no longer doing anything but what the Divine wanted—it was the consciousness that the divine Will was all-powerful and that there was no longer any personal will, although there was still some mental activity and everything had to be made silent. In 1914, it was silenced, and the consciousness ...
... supramental not for myself but for the earth and souls born on the earth, and certainly therefore I cannot object if anybody wants the supramental. But these are the conditions. He must want the Divine Will first and the soul's surrender and the spiritual realisation (through works, bhakti, knowledge, self-perfection) on the way. So there everybody is right. The central sincerity is the first thing... the sake of being a poet only, or for fame, applause etc. From your statement I conclude that tendency does not matter much; I can go on as lain doing, today this, tomorrow that, so on. The Divine will do whatever is necessary. Yes. Certainly I would like to be what you want, only I don't know what you want me to be. I want you [to] be open and in contact with the Peace and Presence... commanded by the Divine. Non-violence is better than violence as a rule, and still sometimes violence may be the right thing. I consider dharma as relative; unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will, the highest way. Buddha did not aim at action in the world, but at cessation from the world-existence. For that he found the eightfold Path a necessary preparatory discipline and so proclaimed it ...
... have also to emphasize at the same time the aspect of the Para-Prakriti, the creative Divine Will and Force. This simultaneous development of the psychic ensures the best possible progress in our sadhana. Otherwise a lop sided progress in detachment and passivity may cripple us as an instrument of the Divine Will. 1.09.66 * * * My approach to Sri Aurobindo has been from the very... t is as sure as the breaking of a new dawn out of the darkness of the night. Nothing can prevent it. 10.02.66 Page 45 I am sure, your intensive study of the Life Divine will do you a lot of good. Your stress on the personal effort in the beginning of the sadhana and for a longtime even afterwords, is a very sensible one. I can't say that many of those who are here are ...
... being—the central will, one yet multiple, and attuned to, or more precisely, an individual self-formation of, the universal divine Will. To destroy the distortions and preserve the will, the real motive power of our swabhāva, and unite it with the self-revealing divine Will, is then the whole method and aim of our dealing with prāṇa and its desires. And that goes a long way in purifying the citta... forces of darkness. For, nothing must be left, not the least vestige of the primitive cravings, that could prolong the action of the Ignorance. All the boundless energy of desires must go to feed the divine Will revealing itself more and more in the being as it undergoes Page 252 the psychic change. It is to be remarked here that' m the Integral Yoga there is no question of killing or crippling ...
... also includes submission or resignation. Therefore, through works the transformation of the egoic will into the divine will takes place through both the offering of the persona! will by doing all works and actions for the Divine as well as through resignation to whatever the divine Will brings about in one's life. × ... all one's acts and works in life an offering to God, a means for arriving at the union of the soul with the Lord. Its chief methods are a purification of the personal will and its surrender to the Divine Will. 81 Among the various methods pertaining to the three categories of paths, two methods stand out most prominently in Eckhart's teaching: The first is the Sankhya process of becoming the ...
... shall only select a few from the sheaf: Question: What is the result of self-surrender? Answer: Everlasting bliss. Question: How? Answer: When the human will is given up for the Divine Will, all the responsibility of the instrument, the devotee, ceases ______________________ * Quoted from Sri Aurobindo's poem "In the Moonlight". Page 75 and the consciousness of... clamorous and personal ambition. I quoted for his benefit a message of Gurudev's: "The liberated man has no Personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal Possessions; he receives what the Divine Will brings him, covets nohing, is jealous of none; what comes to him he takes without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining... cannot claim to have stepped into the Yogic shoes till one keeps them on even when they make one bleed, as nothing less can bring home to one the deep maladjustment between one's self-will and the Divine Will, a maladjustment that warped even some gods into rebels, as the sages say. Page 86 ...
... manifestation of the Divine Will, then there is no utility in Yoga—in that case the Yogi and the ordinary man stand on the same footing; they are both the Divine and their Will is the Divine Will. Sri Aurobindo ... Divine Will My Pilgrimage to the Spirit July 27, 1932 *Q. Can there be anything like the will of the instrument in the practical field? *A. As long as there is egoism, the egoistic will is there. And as long as there is Ignorance, there will be a will of the instrument in the practical field. If the ignorant egoistic will is to be considered as a m ...
... wideness, the heights of knowledge, the seas of Ananda. Surrender is giving oneself to the Divine—to give everything one is or has to the Divine and regard nothing as one's own, to obey only the Divine will and no other, to live for the Divine and not for the ego. Self-surrender is to give up yourself and all that is yours, mind and everything else to the Divine, so that the Divine Force may... that may be limited in result to the inner experience without any transformation of the outer nature. Passive or Tamasic Surrender Active surrender is when you associate your will with the Divine Will, reject what is not the Divine, assent to what is the Divine. Passive surrender is when everything is left entirely to the Divine—that few can really do, because in practice it turns out that you... since they might put themselves into the hand of a wrong Force thinking it to be the Divine. For most it is necessary to grow through Tapasya into surrender. Yes, if there is the sense of the Divine Will behind all the Tapasya and receiving it and bestowing the fruit—it is at least a first form of surrender. Surrender and Personal Effort There are always two ways of doing the Yoga—one by the ...
... śraddhā —the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace—confidence and trust are aspects of faith and results of it. Confidence is a feeling of sureness that the Divine will hear when sincerely called and help and that all the Divine does is for the best. Trust is the mind's and heart's complete reliance on the Divine and its guidance and protection. Faith... of a changing mind or a sport of circumstance. A Problem of Faith How to conciliate these two notions: (1) that the Divine's Will is behind all movements and happenings, (2) that the Divine Will is distorted in the manifestation. There are two kinds of faith: The faith that calls down the equanimity and the faith that calls down the realisation. These two faiths correspond to two... 90 We have to have the faith that in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance of failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final realisation. This faith will give us equanimity; it is a faith that accepts what happens not definitively but as something that has to ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Sixteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn to the Bringer of All Desirable Good [The Rishi affirms the Divine Will in man as the offering and representative priest who brings light and strength and inspired knowledge and every desirable good; for he is the aspirer by works in whom is the puissance of all the gods and the... grow. Page 443 × Mitra. Agni contains and is all the gods. Mortals have to discover in the action of the divine Will the light, love and harmony of the true knowledge and true existence, the Mitra-power; it is in this aspect that he has to be set in front of the human consciousness as the representative priest... the gods, the right placing of its works according to the times and seasons of the Truth. × The Divine Will becomes the Enjoyer Bhaga, brother power of Mitra, who enjoys all delight of existence but by Mitra's power of pure discernment and according to the light, truth and harmony of the divine living ...
... as the lowest layer of the barhis . In Tapas, the two difficulties are, on the one hand, to reject all willings that are not in harmony with the Divine Will & on the other to avoid mistaking the immediately dominant force for the eventual Divine Will. Samadhi The instances of prolonged action of rupa & stable status of rupa in swapnasamadhi are becoming more frequent, as well as coherence... old rule, however, still holds good in the body & in Kriti. The tendency in the Mind to select & favour a particular thought or will as against others without knowing it to be the Truth or the divine Will is the chief subjective obstacle to the rapid progress of effectivity in the Vijnana. Aishwarya 1) Prolongation of conference at Niagara 2) Events in Mexico, imperfectly 3) Success ...
... . But beyond this step there lies that other greater motion, the inner surrender of all our actions to the Divinity within us. For it is infinite Nature that impels our works and a divine Page 458 Will in and above her that demands action of us; the choice and turn our ego gives to it is a contribution of our tamasic, rajasic, sattwic quality, a deformation in the lower Nature. The ... from the all-wise, infinite, universal force of an eternal being and not from the ignorance of the little personal ego. The action is chosen and shaped according to the nature, but entirely by the divine Will in the nature, and it is therefore free and perfect within, whatever its outward appearance; it comes stamped with the inward spiritual seal of the Infinite as the thing to be done, the movement... complete and total knowledge, kṛtsnavid , and does all works without any of the restrictions made by the mind, kṛtsna-karma-kṛt , according to the force and freedom and infinite power of the divine will within him. And since he is united with the Eternal, he has too the pure spiritual and illimitable joy of his eternal existence. He turns with adoration to the Self of whom he is a portion, the Master ...
... makes the consciousness rigid and not flexible and plastic to the Divine Will. The true spiritual perfection is not so much of form; it is of the very substance of the consciousness and, as it consists at its base in an entire harmony with the Divine Consciousness and a free and plastic self-adaptation at each moment to the Divine Will, its forms and the forms of its action are not so easily visible... which I have indicated above. It is not a question of any particular action or attitude to be taken but of the consciousness Page 660 within giving a free and supple expression to the Divine Will acting through it. The existence of imperfections, even many and serious imperfections, cannot be a permanent bar to progress in the Yoga. (I do not speak of a recovery of the former opening ...
... revolt, no justification of revolt: for the psychic aspires through inner union with the Divine and surrender. It does not question and challenge, but seeks to understand through unity with the Divine Will. It does not ask for small personal satisfactions, but finds its satisfaction in the growth of the Truth within the being; what it seeks and finds is not any indulgence of a vital and physical claim... life-force. None of us are here to "do as we like", or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like; we are here to do what the Divine wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its truth no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by vital desire. The work which the sadhak of the supramental Yoga has to do is not his own work for which... and spoken word, but can also bear the silence and feel in it and receive (without listening to other voices or mistaking mental and vital suggestions and impulsions for the divine Truth and the divine Will) help, support and guidance. Avoiding Premature Engagement with the Lower Vital You cannot escape from these lower vital forces by being curious about them. This kind of curiosity only encourages ...
... to the law of the Yoga I have given to you. If you bring in things which do not belong to it at all and are quite foreign to it, such as "hunger-strikes" and vehement emotional revolt against the divine Will, it is idle to expect any rapid progress. That means that you insist on going on your own bypath and yet demand of me that I shall bring you to my goal. All difficulties can be conquered, but only... upon the vehement emotionalism of the Bhakti-marga to which the temperament of Bengal is most prone, though it has a different kind of Bhakti, but on samata and atma-samarpana . Obedience to the divine Will, not assertion of self-will, is the very first mantra . But what can be a more violent assertion of self-will than to demand the result you desire, whether external Page 228 or internal... their utility but are needed as transitional powers. This too is how I regard the work of men like Tilak and Gandhi. We work in the faith that it is our vision of the future that is the central divine will, the highest actualisable possibility and therefore the one thing that must be made the object of our action; but that does not mean that the Shakti is not working in her own covert way and for her ...
... the divine Will, all the tension arising from the effort, an effort which could be called premature or unconsidered—all the tension arising from this effort gives way. There is a relaxation in the being. And the progress one could not make by this purely mental effort usually comes about almost automatically, by the very fact that one has relaxed in confidence and self-giving to the divine Will. ... passions and above all from those impulsive actions which may lead you to the abyss. There you are. One must be very sure of oneself, quite free from the ego and perfectly surrendered to the divine Will to be able to do safely without reason. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between true and false reasons! Ah! no, you are playing with words. That word, as you use it here, has altogether ...
... its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will. Now, there are stages, there are degrees. For example, insincerity... greatest impurities, always arises from the fact that a movement or a set of movements, an element of the being or a number of elements, want to follow their own will and not be the expression of the divine Will. So this produces in the being either a revolt or a falsehood. I don't mean that one tells Page 438 lies, but I mean that one is in a state of falsehood, of insincerity. And then, the ...
... to say? On what does its manifestation depend, or on what does it itself depend for its existence? It itself. The central will? It depends on the divine Will. It is the individualised expression of the divine Will; and the divine Will is the expression of the divine Consciousness seeking to manifest itself, to realise itself. How can one become aware of the central will? Ah, this ...
... ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. So long as a personal aspiration or desire, a selfish will, get mingled in it, it always creates a mixture and is not exactly an expression of the divine Will. The only thing which must count is the Divine, His ...
... Only human imbecility and stupid selfishness could prevent it. Against that, it has been said, even the gods strive in vain; but it cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. Nationalism will then have fulfilled itself; an international spirit and outlook must grow up and international forms and institutions; even it may be such developments as dual or multilateral ... insecure. The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral c... and to be cleared out. . . . Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately, a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these conditions ...
... ego-it is Sir Ego that tries to be taken as the true being. But the body has learn that even without the ego, it is what it is, because it is that by the divine Will, not by the ego-we exist by the divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means-a means for many centuries-now it is worth nothing, its time has passed. Now. . .( Mot h er brings down her fist) , consciousness,... ity is altogether useless, altogether; it is not at all indispensable for its existence, it is Wholly useless. It exists through another power and another will, which is not personal: it is the divine Will. And it will be what it should be only the day it feels that there is no difference between itself and the Divine. That is all. All the rest is falsehood-falsehood, falsehood, and ...
... is now done out of a sense of duty towards the Divine will be done out of love for Him. The Mother The starting-point When one is united with one's psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one's action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will - that is the starting-point. The Mother ... The Mother Cultivating the instrument If you said to yourself, my children, "We want to be Page 55 as perfect instruments as possible to express the divine Will in the world", then for this instrument to be perfect, it must be cultivated, educated, trained. It must not be left like a shapeless piece of stone. When you want to build with a stone you chisel ...
... by That, is the ego—it is Sir Ego that tries to be taken as the true being. But the body has learnt that even without the ego, it is what it is, because it is that by the divine Will, not by the ego—we exist by the divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means—a means for many centuries—now it is worth nothing, its time has passed. Now... ( Mother brings down her fist ), consciousness, it is... individuality is altogether useless, altogether; it is not at all indispensable for its existence, it is wholly useless. It exists through another power and another will which is not personal: it is the divine Will. And it will be what it should be only the day it feels that there is no difference between itself and the Divine. That is all. All the rest is falsehood—falsehood, falsehood, and falsehood that ...
... We must... you see, being the organizers, our task is to set the example of what we want others to do. We must rise above personal reactions, be exclusively attuned to the divine Will and be the docile instruments of the divine Will - we must be impersonal, without any personal reaction. Page 249 We must "be" in all sincerity. What the Divine wants — let it be. That's all. If we can be that... nothing! Then if the work must be done, if Auroville must be built, not only do I have to remain in my body but the body must become strong. I know. I know that. All depends on what the Divine Will is -He doesn't tell me! When I ask Him, I have the impression... (once or twice, in moments of difficulty, I have put the question regarding this body), and then (laughing) I seem to see a smile ...
... omnipotent!' Then he insisted: 'No, that's not it. I make no distinction between your will and the divine will ... and I know that you don't either. So why didn't you stop it?' And suddenly, I understood. It was because I hadn't thought of it. It hadn't even grazed my consciousness. The divine will is not at all like that, it is not a will: it is a VISION, a global vision, that sees and ... No... turn bad, I simply applied a force so that it wouldn't become too serious. Complete surrender... It is not a matter of giving what is small to something greater nor of losing one's will in the divine will; it Page 89 is a matter of ANNULLING one's will in something that is of another nature. What comes to replace this human will? A consciousness and a vision. And one is filled with ...
... an attitude quite ready to accept death (I am not talking about what happens in the story itself, but merely giving a case in point to make myself clear) because it is the divine Will, for this reason alone—it's the divine Will, so it's quite all right; since that's how it is, it's quite all right—and at the same time, the love of Life. This love of Life. 3 Following the story, you would say: she... when you feel it concretely, when you get a grip on it, can you grasp both things.... ( silence ) Page 71 The problem is roughly this: nothing exists that is not the result of the divine Will. Always the same problem. Always the same problem. Generally speaking, the antidivine is easily understood, but in the minute details of daily life, how do you choose between this and that ...
... protection to save us from all possible consequences, this is a movement which is like a challenge to the Divine, and the Divine will never accept it. When action is initiated by the Divine Will, it is pure. If in all sincerity one acts only to express the Divine Will, all actions without exception can become unselfish. But as long as this state has not been reached, there are actions which ...
... of all-embracing love and delight..."] (The Synthesis of Yoga, pi 575) We have to obviate here one possible confusion that may trouble some readers. To be all the time turned to the Divine, will it not interfere with our active life? Or is it intended that a true God-lover should curtail his activities as much as practicable and pass most of his time in an indrawn state? No, surely... his self-will in every way. "O Divine, O my supreme Beloved, whatever you will, whatever you will", this should be his aspiration and yearning of every moment. "Not my personal will but your divine Will", should be the actuating motive behind all his actions. A great God-lover of the past rightly remarked: "Whatever else we may give to God, should we refuse him our will, we give him ... (whether outer or inner), all the parts of the being, all of them, have one single wall to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to will only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no other source of energy than that of the Divine." (Questions and Answers 1953, Cent. Ed., p. 5) Now, to arrive at this state of perfect love the Mother has prescribed for the ...
... conviction, "I want you alone", the Divine will arrange all circumstances in such a way as to oblige you to be sincere. Something in you says, "I want nothing but you", and then all the while you want a hundred different things. Usually it is one thing particularly that comes and troubles you and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without showing himself, without... without even your suspecting it and He will arrange circumstances in such a way that whatever prevents you from being solely given to the Divine, will be inevitably removed Page 28 from your path. And then when all such things are removed you begin to complain and shout. But subsequendy, if you are sincere, you remember that you said to the Divine that you belonged to Him alone. ...
... want you alone", the Divine will arrange all circumstances in such a way as to oblige you to be sincere. Something in you says, "I want nothing but you", and then all the while you want a hundred different things. Usually it is one thing particularly that comes Page 126 and troubles you and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without showing himself... himself, without even your suspecting it and He will arrange circumstances in such a way that whatever prevents you from being solely given to the Divine, will be inevitably removed from your path. And then when all such things are removed you begin to complain and shout. But subsequently, if you are sincere, you remember that you said to the Divine that you belonged to Him alone. And then He will ...
... Gita says, the highest law, the supreme code of conduct, is the Divine Will. And the only work and labour for man is to discover and identify oneself with this Divine Will. "Abandon all other standards of conduct, take refuge in Me alone."¹ That is the supreme secret of human life – as well as of the Life Divine. To know the Divine Will and to be one with it is not easy, to be sure. But that is the ...
... Upanishads or the Gita, or else, other books of science or medicine or economics or what you will. True education is to grow inwardly to discover the Divine Will and to manifest it in physical life. And the secret of the science of the discovery of the Divine will can be practised under any system of education." I had asked her : What is that secret? And she had replied : "Do you remember an... the Gita. "The aim of education should be to discover the Sun of Knowledge in which God, Man and Nature stand integrated in a blaze of light through which each individual would discover the Divine Will to manifest itself in physical life. To discover Purushottama, to discover His Will and to manifest it in physical life through the individual, Jiva, — this would be the aim. "The new content ...
... Gita says, the highest law, the supreme code of conduct, is the Divine Will. And the only work and labour for man is to discover and identify oneself with this Divine Will. "Abandon all other standards of conduct, take refuge in Me alone." That is the supreme secret of human life—as well as of the Life Divine. To know the Divine Will and to be one with it is not easy, to be sure. But that is the ...
... be nothing short of the burning brazier of Love. She had nothing to ask for herself, nothing to acquire or achieve in the interest of her individual being; but she had to do—because it was the divine Will in her to do—all that was possible to root out for ever the ignorance and suffering of human life and make it a potent channel of the Light divine. Her love for the human soul, her solicitude... began. Love revealed itself as a victorious power of illumination and transformation, and it carried her into the obscure foundations of terrestrial life, the dark matrix of Matter, which it is the divine Will to chum, illumine and transfigure. Human mind is incapable of imagining the horrors and perils to which the Mother was exposed, the ordeals she had to pass through, and the battle she had to wage... exceptional representative on the earth ? She had nothing to complain of, for, she knew she was made for the most difficult work of material transformation, and she let herself be moved by the divine Will, which is one with divine Love. And yet something in her outer personality, something sweetly human—this plastic and receptive human element is indispensable to her work—had the modesty to find ...
... Divine. 3 December 1971 * * * In the difficult hours of life, the imperative duty of each one is to overcome his ego in a total and unconditional selfgiving to the Divine. Then the Divine will make you do what you have to do. 4 December 1971 * * * Supreme Lord, Infinite Wisdom, At this perilous hour when egoisms are at odds and asserting themselves, the only safety lies in... short, and it is now rare to live to be a hundred. When man lived in harmony with Nature, his life was longer. When man lives by and for the Divine, his life will be longer, and one day the Divine will reveal to him the secret of immortality. 6 January 1972 * * * It is the invocation of the people who are celebrating Sri Aurobindo’s centenary which makes his presence more active and effective... other human beings to conform to their expectations and circumstances to conform to their desires— therefore they suffer and are unhappy. It is only when one gives oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will that one has the peace and calm joy which come from the abolition of desires. The psychic being knows this with certainty; thus, by uniting with one’s psychic one can know it. But the first condition ...
... which the Gita teaches is not a human, but a divine action; not the performance of social duties, but the abandonment of all other standards of duty or conduct for a selfless performance of the divine will working through our nature; not social service, but the action of the Best, the God-possessed, the Master-men done impersonally for the sake of the world and as a sacrifice to Him who stands behind... society as its visible idol. At its best it is practical, ethical, social, pragmatic, altruistic, humanitarian. Now all these things are good, are especially needed at the present day, are part of the divine Will or they would not have become so dominant in humanity. Nor is there any reason why the divine man, the man who lives in the Brahmic consciousness, in the God-being should not be all of these things ...
... this ascent, and all that, this is no longer there and you have the feeling of the Descent, the Answer. And nothing but the Page 56 Answer exists. Nothing but the divine thought, the divine will, the divine energy, the divine action exists any longer. And you too, you are no longer there. That is to say, it is the answer to our aspiration. It may happen immediately afterwards—that is... passes. At last there comes a moment when one collaborates and says: "Oh! What joy!" And you give yourself, you want to be as passive and receptive as possible so as not to stand in the way of this divine Will, this divine Consciousness that is acting. You become more and more attentive, and exactly to the extent you become more attentive and more sincere, you feel in what direction, in what movement this ...
... of temper coming from outside; then one should withdraw into an inner calm, a detachment from superficial things, with a will to express only what comes from above and always be submissive to the divine Will. This is the right spirit. And in each case it is something like that. Naturally it always comes back to the same thing, that one must remember the Divine and put oneself at His service and will... psychic being and the divine Presence in him, present the problem to this psychic consciousness and ask for the true light, the true decision, the Page 340 one most in accordance with the divine Will, and try to listen and receive the inspiration. In each case, you see, it is the right attitude. "The Divine must always come first." 2 I don't understand. What does "come first" mean? ...
... the consciousness of the divine Presence, the consciousness of the divine Will, and when the entire being, like a luminous, clear, transparent whole, expresses this in all its details. This indeed is true sincerity. When, at any moment, whatever may happen, the being has given itself to the Divine and wants only the divine Will, when, no matter what is going on in the being, at any moment whatever ...
... is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval." Yes. So? You don't know that? You ought to know it. Some people always imagine that catastrophes are the result of the divine Will. There are others—as soon as they receive a force, they are terribly upset; and then they tell you, "Ah, when the Divine acts He upsets one completely." It is absolutely wrong. It is not the Divine... view, it may not be the result of hostile forces; you call them hostile because they attack you. But in fact, when one speaks of hostile forces it means forces hostile to the divine Work or the divine Will. So, if they Page 17 collaborated with this Work, they would no longer be hostile, you see. That's quite peremptorily logical. Therefore, one can't say that it is any kind of work ...
... qualities of fighting which create in the vital the sense of revolt, independence, the will to carry out its own will. But if the vital understands and is converted, if it is truly surrendered to the divine Will, then these fighting capacities are turned against the anti-divine forces and against all the darkness which prevents their transformation. And they are all-powerful and can conquer the adversaries... to help. But what is said here means to sit idly not doing anything, not making the shadow of an effort, nor even aspiring or willing, nothing, and then say, "Well, God will do this for me; the Divine will do everything for me. The Divine Grace will give me aspiration. If I need aspiration, It will give it to me. If I need surrender, It will give me that", and so on. "I have to do nothing except to ...
... Only human imbecility and stupid selfishness could prevent it. Against that, it has been said, even the gods strive in vain; but it cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. Nationalism will then have fulfilled itself; an international spirit and outlook must grow up and international forms and institutions; even it may be such developments as dual or multilateral ... is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot Page 479 stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral c ...
... for much; without you there it would have been far more difficult to realise the organisation of things the Mother wanted and in these two parts of the work it might even have been impossible. The Divine Will is there but it works through persons and there is a great difference between one instrument and another—that is why the person can be of so much importance. December 1936 In fact, if X and... and self-indulgence of their vital and physical demands but for a high and exacting Yoga of which the first aim is the destruction of desire and the substitution for it of the Divine Truth and the Divine Will. 9 January 1937 From the letters you write about X there can be only one conclusion that his behaviour is the cause of all the trouble, a constant cause of friction and disturbance. If that ...
