... all beings and, perfected, become faultless instrument of divine action in the freedom of the immortal dharma. That immortal dharma becomes manifest when we are liberated from the limitations of all dharmas that we erect in our process of ascent to the attainment of the supreme end of being. We can then manifest the divine birth and divine action, divyam janma and divyam karma. Kartavyam Karma... dwelling in the Purushottama, and of living in the Para Prakriti. That state of perfection goes farther. The soul becomes totally a self-surrendered instrument of the Purushottama through whom the divine action manifests as in Para Prakriti. Thus the soul's own law of action becomes identified with the law of action of the Supreme. The method of liberation in the Gita is to rise above the inferior... ce of the three gunas of Apara Prakriti) and thus of attainment of s ā dharmya mukti (attainment of liberation and immortality in the imperishable Para Prakriti, which manifests the law of divine action), the analysis of these six elements can be seen to be here directly relevant. Page 127 5. Attainment of S ā dharmya Mukti Prakriti, Para Prakriti and Deva-nature (daiv ...
... Gita is not a book of practical ethics, but of the spiritual life which permits us to transcend the clash of all dharmas that the human mind can conceive, and to discover a new dharma, the law of divine action, divyam karma, by the attainment of divine freedom in which the nature of the individual transcends its limitations, the limitations of the nature subject to three gunas, — tamas, rajas, and sattva... sarvabhāvena, in every way of conscious self and instrumental nature. For all other Dharmas or norms of action are only a preparation for that highest Dharma which is the law of divine nature and divine action, and all processes of Yoga are only a means by which we can come first to some kind of union, and finally, to an integral union with the Master and supreme Soul and Self of our existence and with... integral Monism; as a result, action is not in the Gita merely a preparation but itself the means of liberation, and action continues even after liberation, since action thereafter becomes a part of divine action itself. Similarly, Gita's Vedantic yoga of devotion and divine love is not only a preparation but itself the means of liberation, and devotion continues even after liberation, since the Jiva, as ...
... power of the will of the divine that culminates in Divine Action, divyam karma; and (iii) the most momentous influx of the supreme Lord Himself in the bud of the growing lotus of the jiva that opens itself up in a total state of receptivity and surrender to that influx. This union contains the supreme experience of the divine birth and divine action, the importance of which is explicitly stated in the... divine operation of the evolutionary process. It is by the assumption by the Supreme Lord of the human birth that provides all-round protection to those who are pursuing the Good, and the Law of divine action; it also causes elimination of all those who are engaged in works that are resistant to the Good. It is again that divine birth, or divine Incarnation, that establishes the divine law of action... transformed into the movements of higher nature, the divine's own nature, madbhāva. Attainment of Brahma-nirvana Perfection that is sought to be attained by the divine birth and divine action cannot be unassailable, unless at an appropriate stage of development, the experience and realization of Brahma-nirvana are attained. Towards the close of the fifth chapter and much of the sixth ...
... to be added, so that these rajansi (activities of tapas) may be not only सुयमासः , which they must be if there is prakash, but अश्र्वाः , full of energy & therefore fit to draw the chariot of divine action. ([Written] Dec 13) There is already a movement towards the fulfilment. Twelve hours again this day, five continuous in the morning; nearly 1½ in the afternoon; 4.10 to 10.20 with an interval... e magnitude consisting (1) in satyam, the cessation of all intellectual (manomaya) activity & its replacement by the karana, (2) the cessation of the relics of self-action & replacement by the divine action (dasya), (3) the cessation of the use of means in the yogasiddhi and its replacement by the self-fulfilment of the Para shakti working upon the lower. The public news (eg the attack on the Viceroy... whenever these try to manifest, they find no support in the Jiva. Even with regard to error, there is no revolt nor now any return to a tamasic udasinata. The siddhi now fulfils itself entirely by the divine action arranging the conflicting forces & the Jiva does not try to interfere or insist on a consistent method. By this the invading intellectual activity has become wholly discouraged and no longer insists ...