... worker upon earth to help in the fulfilment of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses... general progress. But this is at a very, very advanced stage. When the psychic is fully developed and very conscious, Page 71 when it becomes a conscious instrument of the divine Will, it organises the vital and the mind in such a way that they too participate in the general harmony and can be preserved. A high degree of development allows at least some parts of the mental ...
... Presence and are surrendered to it. For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being that is impossible because the number of those who are truly conscious of the Divine Will is very small, and because they necessarily have no ambition. In fact, when the time comes for this realisation, it will take place quite ...
... pure, it is only in its reception that it gets deformed), then, instead of being your will Page 399 it becomes an expression of the divine Will. And this happens without your leaving the physical body —you can receive the force of the divine Will without leaving the physical. Only, you see, you must not change it and deform it, spoil it in the receiving. When you feel within you a kind of ...
... have an extreme point which is the affirmation that all that is, is the total and complete expression of the Divine Will—there is what could be called a certain school of thinkers who, on the basis of their personal experience, have asserted that everything is the expression of the Divine Will in a perfect way—and then, at the other extreme, the affirmation that the world is a sort of chaos without rhyme ...
... its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will. ...As soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front ...
... A Problem Of Faith How to conciliate these two notions: (I) that the Divine's will is behind all movements and happenings, (2) that the Divine will is distorted in the manifestation. There are two kinds of faith: The faith that calls down the equanimity and... We have to have the faith that in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance ofeach failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final Realisation. This faith will give us equanimity; it is a faith that accepts what happens, not definitively but as something that has to ...
... around. For national events, relations among nations, world circumstances, it acts like that, constantly, constantly, as a tremendous Power. And so if one is oneself in a state of union with the divine Will, without any intervention of thought, or any conception or idea, one can follow it, one sees and knows. 1 The resistances of the inertia that is in every consciousness and in Matter mean that... nothing to do with them. "If it is from the moral point of view—morality is a shield which ordinary men flourish to protect themselves from the Truth. "If it is from the spiritual point of view—the divine Will alone is justifiable and That is what men travesty and distort in all their actions." ...
... endeavour. Aspiration is to call the forces. When the forces have answered, there is a natural state of quiet receptivity concentrated but spontaneous. Aspiration is a call to the Divine,—will is the pressure of a conscious force on Nature. Aspiration is a call in the being, it is not opening. The Object of Aspiration The aspiration should be for the full descent of the Truth... over falsehood in the world. Aspire for the constant contact and the light. It is in the Light that the being will get organised in the Truth. Aspire for your will to be one with the Divine will, concentrate in the heart and be plastic to whatever experience comes, neither forcing nor resisting any spiritual experience. The aspiration for the supramental would be premature. What you ...
... what it was wanting and the surface hunt after Ananda or what else was only an excuse for drawing the nature towards that supreme magnet. Your argument that because we know the union with the Divine will bring Ananda, therefore it must be for the Ananda that we seek the union, is not true and has no force. One who loves a queen may know that if she returns his love it will bring him power, position... disappear if you want to succeed in Yoga. Whatever has to come as outgoing energy or action, must proceed from the Truth once discovered and not from the lower mental or vital motives, from the Divine Will and not from personal choice or the preferences of the ego. It is a universally accepted principle of the spiritual endeavour that one must be prepared to sacrifice everything without reserve ...
... feels instantly the presence of error. The fullness, the manhaná of this viveka is the foundation & safeguard of Ritam or Vedas. The first great movement of Agni Jatavedas is to transform by the divine will in mental activity his lower smoke-covered activity into the bright clearness & fullness of the ideal discernment. Agne adbhuta kratwá dakshasya manhaná. This, then, is the path. It is the development... Tapas, Ananda, Vijnana, Manas—this is the Indian ladder of Jacob by which one descends & ascends again to heaven. Man the Doer, the Manu, the Krana, perfecting himself by works, is lifted by the divine will to Vijnana, to the ideal self of true knowledge & right action & emotion, attains by Truth to Divine Love & Bliss, Mayas, the dháma or seat ofMitra, and thus ascends to the Tapas where Agni is [ ...
... that all Yogins who have these powers do use them whenever they find that they are called on from within to do so. They may refrain if they think the use in a particular case is contrary to the Divine Will or see that preventing one evil may be opening the door to worse or for any other valid reason, or simply because it is outside the scope of their action, but not from any general prohibitory rule... activities for the Yogi. But these powers are not sought after, they come naturally, and they have not the astral character. Also, they have to be used on purely spiritual lines, that is by the Divine Will and the Divine Force, as an instrument, but never as an instrumentation of the forces and beings of the vital plane. To seek their aid for such powers is a great error. Prolonged fasting may lead ...
... to be known by vijnana agencies. Where vijnana does not give light, there has to be no judgment, conclusion or even speculation. Aishwarya has to be utilised only where there is perception of the Divine Will behind; it has no longer to reflect in any way the movements of the manomaya Purusha or the manomaya Shakti. Lipi has to get rid of the obstacle in the Akasha which prevents it from manifesting with... programme has to be completed; trikaldrishti has to get rid of the remnants of false stress which constitute now its one remaining positive defect; aishwarya to illumine itself with knowledge of the Divine Will,—for up till now it has only got rid of the urgency which impelled it to employ itself blindly and merely for exercise. It has also to confirm the movement excluding ineffectual Page 208 ...
... Also, if an action can be done with self-control without desire under the direction of a higher consciousness, that is the better way and it can sometimes be followed for the fulfilment of the divine will in things that would not otherwise be undertaken by the Yogin, such as war and the destruction which accompanies war. But a too light resort to such a rule might easily be converted into a pretext... once you have turned to the Divine, to allow despondency of any kind to take hold of you. Whatever the difficulties and troubles, you must keep this confidence that by relying on the Divine, the Divine will take you through. Now I answer the questions you put to me in your letter. 1) If to follow the spiritual path is your resolve, marriage and family life can only come across it. Marriage would ...
... deities and especially the brilliant Agni are spoken of as helpful friends to the human sacrificer, they are said to be Mitra, or to be like Mitra, or to become Mitra,—as we should now say, the divine Will-force, or whatever other power and personality of the godhead, reveals itself eventually as the divine Love. Therefore we must suppose that to these symbolists Mitra was essentially the Lord of Love... Word, bowing the knee in the wideness of earth, may we attain to our abiding-place in the law of working of Mitra, son of Infinity, and dwell in his grace." It is when Agni becomes Mitra, when the divine Will realises the divine Love that, in the Vedic image, the Lord and his Spouse agree in their mansion. The well-accorded happiness of the Truth is Mitra's law of working; for it is upon Truth and ...
... of the life-energy Vayu, vātapramiyaḥ . Purified progressively by the experiences of the conscious heart and mind, these energies of Nature become finally capable of the marriage with Agni, the divine Will-force, which breaks down their boundaries and is himself nourished by their now abundant waves. That is the crisis of the being by which the mortal nature prepares its conversion to immortality.... Cow and the Horse, were the object of the sacrifice. Force was the condition, Light the liberating agency; and Indra and Surya were the chief bringers of Light. Moreover the Force required was the divine Will taking possession of all the human energies and revealing itself in them; and of this Will, this force of conscious energy taking possession of the nervous vitality and revealing itself in it, Agni ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Ninth Hymn to Agni Divine Will Ascendent from the Animal to Mentality [The Rishi speaks of the birth of the divine Will by the working of the pure mental on the material consciousness, its involved action in man's ordinary state of mortal mind emotional, nervous, passionate marked by crooked activities and perishable ...
... conquest and empire in the shape of a victorious conflict with the Powers of Darkness, an entire spiritual self-rule and mastery over inward and outward Nature, a conquest by Knowledge, Love and Divine Will over the domains of the Ignorance. These are the conditions and these must be the aims of the divine effectuation of the works of Life and their progressive transformation which is the third element... potent presence. For such is the true nature of the vital being, prāṇamaya puruṣa ; it is a projection of the Divine Purusha into life,—tranquil, strong, luminous, many-energied, obedient to the Divine Will, egoless, yet or rather therefore capable of all action, achievement, highest or largest enterprise. The true Life-Force too reveals itself as no longer this troubled harassed divided striving surface ...
... and self-satisfaction of virtue, the rajasic by the sattwic egoism. But the original sin has to be cured, the separation of its being and will from the divine Being and the divine Will; when it returns to unity with the divine Will and Being, it rises beyond sin and virtue to the infinite self-existent purity and the security of its own divine nature. Page 680 Its incapacities it tries to ...
... self, of union with the Divine, is justified only because it is the highest law of our nature, because it is the attraction of that which is lower in us to that which is highest, because it is the Divine Will in us. That is its sufficient justification and its one truest reason; all other motives are excrescences, minor or incidental truths or useful lures which the soul must abandon, the moment their... strength, love, capacity, is not that personally we may enjoy the divine Nature or be even as the gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the ...
... the Lord through unity with the divine Will or Conscious-Power by the way of works; the height of love is the rapturous immersion of ourselves in unity Page 377 of ecstatic delight with the object of our love and adoration. But again for divine works in the world the individual Self converts itself into a centre of consciousness through which the divine Will, one with the divine Love and ...
... (I was lying Page 150 on my bed), and it lasted for two hours. Things were as real, as precise as they are here.... And the same will: it's not another will, it's the same; it's the divine Will through the psychic working in this body. So it acts there or here without difference. In other words, whether I am in this subtle physical or in the material physical, it's the same will, the same... But it gives indications (more and more often, day after day, Page 151 experience after experience), indications of the extent to which the intervention of this Will (which we call divine Will) through the psychic (or even direct, it depends on the case), to what extent it's... all-powerful. And it exclusively depends on... This Will is always active for perfect Harmony—yes, perfect Harmony ...
... Well, you would have to "complete" it! (laughter) Did I do the end? A little at the beginning and then the end. I don't see anymore.... So I should go back to it then.... The Life Divine will take how many years? I don't know, thirty years maybe [at the rate of a chapter per "Bulletin"]. What! ( laughter ) Thirty!... Then it will go on until the year 2000. Yes. ( Laughing... it go. No, no. No, it must change for sure. That's sure. ( Mother laughs ) Page 257 It's almost mathematical, you know. It FEELS that way.... I don't know. It's up to the Divine Will. Because a certain part will necessarily have to be miraculous. Yes. Without a miracle, it.... But then, the miracle depends on the Lord. Well. Anyway, we have some time to think about ...
... of all itself, it is sat ; whatever it puts forth in Page 120 its limitless purity of self-awareness is truth of itself, satya ; the divine knowledge is knowledge of the Truth, the divine Will is power of the Truth, the divine workings are words and ideas of the Truth realising themselves in manifold forms and through many stages and in infinite relations. But God is not limited or bound... sure resting-place, cannot surely be called skill in works. But the universal is equal in all and therefore its determinations are not self-willed preferences but are guided by the truth of the divine will and knowledge which is unlimited and not subject to incapacity or error. Therefore that state of the being by which the Yogin differs from the ordinary man, is that by which he rises from the ...
... and a supreme energy. The eye of Indian thought saw a third aspect of the Self and of Brahman; besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy. European thought, following the line of Heraclitus' thinking, has fixed itself on reason and on force and made them the principles towards... accepts it without fear or reserve, gives itself up in a spiritual purity to the Divine, allows the careful and troubled force of man to be freed from care and grief and become the joyous play of the divine Will, his relative and stumbling reason to be replaced by that divine knowledge which to the Greek, the Page 253 rational man, is foolishness, and the laborious pleasure-seeking of the bound ...
... Receptivity Receptivity is the capacity of admitting and retaining the Divine Workings. Receptivity: conscious of the Divine Will and surrendered to it. Integral receptivity: the whole being is aware of the Divine Will and obeys it. Psychic receptivity: the psychic responds joyously to the ascending force. Mental receptivity: always ready to learn. ...
... individuality is so important. It is very important for the exactness of this action, so that it is only—ONLY—the purest divine Will (if it can be put that way), expressing itself with a minimum of admixture. Any individualization or personalization results in admixture. But the divine Will acts like this ( direct gesture ). Oh, it was magnificent at the balcony this morning! And then one understands ...
... generally recognized as such only by a few, while to the others they were quite human, even though perhaps extraordinary, persons. “It is a question between the Divine and myself – whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not,” wrote Sri Aurobindo. “Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall... and spiritual realisation. … Always we see in the history of the divine incarnations the double work, and inevitably, because the Avatar takes up the workings of God in human life, the way of the divine Will and Wisdom in the world, and that always fulfils itself externally as well as internally, by inner progress in the soul and by an outer change in the life … The Avatar may descend as a great spiritual ...
... the human sense … If human reason regards me as a fool for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care … It is a question between the Divine and myself — whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for... Be it understood that Sri Aurobindo normally uses the word ‘Nature’, with a capital letter, for the conscious creative Power which is the manifesting executrix of the Divine Will. × Not to be confused with the same word used when describing the non-evolving worlds of the divine ...
... on one of two conditions: 1) If he uses them during his sadhana solely to train himself in possessing things without attachment or desire and to learn to use them rightly, in harmony with the Divine Will, with a proper handling, a just organization, arrangement and measure;—or 2) If he already attained a true freedom from desire and attachment and is not the least moved or affected in any way... use of the things to possess is contrary to the spirit of sadhana. Even if he is free in spirit, he will not be fit for possession, if he has not learned to use things not for himself, but for the Divine Will, as an instrument, with the right knowledge, and action in the use for the equipment of a life lived not for oneself but for and in the Divine. Sri Aurobindo ...
... the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will. 21 February 1930 To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine―not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the... life will become harmonious and beautiful. Page 65 Fear not, your sincerity is your safeguard. 22 November 1934 If earnestly you say to the Divine, "I want only Thee", the Divine will arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled to be sincere. 8 June 1954 Simple sincerity: the beginning of all progress. To reach your spiritual goal, be sincere, ...
... only to the Divine. 3 December 1971 In the difficult hours of life, the imperative duty of each one is to overcome his ego in a total and unconditional self-giving to the Divine. Then the Divine will make you do what you have to do. 4 December 1971 Supreme Lord, Infinite Wisdom, At this perilous hour when egoisms are at odds and asserting themselves, the only safety lies in taking... other human beings to conform to their expectations and circumstances to conform to their desires—therefore they suffer and are unhappy. It is only when one gives oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will that one has the peace and calm joy which come from the abolition of desires. The psychic being knows this with certainty; so, by uniting with one's psychic, one can know it. But the first condition ...
... wants and you will have mastery. The inner command is more sure than the mental conception. The reign of reason should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will. Power to reject adverse suggestions: the power which comes from the conscious union with the Divine. Wisdom cannot be acquired except through union with the Divine Consciousness. ... wisdom is progressive. A bit of wisdom is welcome. Page 229 In the depths of the Inconscient, there also shines the Divine Consciousness resplendent and eternal. The Divine Will acting in the inconscient is all-powerful even when we do not know it. Indeed, I am convinced that when the Inconscient is conquered no more conditions will be required; all will be a free ...
... Divine's. Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you. 6 August 1963 The opinion of the Supreme Lord alone has importance. The Supreme Lord alone deserves all our love and He returns it to us a hundredfold. 11 February 1970 Take the Divine alone into your soul's confidence. Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you. A single occupation ...
... said in particular: "Unless the event is the result of the divine Will expressed without admixture, it is the work of what we call 'chance.' In the ordinary world, everything is the rule of chance, except, now and then, an occurrence whose cause is indiscernible to the multitude of men, but discernible to one who is in contact with the divine Will. Only this escapes the rule of chance." ...
... not concerned with it. If it is from the moral point of view—morality is the shield ordinary men brandish to protect themselves from the Truth. If it is from the spiritual point of view—the Divine Will alone is justifiable and It is what men travesty and distort in all their actions. A little later: There's a question I'd like to ask you in connection with the last aphorism.... You... national events, relations between nations, terrestrial circumstances, that's how it acts, constantly, constantly, like an AWESOME Power. So then, if you are yourself in a state of union with the divine Will, without the thought and all the conceptions and ideas interfering, you follow, see, and know. The resistance of inertia in consciousnesses and in Matter are the reason why that Action, instead ...
... she once talked about the flower which symbolises in her vision "Successful Future". Apropos of this flower she said that the successful future means the supramental change of the world, when the Divine will stand manifest — unveiled in its total perfection. Then she told us: "I do not mean to say that the whole world will at once feel its presence or be transformed; but I do mean that a part of humanity... the particular form given to it may have shown Purushottam's originality. Then there is the definition: "To be entirely cleansed of falsehood so that there may be purity to know the Divine Will and respond to the Call at every moment." Some worker wishing to be totally consecrated and made ready as an instrument of the Divine is voiceful in these words. But who could it be ...
... intuitions or intimations from within will begin to grow, become clear, precise, unmistakable and the strength to follow them will grow also. And then before even you are satisfied with yourself, the Divine will be satisfied with you and begin to withdraw the veil by which he protects himself and his seekers against a premature and perilous grasping of the greatest thing to which humanity can aspire. ... case with Dahyalal Desai; others have a smooth path which does not mean that they have no difficulties—they have plenty, but they do not care a straw for them, because they feel sure that the Divine will help them to Page 150 the goal, or that he is with them even when they do not feel him—their faith makes them imperturbable. What Puranmal feels is true—there are certain signs ...
... trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. There is no question of Haradhan or Rani or anybody else in that. It is a {question between the Divine and myself— whether it is the Divine will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible, or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for... what it was wanting and the surface hunt after Ananda or what else was only an excuse for drawing the nature towards that supreme magnet. Your argument that because we know the union with the Divine will bring Ananda, therefore it must be for the Ananda that we seek the union, is not true and has no force. One who loves a queen may know that if she returns his love it willing him power, position ...
... went away from the Yoga. Your vital mind (which is the one which revolts and doubts) has strange misconceptions about the spiritual state. There is no grimness in being an instrument of the divine Will—it is the happiest and most joyous condition possible—it brings Page 305 not only peace but an intense Ananda. Anyhow, the hold of the Yoga-force is increasing in spite of everything... midst of violent perturbations. It would be the first step towards a settled fundamental peace and inner happiness and, what is most important of all, an ability to believe in and perceive the Divine Will in things which men cannot perceive—nor the meaning in them—because they are perplexed not so much by their mental limitations—though that is one cause—but by the claims and recoils of the vital ...
... practices of purification, of renunciation and austerity. At the highest borders, there is a demand for further transcendence where the divine reality is directly contacted and possessed and where the divine will begins to operate at a supra-mental level. In that spiritual and supra-mental component of our complex nature, it is claimed, is the integrating power; in it the truths of the individual and the... partial consciousness already reached must surely evolve into complete consciousness. It is a perfected and divinized life for which the earth-nature is seeking, and this seeking is a sign of the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine Presence are ...
... the three qualities of gunas of sattwa, rajas and tamas. The ideal to be reached by karma, by action, is to be a channel entirely passive for the free and unobstructed passage of the divine will. All this and much more was implied when Sri Krishna announced that the fourfold order of the society was created divinely, on the basis of Page 196 quality and action, guna and... sarvadharmani parityajya. The Spirit takes up the individual into the universal Swabhava, perfects and unifies the fourfold soul of nature in us and does its self-determined works according to the divine will and the accomplished power of the godhead in the creature. ... Our work should be according to the truth within us, it should not be an accommodation with outward and artificial standards: it ...
... universal and transcendental Reality and the eventual manifestation of the intended manifestation of the divine will in the physical life consists of the most difficult endeavour, and that process is the process of the integral yoga. This task culminates in Page 57 manifestation of the divine will in physical life, and in this task, the importance of the individual is critical. As Sri Aurobindo ...
... duties derived from egoistic understanding of himself in his circle of life had circumscribed his thought and sentiment. When Arjuna was lifted to a higher level of vision in which the secret of the Divine Will and of the complete consecration of the entire being to that will were brought forth as in dear daylight, his problem was resolved; his crisis was overcome." As I finished this long statement... holiday has been shattered to pieces." "Let us not be disappointed, "said the Princess, "There must be some deeper significance." She looked at me and added: "We must discover the Divine Will and submit ourselves to it!" The Princess left the room in order to get the arrangements made for the flight to return to the Capital. In the meantime, children had got up and come to our room ...
... the same divine Will has come down into the life of man and is guiding him from behind towards his divine destiny by applying a constant pressure on his present Ignorance-dominated consciousness and nature so that they can march with assured steps towards the attainment of divine light, peace, love, delight, liberty and harmony. The only aim of this constantly operative divine Will is to effectuate ...
... in the way but declares that 'unification is a necessity of Nature, an inevitable movement' and that 'human imbecility and stupid selfishness' cannot stand forever against this necessity and the Divine Will. Indeed, despite national rivalries and the tussle between the power blocs, the concept of 'One World' has taken root in the human consciousness in a way which would have been unthinkable fifty years... souls shall enter into light, Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight And human wills tune to the divine will.. || 155.67 || A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial ...
... less at the time intuited, perhaps with a few minutes leeway. That is the way you have to develop faculties. Just try it out in harmless situations. Everything is Divine Will. If your will is in contact with the Divine Will - it is done. ...
... gifts will lie before you, Three times over to pay for all his out rage. Hold back now. Obey us both." Achilles is quick to respond, ready to surrender his small will to that greater Divine Will: Page 66 "I must — when the two of you hand down commands, Goddess, A man submits though his heart breaks with fury. Better for him by far. If a man obeys the gods They're... They're quick to hear his prayers." In a way, the rest of the Iliad is about how circumstances arrange themselves so that Achilles fulfills this initial promise of obedience to the Divine Will. Achilles withdraws himself and his men from the siege and says he will not rejoin the battle until the Achaeans are disgraced. Several friends make attempts through reason to change his mind, arguing that ...
... part of the psychic experience - the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience, unselfishness, fidelity to the true perception... the love in connection with this or that person. But the universal love is not personal - it has to be held within as a condition of the consciousness which will have its effects according to the Divine Will or be used by that Will if necessary, but to run about expressing it for one's personal satisfaction or the satisfaction of others is only to spoil and lose it. I fail to understand ...
... 1934 What do you think of this [a letter from C]? Isn't it appalling that a small job and a little money in his hands have brought him to this pass? ... Is it right to suppose that the Divine will is behind it in order to exhaust an abnormal propensity? I write so because I read in Bejoykrishna's biography of a Mahapurush, that in his ascetic wanderings the Mahalpurush met a woman and lived... by the rejection of desire, rajas and ego a peace and purity into which the peace ineffable can descend—one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the cosmic,—one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from ...
... It was these that created, that is to say, gave the first forms to earthly beings and things. They sent out their emanations and these again theirs in their turn and so on. Thus it was not the Divine Will which acted directly upon Matter and gave the world the form it could 'or should have had. There are layers and planes, graded intermediaries through which the Will has had to act. I spoke of... you come to this identification, all problems are solved. The feeling, one can explain, that things are not all right, that they should be otherwise comes precisely from the fact that there is a divine will unfolding itself in a continuous progression, that things Page 43 that were and are have to give place to things that shall be and shall be better and better than they have been ...
... perfecting yourself personally, for your own sake, but for the divine work that has to be done, for the fulfilment of the Divine Will So long as a personal aspiration is there, a personal desire, an egoistic will, it is a mixture, it is not the exact expression of the Divine Will. The only thing that counts is the Divine, His Will, His manifestation, His expression. You are for that, you are that ...
... truth itself. January 21, 1951 * Mother, Tell me, what should I try to do. It is an inner reversal which is necessary. Turn towards the Divine with an ardent aspiration and the Divine will be with you. May 3, 1951 * Mother, What does it mean “to be the work”? Is it only concentrating on the work? It means — to identify oneself with what one is doing, instead of seeing... 1951 * Mother, What is that will which can govern the vital, the mind and also the physical? Does it belong to the Divine? All individual will is a limitation and a deformation of the Divine Will; just as the individual consciousness is a limitation and a deformation of the Divine Consciousness. April 26, 1951 * Mother, Would it not be better to sit for meditation and to devote ...
... "Tapasya is nothing else but calling the Lord with absolute single-mindedness. Call Him and tell Him that you want to see Him, to know Him. You are children, simple and beautiful within. The Divine will surely answer your heart-felt call. Haven't you heard of Dhruva and Prahlada? Jesus Christ also says that little children come easily to the Lord. Have you heard of him, of Christ?" "Yes. Wasn't... "You mean, left my wife and sister? A little while ago I told you that ever since the Nirvana state was firmly established in my being, all my life had been guided by the yogic influence and by the Divine Will. Until the day I went to prison, and even after that, I had been a family man. At the time of my arrest, both my wife and my sister were living with me. But when God said to me first 'Go to Chan ...
... It was these that created, that is to say, gave the first forms to earthly beings and things. They sent out their emanations and these again theirs in their turn and so on. Thus it was not the Divine Will which acted directly upon Matter and gave the world the form it could or should have had. There are layers and planes, graded intermediaries through which the Will has had to act. I spoke of the... you come to this identification, all problems are solved. The feeling, one can explain, that things are not all right, that they should be otherwise comes precisely from the fact that there is a divine will unfolding itself in a continuous progression, that things that were and are have to give place to things that shall be and shall be better and better than they have been. The world that was good ...
... To follow the rhythm of the Truth is to follow the Divine. In being obedient to the Divine Will one acts absolutely freely, for obedience here means complete identification with the Master. The being one with the Divine Being, the consciousness one with the Divine Consciousness, the will one with the Divine Will – such is the condition and status of the perfect, absolute Freedom. Page 396 ...
... help the sadhaks to shed their superficial angularities and egoistic separativities, and to tune themselves to the music of interdependence governed Page 583 by the śruti of the Divine Will. Scores of houses have had to be secured or rented, and various services have had to be organised - partly because the growing numbers in the Ashram have to be enabled to live active, orderly, healthy... its inertia and inconscience and automatism, and the very cells learned to live consciously - learned to aspire for the Divine, to reject false movements, to act always as if fully tuned to the Divine Will. The sadhana in the physical thus means to strive to substitute an inert or false or sluggish consciousness by a true one. It is pertinent to recall here what the Mother has said in the course of ...
... impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here... himself; but even before that he can attain to something of it all, grow in it, live in it, once the Supermind has descended upon him and has the direction of his existence. All relations with the Divine will be his: the trinity of God-knowledge, divine works and devotion to God will open within him and move towards an utter self-giving and surrender of his whole being and nature. He will live in God ...
... to live in communion with Eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. Delight means to be free, free with the true Freedom, the Freedom of the constant, invariable union with the Divine Will.... When you no longer possess anything, you can become as vast as the universe. One Friday, after the meditation on the verses from the canto on "Anger", the Mother proposes that her... on "The Brahmin", the Mother speaks of a still higher evolutionary ideal than the precise goal of the Buddhistic Nirvana: There is a deep trust in the divine Grace, a total surrender to the divine Will, an integral adhesion to the divine Plan which makes one do the thing to be done without concern for the result. That is the perfect liberation. That is truly the abolition of suffering. The ...
... account is not available, she is reported by one of the group to have said: One should leave the matter of the Cripps' offer entirely in the hands of the Divine, with full confidence that the Divine will work everything out. Certainly there were flaws in the offer. Nothing on earth created by man is flawless, because the human mind has a limited capacity. Yet behind this offer there is the Divine... personal safety". It was not possible in times like those to give a guarantee of safety or ease, and people should be prepared to face any eventuality whatsoever. The real need was "reliance on the Divine will ... but not the lower vital's bargain for a guaranteed and comfortably guarded existence". On 29 July, again, Sri Aurobindo wrote to a sadhak with a renewed and strident emphasis: I affirm ...
... intervened the result would be immediate success of the Divine Will without any chance for intervening possibilities. Even the Overmind is a powerful force and when it acts in a complex of forces it is strong enough to mould events, it can drive the course of events to the divinely intended direction and bring the success of the Divine Will near in time. 1 The Overmind can do it because ...
... excesses and disordered passions, and above all from such impulsive acts as may lead you to the abyss. One must be quite sure of oneself, quite free from ego and perfectly surrendered to the Divine Will if one is to dispense with reason safely.”¹ The Mother's words are very clear and incisively definite in regard to the role reason plays in our life. So long as the ego and the desires are... his life and not vital impulses. That is the elementary education that should be given everywhere. The reign of reason should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will.”¹ Reason must not be thrown overboard, but purified and raised to its full stature and held up to the higher light. Instead of remaining a henchman of our desire-soul, it must achieve a control ...
... of Matter, Life and Mind, by an ascensive process of evolution, towards the supernal glory of the Vijnâna or the Supermind above. In the present essay we are concerned with the realisation of the divine Will, in the evolution, which is posterior to the involution of the Superconscient, in a complete negation of Himself, in the Inconscience; and it must be borne in mind that this Will is a Will to the... obscure it. The sole, unremitting pre-occupation of his whole being, but a dynamic and not a static pre-occupation, must be an integral union with the Divine and an identification of his will with the Divine Will, and this he can never do so long as he cherishes a single desire in himself, for that one desire, ever so laudable or innocent in his eyes or in the eyes of men, is a pebble that can throw down ...
... so that the loving intensity of the turning may bring about an automatic concentration of its energies and a consequent freedom from its wonted distraction and confusion. Concentration on the Divine will bring into it peace and .serenity, silence and harmony—a state of intent and tranquil receptivity to the descending Light of the Mother. Page 108 'This aspiring concentration should... Yoga accepts the whole of life, it accepts all its multitudinous action and play of energy, not for the personal profit or egoistic satisfaction of the individual, but for the fulfilment of the divine Will, ¹ The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 113 which is a Will to endless creation for self-expression To do action for the satisfaction of one's own desires physical ...
... fool for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. There is no question of X or Y or anybody else in that. It is a question between the Divine and myself –whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for... The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral ...
... keeping itself alive was surely no mean achievement for the Arya and was also the work of Grace, Acknowledging this, Sri Aurobindo wrote in its twelfth issue (July 1915): Without the divine Will...no human work can come to the completion hoped for by our limited vision. To that Will we entrust the continuance and the result of our labours, and we conclude the first year of the Arya with... to tear herself away from her new-found peace and felicity: Each turn of the propeller upon the deep ocean seems to drag me farther away from my true destiny, the one best expressing the divine Will; each passing Page 407 hour seems to plunge me again deeper into that past with which I had broken, sure of being called to new and vaster realisations.... 39 And three ...
... impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here... before that he can attain to something of it all, grow in it, live in it, once the Supermind has descended upon him and has the direction of his Page 563 existence. All relations with the Divine will be his: the trinity of God-knowledge, divine works and devotion to God will open within him and move towards an utter self-giving and surrender of his whole being and nature. He will live in God ...
... The Sixth Hymn to Agni The Galloping Flame-Powers of the Journey [The flames of Agni the divine Will, home and meeting-place of all our increasing and advancing life-powers, are imaged as galloping on our human journey to the supreme good. Divine Will creates in us the divine strength of impulsion, an illumined and undecaying force and flame described as the steed of the ...
... शंसः is the word which expresses, which brings out, makes प्रशस्त what is unexpressed in the state of अशस्ति and therefore latent. मर्त्येषु अमृतः. The usual description of Agni, the divine Will; he is the precondition of man's immortality, always present even in his mortality, always shining though smoke-obscured even in his state of night; it is this Will that wakened to greatness and... बोधाति. S. जानाति or "wakes to the knowledge". This is the answer to the question in the first rik. The SeerWill once awake and formed in the man by submission and adoration of the human to the divine Will itself knows the godheads aright and sacrifices through the mind to them in the right manner of the Truth which he possesses and with its right word. Page 584 ...
... to the law of the environment in which he dwells. For his one care & purpose will be to observe the divine purpose & carry out the divine will. Neither will events bring to him grief or disappointment, fear or disgust with things, because he follows that divine will & purpose in himself & in others, in the inner world & the outer, watching everywhere the play of the Self. He has divined God's movement ...
... engaging in a battle in himself which, outwardly, must lead to victory. Page 34 Viewing matters directly, we may ask who among us is prepared to see in his life the execution of the divine Will? Supposing that we would come to understand that such an action as described above is possible, it would appear too impure to us, we would definitely not view therein a sacrifice, whereas precisely... remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and. in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves..." (The Synthesis of Yoga). Page 37 Reading these lines, it would be an error ...
... basis of a kind of religious equality, submission to the divine will, a patient bearing of the cross, a submissive forbearance. In the Gita this element takes the more ample form of an entire surrender of the whole being to God. It is not merely a passive submission, but an active self-giving; not only a seeing and an accepting of the divine Will in all things, but a giving up of one's own will to be ...
... in my usual way, I left it to the Divine Will. Long afterwards, I narrated all this to Jayantilal. He said that he did not know that the colours were needed for this purpose. I did not discuss it further, though I remember that I had explained everything fully to him. But I know Jayantilal and have full trust in him. Nothing can be done when the Divine Will is not there. Without His Will not even ...
... rhythm, of which each step has a meaning and its place in the action and reaction of her spiritual advance.” To Sri Aurobindo “Nature” was always the great Executrix of the divine Will in its manifestation, and as such the divine Will itself. “We may be sure that if destruction is done, it is because for that end the destruction was indispensable.” 20 As the Supermind is a principle of harmony and ...
... ly from the goodwill of the heart that it is helpful in all ways. I am quietly happy, with a greater confidence that the Divine Will is always victorious. The increased confidence gives me more strength, quietness, peace, patience and a force that serves the Divine Will. Yes, with the growing confidence comes the growing force and the growing capacity to receive it. All love and blessings ...
... them and help them when they need it. Go on with them as you do—it is all right. Grant me the strength, my dear Mother, to remain quite faithful to the Divine Will. Yes, the strength is always with you to be always faithful to the Divine Will. 2 June 1935 ...
... My dear Mother, [Several problems in the Dining Room described] For all the problems I have mentioned, teach me to surrender more and more perfectly to the Divine Will; an integral surrender to the Divine Will alone can bring peace, joy, happiness, force and vastness. Take it all, my dear child, as a test for your equanimity and advance with courage and confidence. I am always ...
... is not to figure out the occasion and wonder how the Divine will act. Stop bothering about it altogether - as if it had completely vanished from your life. Leave the Divine to work out the solution. I don't mean that one should sit motionless and see what happens: one should go about one's business but not expect this or that result. The Divine will do all that is necessary and you will have won a wide ...
... into everything, Sri Aurobindo was majestic in his appearance. His gait was royal and when he was pacing to and fro in the veranda, he appeared to be drawing force and using it according to his divine will.’ 19 It is striking how those who saw Mirra in those years describe her as very beautiful. So Kanailal Ganguly: ‘It was the first time that I saw the Mother. She looked at me for a second... it actually happened. We know that it was never Sri Aurobindo’s intention to stay for ever in Pondicherry (and still less to remain enclosed in his apartment). He was fully surrendered to the Divine Will, which guided his progress step by step, but till the end he would look forward to taking up ‘his work in the world,’ wherever that might happen to be. And he saw as an unquestionable necessity the ...
... Divine Will My Pilgrimage to the Spirit July 26, 1932 Q. If Divine Will is being done in the universe, then, where is the place at all for any individual (egoistic) initiation for the Divine creation? A. The Divine does not act in the void, but through instruments, embodiments or channels. If creation is intended, there will have to be prepared those ...
... is thus perfect in the relation of its phenomena to the law of its being; for all are in harmony with that, spring out of it, adapt themselves to its purpose according to the infallibility of the divine Will and Knowledge at work within the creature. It is perfect and divine also in relation to the whole, in its proper place in the whole; to that totality it is necessary and in it it fulfils a part by... will of the Divine Purusha to make the cosmic creation possible, but the assent of the individual Purusha to make the individual manifestation possible. But it may be said that the reason for the Divine Will and delight in such a difficult and tormented progressive manifestation and the reason for the soul's assent to it is still a mystery. But it is not altogether a mystery if we look at our own nature ...
... action selects for its instrument the will of the doer of works; it makes life an offering of sacrifice to the Godhead and by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of subjection to the divine Will a means for contact and increasing unity of the soul of man with the divine Master of the universe. Devotion selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all God-ward... and can only be won by growing into the spirit, into divine being, this growth has to be the first aim of our Yoga. The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in the soul of the individual its gnostic out-flowering. That is the reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct ...
... knowledge we seek unity with the Divine in his conscious being: by works we seek also unity with the Divine in his conscious being, not statically, but dynamically, through conscious union with the divine Will; but by love we seek unity with him in all the delight of his being. For that reason the way of love, however narrow it may seem in some of its first movements, is in the end more imperatively a... worker, not for the sake of works or for a self-regarding pleasure in action, but because in this way God expends the power of his being and in his powers and their signs we find him, because the divine Will in works is the out-flowing of the Godhead in the delight of its power, of divine Being in the delight of divine Force. He will feel perfect joy in the works and acts of the Beloved, because in them ...
... with which our nature has to grow and towards whose being our being is attracted. By this way we arrive at the Yoga of works, and this Yoga has a place for personal devotion to the Divine, for the divine Will appears as the Master of our works Page 563 to whose voice we must listen, whose divine impulsion we must obey and whose work it is the sole business of our active life and will to do... only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a ...
... কোনও তত্ত্ববিকাশ, কোনও অবস্থাপ্রাপ্তির উদ্দেশ্যে সং-গৃহীত, সঞ্চালিত, স্ববিষয়ের উপর সংস্থাপিত করেন, তখন তপঃশক্তির প্রয়ােগ হয় ৷ এই তপঃপ্রয়ােগই যােগেশ্বরের যােগ ৷ ইহাকেই ইংরাজীতে Divine will বা Cosmic will বলে ৷ এই Divine will বা তপঃশক্তি দ্বারা জগৎ সৃষ্ট, চালিত, রক্ষিত হয় ৷ অগ্নিই এই তপঃ ৷ চিৎশক্তির দুই দিক দেখি, চিন্ময় ও তপােময়, সৰ্ব্বজ্ঞানস্বরূপ ও সর্বশক্তি-স্বরূপ, কিন্তু প্রকৃতপক্ষে এই দুইটাই ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Eighth Hymn to Agni Divine Will, The Universal Fulfiller [The Rishi having declared the continuity of the great effort and aspiration from the earliest times hymns divine Will harboured in us, inmate, priest of the sacrifice, master of this dwelling, who fulfils the universal impulse in all its multiplicity and ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Thirteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn of Affirmation of the Divine Will [The Rishi declares the power of the Word affirming the Divine Will who attains to the touch of heaven for man. That Will affirmed in us by the word becomes the priest of our sacrifice and the winner in us of the divine riches and of the energy ...
... admitting, not rejecting all individualities and personalities, this immobile sustaining, pervading, containing, not standing apart from all the movement of Nature, is the clear mirror in which the Divine will reveal His being. Therefore it is to the Impersonal that we have first to attain; through the cosmic deities, through the aspects of the finite alone the perfect knowledge of God cannot be totally... make our fragmentary nature a reflection of his perfect nature, to be inspired in our thought and sense wholly by the divine knowledge, to be moved in will and action utterly and faultlessly by the divine will, to lose desire in his love and delight, is man's perfection; it is that which the Gita describes as Page 132 the highest secret. It is the true goal and the last sense of human living ...
... the work done by the Avatar. Always we see in the history of the divine incarnations the double work, and inevitably, because the Avatar takes up the workings of God in human life, the way of the divine Will and Wisdom in the world, and that always fulfils itself externally as well as internally, by inner progress in the soul and by an outer change in the life. The Avatar may descend as a great spiritual... in order to understand the Gita's description of the work of the Avatar, take the idea of the Dharma in its fullest, deepest and largest conception, as the inner and the outer law by which the divine Will and Wisdom work out the spiritual evolution of mankind and its circumstances and results in the life of the race. Dharma in the Indian conception is not merely the good, the right, morality and justice ...
... fostering Cows, are the Vedic symbol for the seven cosmic principles and their activities, three inferior, the physical, vital and mental, four superior, the divine Truth, the divine Bliss, the divine Will and Consciousness, and the divine Being. On this conception also is founded the ancient idea of the seven worlds in each of which the seven principles are separately active by their various harmonies... submission to the divine Being in ourselves and in the world. Here the offering is that of completest submission and the self-surrender of all the faculties of the lower egoistic human nature to the divine Will-force, Agni, so that, free from internal opposition, it may lead the soul of man through the truth towards a felicity full of the spiritual riches, rāye . That state of beatitude is intended, s ...
... there can be bhakti of worship, submission, reverence, obedience etc. but without love. Selflessness, self-giving, entire faith and confidence, absence of demand and desire, surrender to the Divine Will, love concentrated on the Divine—are some of the main signs [ of true love and bhakti ]. Page 356 Emotional Bhakti It is a misunderstanding to suppose that I am against Bhakti or against... of human relation with the Divine and is often but not always answered; when it is not answered the religious man keeps his faith in the Divine and either understands that to answer was not the Divine Will or else he prays Page 365 more fervently till his prayer is heard—that depends on the man and the circumstances. A sadhak can intercede internally for others in their affairs, provided ...
... unhelpful atmosphere for one who is ill or in difficulties. Once you are a sadhak, then whether for yourself or to help others for whom you still feel, the true spiritual attitude of reliance on the Divine Will and call for the help from above is always the best and most effective course. It is very good that the condition you speak of has settled itself—that is a great progress. As for the prayers... life when one has to live in the ordinary occupations and surroundings is to cultivate an entire equality and detachment and the samatā of the Gita with the faith that the Divine is there and the Divine Will at work in all things even though at present under the conditions of a world of Ignorance. Beyond this are the Light and Ananda towards which life is working, but the best way for their advent and ...
... inner shock of this experience, no more questioning is possible. It is like those who ask, "What is the divine Will?" As long as you have not glimpsed this Will, you cannot know. One may have an idea of it through deduction, inference, etc., but once you have felt the precise contact with the divine Will, this too is not disputable any longer—you know. I add, so that there may not be any misunderstanding: ...
... " Does it help, if you say, "I am sure of the result, I know that the Divine will give me what I want"? You may take it in that way. The very intensity of your faith may mean that the Divine has already chosen that the thing it points to shall be done. An unshakable faith is a sign of the presence of the Divine Will, an evidence of what shall be. What are the forces that are in operation ...
... sake of humanity? No, it is for the sake of Divinity. It is not the welfare of humanity that we seek but the manifestation of the Divine. We are here to work out the Divine Will, more truly, to be worked upon by the Divine Will so that we may be its instruments for the progressive incorporation of the Supreme and the establishment of His reign upon earth. Only that portion of humanity which will ...
... divine life is the supramental way for the sadhaka." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , pp. 11-12 How can one know if one's way of using money is in accordance with the divine Will? One must first know what the divine will is. But there is a surer way—to surrender money for the divine work, if one is not sure oneself. "Divinely" means at the service of the Divine—it means not to use money for ...
... present body, determine one's approach to the Divine. We can take a very... an over-simple example. If one is born in any particular religion, quite naturally the first effort to approach the Divine will be within that religion; or else if in former lives one has passed through a certain number of experiences which determined the necessity of another kind of experiences, quite naturally one will... determined, decided in former lives or in a former life, and then the environment in which it is born—that is, the conditions in which its present body has been formed—its approach to and search for the Divine will be in accordance with a definite line which is its own, and which, naturally, is not at all the same as that of its neighbour or any other being. I said a while ago: each individual is a special ...
... ess. And all depends on the standpoint that is taken, for no individual progress can come about without what could be called the "authorisation" of the divine Will. Ultimately, nothing in creation can happen without the sanction of the divine Will. So... Mother, will the first supramental body be like this? Like what? A transformation without passing through a terrestrial birth? Ah ...
... it is only in this case Page 370 that one has the right to do it; that is, at the time the Divine acts in you , you ought no longer to care for anything except the divine Will. But if it is not the divine Will, each problem must be resolved according to the case, the circumstances and... For instance, one has decided not to chat, then... One meets somebody who chatters? No ...
... oneself; and there can also be grafted upon this a trust that this relation one has with the Divine, this faith one has in the Divine, will work in such a way that all that happens to him—whatever it may be, all that happens to him—will not only be an expression of the divine will (that of course is understood) but also the best that could happen, that nothing better could have happened to him, since it ...
... calls this plane the Overmind), who have created, given forms, sent out emanations, and these Page 307 emanations again had their emanations and so on. What I meant is that it is not the Divine Will that acted directly on Matter to give to the world the required form, it is by passing through layers, so to say, planes of the world, as for example, the mental plane—there are so many beings on... when you reach such an identification, all problems are solved. And this feeling that things are not all right and that they should be otherwise, comes just because there Page 311 is a divine will for a constant unfolding in perpetual progress and things that were must give place to things that shall be and shall be better than what the others were. And the world that was good yesterday is ...
... terrestrial transformation and world progress, that is to say, from the standpoint of what we want to do, to try that this world may no longer be what it is and may become truly the instrument of the divine Will, with the divine Consciousness). It is not by running away from the world that you will change it. It is by working there, modestly, humbly but with a fire in the heart, something that burns like... would succeed? Two days later the Mother took up the subject again in the "Friday Class". If you said to yourself, my children, "We want to be as perfect instruments as possible to express the divine Will in the world", then for this instrument to be perfect, it must be cultivated, educated, trained. It must not be left like a shapeless piece of stone. When you want to build with a stone you chisel ...
... so? That's marvellous! The clearest thing in this matter is to say: "The Divine is in me. If I serve myself, I am also serving the Divine!" ( Laughter ) In fact, the Divine is everywhere. The Divine will do His own work very well without you. I see quite well that you do not understand. But truly, if you do understand that the Divine is there, in all things, with what are you meddling in serving... numerous elements which cross each Page 17 other and intervene. Wills cross each other, the strongest gets the best of it. It is this complexity of norms that has created a determinism. The divine Will is completely veiled by this host of things. So I have said here ( Mother takes her book ): "You must accept all things—and only those things—that come from the Divine. Because things can come from ...
... "The very intensity of your faith may mean that the Page 295 Divine has already chosen that the thing it points to shall be done. An unshakable faith is a sign of the presence of the Divine Will, an evidence of what shall be." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) A dynamic faith and a great trust, aren't they the same thing? Not necessarily. One should know of what... already it's the age when one questions and doubts. The very tiny ones, if they ask this, it is wonderful. There is only one very simple answer to give them: "My children, it is because this is the divine will. It is due to the divine grace that you are here. Be happy, be calm, be at peace, do not question, all will be well." And when they grow older they already begin to reason, then it is no longer so ...
... and Spiritual Realisations It is not the soul that suffers; the self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine... inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner Mind, the inner Vital, the inner Physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without still encroached ...
... active "ego" which prevents them from clearly perceiving the Divine Will; if these people abandon their personal will and discernment, they are in danger of becoming incoherent and erratic. You must first acquire a perfect sincerity in order to be sure of not deceiving yourself, and you must have clear evidence that it is truly the Divine Will which moves and guides you. 22 December 1969 ...
... Thus even the embodied god cannot be perfect on earth until men are ready to understand and accept perfection. That day will come when everything that is now done out of a sense of duty towards the Divine will be done out of love for Him. Progress will be a joy instead of being an effort and often even a struggle. Or, more exactly, progress will be made in joy, with the full adherence of the whole being... whose expression will have the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives the individual will the power to identify itself perfectly and consciously with the divine will and brings constant peace and serenity as well as the power which results from them. Finally, crowning all the others, comes the physical liberation or liberation from the law of material cause ...
... are surrendered to it. Page 381 For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being that is impossible because the number of those who are truly conscious of the Divine Will is very small, and because they necessarily have no ambition. In fact, when the time comes for this realisation, it will take place quite ...
... with the spiritual knowledge to save India and the world. It is India that can bring Truth in the world. By manifestation of the Divine Will and Power alone, India can preach her message to the world and not by imitating the materialism of the West. By following the Divine Will India shall shine at the top of the spiritual mountain and show the way of Truth and organise world unity. 3 February ...
... The freedom we want to realise in Auroville is not licence―each one doing what he pleases without concern for the well-being of the organisation of the whole. 1969 Is it the Divine Will that Auroville should be born, or else does the Divine look upon the attempt to build Auroville as an experiment? The conception of Auroville is purely divine and has preceded its execution by... this way: six days of work for the collectivity to which the individual belonged; the seventh day of the week was reserved for the inner quest for the Divine and the offering of one's being to the divine will. This is the only meaning and the only true reason for the so-called Sunday rest. Needless to say, sincerity is the essential condition for realisation; all insincerity is a degradation. 25 ...
... Divine Presence and are surrendered to that. For the earth to be happy, power should be in the hands of those alone who are conscious of the Divine Will. But this is impossible at the moment because the number of those who are truly conscious of the Divine Will is negligible and these have necessarily no ambition. To tell the truth, when the hour comes for this realisation, this will come about ...
... the Divine Presence and of the Divine Plan. 'Tomorrow they will operate on me,' she said. 'And I am entirely aware that this operation has ALREADY been done, that it is a fact accomplished by the Divine Will; otherwise it could be a fatal ordeal .' And she said she was conscious of the supreme Will's action, in a perfect peace. It was a magnificent letter. And the whole thing went off almost miraculously;... his own unfoldment. But for some reason or other, there has been a deformation of consciousness which makes us see this unfolding as something separate, a more or less adequate expression of the Divine Will. But it isn't so! It is the very unfolding of the Divine within Himself—within Himself, from Himself, for Himself. And it's simply our falsehood that makes a separate thing of it... The very fact ...