... working of the Divine. He lives and acts as a soul and portion of the universal consciousness and power; he is filled with the transcendent divine delight, a spiritual Ananda. His action becomes the divine action and his status the highest spiritual status. "This is the solution, this the salvation, this the perfection that I offer to all those who can listen to a divine voice within them and are... perfection in the supreme spiritual Nature, but as a part too of that perfection. Action is a part of the integral knowledge of God, of his greater mysterious truth and of an entire living in the Divine; action can and should be continued even after perfection and freedom are won. I ask of you the action of the Jivanmukta, the works of the Siddha. Something has to be added to the Yoga already described... whatever result is given to you; accept it with equality and a calm gladness: successful or foiled, prosperous or afflicted, continue unafraid, untroubled and unwavering on the steep path of the divine action. "This is no more than the first step on the path. For you must be not only unattached to results, but unattached also to Page 586 your labour. Cease to regard your works as your ...
... being, consciousness, power and bliss and the Nature itself liberated from the tangle of this lower action of the struggling gunas and the dualities into the high truth of the divine calm and the divine action, then spiritual perfection becomes possible. Purification and freedom are the indispensable antecedents of perfection. A spiritual self-perfection can only mean a growing into oneness with the nature... liberation. Equality is a term of consciousness which brings into the whole of our being and nature the eternal tranquillity of the Infinite. Moreover, it is the condition of a securely and perfectly divine action; the security and largeness of the cosmic action of the Infinite is based upon and never breaks down or forfeits its eternal tranquillity. That too must be the character of the perfect spiritual... nature to that highest condition and working pitch of their power and capacity, śakti , at which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. For practical purposes we may take the understanding, the heart, the prana and the body as the four members of our nature which have thus to be prepared, and we have to find the constituent terms ...
... the present-day European or Euro- Page 62 peanised intellect into a thoroughly antique, a thoroughly Oriental and Indian teaching. That 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... working of the Divine. He lives and acts as a soul and portion of the universal consciousness and power; he is filled with the transcendent divine delight, a spiritual Ananda. His action becomes the divine action and his status the highest spiritual status. Page 85 "This is the solution, this the salvation, this the perfection that I offer to all those who can listen to a divine voice within... perfection in the supreme spiritual Nature, but as a part too of that perfection. Action is a part of the integral knowledge of God, of his greater mysterious truth and of an entire living in the Divine; action can and should be continued even after perfection and freedom are won. I ask of you the action of the Jivanmukta, the works of the Siddha. Something has to be added to the Yoga already described ...
... that you can attain the perfect expression of yourself. But that the Oneness exists, even if you feel just the opposite, is a fact you can do nothing about, for it is a divine action and a divine fact—it is a divine action and a divine fact If you are conscious of the Divine, you become conscious of this fact. If you are not conscious of the Divine, the fact exists but you simply are not conscious... which followed this conversation, there took place what Mother has called "the first Manifestation of the Supramental Light-Force in the earth-atmosphere". " The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct ...
... ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all... and in the metal, in conscious and living things and in things apparently inconscient and inanimate." This large view of the One working in all and of the whole world as the equal instrument of a divine action and gradual self-expression, if it becomes our entire experience, will help to eliminate all rajasic egoism out of us and even the sattwic ego-sense will begin to pass away from our nature. The... ever unattached and unentangled, we lose our static ego in the universal peace. And yet there remains a contradiction between these two terms, the aloof divine Silence and the all-embracing divine Action, which we may heal in ourselves in a certain manner, in a certain high degree which seems to us complete, yet is not complete because it cannot altogether transform and conquer. A universal Peace ...
... d 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 doctrine for which I was... seed", and the suggestive Greek word for "seed" is sperma . Early Christians can be shown to have been not very much concerned about the separation of the subtle aspect from the gross of divine action in the old stories and about dwelling exclusively on the former. What was of vital importance to them was simply the absence of bodily interfusion between the human sexes. Brown himself, apropos... different category from that of the Holy Spirit's action on Mary. I may venture to affine the mind of Matthew to that of Justin. Complementary to Justin's indifference to the mode of the divine action, we have Justin's emphasis on Mary's freedom from the contact of human sexuality. Brown (The Birth, p. 146, fn. 38) has quoted it: "Justin, Dialogue lxvi 3, states: 'Now it is plain that ...
... the taking up of sadhanas by the Divine becomes a sensible fact before the preparation of the nature is done. In other methods the Divine action may be felt from time to time, but it remains mostly behind the veil till all is ready. In some sadhana the Divine action is not recognised: all must be done by tapasya . In most there is a mixing of the two: the tapasywa finally calling the direct help ...