... Only the Divine will be for you if you are for the Divine." In a flash a whole pathway was lighted for him and the strength given to tread it. Are they not words of our Mother? These words are exactly the message I sent you yesterday evening after I felt you had received my card, as an explanation of what was written. Put your trust in the Divine alone. The Divine will never fail ...
... your heart that the Divine will speak to you and will guide you and will lead you to your goal. But for that you must have full faith in the Divine Grace and Love. 18 January 1962 The guidance is in your heart. Go ahead according to your inspiration. 14 January 1972 When I pray to You and open my heart to Your light and put my will in accord with Your divine will, I feel at ease; ...
... atheism in Europe has been a shallow and rather childish reaction against a shallow and childish exoteric religionism and its popular inadequate and crudely dogmatic notions. But when I speak of the Divine Will, I mean something different,—something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently... subject [to the outside disorder] and that seems to be the only part. Otherwise, all the rest is... as if bathed, constantly bathed in the Divine, and automatically everything goes to the Divine. The divine Will goes through ( gesture of descent and diffusion through Mother ) and causes it to act—automatically. So then, at certain times, for Page 251 some reason or other, the body calls (the ...
... We must... you see, being the organizers, our task is to set the example of what we want others to do. We must rise above personal reactions, be exclusively attuned to the divine Will and be the docile instruments of the divine Will—we must be impersonal, without any personal reaction. We must "be" in all sincerity. What the Divine wants—let it be. That's all. If we can be that, then we are as we ...
... al Farooqi, has explained Allah's trust to man as follows: The divine trust is the fulfilment of the ethical part of the divine will, whose very nature requires that it be realized in freedom, and man is the only creature capable of doing so. Whenever the divine will is realized with the necessity of natural law, the realization is not moral, but elemental or utilitarian. Only man is capable ...
... and the Yoga of knowledge, but in its own manner and with its own peculiar spirit. It is a sacrifice of life and works to the Divine, but a sacrifice of love more than a tuning of the will to the divine Will. The Bhakta offers up his life and all that he is and all that he has and all that he does to the Divine. This surrender may take the ascetic form, as when he leaves the ordinary life of men and... knowledge and works and has need of the Divine as teacher, friend and master. The growing of the love of God must carry with it in him an expansion of the knowledge of God and of the action of the divine Will in his nature and living. The divine Lover reveals himself; he takes possession of the life. But still the essential relation will be that of love from which all things flow, love passionate, complete ...
... in comparatively less time. That is what you wrote to me on the action of the Supermind. SRI AUROBINDO: So you will wait for the Supermind's descent. That is like Moni's idea. He says that the Divine will do everything and one has nothing to do at all. Anyway, this used to be his idea. I don't know what he thinks now. NIRODBARAN: That is an extreme view. I don't go so far. I believe or I have been... no truth in it if one sincerely believes in it and sticks to it. SRI AUROBINDO: Ah, sticks to it! NIRODBARAN: There are people who rely entirely on Divine Grace and have the faith that the Divine will do everything for them. It is not entirely wrong, is it? I think you have yourself written something like that, though, as you have said, such people are rare. SRI AUROBINDO: Faith and ideas are ...
... consciousness is well Page 124 developed and I make sustained effort in the field of art, why should I be frustrated in my aspiration to flower into an accomplished artist? The Divine will be quite pleased to grant me success in these respective fields of activity and that is what should demonstrate that He is really just. So, we have to cancel from our mind the erroneous p... the body and finally to divinely transform them so that a divine life can be established upon earth itself and a bridge be built between the heaven and the terrestrial existence. And the Divine will do all that is necessary for this sole purpose. Page 126 His Grace is always at work, in every individual's life, under all situations and circumstances, of course keeping this sole ...
... with the full adhesion of the whole being in a joyous assent and acceptance. Let us meditate on the following words of Sri Aurobindo: "Remember the true basis of yoga.... Obedience to the divine Will, nor assertion of self-will is the very first mantra... learn thou first absolutely to obey." (Sri Aurobindo, Ashram Diary 1984, August 21 and September 9) (4) Absence of Worries and Anxieties... an ideal sadhaka as given by Sri Aurobindo: The liberated sadhaka of the Integral Yoga "has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings him, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining ...
... constant insistence on consecration, discipline and purification, renunciation and concentration of consciousness, and there is a constant freedom to utilize methods of Yoga of Knowledge, Yoga of Divine Will and Rajayoga and Hathayoga, in accordance with the needs of each individual's temperament and complexity of consciousness. Even as a part of Bhaktiyoga, where faith plays a prominent role, doubt... and half-lights. The process of spiritual education will, therefore, battle against this attack and the central experiences of spirituality will flower and the .soul and the Supreme Divine and Divine Will are discovered and possessed by process of expansion, universalisation, union and knowledge by identity. * * * Spiritual education will exclude no domain of knowledge, and humanistic, aesthetic ...
... for, why fear? I shall repent again and pray. And so on and so forth." No, this sort of indulgent attitude will not do: nobody can deceive the Divine. For, this is not repentance at all. The Divine will accept that the sadhaka is truly repentant, only when, along with repentance and prayer, he tries his best to eradicate the bad impulse which prompted his bad action. He must not continue to entertain... or a "sinful" deed. And, from the deeper point of view a particular action of the sadhaka will be adjudged to be a "merit" or a "demerit", depending on whether it is done in conformity with the divine Will at that moment or not. But a question may immediately arise in the sadhaka's mind which requires some satisfactory answer. For, the aspirant may reasonably argue that he is still a novice ...
... progressive sacrifice of desire leading up to complete elimination of desire so as to allow by methodical process of surrender (nama uktim vidhema, Īśā Upanishad. 18) the direct operation of the Divine Will for its unhindered manifestation. It was that teaching that was lost in due course of time, as Sri Krishna explains in the very first three verses of the fourth chapter, and it was that secret that... one can attain to liberation from Apara Prakriti. In that state of liberation, the Jiva realizes the immobility of the Purusha and at the same time, it unites the sacrificing will with the dynamic divine will that manifests through Para Prakriti. Work itself thus becomes a means of liberation, and work itself acts as a liberating force enabling the realization of both the immobile Purusha and the mobile ...
... from that plane. . . . She said something to this effect: "One should leave the matter of the Cripps' Offer entirely in the hands of the Divine, with full confidence that the Divine will work everything out. Certainly there were flaws in the offer. Nothing on earth created by man is flawless, because the human mind has a limited capacity . Yet behind this o ffer there is the Divine... Only human imbecility and stupid selfishness could prevent it. Against that, it has been said, even the gods strive in vain; but it cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. Nationalism will then have fulfilled itself; an international spirit and outlook must grow up and international forms and institutions; even itmay be such developments as dual or multilateral ...
... perfecting yourself personally, for your own sake, but for the divine work that has to be done, for the fulfilment of the Divine Will. So long as a personal aspiration is there, a personal desire, an egoistic will, it is a mixture, it is not the exact expression of the Divine Will. The only thing that counts is the Divine, His Will, His manifestation, His expression. You are for that, you are that ...
... we are able to live in the absolute presence of the Master of the Work. Only then, says Sri Aurobindo, 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... strength, love, capacity, is not that personally we may enjoy the divine Nature or be even as the gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the ...
... embodied in these words: "... those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him.... belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good.... They have made an absolute surrender... its arrival, And as he has never been the slave of an inordinate attachment to any creature, disengaged from all earthly bonds, he willingly parts with them following the indication of the Divine Will". Conclusion: To be completely detached in one's love is the sure cure for the second cause of the fear of death. Third Factor - The next causative factor behind one's feeling so ...
... seems charged with knowledge and will,—with a kind of omnipotence. At the highest rung in the evolutionary ladder of the Spirit, the Supermind is the plane of definite determination working out the Divine will and knowledge. Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental consciousness, —it is delegate of the Supermind to the Ignorance,—to Mind and a delegate of Ignorance to the Higher Consciousness.... Supermind the very origin of all religions will be known. It may be in the form of a symbol that the knowledge may come. For example, in the Veda the symbol is that of Fire. This Fire symbolises the Divine Will. In man it becomes the Fire of aspiration for the Divine, aspiration for the Truth—which is the root of all religions. Q : The higher you go the more intense the vibrations that are felt ...
... is the intermediary between the Divine Consciousness and your external consciousness; it is the builder of the inner life; it is that which manifests in the outer nature the order and rule of the Divine Will. If you become aware in your outer consciousness of the psychic being within you and unite with it, you can find the pure Eternal Consciousness and live in it; instead of being moved by the ignorance... psychic would, then, gradually become the overt leader of his life, linking his external consciousness to the Divine Consciousness and manifesting in his outer nature "the order and rule of the Divine Will.” It is the psychic being that infuses its influence into all the parts of our nature and transforms them. It is the psychic from which we receive intimations of freedom, purity, infinity and ...
... being and in the mind. The illness is the result of the working of the forces of Nature. He must use his will to reject the illness and one's will must be used as a representative of the Divine Will. When the Divine Will descends into the Adhara then it works no longer indirectly through the Sadhak's will but directly and removes the illness. When the psychic being awakens then it is able to perceive the ...
... "the sign of right action is the increasing and finally the complete submission of the individual to the divine Will", and in a footnote adds: "Here the offering is that of completest submission and the self-surrender of all the faculties of the lower egoistic human nature to the Divine Will-force." 49 The Gita, of course, is a pocket spiritual encyclopaedia, for all spiritual ...
... synthesis of them all. Alongside of this Page 34 development of the mind and heart of man, ran the development of his life—the conquest of its desires and the union of its will with the divine Will, which formed the kernel principle of the Tântric and the Karma yogas. If we take a synoptic view of this progressive spiritual decline in India, we shall see that it was not really a decline, but... integration and transformation. Integration means the harmonising and welding of the different parts of the being into an organic whole, so that they can move in perfect unison in the steps of the divine Will; and transformation means a radical change and conversion of the natural parts into their spiritual equivalents, so that the whole of human nature may be sublimated and transfigured into the divine ...
... is no longer the victim, but the master of the sacrifice.... The image of this sacrifice is sometimes that of a journey or voyage.... It has to climb, led by the flaming strength of the divine Will... it has to cross as in a ship the waters of existence... its aim is to arrive at the far-off ocean of light and infinity. 17 A journey and a struggle - no peaceful march, no easy battle... keeping himself in the front, in fact carries all the Gods in him, at the same time takes up the human soul along the path that leads to the Light, to the Truth, to Immortality - and that is the Divine Will, the Immortal in the mortal, the Flame Wonderful, Agni Adbhuta. 31 This point is further emphasised by the so-called 'Agni' hymns that are a class apart, although rightly included among ...
... from the centre now .... 33 Then, when he had an interview on 31 October, Mirra gave him this heartening assurance: Something is being prepared for you .... It is as though the divine will had traced the goal, and the road; it is as though it had told you: "You will be like that." It was very clear. The Goal is known to us, but it is reserved for us two. To you it is rather the... there must be complete surrender. ... ... on one side no lack of resolution and zeal for the victory to be won, on the other no hasty impatience or depression, but the calm certainty for the Divine Will, the calm will that "it shall be done in us" and the aspiration that "it may be done for us so that it may be done for the world". 43 During the discussion that followed, in answer to a question ...
... Therefore what he conquers he does not destroy, but ennobles and fulfils. He knows ... that the Highest is something which is no nullity in the world, but increasingly expresses itself here, - a divine Will, Consciousness, Love, Beatitude .... Of that he is the servant, lover and seeker. When it is attained, he pours it forth in work, love, joy and knowledge upon mankind. For always the Arya n is a... illusion. On 31 July, she refers to certain experiences of hers - always unique, "these milestones which mark the infinite ascent are never alike" - and wonders whether a time will come when the Divine will make her "capable of synthetising all these countless experiences, so as to draw from them a new realisation, more complete and more beautiful than all achieved so far". On 2 August, she feels that ...
... and so for them my consciousness must be half veiled. They don't have faith, what can you do! So I have taken the attitude of saying: let it be. I make myself as passive as possible—passive to the Divine Will—and I pray for it to guide me. That's the only way. 32 And I did not yet understand the whole extent of the problem, which seemed absurd to me, even while recognizing the part played by the... his descent here. Otherwise.... So I need ... I need all those who love me to understand me. We have to get rid of everything that still holds us down in order to be really ready to receive that Divine Will. The urgency for that ... frightening.... That's it, nothing is left, nothing, nothing only a will—a will, an aspiration, a compelling need: oh, the reign of the Divine must come, it must ! I am ...
... philosophy. The remedy for this enslaving dependence lies in developing higher idealism, a yearning for the Infinite and Eternal, a tension towards the Absolute. A one-pointed aspiration for the Divine will release the mind from this thraldom of the senses, and launch it upon an exploration of the Infinite. And in proportion as it is delivered from its preoccupation with Matter and the gross pursuits... insidious influence of the obscure citta has to be completely inhibited. The impulses to action my come, not from any desires, overt or disguised, but from the will in the intelligence, till the divine Will reveals itself and takes up the guidance of the being. A vigilant control of the buddhi over the active sense-mind will minimise, if not obviate, the resurgence of the turbid stuff of the citta ...
... the sake of the Divine. As the Mother explained: It is not the welfare of humanity that we seek but the manifestation of the Divine. We are here to work out the Divine Will, more truly, to be worked upon by the Divine Will so that we may be its instruments for the progressive incorporation of the Supreme and the establishment of His reign upon earth. 61 Sri Aurobindo, then, had ...
... also a very effective and indispensable means of ¹Sri Aurobindo. Page 306 Transformation and manifestation. Karmayoga continues even after liberation, as a channel of the divine Will fulfilling itself in the individual. Therefore, an openness and receptivity to the Mother's inspiration and guidance, and a constant aspiration for the working out of Her Will in the details of one's... quiescent) will of the sâdhaka—is the distinguishing feature of the equality as practised in the Integral Yoga. It is a dynamic equality capable of realising a perfect and permanent union with the divine Will in human life. It Page 312 helps not only liberation of the individual purusa, but also of prakrti , which would not be possible except by the direct working of the Mother's vi ...
... denied, the absorption of their gratifications rejected. But he knows also that the Highest is something which is no nullity in the world, but increasingly expresses itself here, - a divine Will, Consciousness, Love, Beatitude which pours itself out, when found, through the terms of the lower life on the finder and on all in his environment that is capable of receiving it. Of that he is... fifth Mandala of the Rig Veda) so conceived as to make the sense of the Vedic chants at once and easily intelligible without the aid of a commentary to the general reader.... "Without the divine Will which knows best what to use and what to throw aside, no human work can come to the completion hoped for by our limited vision. To that Will we entrust the continuance and the result of our labours ...
... earnest or, rather, to be more psychologically accurate, a reflex of the call from above. 1 The Mother by Sri Aurobindo Page 74 The truth of the matter is, that it is the divine will that first flashes down into the dark and dumb secrecies of Matter and awakens there a memory of right and an aspiration for it. This Will of the Divine is the Will of Love, and the aspiration that... the thrilled delight, the boundless Ananda of the positive and active equality which, armed with the power of Spirit, returns upon the nature and its movements to subject and attune them to the divine Will, and transmute them into a limpid and docile channel of its self-expression in the material world. The final perfection of equality will be an imperturbable vastness in the being, sustaining the ...
... Divine Presence and are surrendered to it. For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being this is impossible because the number of those who are truly conscious of the Divine Will is very small, and because they necessarily have no ambition. To tell the truth, when the time comes for this realisation, it will take ...
... to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. * There is a deep and True Consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. * Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. * Keep always this awareness of my constant loving presence and all will be all right. * The centre of the... surely useful, and which is extremely dangerous, counting on the Divine protection to save us from all possible consequences, this is a movement which is like a challenge to the Divine, and the Divine will never accept. * When one remains perfectly quiet and without fear, nothing serious can happen. * Fear is always a very bad adviser. * Once falsehood is conquered ...
... manifesting her birth in all things." It is clear enough that the white horse (a phrase applied to the god Agni who is the Seer-Will, kavikratu , the Page 135 perfectly-seeing force of divine will in its works V.1.4) is entirely symbolical 2 and that the "varied riches" she brings with her are also a figure and certainly do not mean physical wealth. Dawn is described as gomatī aśvāvatī ...
... sarvadharmān parityajya . The Spirit takes up the individual into the universal Swabhava, perfects and unifies the fourfold soul of nature in us and does its self-determined works according to the divine will and the accomplished power of the godhead in the creature. The Gita's injunction is to worship the Divine by our own work, sva-karmaṇā ; our offering must be the works determined by our own ...
... liberated from ego, our real self behind comes forward, impersonal and universal, and it sees in its self-vision of unity with the universal Spirit universal Nature as the doer of the work and the Divine Will behind as the master of universal Nature. Only so long as we have not this knowledge, are we bound by the character of the ego and its will as the doer and do good and evil and have the satisfaction ...
... in which he is especially near to the man Page 375 who has come near to him. All these heroes and men of might who have joined in battle on the plain of Kurukshetra are vessels of the divine Will and through each he works according to his nature but behind the veil of his ego. Arjuna has reached that point when the veil can be rent and the embodied Godhead can reveal the mystery of his workings ...
... We are no longer enslaved to Nature and her gunas, but, one with the Ishwara, the master of our nature, we are able to use her without subjection to the chain of Karma, for the purposes of the Divine Will in us; for that is what the greater Self in us is, he is the Lord of her works and unaffected by the troubled stress of her reactions. The soul ignorant in Nature, on the contrary, is enslaved by ...
... disappear. The problem is no longer one of our personal action, for that which makes our personality becomes a thing temporal and subordinate, the question is then only one of the workings of the divine Will through us in the universe. To understand that we Page 257 must know what this supreme Being is in himself and in Nature, what the workings of Nature are and what they lead to, and the ...
... renunciation he is asked to prefer; the actual difference between Purusha and Prakriti, the Field and the Knower of the Field, so important for the practice of desireless action under the drive of the divine Will; and finally a clear !14.21! statement of the practical operations and results of the three modes of Prakriti which he is bidden to surmount. !17.1! To such a disciple the Teacher of the Gita ...
... I am not aware of any state of supreme knowledge in which the separative ego or the individual becomes greater in knowledge and will than the Divine or can by his own separate power overcome the Divine Will and correct the world movement. In the supermind there is not this division of one part of the being of God willing something and some other part fighting against it. There all is viewed from ...
... neglected spot and make it so painfully evident that you will be forced to change" [ p. 66 ]. When sadhaks overlook even a single detail on the path of transformation, is it not possible that the Divine will make them conscious of it rather than becoming conscious through a painful wound by the hostile forces? If they are sufficiently open to the Divine it can be done—but most sadhaks have too much ...
... friends are meant to come here, it must happen otherwise. 30 March 1936 What Tagore or others think or say does not matter very much after all as we do not depend on them for our work but on the Divine Will only. So many have said and thought all sorts Page 692 of things (people outside) about and against us, that has never affected either us or our work in the least; it is of a very minor ...
... the Divine Page 752 guidance for one's own ignorant self-guidance based on one's personal ideas and personal feelings is the aim of Karma Yoga, the surrender of one's own will to the Divine Will. If one feels human beings to be near and the Divine to be far and seeks the Divine through service of and love of human beings and not the direct service and love of the Divine, then one is following ...
... apparent insignificance, are always of great importance—since according to our decision we become subject to one category of determinisms or another—at every moment may our attitude be such that Thy divine Will may determine our choice and that thus it may be Thou who directest our entire life. According to the consciousness in which we are when taking a decision, we become subject to the determinism of ...
... depends upon the perfection of the various states of their being and, even after attaining the sublime identification, they must still work at perfecting the instrument which will manifest Thy divine Will. This is where the task becomes arduous. Everything seems to me mediocre, insufficient, neutral, almost inert in the present instrument which Thou makest me call "myself"; and the more I am united ...
... all its complexity, all its sublimity; the physical body is glorified, supple, vigorous, energetic; the mind is superbly active in its calm lucidity, guiding and transmitting the forces of Thy divine Will; and all the being exults in an endless beatitude, a boundless love, a sovereign power, a perfect knowledge, an infinite consciousness.... It is Thyself and Thou alone who livest, even in the least ...
... they have brought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity which is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will. Page 146 ...
... nothing remains of their experiences. Not until they have become united with the psychic, so that there are not two halves but a single consciousness, the whole nature unified round the central Divine Will and this centralised being is connected up with the divine line of consciousness which is above—not until this happens can one receive the knowledge belonging to that consciousness and become aware ...
... indeed is true aspiration. That may happen a hundred, a thousand times daily if one is in that state in which one constantly wants to progress and be more true and more fully in harmony with what the Divine Will wants of us. Prayer is a much more external thing, generally about a precise fact, and always formulated for it is the formula that makes the prayer. One may have an aspiration and transcribe ...
... worker upon earth to help in the fulfilment of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses ...
... d. I have always said that nothing can be done without the vital, but the vital must be converted; that is, instead of being an instrument of those beings, it should become an instrument of the divine will. One can do nothing in the physical world without the vital. It is exactly here that the error of the ascetics lies; as they know it is Page 116 a power full of desires and indeed full ...
... other questions? Nobody has anything to say? Sweet Mother, the politician in the world today who is on the level of the one in the drama, one who is trying to do his best, isn't he guided by the Divine? Will he find the means of... He has not said that he was religious at all. He hasn't told us that. He hasn't said that it was for spiritual or religious reasons that he was trying to do this. ...
... all unwillingness for sacrifice. Let each strive to see with that selfless impersonality taught by one of our greatest scriptures, which can alone enable us to identify ourselves both with the Divine Will and with the soul of our Mother. Two things India demands for her future, the freedom of soul, life and action needed for the work she has to do for mankind; and the understanding by her children ...
... Delhi and administer to him. Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual Light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now in these dark ...
... longer conscious of anything at all. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 9 February 1955 The reign of reason should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will. The Mother Words of the Mother - III: The Divine's Help to Man Every soul is not evolved and active; nor is every soul turned directly to the Divine before practising yoga. For a long ...
... this should be taught everywhere; it is the basic education which should be given to children. The reign of reason must come to an end only with the advent of the psychic law which manifests the divine Will. Source Reason Is Developed by Using It How can the reason be developed? Oh! By using it. Reason is developed like the muscles, like the will. All these things are developed ...
... presence but of her control that must be now the aim of the sadhana. Any insistence on the outer thing is a departure from the true line and can only lead astray. In all these matters it is the Divine Will that must rule and the will of the Guru. Respect always the will and decision of the Mother. 16 June 1935 Page 519 If there is a possibility of the Mother calling me "when the ...
... itself in the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives to the individual will the capacity of identifying itself perfectly and consciously with the divine will and brings constant peace and serenity as well as the resulting power. Finally, crowning all comes the physical liberation or liberation from the law of material causation. Because you ...
... rejection of desire, Rajas, and ego a quietude and purity into which the Peace ineffable can descend; one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine Will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the Page 48 cosmic; one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti ...
... otherwise you will always be running into a chaos somewhere, a confusion somewhere or an obscurity, an unconsciousness somewhere. And naturally your action, even though guided exclusively by the Divine, will not have the perfection of expression it has when one has acquired a conscious organisation around this divine Centre. It is an assiduous task, which may be done at any time and under any ci ...
... is the intermediary between the Divine Consciousness and your external consciousness; it is the builder of the inner life, it is that which manifests in the outer nature the order and rule of the Divine Will. If you become aware in your outer consciousness of the psychic being within you and unite with it, you can find the pure Eternal Consciousness and live in it; instead of being moved by the Ignorance ...
... The only doubt is about the vicissitudes of the path and the time to be taken by the passage. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Fate, Free Will and Prediction … when I speak of the Divine Will I mean something different,—something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently ...
... The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an out-ward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral ...
... they have brought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity which is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will Page 77 ...
... through, and the intensest pain is transformed into potent bliss. Each turn of the propeller upon the deep ocean seems to drag me farther away from my true destiny, the one best expressing the divine Will; each passing hour seems to plunge me again deeper into that past with which I had broken, sure of being called to new and vaster realisations; everything seems to draw me back to a state of things ...
... Both are important, both needed in the entire plan; the movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses. Both, if truly surrendered to the Divine, will be utilised as instruments for its divine work Page 119 to the same degree and with an equal value. But when they are not surrendered both are alike moved by impulses of ignorance. One ...
... not correct. However, on the physical plane the difference is obvious. For we are yet all that we no longer want to be, and He, He is all that we want to become. How can we know what the divine Will is? One does not know it, one feels it. And in order to feel it one must will with such an intensity, such sincerity, that every obstacle disappears. As long as you have a preference, a desire ...
... began to grow and even reached an enviable length owing to still further auto-suggestion. The power of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind is put in communication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layer intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes ...
... mediocre, banal, insufficient beside what ought to be. The perfections of the past no longer have any force now. A new puissance is needed to transform the new powers and to subject them to Thy divine will. "Ask and this shall be", is Thy constant answer. And now, O Lord, Thou must create in this being a constant aspiration, uninterrupted, intense, passionate, in an immutable serenity. Silence, peace ...
... never forget, otherwise they will become unfit to serve Thee.... O my sweet Master, what childishness to think oneself responsible for anything at all and want to individualise Thy supreme and divine Will! Is it not enough to unite with Thy heart and live there permanently? Then Thou takest all the responsibilities and Thy will works without even our needing to know it.... Only a realisation independent ...
... full descent will take place carrying everything before it. Its presence will be unmistakable, its force will brook no resistance, doubts and difficulties will not torture you any longer. For the Divine will stand manifest—unveiled in its total perfection. I do not, however, mean to say that the whole world will at once feel its presence or be transformed; but I do mean that a part of humanity will know ...
... I don't feel quite at ease." Besides, you were saying a while ago that it is the result which gives you the indication; it has even been said (it has been written in books) that one judges the divine Will by the results! All that succeeds has been willed by the Divine; all that doesn't, well, He has not willed it! This is yet again one of those stupidities big as a mountain. It is a mental simplification ...
... In fact, as long as the ego is there, one cannot say that a being is perfectly sincere, even though he is striving to become sincere. One must pass beyond the ego, give oneself up totally to the divine Will, surrender without reserve and without calculation... then one can be perfectly sincere, but not before. That does not mean that one should not make an effort to be more sincere than one is, saying ...
... and if there is struggle there is choice and for the choice discernment is necessary. And the surest means to discernment is a conscious and willing surrender, as complete as possible, to the divine Will and Guidance. Then there is no risk of making a mistake and of taking false lights for true ones. Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo says here: "His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine ...
... with one's psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one's action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will―that is the starting-point. Before that, one may be an aspirant to the spiritual life, but one doesn't have a spiritual life. Sweet Mother, I would like to have the explanation of a sentence ...
... But it is always said that one must not tempt God. One should not do something through—how to put it sweetly—premature boldness, with the idea: "Oh, it doesn't matter, the Page 398 Divine will always pull me out of the difficulty." This is not good. Because instead of helping the work, it complicates it. There we are. Is that all? You want to try to be silent for a few minutes? I ...
... themselves and find it very difficult to solve them, because they state the problem wrongly. I knew a young woman who was a theosophist and was trying to practise; she told me, "We are taught that the divine Will must prevail in all that we do, but in the morning when I have my breakfast, how can I know whether God wants me to put two lumps of sugar in my coffee or only one?"... And it was quite touching ...
... this should be taught everywhere; it is the basic education which should be given to children. The reign of reason must come to an end only with the advent of the psychic law which manifests the divine Will. Page 103 ...
... the substitution of the Divine guidance for one's own ignorant self-guidance based on one's personal ideas and personal feelings is the aim of Karmayoga, the surrender of one's own will to the Divine Will. Sri Aurobindo The true yogic way The work here is not intended for showing one's Page 14 capacity or having a position or as a means of physical nearness ...
... individual. There comes a time when one deliberately calls the deep inner inspiration and surrenders to it, when it can enter almost completely pure and make you act in accordance with the Divine Will. The mixture is not unavoidable; it is only what usually happens. And the proportion is very different according to the individual. With some, when the psychic within takes a decision and ...
... before reaching that point, one has to advance much, to struggle much, sometimes even to suffer a great deal. To sit down in inert passivity and say, "If I am to have faith I shall have it, the Divine will give it to me", is an attitude of laziness, of unconsciousness and almost of bad-will. For the inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all ...
... the higher mind, it is possible for it to be guided by a greater light and knowledge, by a higher intuition and inspiration, a truer discrimination and some revelations of the divine truth and the divine will. This obedience of the vital to the. psychic and the higher mind is the beginning of the outgoing of the Yogic consciousness in its dynamic action upon life. But this too is not Sufficient ...
... naturally, automatically through the individual instrument; one might even say—for the mind is quiet, it keeps quiet—through the body; and the perception of the moment when this expression of the divine Will is clouded—distorted—by the introduction of desire, the special vibration of desire, which has a quality all its own and which has many apparent causes: it is not only the thirst for something, the ...
... The third method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. They have a mystic trust in their God and ...
... this way: six days of work for the collectivity to which the individual belonged; the seventh day of the week was reserved for the inner quest for the Divine and the offering of one's being to the divine will. This is the only meaning and the only true reason for the so-called Sunday rest. Page 161 Needless to say, sincerity is the essential condition for realisation; all insincerity is a ...
... and authority and some of them were once divine Powers (the former gods, pūrve devāḥ , as they are called somewhere in the Mahabharata) who have fallen towards the Darkness by revolt against the divine Will behind the cosmos. The word "Appearances" refers to the forms they take in order to rule the world, forms often false and always incarnating falsehood, sometimes pseudo-divine. (3) Powers ...
... movement, it would be a sort of Satyagraha against the Divine. In essence it is an attempt to force the Divine to do what one wants instead of trusting to him to do what is best according to his own divine will and wisdom; it is a culminating act of vital impatience and disappointed desire, while the true movement is a pure aspiration and an ardent surrender. After all, one has not a right to call ...
... When one has risen into the higher Self, has the knowledge and is free, one makes the complete surrender to the Divine, abandoning all other dharmas, living only by the divine Consciousness, the divine Will and Force, the divine Ananda. Our Yoga is not identical with the Yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita's Yoga. In our Yoga we begin with the idea, the will, ...
... The Divine Force, not using the supramental Power, can certainly throw back the forces of Death and that has been done many times. But the Divine Force works here under conditions imposed by the Divine Will and Law; it has to take up an immense mass of conflicting forces, conditions, habits and movements of Nature and out of it arrive at the result of a higher consciousness on earth and a higher state ...
... intuitions or intimations from within will begin to grow, become clear, precise, unmistakable and the strength to follow them will grow also. And then before even you are satisfied with yourself, the Divine will be satisfied with you and begin to withdraw the veil by which he protects himself and his seeker against a premature and perilous grasping of the greatest thing to which humanity can aspire. ...
... mentality, Bhuvah, of pure vitality, Bhuh, of pure matter. The soul in Sat is pure truth of being and perceives itself as one in the world's multiplicity. The soul in Tapas is pure force of divine will & knowledge and possesses universe omnisciently and omnipotently as its extended self. Page 354 The soul in Ananda is pure delight and multiplies itself in universal self-creation and ...
... full Knowledge, there would be no need of any supramental descent. The higher consciousness is a concentrated consciousness, concentrated in the Divine Unity and in the working out of the Divine Will, not dispersed and rushing about after this or that mental idea or vital desire or physical need as is the ordinary human consciousness—also not invaded by a hundred haphazard thoughts, feelings ...
... bad—it depends on how they are used or how they act. Power means strength and force, Shakti, which enables one to face all that can happen and to stand and overcome, also to carry out what the Divine Will proposes. It can include many things, power over men, events, circumstances, means etc. But all this not of the mental or vital kind, but by an action through unity of consciousness with the Divine ...
... to put a name upon these; for not one hundred-thousandth part of what has been has still a name preserved by human Time. Traditional Indian Ideas about Rebirth and Other Worlds The general Divine Will in the universe is for the progressive manifestation in the universe. But that is the general will—it admits the withdrawal of individual souls who are not ready to persevere in the world. ...
... However, you need not personally concern yourself with them so long as they remain incognito. It is true that all comes from the Divine and it is true also that a Divine Presence and a Divine Will is behind all that happens and leads the world towards a divine goal. At the same time it is also taught in the Gita that this world is a world of obscurity and ignorance and to attain to the ...
... relation with the Master manifests, not again to be suspended; it brings the madhura dasya, the delight in all things & the understanding of all experience & movements of event in the terms of the divine Will Page 840 Krishna darshana depressed & put in the background for the last two days but not suspended is once more general as the continent & as the all. It is only deficient as the Inhabitant ...
... you went away from the Yoga. Your vital mind (which is the one which revolts and doubts) has strange misconceptions about the spiritual state. There is no grimness in being an instrument of the divine Will—it is the happiest and most joyous condition possible—it brings not only peace but an intense Ananda. Anyhow, the hold of the Yoga-force is increasing in spite of everything and you have only to ...
... the higher mind, it is possible for it to be guided by a greater light and knowledge, by a higher intuition and inspiration, a truer discrimination and some revelations of the divine truth and the divine will. This obedience of the vital to the psychic and the higher mind is the beginning of the outgoing of the Yogic consciousness in its dynamic action upon life. But this, too, is not sufficient for ...
... purer Truth, Light and Knowledge. The result of this state of mind is that one begins to affirm everything that comes in this mixed and dubious region as if it were all the Truth and the sheer Divine Will; the ideas or the suggestions that constantly repeat themselves are expressed with a self-assertive absoluteness as if they were Truth entire and undeniable. There is an impression that one has become ...
... predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements—the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent,—it is only owing to a sustaining divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution, in progress—that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not ...
... external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will. The food and care for the body is only to get it into Page 367 good condition, afterwards it would not be necessary to attend to such things. I understand that you have arrived ...
... heaven" and also "Many are called, few chosen"—because of these difficulties. But it has also always been known that those who are sincere and faithful in heart and remain so and those who rely on the Divine will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls. Yes, certainly [ there are hostile forces active in the outside world ]. Men are being constantly invaded by the hostiles and Page ...
... for a moment fall into desire or attachment to his wealth or to the things that he uses or servitude to self-indulgence or a weak bondage to the habits that the possession of riches creates. The divine Will is all for him and the divine Ananda. In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering ...
... Divine Mother instead, and ask her to work through you instead of the lower Nature. It is only when you have turned entirely in every part of your being to the Divine Mother and to her alone that the Divine will do all actions through you. 27 May 1933 How can I know that the Mother is working in me? I believe that everything is done by the Mother, the good things and the bad, but X believes that very ...
... कतुः See I.1 under कविकतुः. Sayana सुकर्माणं सुप्रज्ञं वा. Rather सुकर्मप्रज्ञं. The right-willed or rightly working omniscient Fire is evidently the inner Flame of power and aspiration, the divine Will-Force that takes up the sacrifice, योगयज्ञ. It rises up to the heavens above the mental consciousness and brings down the divine power into the being. It is man's messenger to the gods, the priest ...
... vision and the divine felicity. This is done under the form of an invocation to Surya and Agni, the Vedic godheads, representative one of the supreme Truth and its illuminations, the other of the divine Will raising, purifying and perfecting human action. THE ORDER OF THE WORLDS To understand entirely the place and function of Surya we must enter a little more profoundly into the Vedic conception ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Third Hymn to Agni The Divine Force, Conqueror of the Supreme Good [The Divine Will-Force is that of which all the other godheads are forms and he manifests all these powers of supreme Truth as he grows in us. Thus the supreme state of conscious being is attained and by that our complex and manifold existence ...
... nd it is called upon to discover and keep to the good, the straight and the happy path to the goal, the arduous yet joyful road of the Truth. It has to climb, led by the flaming strength of the divine will, from plateau to plateau as of a mountain, it has to cross as in a ship the waters of existence, traverse its rivers, overcome their deep pits and rapid currents; its aim is to arrive at the far-off ...
... ve notes. The introductory chapters consist of a foreword, a general introduction entitled "The Doctrine of the Mystics", and two essays on the gods to whom the hymns are addressed: "Agni, the Divine Will-Force" and "The Guardians of the Light". The fifth Mandala of the Rig Veda comprises eighty-seven hymns composed by Rishis of the Atri clan. Sri Aurobindo translated forty-three of these: all ...
... Ignorance and put on the inherence of that light, peace, bliss, harmony, universality, mastery, purity, perfection; it must convert itself into a receptacle of divine knowledge, an instrument of divine Will-Power and Force of Being, a channel of divine Love, Joy and Beauty. This is the transformation to be effected, Page 131 an integral transformation of all that we now are or seem to be ...
... another and makes it seem almost an indispensable portion of the existence, will diminish and eventually no attachment will be left, no lower compulsion or driving force felt anywhere. Only the Divine will matter, the Divine alone will be the one need of the whole being; if there is any compulsion to activity it will be not that of implanted desire or of force of Nature, but the luminous driving of ...
... partial consciousness already reached must surely evolve into complete consciousness. It is a perfected and divinised life for which the earth-nature is seeking, and this seeking is a sign of the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a Page 708 withdrawal into the bliss of the ...
... by the significant fact that pain can pass into pleasure and pleasure into pain and both resolve into the original Ananda. So too every form of weakness is really a particular working of the one divine Will-Force or the one Cosmic Energy; weakness in that Force means its power to hold back, measure, relate in a particular way its action of Force; incapacity or weakness is the Self's withholding of its ...
... ce, is indeed one and the same act. For we have seen that universal force and universal consciousness are one—cosmic force is the operation of cosmic consciousness. So also divine Knowledge and divine Will are one; they are the same fundamental movement or act of existence. This indivisibility of the comprehensive Supermind which contains all multiplicity without derogating from its own unity, is ...
... our own and with universal nature. In our active being this translates itself into a replacement of our egoistic, our personal, our separatively individual will and energy by a universal and a divine will and energy which determines our action in harmony with the universal action and Page 754 reveals itself as the direct will and the all-guiding power of the Purushottama. We replace the ...
... modified mental light, prakāśa , but the self-existent light of the divine being, jyotiḥ , which is the soul of the perfect power of being and illumines in their unity the divine quietude and the divine will of action. The ordinary liberation gets the still divine light in the divine quietude, but the integral perfection will aim at this greater triune unity. When this liberation of the nature comes ...
... of language as the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or supermind. There the One and the Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the divine Truth and the inspiration of the divine Will and Knowledge. If we can break down the veil of the intellectual, emotional, sensational mind which our ordinary existence has built between us and the Divine, we can then take up through the Truth-mind ...
... and acquired by higher functions; therefore the vital being must be trained to accept whatever gain or enjoyment comes to it in the right functioning of the life in obedience to the working of the divine Will and to rid itself of craving and attachment. Similarly the heart must be freed from subjection to the cravings of the life-principle and the senses and thus rid itself of the false emotions of fear ...
... "The ways of the Divine are not like those of the human mind or according to our patterns...." ( another text ) "To be free from all preference and receive joyfully whatever comes from the Divine Will is not possible at first for any human being. What one should have at first is the constant idea that what the Divine wills is always for the best even when the mind does not see how it is so,.. ...
... really try hard. But I would need someone with vision who could tell me: Now you do this. So I have taken the attitude of saying: let it be. I make myself as passive as possible—passive to the Divine Will—and I pray for it to guide me. That's the only way. Do you hear me? Yes, of course, Mother! Page 53 ...
... ( silence, torrential rain ) Because, my own fear is that I am divided between the idea that I must do something and the idea that if there is really something to be done, inevitably the Divine will make me do it. Page 275 But then, you wonder whether that's inactivity, passivity [or even somnolence], or whether you should do something—that's the only thing. No, there is a moment ...
... call to war, however righteous: it is a call to a many-aspected Yoga which is not after a static realisation alone but combines an unalterable inner poise of peace and a dynamic identity with the Divine Will at work in the world, work which at times may involve actual conflicts demanding difficult decisions. How could Lal have translated the Gita without entering into its spirit? He is a good translator ...
... space are finally transcended and the whole creation participates in the divine being, knowledge and bliss. This is not to deny that creatures retain their freewill and only by consent to the divine will, that is, the divine action in them, can they enter this final state of bliss. I am afraid that this is rather crudely expressed, but you have forced me to attempt an exposition of Christian ...
... Supermind reverses the relation and makes our body humanly divine. Not the human but the divine is the supramental basis: in terms of the divine the human will stand, unlike with the Overmind where the divine will stand in terms of the human. Another way of putting it is that the archetype of the human is the Overmind while the archetype of the Overmind is the Supermind. The difference between supramental ...
... Rajneesh never heard of the overwhelming appearance of Christ to the anti-Christian Paul on the road to Damascus? Has he never read "The Hound of Heaven"? Again, what does he mean by saying that the Divine will descend only if man ascends? What is the need of the descent if the ascent is accomplished and the Divine reached? Rajneesh writes: "Mankind's history till now shows that man must strive upwards ...
... 186 in judgment on the Divine Goodness and to foisting on the Divine Power an incapacity of manifestation instead of humbly accepting the non-manifestation as an act of Divine Will beyond our comprehension. The paradox that takes the world to be enigmatic Lila or Play is not only more reasonable: it is also more virtuous and hence more justifiable from the axiological ...
... and failure. It is the human mind that wants one thing and not another. In the divine plan each thing has its place. What matters is to be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the Divine Will. To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly important thing." We cannot close on a wiser note in the 13th year since the Mother joined the Master. Symbolising their union is the ...
... Personalities) is becoming or beginning to become absolute. Today, gnosis takes possession of all thought and T³. Gnosis in T² develops in the supermind and above it. The invincible Gnosis of the Divine will make its first appearance. The proofs of the Power dealing with the body are rather in the development of Ananda and the control of certain functionings than in any finality of health. The ...
... not repeat the process by which this purification is effected. I have indicated it sufficiently. This Tantric process is the Page 1391 same throughout, the reliance on the Shakti, the divine Will working in the Adhar, without any effort on the part of the Purusha, who remains Akarta throughout the sadhana, but still Ishwara, the source of the command and the sanction, the ruler dispossessed ...
... the effective, perhaps the essential & real executive movement of Nature herself in all her processes. If this is so in the general workings of Nature, if that is to say, a divine Knowledge and a divine Will in things by putting itself into relation with objects is the true cause of all force & effectuality, the same rule should hold good in human activities. It should hold good especially of all conscious ...
... vision. To possess these is to become the superman; for [it] is to rise out of mind into the supermind. Call it the divine mind or Knowledge or the supermind; it is the power and light of the divine will and the divine consciousness. By the supermind the Spirit saw and created himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By that he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler. ...
... be beyond limitation by our ideas of good, otherwise the universe such as it is could not exist whether as the partly manifested being of a divine Existence or a thing created or permitted by a divine Will. He cannot, either, be evil, otherwise in man, his highest terrestrial creature or his highest terrestrial manifestation, there could not be this dominant idea of good and this stream of tendency ...
... and sets right all its values in the light of an inner deeper greater truer consciousness and applies to it the Law of the reality, exchanging the law of the creature's Ignorance for the rule of a divine Will and Knowledge. A change of consciousness is the whole meaning of the process of Yoga[.] 114 Yoga is the science, the process, the effort and action by which man attempts to pass out ...
... their end if we are to reach it, is all the deeper purpose of this discipline. The first condition is the elimination of personal vital desire, for if desire intervenes, all harmony with the supreme Divine Will becomes impossible. Even if we receive it, we shall disfigure its working and distort its dynamic impulse. To give up all desire, all insistence upon fruit and reward and success must be renounced ...
... decides their course; here Indus shall flow, there Ganges pace yellow and leonine to the sea. Therefore we find that the greatest men of action the world has known were believers in Fate or in a divine Will. Caesar, Mahomet, Napoleon, what more colossal workers has our past than these? The superman believes more readily in Destiny, feels more vitally conscious of God than the average human mind. ...
... human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy. Only by giving oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires. The psychic being knows this definitely. Thus, by uniting with our psychic being, we can know it, too. But the first ...
... disgusting thing to do!"—nothing, nothing, the SAME smile, everywhere.... Page 366 That's the point it has reached, you understand: a sort of awareness that whatever happens happens by the divine Will, that it's ALWAYS for the best, and it's only human stupidity, lack of understanding, shortsightedness that make us say, "Oh, what a misfortune! Oh..." It's all MARVELOUSLY arranged. When the ...
... and active. Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. ( Mother gives up, Satprem ...
... collapse—nothing! Then if the work must be done, if Auroville must be built, not only do I have to remain in my body but the body must become strong. I know. I know that. All depends on what the Divine Will is—He doesn't tell me! When I ask Him, I have the impression... (once or twice, in moments of difficulty, I have put the question regarding this body), and then ( laughing ) I seem to see a smile ...
... and automatically through the individual instrument; I could even say (because the mind is quiet, it keeps quiet): through the body. And the perception of the moment when this expression of the divine Will is blurred, distorted by the introduction of a desire, Page 372 the special vibration of desire, which has a quality all of its own and which comes for many apparent reasons: it's not ...
... There is some improvement. A little better.... And that food, is it all right? Yes, it seems to be helping. Here... ( Mother gives a white hibiscus ): it's the "will one with the Divine Will"—when they're merged like that and you can no longer tell one from the other. Petit... ( Mother comments on an "old" experience of June 29 : the "boat of pink clay." ) Things are moving ...
... have the key, it is not yet in our hands. Or rather, we know quite well where it is, and there is only one thing to do: the perfect 'surrender' Sri Aurobindo speaks of, the total surrender to the divine Will whatever happens, even in the dark of night. There is night and sun, night and sun, and night again, many nights, but one must cling to this will for 'surrender,' cling as through a storm, and ...
... Laughing ) Clinging like a child. Yes, I really feel it's the only solution. ( long smiling silence while holding Satprem's hands ) All depends ABSOLUTELY—absolutely and uniquely—on the divine Will. If He has decided we will be transformed, we will be transformed. I can do nothing—there is no "I," it doesn't exist as this! ( indicating her body ) For those who cling to me, it's the same as ...
... judgments? Is it the will or the need in one’s surroundings that determines what one should do? But neither the one nor the other should determine it. Should one remain passive? No, obey only the divine will. How can one know what you want in every detail of practical daily life? Learn to be quiet (make your mind quiet) and listen in the silence. 20 December 1935 ...
... something more inward has been set free - something inward beyond all your previous depth. Deriving from that suddenly revealed centre, your movements are bound to be a sheer motiveless response to the Divine Will - the individual Mother within you going forth ecstatically into the Universal Mother which is your highest being outside the body that is the visible Champaklal. Yours affectionately, AMAL ...
... that I would be able to walk just like before. After coming here, that hope is no more. That means, I feel I may not get cured. However, this is not due to despair but because of the trust that the Divine will do what is best for me. This faith is becoming more and more firm day by day. The Mother has given me this experience in every moment of my life. In Pondicherry, when anyone asked me, 'How are you ...
... most grateful and took up pen and paper that very moment. Not even the standards by which he lays great store normally. In moments of crises, I have seen him overpass them, in deference to the Divine Will, without the least regret. He has not studied Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita, to be sure, but he acts spontaneously in the spirit of the Master's Call. It has taken quite a few months to ...
... She seldom refused anything. Living concretely in the great Unity, she considered every detail of existence and every event, even the apparently least important, to be a direct expression of the divine Will. And had she not accepted ‘to do the job’? The records of the meetings with her, of the results of her help and intervention in the lives of people, and of the miraculous Grace which accompanied ...
... we go back as far as 1914, when Sri Aurobindo said that never before had he seen a surrender like that of Mirra at her very first meeting with him. The surrender of the ignorant instrument to the Divine Will is the cornerstone of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the theme with variations of his Synthesis — and the fundamental yogic act of the Mother in the long years of her glorious ordeal. When the sound of ...
... movement, it would be a sort of Satyagraha against the Divine. In essence it is an attempt to force the divine to do what one wants instead of trusting to him to do what is best according to his own divine will and wisdom; it is a culminating act of vital impatience and disappointed desire, while the true movement is a pure aspiration and an ardent surrender. After all, one has not a right ...
... purer Truth, Light and Knowledge. The result of this state of mind is that one begins to affirm everything that comes in this mixed and dubious region as if it were all the Truth and the sheer Divine Will, the ideas or the suggestions that constantly repeat themselves are expressed with a self-assertive absoluteness as if they were Truth entire and undeniable. There is an impression that one has become ...
... force. None of us is here to "do as we like", or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like: We are here to do what the Divine' wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its Truth, no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by the vital desire. The work which the sadhaka of the Supramental Yoga has to do is not his own work ...
... quiet, calm and open. And if this outer consciousness remains a block and does not give way like an obstinate horse, we shall patiently take it into our control, make it submissive and allow the Divine Will to manifest. This is quite good. Do not get bothered with the recurrence of the "cold". With the influenza it is almost always like that. But finally it will get cured. Blessings 17 ...
... . One has only to turn back to the tracts of such pundits as Rosenberg and Darré to be immediately struck by the resemblance. There is the same belief in a primitive German culture in which the divine will was once realized and which throughout history has been the source of all good – which was later undermined by a conspiracy of capitalists, inferior, non-Germanic peoples and the Church of Rome – ...
... danger with the workers had passed, but after listening to everything you said, it is obvious that the situation is very serious and that each of us must be absolutely sincere and faithful to the Divine Will, yours and Sri Aurobindo's. Mother, I want to be a true soldier of the Divine and I humbly ask for your clear direction in order to overcome the difficulties that are present in my nature. Free me ...
... March 1965 Mother, The world being what it is, we have to work under the existing conditions. Why not use the available conditions, gather strength and then endeavour to manifest the Divine Will in its purity? But the very fact of living upon earth means that we "are using the available conditions", otherwise it would be impossible to live. Blessings 18 March 1965 ...
... into light, Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight And human wills tune to the divine will." Page 3 ...
... outer experience and to its corollary, a new and rich self-fulfilment in an integral human existence for the individual and for the race", 2 wherein the eternal aspiration of man upward to the Divine will be related to the "descending movement of the Divine leaning downward to embrace eternally Its manifestation"; and what else, if not Matter, is the mould and condition of this manifestation? ...
... spiritual community and I never wanted to make one, because this was never Sri Aurobindo’s will. What he wanted me to do I have done, and I continue to do what he wanted to do, in accordance with the divine will . 19 January 1967 ...
... in the Light of the Divine, with the head filled with the Presence of the Divine, the heart filled with Your Love, the vital filled with the dynamic Force of the Divine for the execution of the Divine Will. O Mother, O Lord, may You possess this being, may it come forth and live exclusively in the full splendour of Your Love and Light and Truth. This is my prayer to the All-Gracious Divine ...
... coming so that they may finish as soon as possible what they have to do. What Tagore or others think or say does not matter very much after all as we do not depend on them for our work but on the Divine Will only. So many have said and thought all sorts of things (people outside) about and against us, that has never affected either us or our work in the least; it is of a very minor importance. ...
... with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother Undated Faith is the condition to be frank with the Divine. A complete frankness with the Divine will allow your faith to be steady. Undated ...
... lacking; never was the future more veiled.’ The next day she wrote: ‘Each turn of the propeller upon the deep ocean seems to drag me farther away from my true destiny, the one best expressing the divine Will; each passing hour seems to plunge me again deeper into that past with which I had broken, sure of being called to new and vaster realizations …’ 47 ‘This is an exile from every spiritual ...
... live in the Truth, to live in communion with eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. It is to be free in true Liberty, the Liberty of the constant and invariable union with the divine Will. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went ...
... of the world. Ending the letter with a lovely quotation from the Mother: We have only one thing to do, the perfect surrender of which Sri Aurobindo speaks, the total self-giving to the Divine Will whatever happens, even in the midst of the night . There is the night and there is the sun, the night and the sun, again the night, many nights, but one must cling to the Will to surrender, cling ...
... Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems Agni Fire; Fire of Sacrifice; the Fire-God; Flame of Divine Force; illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire. The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: ...
... each is only partially true. It is by rising above both affirmation and negation that one may draw nearer the truth. It can further be said that whatever happens in the world is the result of divine will, but also that this will has to be expressed and manifested in a world that contradicts or deforms it; these are two attitudes having, respectively, the practical effect of either submitting with ...
... be followed—for the action to be accomplished. And any deviation from what to me was the luminous line, the straight line (not geometrically straight: the luminous line, the line expressing the divine Will), the slightest Page 30 deviation from that, and... oh, it was the only thing that tormented me. And the torment didn't come from me, it came from that character hooked on to my ...
... described and explained for us in The Synthesis of Yoga. But before eliminating the will of the ego, which takes a very long time, one can begin by surrendering the will of the ego to the Divine Will at every opportunity and finally in a constant way. For this, the first step is to understand that the Divine knows better than we what is good for us and what we truly need, not only for our spiritual ...
... conscious of one's psychic being and allow oneself to be entirely guided by it—in other words, to rise above ordinary humanity, free oneself from all egoism and become a conscious instrument of the Divine Will. The soul itself, being a portion of the Divine, is above all moral and ethical notions; it bathes in the Divine Light and manifests it, but it can truly govern the whole being only when the ego ...
... with the Divine becomes more and more clear and conscious. Friendship with the Divine: delicate, attentive and faithful, ever ready to respond to the smallest appeal. Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. God cannot be taken by violence. It is only through love and harmony that you can reach God. Be in peace―my blessings are ...
... Surrender to the Divine Will Words of the Mother - II Surrender Surrender: the decision to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. This is done either through the mind or the emotion or the life-impulse or through all of them together. To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It ...
... light on the following question. The world being what it is, we have to work under the existing conditions. Why not use the available conditions, gather strength and then endeavour to manifest the Divine Will in its purity? But the very fact of living upon earth means that we are "using the available conditions", otherwise it would be impossible to live. Blessings. 18 March 1965 Page 240 ...
... consciousness, these things become so subtle and require such a scrupulous observance that people are justified (they FEEL justified) in having the attitude, 'Oh, it's Nature, it's Fate, it's the Divine Will!' But with that conviction, the 'Yoga of Perfection' is impossible and appears as a mere utopian fantasy—but this is FALSE. The truth is something else entirely. ( long silence ) ...When I ...
... you must first accept everything before having the power to transform anything. It's what Sri Aurobindo always said: FIRST you must accept EVERYTHING—accept it as coming from the Divine, as the Divine Will; accept without disgust, without regret, without getting upset or impatient. Accept with a perfect equanimity; and only AFTER that can you say, 'Now let's get to work to change it.' But to work ...
... key yet; it is not within our hands. Or rather we know quite well where it is, and we have only one thing to do: the perfect surrender of which Sri Aurobindo speaks, the total self-giving to the Divine Will, whatever happens, even in the midst of the night. There is the night and there is the sun, the night and the sun, again the night, many nights; but one must cling to this will to surrender, cling ...
... NOT how we do it. I will help. 5 June 1961 Page 224 Forget your difficulties. Think only of being a more and more perfect instrument for the Divine to do His work and the Divine will conquer all your difficulties and transform you. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968 Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself... And the Lord will take care of your progress ...
... circumstances, is a weakness and an insincerity towards one's supreme Self. The two extremes meet in their effect on the attitude towards the circumstances of life: the total surrender to the Divine Will manifested in all things; and the consciousness of the supreme power that organises all things according to its all-powerful conception. In either case there is no place for complaint: if one is ...
... I forgive you your harm and cruelty but do not do it again!'), an attitude which, if extended to its ultimate conclusion, accepts the world as it is: the world is the perfect expression of the divine Will. On the other hand, there is the attitude of progress and transformation. But for that, you must recognize that there are things in the world which are not as they should be. In The Synthesis ...
... seemed slightly imbued with color. Well, he does everything, he decides everything, he organizes everything with an almost mathematical precision and in the smallest details—everything. To do the divine Will—I have been doing the sadhana for a long time, and I can say that not a day has passed that I have not done the Divine's Will. But I didn't know what it was! I was living in all the inner realms ...
... around the jiva, which becomes more and more conscious as well as more and more organized. Ultimately it becomes a completely conscious individual being, master of itself and moved exclusively by the divine Will. That is to say, an individual expression of the Supreme. This is what we call the "psychic being." Generally speaking, those who practice yoga have either a fully developed, independent psychic ...
... desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire. 17 October 1969 ...
... effort even if it seems to have no result. In life, we must do what is revealed to us as the true thing to be done, even if others mock and criticise; for the opinion of men has no value, the Divine Will alone is true and will triumph. 4 January 1970 ...
... universal and spiritual point of view that, not positively the "good" as men understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the last word; it goes without saying. That is to say, finally the Divine will be victorious. That is what is said, what all who have lived a spiritual life have said—it is an absolute fact. Men, in translating it, say, "I am a good boy, I live in accordance with what I think ...
... those who have created the disorder. That is the thing to be done. Instead of the basis of ordinary goodwill and all the moral and social rules—all that dashed to the ground—one must rise above, the divine Will and the divine Harmony must be there, it is that which we want; and then those who have revolted against the ordinary law of things and the ordinary social conventions: prove that you are in relation ...
... the means will be given to us. SECOND ASPIRANT Yes, we must have faith, an absolute trust in the Grace, a total surrender to the Divine. FIRST ASPIRANT Yes, an absolute self-giving to the Divine Will. And since all visible paths have disappeared, we must leap forward without fear or hesitation, in complete trust. SECOND ASPIRANT And we shall be carried to the place where we must go. They ...
... and active. Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. 15 August 1971 In ...
... the spiritual concept—it doesn't sense its separate personality. More and more, year after year, it has been striving to feel only the divine Presence, the divine Life, the divine Force and the divine Will, all within itself; and to feel that without them it is nothing, it doesn't exist. This is fully realized in its consciousness (the conscious part). In the subconscient and inconscient, 5 obviously ...
... consciousness conscious of its consciousness), it IS, like that (one could say), such as it will be projected in space and time. So when we say, "To want what God wants" or "To unite with the divine Will," it's our way of looking ( gesture from the bottom upwards, or from below to above ). And it's quite approximate. But there ... And the marvellous thing is that it's not what we in our infirmity ...
... It is from the universal and spiritual point of view that, not exactly "good" as people understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the final word, that is well known. In other words, the Divine will eventually be victorious. That is what has been said, what all those who have lived a spiritual life have said—and it is an absolute fact. When people transpose it, they say, "I am a good boy, I ...
... know him from the very inside of him, so to speak. It is as if you were made out of his substance. That is why you are moved to feel not only that he will lead you to the Divine but also that this Divine will be his own self. And the sense that you have known him for ages proves that you are touching him not merely with your mind which varies with each rebirth but with your soul which has had a long history ...
... speaks of. The world in which lives Man turned Godlike cannot remain subject to the laws we scientifically regard as inexorable. Not only his own being but also his environment will be subject to the Divine Will set active fully in the universe of time and space. The physical sun is a symbol of the highest supramental creative and transformative Light: when that Sun of the Truth-Consciousness which is a ...
... more inward has been set free - something inward beyond all your previous depth. Deriving from that suddenly revealed centre, your movements are bound to be a sheer motiveless response to the Divine Will - the individual Mother within you going forth ecstatically into the Universal Mother which is your highest being outside the body that is the visible Champaklal. (14.5.1979) I'll ...
... existence, I might say (the existence of the Divine and almost the divine existence), but it still has a sense of helplessness, and also, within that helplessness, of a complete surrender to the divine Will: "If we aren't ready, it will be like that" [= the dissolution]. And there is a part that feels ready, that understands and knows how things must be and wants them that way, Page 255 ...
... and to be cleared out.... Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately, a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these dark ...
... that's where a choice will have to be made...." Mother remarks: ) I remember the exact moment when I said that—the place, the time, the sound, everything—because at that moment, I suddenly felt a divine Will manifest. I remember having thought at that moment, "Ah, it should be like this every time." And now it has come back. What was the date? April 17, 1951. Towards the end, Mother remains ...
... n in order to be overcome, and which gives such a clear and intense perception of how precarious the equilibrium and existence are. And then, behind: a Glory. The Glory of the divine Light, the divine Will, the divine Consciousness, the eternal Motive. × It was for the next Bulletin that Satprem read this Talk to Mother ...
... life-force. None of us are here to 'do as we like', or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like; we are here to do what the Divine wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its truth no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by vital desire. The work which the sadhak of the supramental yoga has to do is not his own work for which ...
... learn to subjugate the ego and compel it to bow down in every act to the universal Being and to serve consciously in its least movements the supreme Will, that Agni himself takes form in us. The Divine Will becomes present and conscient in a human mind and enlightens it with the divine Knowledge." 3 With these words we come back to the sense of Agni the Seer being born in Aswapathy as - to quote ...
... their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alone. Mira ( Condolence message to Motilal Roy on the death of his wife ) Condolence. Only consolation for sincere sorrow—submission to divine will. February 1930 Sri Aurobindo 18 May 1930 The protection and help will be there as they were here. You have to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more ...
... crucial role in the discussion and raises subtle points of fate and free will in human transactions. Note 5 (p. 532.) In Sri Aurobindo's Savitri we see Narad asserting the divine will behind this marriage and, though apparently tragic, makes it firm. There is no doubt that it was for this purpose that he had undertaken the long and arduous journey from his home in Paradise to ...
... like Homer's Gods. To Homer the Gods are close and real, but Milton's angels are far and seem abstract. Milton's story deals with the mystery of the individual will in external opposition to the Divine Will. It seems certain that, after Milton, an epic dealing fully with an objective story is not possible; in modem age it is pushing towards a subjective trend. After Milton hardly any successful ...
... Grace will never fail us." 10 "... in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance of failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final Realisation." 11 "There is a return for all the trials and ordeals of the spiritual life." 12 "Whatever I may be, my soul ...
... to subjugate the ego and compel it to bow down in every act to the universal Being and to serve consciously in its least movement the supreme Will, that Agni himself takes form in us. The Divine Will becomes present and conscient in a human mind and enlightens it with the divine Knowledge. Thus it is that man can be said to form by his toil the great Gods. "The Sanskrit expression ...
... vanity of my will 'to help the world', for I knew they had to come; they were there in the world-nature and had to rise up so that they might be exhausted or expelled.... Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these dark ...
... I arrived finally at Madras and was, therefore, cut off from my family. When now I look back on this event, I seem to realise how far away was the action of my own will from that of the divine Will. If I had been acting according to my own inclination, I could never have come near the divine Presence. We are for the most part subject to petty desires and feelings. My life's course was settled ...
... and with universal nature. In our active being this translates itself into a replacement of our egoistic, our personal, our separatively individual will and energy by a universal and a divine will and energy which determines our action in harmony with the universal action and reveals itself as the direct will and the all-guiding power of the Purushottama. We replace the inferior action of ...
... what is above it, would be the final end of the soul escaping from this Page 224 meaningless universe; unless indeed like the Amitabha Buddha one were held by compassion or else the Divine Will within to continue helping and sharing the upward struggle towards the Light of those here still in the darkness of the Ignorance. If, on the contrary, this world is a Lila of spiritual involution ...
... surrender to the Supreme Principle, to become aware of the Truth and the eternal Will that manifests it. Through this identification having become the faithful servant and sure intermediary of the divine Will, and uniting this conscious identification with the Principle to the conscious identification with its becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming in accordance ...
... does not want another. In the divine plan each thing has its place and importance. So it is not success that matters. What matters is to be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the Divine Will. To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly important thing. All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour. 13 Can man delay or hasten the coming of this hour? ...
... the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.' 20 February 1930, 2.40 p.m The Mother From now Rene is sincere and will be sincere like his Mummy. The Mother 1) Message cyclostyled and distributed in the Ashram René, When ...
... sraddha —the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace; confidence and trust are aspects of faith and results of it. Confidence is a feeling of sureness that the Divine will hear when sincerely called and help and, that all the Divine does is for the best. Trust is the mind's and heart's complete reliance on the Divine and its guidance and protection. 1.7.1935 ...
... which the individual soul feels from the time of its contact with the Divine up to the union with the Divine.—Dara To be so entirely cleansed of falsehood that there may be purity to know the Divine Will and respond to the Call at any moment.—Datta Not to hinder Mother in making the best possible of us.—Doraiswamy To be in complete union with You.—Dyuman To live only for Mother as if nobody ...
... whatever method it might have arrived here, becomes meaningless, a strange creation which has no issue and no solution even to invoke the indescribable Nothing. There is then no Tao, no divinity, no Divine Will, no Divine Grace. By a strange process we land into the most frightening kind of a desert in which even that perception has no perceiver. If this is so there is nothing much to choose between Mayavada ...
... state of immortality. According to Sri Aurobindo, although this was a very high attainment, it was not enough for fulfilling what Sri Aurobindo discovered to be the intention of the Supramental Divine Will for the next step in the evolution on the earth. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, what is aimed at by the evolutionary force in the human species is the accomplishment of fixing of the ...
... supramental manifestation seem to be breaking a new ground. Therefore, even though the path is difficult and obstacles are "formidable, we need not fear to aspire and to work for the triumph of the Divine Will in securing for the earth a life of liberty suffused with the spirit of fraternity and designed for equal upliftment of all members of the "human society. At tile same time, we need to underline ...
... which we may term the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or the supermind where the One and Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the Divine Truth and the Inspiration of the Divine Will and Knowledge. If we can break down the veil of the intellectual, emotional, sensational mind which our ordinary existence has built between us and the Divine, we can then take up through the Truth-mind ...
... have not had this vision and this ideal before them, that is no reason why I should not follow my Truth-sense and Truth vision. ... It is a question between the Divine and myself whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for ...
... realms of consciousness and power; he also found that the road to farther consequences of the visitations of supramental consciousness in the physical body were blocked; he also found that the Divine Will working in the evolutionary process required the necessity of removing that obstacle; as a result, Sri Aurobindo introduced a new objective in his integral yoga and developed new methods in conjunction ...
... Page 315 SECOND ASPIRANT Yes, we must have faith, an absolute trust in the Grace, a total surrender to the Divine. FIRST ASPIRANT Yes, an absolute self-giving to the Divine Will. And since all visible paths have disappeared, we must leap forward without fear or hesitation, in complete trust. SECOND ASPIRANT And we shall be carried to the place where we must ...
... renunciation he is asked to prefer; the actual difference between Purusha and Prakriti, the Field and the Knower of the Field, so important for the practice of desireless action under the drive of the divine Will; and finally a clear statement of the practical operations and results of the three modes of Prakriti which he is bidden to surmount. To such a disciple the Teacher of the Gita gives his divine teaching ...
... Supreme will be seen and experienced as the love of a woman for her lover. In these religions of bhakti, the emotional being of man, illumined and uplifted by the love for a representation of the divine, will participate and even be the main lever in the spiritual quest. So one can measure how much Kalidasa's works must have prepared the Indian temperament for this new step in the exploration of a more ...
... of this higher consciousness? Let us listen to Sri Aurobindo: "The higher consciousness is a concentrated consciousness, concentrated in the Divine Unity and in the working out of the Divine Will, not dispersed and rushing about after this or that mental idea or vital desire or physical need as is the ordinary human consciousness - also not invaded by a hundred haphazard thoughts. feelings ...
... lower nature and try to spoil through them, smash or retard the siddhi.... But it has also always been known that those who are sincere and faithful in heart and remain so and those who rely on the Divine will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls." (Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., p. 1731) By the way, it should not be thought that all the subtle forces belonging to the supraphysical ...
... thought turned exclusively towards the Divine Aspiration for vital purity Obedience (5.5.33) The will to conquer: vital conquest over vital enemies Vital thoroughness Will one with the Divine Will Faithfulness Service Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Peace in the vital Aspiration Divine help Detachment Vital plentitude Sincerity Transformation Page 72 ...
... until they [the physical mind and the physical vital] have become united with the psychic, so that there are not two halves but a single consciousness, the whole nature unified round the central Divine Will.... not until this happens can one receive the knowledge belonging to that consciousness and become aware of the entire series of forms and lives which were upheld by it as its own successive means ...
... partial consciousness already reached must surely evolve into complete consciousness. It is a perfected and divinised life for which the earth-nature is seeking, and this seeking is a sign of the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace and ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine presence are ...
... Spirit is the object of terrestrial existence and it is a perfect and divinised life for which the earth-nature is in travail and this very seeking persistently maintained is a sure sign of the Divine Will in Nature. Indeed, the soul of significance of the whole process of earthly evolution stretching over millions of years can only be 'the revelation of Being in perfect Becoming'. One more ...
... in his embodied existence new planes and powers of consciousness other than and superior to mind, so that these may offer themselves as the proper media and instrumentation through which the divine Will and Wisdom can freely act and self-express. But between the Mind and the Spirit, are there other superior planes of spiritual consciousness — not merely static and introspective, but ...
... earthly Nature. And man's actions as at present are not the ignorant agitations of a beguiled soul; they are the tentative and awkward preparatory steps to the ultimate undistorted expression of the divine Will in the world. Will it then be right to consider the first crawl of a baby to be its only and ultimate permanent destiny? Page 68 By this time, let us hope, it has been made s ...
... come. In fact, as I say, such a conviction is in itself an inner opening.... He who has a happy confidence in him, does not question, does not ask if he will have the thing or not, whether the Divine will answer or not. For to him that is not the question at all; it is well understood and taken for granted: 'The thing I need I shall be given,' he says, 'If I pray my prayer will surely be granted ...
... and self-indulgence of their vital and physical demands but for a high and exacting Yoga of which the first aim is the destruction of desire and the substitution for it of the Divine Truth and the Divine Will." (Ibid., p. 244) For over-all harmony to reign in the Ashram, another important point we have to attend to with all the sincerity of execution: it is as regards the mutual relationship ...
... Man of Sorrows? Knock him off? Well, he is too cryptic or brief for me. I'm not much satisfied with the answer. The most fundamental difficulty I find in me is that I can't believe that the Divine will do everything for me. My experience has shown me that—please don't say my experience is nothing. Take for instance this Poetry business. It has always been rare for me to write any poetry without ...
... helps to prepare it is spiritual. Psychic sorrow is a spiritual movement, but sorrow is not part of the essential character of the higher consciousness. Resignation, the ego's submission to the divine will is a spiritual movement, but the higher consciousness has no need of resignation and a submitted ego is not a part of its essence, for it has no ego. You wrote that the planes between ...
... and self-indulgence of their vital and physical demands but for a high and exacting Yoga of which the first aim is the destruction of Desire and the substitution for it of the Divine Truth and the Divine Will. If the Mother sanctions it means that it is her will that it should be so. Page 250 SRI AUROBINDO ON THE MOTHER Those who have visited ...
... insecure. The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral c ...
... Mother says in the "Prayers and Meditations" that there is a knowledge which surpasses all other knowledge which means knowledge of the Divine. In that case, psychics or otherwise who realise the Divine, will have the same width, vastness of knowledge. Certainly, there is nothing to prevent it. By the higher knowledge, I understand, you mean spiritual knowledge about Almon, Brahman, etc. But ...
... between the Greeks and the Trojans revolve around issues of power and honor. The Iliad shows us the conflict between mighty human spirits, and how the Gods intervene in such conflicts to workout a Divine Will. Homer casts the life of Man in divine proportions. This is the power which the true seer offers to those of us who are able to enter into the ancient spirit and atmosphere, and to feel what is going ...
... dispels the clouds of ill-will. This voice — tender, clear, pure, powerful, vigorous and energetic, — gives an amplitude and a calm lucidity which directs and transmits the powers of the divine will. It is like a gentle peace, a vivifying breath, a love that consoles the aggrieved hearts. The vibration that my voice transmits awakens in the heart the aspiration for the Divine. It creates a resonance ...
... that of a journey or voyage; for it travels, it ascends; it has a goal—the vastness, the true existence, the light, the felicity...It has to climb, led by the flaming strength of the divine Will, from plateau to plateau as of a mountain, it has to cross as in a ship the waters of existence, traverse its rivers, overcome their deep pits and rapid currents; its aim is to arrive ...
... same goodwill, the same aspiration, the same desire to do one's best, but he who has a happy confidence in him, who does not question, who does not ask if he will have the thing or not, whether the Divine will answer or not—for, to him that is not the question, it is understood and taken for granted: "The thing I need I shall be given", he says, "if I pray my prayer will be granted, if I am in difficulty ...
... force at work in the world aims at change in the conditions: it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actuality—of ignorance and inertia —is one of chaos. What the Divine Will behind, the Consciousness standing over, does is to develop a cosmos out of that chaos. Things Page 16 are placed wrongly, at random, pell-mell: they have to be assorted, arranged ...
... The disguise grows transparent and he emerges resplendent in his light. Not to reject or discard but to replace the wrong appearance with the right is our way. We merge our human volition into the Divine Will, turn all the obscure movements of our ignorance into true movements of the Divine Consciousness. We adore and worship and approach the Divine in all things and everywhere, in his true light and ...
... uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinsed mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purpose—such is the goal that Nature Page 23 seeking to realise at present through her evolutionary elan. It is to this labour that man has been called so that in and through ...
... creation. Into the heart of this Darkness and Falsehood and Pain and Death, a seed was sown, a grain that is to be the epitome and symbol of material creation and in and through which the Divine will claim back all the elements gone astray, the prodigal ones who will return to recognise and fulfil the Divine. That was Earth. And the earth, in her turn, in her labour towards the Divine Fulfilment ...
... physical world. A human being that makes of himself a holocaust—burns himself out at the altar of the Divine —keeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the physical ...
... discipline that personal effort gives to the mortal being, and then from cooperation and collaboration to union and identity with the Supreme Goal, effort merging into the spontaneous execution of the Divine Will, the personal melting into the impersonal Person—that is the consummation brought about by Grace. Page 164 ...
... uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purpose—such is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her evolutionary elan. It is to this labour that man has been called so that in and through him the destined t ...
... back and so on. But what you have to Page 109 do is to renew your offering, reaffirm your adhesion. When the adhesion is complete, when there is the spontaneous acceptance of the Divine Will in everything, in every manner of happening, then comes the surrender, the perfect obedience which is calm, tranquil, at peace in either case, whether things happen in this way or that. You ...
... always live and move externally in the non-human way; but even when he appears human in his life and action, his motives are not humanistic, his consciousness lies anchored somewhere else, in the Divine Will that makes him be and do whatever it chooses, human or not. There is, however, a type of humanism that is specially known in India—it is not human humanism, but, as it is called, divine humanism ...
... must be present there in the natural consciousness. You will be brought back thus every time you try to escape. Something is being prepared for you. That was said yesterday. It is as though the divine will had traced the goal, and the road ; it is as though it had told you : "You will be like that". It was very clear. The Goal is known to us, but it is reserved for us two. To you it is rather the road ...
... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections Love the Divine "Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you." Mother wrote this to one of her children. It is the key to solve problems, the magic mantra to cure the ills of human life and consciousness, the one remedy for all inner and outer ailments. Take ego, for example. It epitomises, in a ...
... There is a "will" which works by dominating over Nature. Another kind of "will" does not so much dominate as aspires in a prayerful mood for the Higher Power to come down. The highest will is the divine will. It is that which is indispensable to all success, it acts automatically. Disciple : For the cure of the disease, by any method whatsoever, is not faith necessary ? Sri Aurobindo : ...
... encouragement, for a step towards the Beyond. On one side no lack of resolution and the zeal for the victory to be won, on the other no hasty impatience nor depression. But the calm certainty for the Divine Will, – and the calm will that "It shall be done in us" and the aspiration that "it may be done for us so that it may be done for the world." Conversation with Sri Aurobindo on the l5th August ...
... damam – is the highest Truth., In V.12. the Rishi does not want the mixture of Truth and falsehood but wants only the Truth. Agni's own is full of joy : Ananda is the pratistha – basis of the Divine Will. Swadhdwdn means "having the law of its own being". In Mandala 1.95 there is mention of the "child" that is One – that child is Agni. He is called "the son of two mothers" – of different colours ...
... ce: the alchemy's other name is self-purification and self-perfection. This tender shoot is a mysterious chemical storehouse, its fermentation and purification and use awaken in us the sleeping divine will, give a clear vision, guide us through the secret worlds and ultimately to the home of Immortality. The Vedic Rishis sang to the Soma creeper or god Soma, Tatra mām. amrtam krdhi, O Somadeva, carry ...
... desire, but the deceptive pleasure of anticipation that you lose. Desirelessness brings about a sovereign fulfilment, not of Page 353 desires, but of the out - reachings of a divine Will in you, of which your desires are the negation. Desire lost opens the way to the enjoyment of Delight supernal. *** There is not much virtue in going down the slope; all can do ...
... uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purpose – such is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her evolutionary élan. It is to this labour that man has been called so that in and through him the destined ...
... change in the conditions; it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actuality – of ignorance and inertia – is one of chaos. What Page 176 the Divine Will behind, the Consciousness standing over, does is to develop a cosmos out of that chaos. Things are placed wrongly, at random, pell-mell: they have to be assorted, arranged, docketed, each item in ...
... Roosevelt and is trying to preach his isolationism. The world is getting queer. No wonder the British consul says it is Kaliyuga. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: The other day, while talking about the Divine Will, you said that Christ knew that he was to be put on the cross and yet one part of him didn't want it. Did you mean that the crucifixion had been divinely willed? SRI AUROBINDO: That is what the ...
... merely a moralist reformer, he will revolt against the "witness business", calling it a laissez - faire mentality of bygone days. A spiritual reformer would ask for more – a dynamic union with the Divine Will and Consciousness, not merely a passive enjoyment in the Bliss, so that he may be a luminous power or agent for the expression of divine values in things mundane. Not the acceptance of the world ...
... then the help will come to you, just in time, when everything seems lost. And what a Grace lifts you up into regions of Peace, through His infinite benevolence! You know, the Divine... the Divine will never fail you ... will never fail you. Have trust in the divine faith. Page 86 ...
... the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. //para// Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will." [36] SABCL, Vol. 24, p.1245. [37] Nayana , pp.133-34. [38] CWM, Vol. 16, pp.175-76. ...
... equanimity that all that is to be done will be done. If you try to pull, it will have a contrary effect. But to remain calm, open and receptive, in a self-giving, with the inner certitude that “the Divine will do what is necessary, will give me what I need”… to remain like this in this state of peace and tranquility, calm and serene, where nothing moves, nothing makes an impression. Not to get agitated ...
... the soul gives up its ego and its work to the Divine, God himself comes to us and takes up our burden. To the ignorant he brings the light of the divine knowledge, to the feeble the power of the divine will, and to the sinner the liberation of the divine purity, to the suffering the infinite spiritual joy and Ananda. Their weakness and the stumblings of their human strength make no difference. "This ...
... telling me—she studies with P—that she understood it in A's sense while Purani doesn't agree. Purani says it can't be true. SRI AUROBINDO: Does Purani mean to say that only when one is perfect the Divine will accept the offering and give the reward? Then it would be very difficult for any human being. A is quite correct and it is a fact. Human nature is imperfect and impure. Whatever one offers at the ...
... physical world. A human being that makes of himself a holocaust – burns himself out at the altar of the Divine – keeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the Physical ...
... arts, music doesn't seem to have been modernised. There is no room for Cubism in music. EVENING Some friend has written to Purani that as he thinks everything is happening according to the Divine Will, there is no such thing as right or wrong. SRI AUROBINDO: Does he actually feel or perceive it or is it only a mental conception? PURANI: Can't say. Looks as though he perceives it. SRI ...
... insecure. The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral c ...
... formation of the Divine himself. Diti and Aditi are sisters, twin aspects of the same Supreme Being. All the legends in narrating the life history of the Asura describe his end as a submission to the Divine Will and a merging in Him. An entire life of bitter hostility culminates in the same degree of love for the Divine. The process of enmity seems to have a deeper occult meaning conducive to the more ...
... the material existence. The whole physical being if it is to embody a new life in a new organisation must concentrate at one point within itself and find or found there the Fire, the dynamic Divine Will in its most concrete reality – the body's self and soul: the yajamana, the human figure of the Divine here invoking, calling forth the godhead who leads the sacrificial journey through all the ...
... discipline that personal effort gives to the mortal being, and then from cooperation and collaboration to union and identity with the Supreme Goal, effort merging into the spontaneous execution of the Divine Will, the personal melting into the impersonal Person – that is the consummation brought about by Grace. 4 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book 11, Canto I Page 286 ...
... seventh seminar of the New Age Association held on 20 February: How to serve the Truth? "To serve the Truth," said Kishor Gandhi in his introductory speech, "we must obey unconditionally the one Divine Will alone in all our being and life." This meant a total self-surrender to the Supreme: Love is the key to perfect surrender. Therefore, to love the Lord and obey His Will in all sincerity is the ...
... and active. Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. 2 In other messages the Mother ...
... the body to bottles or to any nearby or far-off Matter. I really had the feeling that it was a first experience, new upon earth. For I have experienced an absolute identity of the will with the divine Will ever since 1910, it has never left me.... [We might indeed imagine that this is some sort of higher Will or higher vision which looks upon Matter differently from the height of its summits and handles ...
... 28.8.1969 Now I feel the importance of being desireless. The agitation of the vibrations of desire disturbs the receptivity and makes one incapable of seeing the vibrations of divine will that can be seen only in calm and silence. 30.8.1969 Will the Unmanifest not be always greater than the manifestation? If one conceives that the manifestation is eternal, it is ...
... manifests himself. On the other hand, for the sage or the saint who is quite infatuated with his own importance and his own worth, and full of pride and vanity, there is not much chance that the Divine will manifest in him .... ... The greatest obstacle to the contact with the Divine is pride .... ... the one truly important thing is the intensity of the aspiration. And this intensity of aspiration ...
... able to think, is that he should obey reason which is a super-instinct of the species.... The reign of reason must come to an end only with the advent of the psychic law which manifests the divine Will. 6 The aim of the Yoga was indeed to get beyond the mental, and reach overhead levels of consciousness, including the highest, the supramental. But it would be the sheerest folly to give up ...
... August 1971: Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. 15 IV The Mother's ...
... "the inner reason of hell". But she was nothing daunted; she would persevere; it was all part of the avatar's role; and she would not rest till her tasks were concluded in accordance with the Divine Will: A little more and the new life's doors Shall be carved in silver light With its aureate roof and mosaic floors In a great world bare and brighl. 23 Page 348 ...
... ess"? The human aspiration and opening from below may, perhaps, hasten the change, but human stupidity or resistance cannot close "the path of the divine Event" 16 . Being in tune with the Divine Will, the Mother knew that it must triumph ultimately. The next step in the evolution of the earthconsciousness would be really more of a revolution, though a revolution wiith a difference; the Mother ...
... strength of its desire. One must trust in the Grace, even if what has happened is - as mentally construed or vitalistically experienced - a defeat, a humiliation, a disaster: ...one judges the divine Will by the results! all that succeeds has been willed by the Divine; all that doesn't, well, He has not willed it! This is yet again one of those stupidities big as a mountain. But the best check ...
... deformations. To put it all in positive terms, the four austerities must lead to the apprehension of supramental unity, the establishment of the gnostic consciousness, the identification with the Divine Will, and the liberation from "the law of material cause and effect... so that nothing is allowed to intervene in the course of one's life but the highest will, the truest knowledge, the supramental ...
... is no question of ¹ Ibid., p. 124. ² ibid., pp. 144-45 Page 271 X or Y or anybody else in that. It is a question between the Divine and myself – whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for ...
... participation in the working of the Supernature or Parā prakrti. The more we advance from the spiritual to the supramental transformation, the more shall we cease to be mere instruments of the divine Will and Force, and enter into a "growing conscious participation of the higher and more intimate kind" with it. This experience of conscious participation and collaboration will be an unfailing accompaniment ...
... knowledge and works and has need of the Divine as teacher, friend and master. The growing of the love of God must carry with it in him an expansion of the knowledge of God and of the action of the divine Will in his nature and being."¹ All these and other complex needs of the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga are fully met by the Divine Mother. In Her we embrace our eternal Father, our Friend and Lover, our ...
... action into the channels of a divine fulfilment. Without knowledge, love, however intense, would be narrow and fanatical, and our action, however disinterested, would lack the authentic drive of the divine Will in us- it would not be God's direct action in us. The Light of knowledge is the herald of freedom and the prophecy of divine fulfilment. Page 360 We shall now proceed to consider the ...
... that He may transform and illumine them, and use them as perfected means of His manifestation in the material life. When psychic love is united with the divine Love and the psychic will with the divine Will, there is no limit to the possibilities of divine manifestation. All knowledge is within the reach of psychic love, and all power of effectuation. Whenever and where- ever the divine Light or the ...
... than our preferences, and stand stubbornly in the way of our being sincere to the Divine. They do not allow us to look at life in its entirety and indivisible unity, and accept the working of the divine Will within us and without in a tranquil spirit of faith and confidence. On the contrary, they induce us to challenge the divine working and doubt its wisdom. Cocksure of the correctness of our ideas ...
... and enlighten not only their mind but their whole being—soul, mind, life and body—and give them a definite lead towards a dynamic spiritual life lived in God and devoted to the fulfilment of the divine Will in the world. It is a centre where men can learn how to achieve their perfection and fulfilment, not only on one but on all planes of their existence, and express their inherent divinity which is ...
... force and enjoyment. Unhungering and unattached to anything, it will enjoy the delight of all its movements and all their results. And all its movements will be the unfaltering movements of the divine Will fulfilling itself in the terms of human life. The body too, transformed by the supramental force, will be released forever from the obscure hold of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and ...
... and enlighten not only their mind but their whole being—soul, mind, life and body—and give them a definite lead towards a dynamic spiritual life lived in God and devoted to the fulfilment of the divine Will in the world. It is a centre where men can learn how to achieve their perfection and fulfilment, not only on one but on all planes of their existence, and express their inherent divinity which ...
... aims at reconciling Spirit and Matter, Light and Life, and Heaven and Earth by an integration and transformation of all the parts of the being of man, and their perfect attunement to the supreme Divine Will. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo promises to realise this aim in individual and collective humanity. Its method is an integral surrender to the Mother, the Consciousness- Force of the ...
... fiat and force of the Divine, but also the light of His Knowledge, which knows what is best for the world and for each of its beings and things. To live in the psychic is to be in tune with the Divine Will and work in the unfaltering steps of Truth. But how to discover and realise the psychic ? "How, you ask me, are we to know our true being ? Ask for it, aspire after it, want it as you want ...
... conscious of the background of infinity and multiplicity. It would be conscious of the unity and the many. So it would consciously fulfil a particular variation or a function assigned to it by the Divine Will which is common to all. As for the conditions of realizing this Divine Soul in life we will come to the subject when we take Page 165 up the detail of the process. Then he ...
... alike. And now I know why this sort of impersonalization of the material individuality is so important. It is very important for the exactness of this Action, so that it is only—ONLYthe purest divine Will (if it can be put that way), expressing itself with a minimum of admixture. Any individualization or personalization results in admixture.... And then one understands all, all—all the details. Some ...
... knew was always right and could have only a good effect — but not to yield to jealousy and other passions and the conduct that came from it. If anything good came out of that, it was because the Divine Will overruled all for a good result, otherwise there could have been disastrous consequences. (4.4.33) ...
... universal reason - there is the third principle, "a third aspect of the Self and of Brahman, besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy". 68 But this third constituent of the ultimate triune Reality seems to have escaped the Greek thinker, as it has escaped many other Western ...
... and equanimity, the total trust in God, the constant feeling of the Mother's embrace - stood the test of these new difficulties and challenges. In His Will was his peace, and he knew that the Divine Will was working out its inscrutable purposes in its own way: There is no event - great or small or even the smallest - from which some good had not accrued. He often fulfils three or four aims ...
... portion of omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short; the way is difficult, but perfect trust makes it easy. Will is omnipotent, but it must be divine will, selfless, tranquil, at ease about results. "If you had faith even as a grain of mustard-seed," said Jesus, "you would say to this mountain, Come, & it would come to you." What was meant by the word ...
... courage, all unwillingness for sacrifice. Let each strive to see with that selfless impersonality taught by one of our greatest scriptures which can alone enable us to identify ourselves both with the Divine Will and with the soul of our Mother. Two things India demands for her future, the freedom of soul, life and action needed for the work she has to do for mankind; and the understanding by her children ...
... felicity—and it is called upon to discover and keep the good, the straight and the happy path to the goal, the arduous, yet joyful road of the Truth. It has to climb, led by the flaming strength of the divine Will, from Page 377 plateau to plateau as of a mountain, it has to cross as in a ship the waters of existence, traverse its rivers, overcome their deep pits and rapid currents; its aim is ...
... He is thinking of the triple cord of mind, nerves and body by which the soul is bound as a victim in the great world-sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Purusha; he is thinking of the force of the divine Will already awakened and at work within him, a fiery and irresistible godhead that shall uplift his oppressed divinity and cleave asunder the cords of its bondage; he is thinking of the might of that ...
... Mind. The clarities of the higher illumination cannot be kept so long as there is not this Strength to guard them, for hostile powers snatch them away and conceal them again in their secret cavern. Divine Will manifested in man, itself liberated, liberates him from the cords which bind him as a victim in the world-sacrifice; we attain to it by the teaching of Indra, the divine Mind, and it protects the ...
... questioned by mind. In answer कृणुष्व पाजः प्रसितिं च पृथ्वीं याहि राजेवाऽमवानिभेन । तृष्वीमनु प्रसितिं द्रुणानो अस्तासि विध्य रक्षसस्तपिष्ठैः ।। That is by rapidity of development of the divine Will and its destruction of the opposing powers, the thing may be realised even in this life. 11 January 1917 Both perceptive (ideal) thought & vangmaya as well as coherent lipi are constant in ...
... December 1913 The condition of the last two days has fulfilled its purpose of establishing firmly the anandamaya nati; all adverse movements are now recognised throughout the whole nature as the divine will and accepted with negative, when not with positive, ananda; their purpose is perceived or, when not perceived, taken for granted. Disappointment & despondency, when they offer themselves, are immediately ...
... concealed from him by ignorance and darkness. Therefore he is the ruler of the sacrifice; therefore the seekers come to him from day to day bringing to him submission in their thought so that the divine Will may govern their mentality and their action and lead it to the Truth. Day and night are, we shall see, symbols of the dark and illumined states of the human mind; the former is our ordinary consciousness ...
... base a farther evolution out of realised status. Nature itself is Prakriti, working (literally, forward working) of world-Force, called by us Shakti, the cosmic or divine Power of cosmic or divine Will. And because that Shakti is, Page 507 in the phrase of the Swetáswatara Upanishad, Devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá, the self-power of Divine Being hidden by the modes of its own workings ...
... 16! comes, not pained or afflicted by any result or happening, one who has flung away from him all egoistic, personal and mental initiative whether of the inner or the outer act, one who lets the divine will and divine knowledge flow through him undeflected by his own resolves, preferences and desires, and yet for that very reason is swift and skilful in all action of his nature, because this flawless ...
... which love drives will never be set on its way to consummation. Unquestionably if one is not capable of loving the human, one will not have the capacity to love the Divine, just as one's love of the Divine will not be complete if cut off from love of the human. But the converse is even truer and more basic: one cannot fully and freely love the human without rooting oneself in love of the Divine. What ...
... accepts it without fear or reserve, gives itself up in a spiritual purity to the Divine, allows the careful and troubled force of man to be freed from care and grief and become the joyous play of the divine Will, his relative and stumbling reason to be replaced by that divine knowledge which to the Greek, the rational man, is foolishness and the laborious pleasure-seeking of the bound mentality to lose itself ...
... for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. There is no question of X or Y or anybody else in that. It is a question between the Divine and myself - whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way to its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for my ...
... I arrived finally in Madras and was, therefore, cut off from my family. When now I look back upon this event, I seem to realise how far away was the action of my own will from that of the divine Will. If I had been acting according to my own inclination, I could never have come near the divine Presence. We are for the most part subject to petty desires and feelings. My life’s course was settled ...
... Mother. “As they come nearer, the waves all come together, and joyfully they rush on to the beach. People coming near to the Divine collect together. They bend down and all becomes love for the Divine.” Will you please share your experience of the first darshan with Sri Aurobindo? In the early days there was no line except from the Meditation Hall. Everyone sat in the courtyard. We had a three-day ...
... the arrival of Savitri whose birth needs the occult-yogic support, the tapasya, the Divya Yoga of her father Aswapati. To this dual term we have therefore to add the most important aspect of the divine Will now directly entering the matured evolution. In it we can understand the story of Satyavan and Savitri: Two fires that bum towards that parent Sun Two rays that travel to the original Light ...
... accepting unflinchingly their "load of Fate". Secondly, she wants to induce in them as it were the Godhead that is born in her by the miracle-touch of her will which has achieved unison with the Divine Will. And lastly, she insists on transforming their humanity into utter Divinity by the alchemy of her soul-force overriding Fate, staking her all for the All-in-All. The whole history and ...
... the Divine. It is integral because he has become conscious in every part of his being, "has taken possession" of every part, and thus is able to make a perfect offering. Uniting his will with the Divine Will he makes an impassioned plea for an end to Earth's suffering, knowing that only the Divine Love incarnate in the world can end the reign of Falsehood and Death. His prayer is granted: Savitri will ...
... give yourself to the accomplishment of an unselfish aim, never expect the ordinary people to praise and support you. On the contrary they will always fight against you, hate and curse you. But the Divine will be with you. The Mother ...
... Homer's Gods. To Homer the Gods are close and real, whereas Milton's angels are far and seem abstract. Milton's story deals with the mystery of the individual will in eternal opposition to the Divine Will. Satan, the creator of all evil on earth is conscious — very acutely conscious, of his limitations and also of the Divine Power that contains and drives him. It seems almost certain that after ...
... egoic resistance to reality gives one a deeper understanding of the ignorant nature of the personal will and the wisdom of the yogic teaching about learning to surrender the personal will to the divine Will. Surrender, says Eckhart, lies in accepting what is, relinquishing the insane resistance to the flow of life. How to let go of inner resistance to life? Witness the resistance, says Eckhart; ...
... he was extremely grateful for my drawing his attention to this point and he would never forget it. Nowadays, however, I have stopped making suggestions of this kind. I have left things to the Divine Will. You know Kishorilal's daughter, Uttama. When she was about five, she used to come with her father to this room. When they were in the room for the first time together, the little girl pulled ...
... We are no longer enslaved to Nature and her Gunas, but, one with the Ishwara, the master of our nature, we are able to use her without subjection to the chain of Karma, for the purposes of the Divine Will in us; for that is what the Greater Self in us is, he is the Lord of her works and unaffected by the troubled stress of her reactions. The soul ignorant in Nature, on the contrary, is enslaved by ...
... Treasures - Edition-II Motilal Roy (Telegram to Motilal Roy on the death of his wife) Condolence. Only consolation for sincere sorrow — submission to divine will. February 1930 Sri Aurobindo ...
... for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. There is no question of X or Y or anybody else in that. It is a question between the Divine and myself— whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all hell fall upon me if it will for ...
... that all Yogis who have these powers do use them whenever they find that they are called upon from within to do so. They may refrain if they think the use in a particular case is contrary to the Divine Will or see that preventing one evil may be opening the door to a worse one or for any other valid reason, but not from any general prohibitory rule. What is forbidden to anyone with a strong spiritual ...
... even surely useful and which is extremely dangerous, counting on the divine protection to save us from all possible consequences, this is a movement which is like a challenge to the Divine, and the Divine will never agree to it. I will explain myself—if it were indispensable that you should learn her work (which is, in fact, not only not indispensable but absurdly useless) and if F was the only person ...
... 23 December 1934 My dear Mother, I don't know how far it is true, but I feel that I am a being who has come down upon earth and taken up the human form only to manifest the Divine Will. I am eternal, unborn and immortal. Let me tell You, after having this consciousness I feel myself untouched by anything and I find the strength of the lower life completely broken. Your ...
... Mother 18 June 1935 My dear Mother, May the entire Ashram rise above, high above the ordinary human nature, may it consecrate itself to the Divine Will and live for the Divine alone. The Divine is the Supreme Reality for the Ashram. So may it be! Always with you to give you strength and peace, light and love and to build in you an unshakeable ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 21 September 1935 My dear Mother, May the personal ego vanish and the Divine Will pervade everywhere. Yes, my dear child, you will always find me with you, in you, for this great achievement. 21 September 1935 ...
... Certainly, it is one of the important elements of mental formation. But since each thinker has his own will, it leads to a great conflict of thoughts, which results in doubts. Only will one with the Divine Will is all-powerful. 9 November 1966 ...
... monarch. The Christian or Semitic conception, the popular religious notion, has never been mine; it contradicts too much my seeing and experience during forty years of sadhana. When I speak of the Divine Will I mean something different,—something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently ...
... that all yogins who have these powers do use them whenever they find that they are called on from within to do so. They may refrain if they think the use in a particular case is contrary to the Divine Will or see that preventing one evil may be opening the door to worse or for any other valid reason, or simply because it is outside the scope of their action, but not from any general prohibitory rule ...
... and administer to him. Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately, a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream of leading the world towards the spiritual Light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these dark ...
... the ego is there, one cannot say that a being is perfectly sincere,’ the Mother said, ‘even though it is striving to become sincere. One must pass beyond the ego, give oneself up totally to the divine Will, surrender without reserve and without calculating. Then one can be perfectly sincere, not before … Sincerity is the basis of all true realization. It is the means, it is the path, and it is also ...
... flight of ingenious theological theory. It is my very pulses that are beating out truths to you. I have gone under the Shadow and met through it the Sun. (27.4.1990) Our way to the Divine will be the swiftest as well as the sweetest if its starting-point is the deep heart in us, "the crimson-throbbing glow" of spontaneous devotion to Him, for, it would be impelled and guided by the Supreme ...
... tranquil yet throbbing Vast. The calm you experience is a foretaste of this Vast's tranquillity and the self-giving is a prefigure of its throbbing. Your last question - "How to know the Divine Will and get the strength for carrying out that Will?" - is answered by pointing out to you what you are already doing; the development of calm and self-giving. Like a flame burning in a windless place ...
... need of one's own seeks to pioneer an impossible-seeming accomplishment in order to make easy for others the path to their perfection through a whole-hearted dedication on their part to serve the Divine Will and nothing else. The letter assures also that what Sri Aurobindo can have is essentially open to all his followers in the terms of their individual make-up. A general comment I may make ...
... would not be hindered or deformed by them. ‘Ce que Tu veux’ — what You want — was the formulation of her active-passive attitude by which she put herself unconditionally at the disposal of the divine Will in the smallest elements of her being, in order that her physical presence on Earth might have the greatest possible supramental output. Be it remembered that what is being talked about here is ...
... Illness and its cure My Pilgrimage to the Spirit May 5, 1932 My constipation is greatly cured. It may be the action of the Divine Will which I was putting and concentrating upon the physical centre, Muladhara. Inflamation is greatly cured. I am looking upon the hardened veins. If it is Divine's Will it will be done in its time. A. Good, it is ...
... Auroville, and wrote to me again on 20.10.87: Dear Huta, Your letter sent through Mauna reached us between two painful General Meetings with Roger, and helped us to surrender our work to the Divine Will. There was nothing else to do since we do not want the Matrimandir to become the place of a battle between brothers. But the most important thing is not lost: Piero, in spite of the situation ...
... action that may be demanded from the instrument, oneness, a participating sympathy, a free identity, with all energies in all beings and therefore a spontaneous and fruitful harmony with all the divine will in the universe . Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: Faith and Shakti ...
... of sleep or of personal effort in sadhana —all should proceed from the Yogic consciousness from the central preoccupations to realize and express the Divine. Whether it be a consideration of the Divine will or of ego or surrender or approach to the Mother; whether it be an understanding of the Chakras or of Trance, a knowledge to be acquired of illness and its cure or fatigue and recovery from it or ...
... finally to keep the psychic awake and in front, so that you may be in constant contact and know truly what her will is; for the mind and the vital can mistake other impulsions and suggestions for the Divine Will, but the psychic makes no mistake. ...
... of the mind and spirit. It works in man, but through his individual and corporate ego so long as he dwells within the knot of his present mentality. Only when his race knows God and lives in the Divine, will the ideal sense of his strivings begin to unfold itself and the kingdom be founded, rājyaṁ samṛddham . When we try to build our outer life in obedience to our ego, our interests, our passions ...
... monarch, the Christian or Semitic conception, the popular religious notion, has never been mine; it contradicts too much my seeing and experience during thirty years of sadhana. When I speak of the Divine Will I mean something different,—something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently ...
... agree with the Truth as Sufism agrees with it. On the other hand I have not the slightest objection to Hinduism being broken to pieces and disappearing from the face of the earth, if that is the Divine Will. I have no attachment to past forms; what is Truth will always remain; the Truth alone matters. Religion in India Religion is always imperfect because it is a mixture of man's spirituality ...
... own tendency. The discovery of the Supramental is especially important for the spiritual evolution on the earth. If the souls here have to reach Page 274 it eventually, no doubt the Divine will evolve them to seek it. There is nothing compelling all to reach it by a progress towards it in direct line or by the same path and stages. It is possible for them to be satisfied with another path ...
... hiraṇmaya pātra , into what is above it, would be the final end of the soul escaping from this meaningless universe; unless indeed like the Amitabha Buddha one were held by compassion or else the Divine Will within to continue helping and sharing the upward struggle towards the Light of those here still in the darkness of the Ignorance. If on the contrary this world is a Lila of spiritual involution ...
... remain quiet and firm in your following of the path and your will to go to the end. If you do that, circumstances will in the end be obliged to shape themselves to your will, because it will be the Divine Will in you. Page 118 ...
... ordinary human consciousness which is its field to the higher spiritual consciousness where all bonds are untied. As for peace one can gain it by an entire reliance on the Divine and surrender to the Divine Will. Page 520 In life all sorts of things offer themselves. One cannot take anything that comes with the idea that it is sent by the Divine. There is a choice and a wrong choice produces ...
... way always fragmentary, derivative and subject to a greater or less deformation, but it cannot be itself the direct and perfect instrument of the infinite Spirit acting in its own knowledge. The divine Will and Wisdom organising the action of the infinite consciousness and determining all things according to the truth of the spirit and the law of its manifestation is not mental but supramental and even ...
... remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves,—all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal ...
... and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga. In the end his own will and force become one with the higher Power; he merges them in the divine Will and its transcendent and universal Force. He finds it thenceforward presiding over the necessary transformation of his mental, vital and physical being with an impartial wisdom and provident effectivity ...
... and possess Page 41 the Divine is the one thing needful and it includes or leads up to all the rest; towards this sole good we have to drive and this attained, all the rest that the divine Will chooses for us, all necessary form and manifestation, will be added. The synthesis we propose cannot, then, be arrived at either by combination in mass or by successive practice. It must therefore ...
... equality accepts as a tangle of provisional values from which it must start, but which it must transform into universal mastery, into the will of the Truth and universal Right, into the freedom of the divine Will in action. The equal will need not feel remorse, sorrow or discouragement over its stumblings; if these reactions occur in the habitual mentality, it will only see how far they indicate an imperfection ...
... activities of our existence. That link is the supramental or gnostic energy in which the incalculable infinite power of the supreme being, consciousness, delight formulates itself as an ordering divine will and wisdom, a light and power in the being which shapes all the thought, will, feeling, action and replaces the corresponding individual movements. This supramental Shakti may form itself as a ...
... knowledge and works and has need of the Divine as teacher, friend and master. The growing of the love of God must carry with it in him an expansion of the knowledge of God and of the action of the divine Will in his nature and living. The divine Lover reveals himself; he takes possession of the life. But still the essential relation will be that of love from which all things flow, love passionate, complete ...
... action or the light of Truth which then guides the seeker, may be a clarity or power or principle which he perceives on the highest height of which his mind is capable; or it may be a truth of the divine Will which he feels present and working within him or guiding him by a Light or a Voice or a Force or a divine Person or Presence. In the end by this way one arrives at a consciousness in which one feels ...
... together. Held by it, each spontaneously works itself out, not through a separate act of will, but by the general force of consciousness behind it; if to us there seems to be a concentration of divine Will and Knowledge in each, it is a multiple and equal and not an exclusive concentration, and the reality of it is rather a free and spontaneous working in a self-gathered unity and infinity. The soul ...
... his action God-wards the life of man best and most surely begins to become divine. It is the door of first access, the starting-point of the initiation. When the will in him is made one with the divine will and the whole action of the being proceeds from the Divine and is directed towards the Divine, the union in works is perfectly accomplished. But works fulfil themselves in knowledge; all the totality ...
... and the Yoga of knowledge, but in its own manner and with its own peculiar spirit. It is a sacrifice of life and works to the Divine, but a sacrifice of love more than a tuning of the will to the divine Will. The bhakta offers up his life and all that he is and all that he has and all that he does to the Divine. This surrender may take the ascetic form, as when he leaves the ordinary life of men and ...
... indications and insistences, such as the use of the word purohita in its separated form with the sense of the representative "put in front" and a frequent reference to the god Agni who symbolises the divine Will or Force in humanity that takes up the action in all consecration of works. The offerings were more difficult to understand. Even if the Soma-wine by the context in which it occurred, its use ...
... ss which exceeds Mind; and they do this in order to make a passage for this divine force which in its strength seeking always to find the word of right self-expression aspires beyond mind. This divine will carrying in all its workings the secret of the divine knowledge, kavikratuḥ , befriends or builds up the mental and physical consciousness in man, divaḥ pṛthivyāḥ , perfects the intellect, purifies ...
... secret name of the clarity,—that is to say, let us bring out this Soma-wine, this hidden delight of existence; let us hold it in this world-sacrifice by our surrenderings or submissions to Agni, the divine Will or Conscious-Power which is the Master of being. He is the four-horned Bull of the worlds and when he listens to the soul-thought of man in its self-expression, he ejects this secret name of delight ...
... Especially Mitra and Varuna are continually Page 301 described as holding firm the law of their action, increasing the Truth, touching the Truth and by the Truth enjoying its vastness of divine will or its great and uncontracted sacrificial action. Varuna represents largeness, right and purity; everything that deviates from the right, from the purity recoils from his being and strikes the offender ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Seventh Hymn to Agni The Divine Will, Desirer, Enjoyer, Progressive from the Animal to Bliss and Knowledge [Agni is hymned as the divine Force that brings the bliss and the ray of the truth into the human being and light into the night of our darkness. He leads men in their labour to his own infinite levels; ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Lords of the Plenitude [The Divine Will is invoked to complete the manifestation of the divine powers after the second state of the soul when it has passed beyond the mere physical being and is full of the perfect energy of the vital plane, for the gods have given all the ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Fifteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Divine Upholder and Conqueror [The Rishi hymns the Divine Will as the Seer and the Mighty One, the upholder of the Bliss and the Truth, by which men attain to the supreme-seated godheads. He breaks leonine through an army of opposers, sees and confirms for man all the possible ...
... Kratu , the will to the divine work, the sacrificial will. × Agni, the fire of the divine Will which receives the sacrifice and becomes its priest. × The ocean of being or else the waters of ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Twenty-Fourth Hymn to Agni A Hymn to the Deliverer and Protector [The Rishi invokes the Divine Will for protection from evil and for the fullness of the divine light and substance.] अग्ने त्वं नो अन्तम उत त्राता शिवो भवा वरुथ्यः । वसुरग्निर्वसुश्रवा अच्छा नक्षि द्युमत्तमं रयिं दाः ॥१॥२॥ 1-2) O Will ...
... always liable to be uncertain in its duration & imperfect in its even fullness. Therefore all these things endurance of all contacts, indifference to all dualities, submission to all movements of the divine Will, perfect inner peace and tranquillity are the first step in perfection. Negative samata & shanti are the result of shuddhi & the condition of mukti— Positive Samata On the basis of Nati ...
... one with God, to be Divine and live a Divine Life is the first object of Yoga. The second is to know God in Himself and in ourselves and in everything. The third is to make ourselves one with the Divine Will and to do in our life a Divine Work by means of the Divine Power using us as an instrument. The fourth object is to enjoy God in all beings, in all things and in all that happens. Since the Life ...
... the soul gives up its ego and its works to the Divine, God himself comes to us and takes up our burden. To the ignorant he brings the light of the divine knowledge, to the feeble the power of the divine will, to the sinner the liberation of the divine purity, to the suffering the infinite spiritual joy and Ananda. Their weakness and the stumblings of their human strength make no difference. "This is ...
... of his lower existence till he is able to recover the light, illumine wholly Page 274 his life with the true sun of his being and govern his will and its acts by the pure power of the divine will in his higher nature. But how can the Divine be desire, kāma ? for this desire, this kāma has been declared to be our one great enemy who has to be slain. But that desire was the desire of the ...
... mind; it is to make him strong for the action from which he has shrunk, but to which he is irrevocably commanded and can no more recoil from it,—for to recoil would be the negation and denial of the divine will and sanction within him already expressed in his individual consciousness but soon to assume the appearance of the greater cosmic sanction. For now the world Being appears to him as the body of God ...
... rapture—the rapturous will movement, not, I think, the joy-giving will. The rapture comes from the state of सौमनस, clear of the Rakshasas etc, which Agni's priesthood, the conduct of the Yoga by the divine Will, brings to man. ...
... is hard to pierce or whose defences none can pass, and this invulnerable force is not only defensive but aggressive; it overpowers every force. This may mean that the force of this flame of the divine Will in the sacrificial thought and action overcomes every other hostile force or, more simply and generally, it dominates all surrounding powers and makes the sacrifice master of a movement which nothing ...
... a seeking for the Purushottama or with the vision of Vasudeva in all that Page 487 is, the action done impersonally, universally, for the good of the world, for the fulfilment of the divine will in the universe. That culmination leads to its own transcending, to the immortal Dharma. For then comes a freedom in which there is no personal action at all, no sattwic rule of dharma, no limitation ...
... but, following its example, we may state them again from the point of view of its present preoccupation. Action being admitted, a divine action done with self-knowledge as the instrument of the divine Will in the cosmos being accepted as perfectly consistent with the Brahmic status and an indispensable part of the Godward movement, that action being uplifted inwardly as a sacrifice with adoration to ...
... the battle." The fruit of the great and terrible work is promised and prophesied, not as a fruit hungered for by the individual,—for to that there is to be no attachment,—but as the result of the divine will, the glory and success of the thing to be done accomplished, the glory given by the Divine to himself in his Vibhuti. Thus is the final and compelling command to action given to the protagonist of ...
... their limitations denied, the absorption of their gratifications rejected. But he knows also that the Highest is something which is no nullity in the world, but increasingly expresses itself here,—a divine Will, Consciousness, Love, Beatitude which pours itself out, when found, through the terms of the lower life on the finder and on all in his environment that is capable of receiving it. Of that he is ...
... new creation of our world by redeeming Love,—a fitting point for the faith and reason of man to pause upon at the moment of the terrible ordeal which that world is now undergoing. Without the divine Will which knows best what to use and what to throw aside, no human work can come to the completion hoped for by our limited vision. To that Will we entrust the continuance and the result of our labours ...
... wide path within the far-flung infinity. (10) O ye our firmaments, I declare this hymn of your affirmation; let them hear it who contain truth in their inward parts and with the tongue of the divine Will taste their enjoyments, the Lord of Love and the Kings of the world and the Lord of Purity, the ever young children of the Infinite, Seers, who widen their being before us. (11) The Creator with ...
... sees when one opens to the Cosmic Consciousness. Observed, felt and taken rightly they help to liberate, universalise and impersonalise. But keep the ego out of it— everybody opening to the Cosmic Divine will have these or similar experiences. Observe and go forward. There is no doubt that you will succeed in your endeavour—all that is needed is firm persistence till the success is complete. ...
... become secondary, and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body, become the sole aim—the rest is then only the fulfilment of the Divine Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front, you had Page 229 it in your central ...
... express the love in connection with this or that person. But universal love is not personal—it has to be held within as a condition of the consciousness which will have its effects according to the Divine Will or be used by that Will if necessary, but to run about expressing it for one's personal satisfaction or the satisfaction of others is only to spoil and lose it. The dynamic Love cannot go ...
... be done in the Yoga, for removal of the hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal Page 455 force egoistic or rajasic. Yes, it [ the Force ] is quite concrete. Usually at first it descends of itself from time to time—and also one calls ...
... helps to prepare it is spiritual. Psychic sorrow is a spiritual movement, but sorrow is not part of the essential character of the higher consciousness. Resignation, the ego's submission to the divine will, is a spiritual movement, but the higher consciousness has no need of resignation and a submitted ego is not a part of its essence, for it has no ego. Psychic Tears or Weeping Yes, there is ...
... part of the psychic experience—the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience, unselfishness, fidelity to the true perception ...
... out—that is the case with X ; others have a smooth path which does not mean that they have no difficulties—they have plenty, but they do not care a straw for them, because they feel sure that the Divine will help them to the goal, or that he is with them even when they do not feel him—their faith makes them imperturbable. What Y feels is true—there are certain signs by which one can know it. As for ...
... the rejection of desire, rajas and ego a quietude and purity into which the Peace ineffable can descend; one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine Will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the cosmic; one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from ...
... learn to write French perfectly, to get full use of the French language as an instrument. If the Force wants to express anything through you hereafter or not, is a thing you should leave to the Divine Will; once you give yourself into its hands in the true consciousness, it will know what to do or not to do through you and will make full use of whatever instrumentation you can put at its disposal. ...
... the latter movement. It [ vital consecration ] is to offer all the vital nature and its movements to the Divine so that it may be purified and only the true movements in consonance with the Divine Will may be there and all egoistic desires and impulses disappear. Consecration means offering and making sacred to the Mother so that the whole vital nature may belong to her and not to the lower ...
... whole being; the heart has by adoration and love and surrender to live in the dynamic Divine and be its dwelling place; the vital and physical (below the navel) have to be the instruments of the Divine Will, instruments pure, surrendered, expressing nothing but that Will. The Blue Light coming below the level of the Muladhara means that it has entered into the physical (physical mental, physical ...
... agree with the Truth as Sufism agrees with it. On the other hand I have not the slightest objection to Hinduism being broken to pieces and disappearing from the face of the earth, if that is the Divine Will. I have no attachment to past forms; what is Truth will always remain; the Truth alone matters. 17 November 1932 Does the supramental victory mean the victory of the Hindu religion and culture ...
... Throughout the history of human evolution we see that the Avatar brings light into the world. But when he retires, very little of this light remains. There is no substantial change. Does the Divine will it to be so? You have only to consider what the state of humanity would have been if Krishna and others had not come. They would have been still near to the beast with no openings on the heights ...
... —finally, to keep the psychic awake and in front, so that you may be in constant contact and know truly what her will is; for the mind and vital can mistake other impulsions and suggestions for the Divine Will, but the psychic once awakened makes no mistake. A perfect perfection in working is only possible after supramentalisation; but a relative good working is possible on the lower planes if one is ...
... es between Intuition proper and an intuitive human mentality. When war at last becomes a mere nightmare of the past, peace will indeed reign in our midst, and even our dream of the Life Divine will then become an actuality in the fullness of time. It is not Sri Aurobindo's view that the evolution of the Life Divine depends on the passing away of war. His view is rather the opposite. ...
... discomfort or suffering. These are not times when there can be a guarantee of safety or ease. It is a time of great ordeals, an hour for calm, patience and the highest courage. Reliance on the Divine Will should be there, but not the lower vital's bargain for a guaranteed or comfortably guarded existence. ...
... The Divine Response Letters on Yoga - II Chapter I The Divine Grace and Guidance The Divine Grace The Divine Will works in all things—it may work out anything whatever. The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. If you would know what is the Divine Grace, it is necessary first to realise that it is something which contradicts the law of the ...
... myself but for the earth and souls born on the earth, and certainly therefore Page 413 I cannot object if anybody wants the supramental. But there are the conditions. He must want the Divine Will first and the soul's surrender and spiritual realisation (through works, bhakti, knowledge, self-perfection) on the way. The central sincerity is the first thing and sufficient for an aspiration ...
... the truth of universal existence and because you put yourself in harmony with it, spontaneously, whatever the result may be. There is a deep trust in the divine Grace, a total surrender to the divine Will, an integral adhesion to the divine Plan which makes one do the thing to be done without concern for the result. That is the perfect liberation. That is truly the abolition of suffering. The ...
... and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the ...
... little more truly than an ordinary man. If the teacher who gives marks kept in mind that he was the representative of the divine truth, if he constantly took sufficient trouble to be in tune with the divine Will as much as this is possible for him, well, that could be very useful; for the ordinary teacher acts according to his personal preferences—what he does not like, what he likes, etc.—and he belongs ...
... began to grow and even reached an enviable length owing to still further auto-suggestion. The power of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind is put in communication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes ...
... it is given along with the secret of its right use. Self-discipline and self-mastery are the secret; the secret is to find in oneself the source of the Truth and that constant government of the Divine Will which can alone give to each formation its full power and its integral and harmonious realisation. Men generally form thoughts without knowing how these formations move and act. Formed in this state ...
... For they feel the pressure of the descending Light, they sense that the time has come or is soon coming when they must choose between conversion or dissolution, choose either to surrender to the Divine Will and take their part in the Great Plan or to sink into unconsciousness and cease Page 44 to be. The contact with a seeker of Truth gives such a being his chance to change. All depends ...
... communion with Eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. Page 253 Delight means to be free, free with the true Freedom, the Freedom of the constant, invariable union with the Divine Will. Gods are those that are immortal, who are not bound to the vicissitudes of material life in all its narrowness, pettiness, unreality and falsehood. Gods are those who are turned to the Light ...
... full descent will take place carrying everything before it. Its presence will be unmistakable, its force will brook no resistance, doubts and difficulties will not torture you any longer. For the Divine will stand manifest—unveiled in its total perfection. I do not, however, mean to say that the whole world will at once feel its presence or be transformed; Page 123 but I do mean that ...
... otherwise you will always be running into a chaos somewhere, a confusion somewhere or an obscurity, an unconsciousness somewhere. And naturally your action, even though guided exclusively by the Divine, will not have the perfection of expression it has when one has acquired a conscious organisation around this divine Centre. 67 * How is it possible to remember one's past lives ? ...
... Delhi to administer to him. Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately, a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual Light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these dark ...
... consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the Page 23 whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will. * The Divine gives itself to those who give themselves without reserve and in all their parts to the Divine. For them the calm, the light, the power, the bliss, the freedom, the wideness ...
... life-force. None of us are here to "do as we like", or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like; we are here to do what the Divine wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its truth no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by vital desire. The work which the Sadhak of the supramental Yoga has to do is not his own work for which ...
... vision. To possess these is to become the superman; for [it] is to rise out of mind into the supermind. Call it the divine mind or Knowledge or the supermind; it is the power and light of the divine will and the divine consciousness. By the supermind the Spirit saw and created himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By that he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler ...
... silence ) This consciousness has the capacity of changing everything into a perpetual ecstasy, for instead of seeing things in their discordant appearance, one now sees only the divine Presence, the divine Will and the Grace everywhere; and every event, every element, every circumstance, every form changes into a way, a detail through which one can draw more intimately and profoundly closer to the Divine ...
... the individual. There comes a time when one deliberately calls the deep inner inspiration and surrenders to it, when it can enter almost completely pure and make you act in accordance with the Divine Will. The mixture is not unavoidable; it is only what usually happens. And the proportion is very different according to the individual. With some, when the psychic within takes a decision and sends ...
... The divine light. When you say "divine light", what do you understand by it? The world ought to be receptive. Receptive to what? It ought to be a constant expression of the divine Will from which it has separated. So, it is the world which has separated from the Divine. We come to that: the world is miserable because it has separated from the Divine. Here is an answer which ...
... the one practising it and how he practises it. It's not something genuine; like all so-called human knowledge, it is not true, but the deformation of something. It could be said that if the divine Will works in you, you can call it hypnotism, if you like, and yet it is the supreme Good, you see. But what is usually called hypnotism is a completely blind and ignorant action: the use of the power ...
... the same aspiration, the same wish to do good, but those who have this smiling confidence within them, do not question, do not ask themselves whether they will have it or not have it, whether the Divine will answer or not—the question does not arise, it is something understood.... "What I need will be given to me; if I pray I shall have an answer; if I am in a difficulty and ask for help, the help will ...
... about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured. Mother, how can one strengthen one's will? Oh, as one strengthen muscles, by a methodical exercise. You take ...
... efforts? "What must happen will happen"? You know what I meant?—that there have been prophecies from the beginning of the world that there will be a new earth and a new human race and that the Divine will be manifest upon earth: and so I tell you, what must happen, will happen; what has been predicted, will be realised. There we are, it is that, it is not a small little explanation, quite down-to-earth ...
... manifests himself. On the other hand, for the sage or the saint who is quite infatuated with his own importance and his own worth, and full of pride and vanity, there is not much chance that the Divine will manifest in him, for there is no place for the expression of the Divine! There is no place except for the important personality of the wise man and his moral worth. Naturally, there is a state ...
... putting myself in their place. Last time, in the text it was said: "They [those who have faith in a God, their God] belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good." What is the difference between a ...
... part, the one closest to the earth, and not in its most important part; the most important part is sexless. This does not make them any better, however, since they are all beings hostile to the divine Will and divine realisation, but it gives them a terrific force. And so in return the gods too have created a whole set of beings who have no sex and whom men speak of as angels; how does one call it ...
... To possess these is to become the superman; for he is to rise out of mind into the Supermind. Call it the divine mind or knowledge or the Supermind; it is the power and light of the divine will and the divine consciousness. By the Supermind the Spirit saw and created himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By that he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler. ...
... ly, can participate in the general progress. But this is at a very, very advanced stage. When the psychic is fully developed and very conscious, when it becomes a conscious instrument of the divine Will, it organises the vital and the mind in such a way that they too participate in the general harmony and can be preserved. A high degree of development allows at least some parts of the mental ...
... The result of this state of mind is that one begins to affirm everything that comes in this mixed and dubious region as if it were all the Truth and the sheer Divine Will; the ideas or the suggestions that constantly repeat them-selves are expressed with a self-assertive absoluteness as if they were Truth entire and undeniable. There is an impression that one has ...
... out to be unrealisable, the individual can at least, when he is confronted by a danger or a critical situation, call upon his highest destiny by aspiration, prayer and trustful surrender to the divine will. Then, in proportion to the sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in the normal destiny of the being and changes the course of events insofar as they concern him personally ...
... , they would have no power to act; the protection would be sufficient. All this demands the utmost perfection in the individuals organising such a thing. +1961 * Q: Is it the Divine Will that Auroville should be born, or else does the Divine look upon the attempt to build Auroville as an experiment? The conception of Auroville is purely divine and has preceded its execution ...
... this way: six days of work for the collectivity to which the individual belonged; the seventh day of the week was reserved for the inner quest for the Divine and the offering of one's being to the divine will. This is the only meaning and the only true reason for the so called Sunday rest. Page 46 Needless to say, sincerity is the essential condition for realisation; all insincerity ...
... let Him act through thee. If men praise or hiss thee, know that they too are masks; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. The first thing needed is to become conscious of the Divine Will, Page 285 and in order to do that one must no longer have any desires or personal will. The best way to achieve this is to direct one's whole aspiration towards the Divine Perfection ...
... studied thy soul behind and its dim desires and secret raptures. When we no longer have any affinity with suffering and are Page 356 cured of all perverse attachment to it, the Divine will help us to discover that it conceals the supreme bliss. 23 May 1970 ...
... programme and we must not forget it. To understand the true reason why you are here, you must remember that we want to become instruments that are as perfect as possible, instruments that express the divine will in the world. And if the instruments are to be perfect, they must be cultivated, educated, trained. They must not be left like fallow land or a formless piece of stone. A diamond reveals all its ...
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