... evolution something superhuman, a divine species succeeding the existing human species, then the only way to collaborate was to open inadequate human nature totally and unconditionally to the new Divine Action, to surrender to it. ‘Surrender’, the total giving of oneself, is the keyword in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s yoga — also called the Integral Yoga, the Purna [complete] Yoga or the Supramental... and the effects of the totally new Event on Earth surpass the human being, and if the human being wants to collaborate in the coming of a New World, then it can only try and open itself to the Divine Action in the hope that this Action will permeate and transform its physical, vital and mental limitations. ‘The first word of the supramental Yoga is surrender; its last word also is surrender,’ 19 ...
... the union with the Divine ‘for the body,’ and realized this union within the year. And when leafing through her Prayers and Meditations we find at least seven passages in which she records the divine action in her body’s cells. Yet her body was a human body consisting of the same Matter as ours, otherwise her yoga would not have had any meaning. Therein lay the avataric burden. As Sri Aurobindo... each one of its cells to knead it, to make it plastic, to enlighten it, and in the whole being to put it in order, organize and harmonize it. Everything is in movement, everything is changing; Thy divine action makes itself felt as an ineffable source of purifying fire that circulates through all the atoms.’ (Prayers and Meditations, CWM 1 p. 344) ...
... Alone Beyond Man Chapter Twenty-six: In the Crucible The Soul is the Key The liberation of the individual soul is the keynote of the definite divine action. 1 — Sri Aurobindo The previous chapters have given us some idea of the supramental process of transformation the body of the Mother was undergoing. This process is new and unusual... principle of the evolution: a new possibility can manifest itself only when the old order has reached the point of the impossible. Were it otherwise — and it is important to comprehend this — the divine Action would be little more than a kind of divine comedy. This applies also to the world as a whole: it has to reach the impossible point if the transition to the New World must become possible. But such ...
... taking up of the sadhana by the Divine becomes a sensible fact before the preparation of the nature is done. In other methods the Divine action and help may be felt from time to time, but it remains mostly behind the veil till all is ready. In some sadhanas the Divine action is not recognised; all must be done by tapasya. In most there is a mixing of the two, the tapasya finally calling the direct help ...
... Angirasa.... Brihaspati conquered the treasures ( vasūni ), great pens this god won full of the kine." The Maruts also, singers of the Rik like Brihaspati, are associated, though less directly in this divine action. "He whom ye foster, O Maruts, shall break open the pen" (VI.66.8), and elsewhere we hear of the cows of the Maruts (I.38.2). Pushan, the Increaser, a form of the sun-god is also invoked for the... and 3). In another hymn the Panis are said to withhold the wealth of cows and horses. Always they are powers who receive the coveted wealth but do not use it, preferring to slumber, avoiding the divine action ( vrata ), and they are powers who must perish or be conquered before the wealth can be securely possessed by the sacrificer. And always the Cow and the Horse represent a concealed and imprisoned ...
... transcendent Absolute, there is after all no very certain certainty in that matter. For it is still the soul in man that is the enjoyer of this release, as it was the living spiritual centre of the divine action and manifestation; there is something more than the mere self-breaking of an illusory shell of individuality in the Infinite. This mystery of our existence signifies that what we are is not only... whole Yoga is revealed, the great word of the teaching is given, and Arjuna the chosen human soul is once more turned, no longer in his egoistic mind but in this greatest self-knowledge, to the divine action. The Vibhuti is ready for the divine life in the human, his conscious spirit for the works of the liberated soul, muktasya karma . Destroyed is the illusion of the mind; the soul's memory of its ...
... Purushottama. The Purushottama is in the heart of every creature and is manifested in his countless Vibhutis; the Purushottama is the cosmic spirit in Time and it is he that gives the command to the divine action of the liberated human spirit. He is both Akshara and Kshara, and yet he is other because he is more and greater than either of these opposites. Uttamaḥ puruṣas tvanyaḥ paramātmetyudāhṛtaḥ, yo... Lord, at first separately as if they were two different ways of arriving at the Brahmic status, brahmabhūyāya ,—one taking the form of quietistic sannyāsa , the other a form of divine love and divine action,—the Gita proceeds now to unite the personal and the impersonal in the Purushottama and to define their relations. For the object of the Gita is to get rid of exclusions and separative exaggerations ...
... One must move among surrounding things and act on the objects of the sense-field with a pure, true and intense, a simple and absolute operation of the senses for their utility to the spirit in divine action, kevalair indriyaiś caran, and not at all for the fulfilment of desire. There is to be vairāgya , not in the common significance of disgust of life or distaste for the world action, but renunciation... order that there may be a perfect enabling equality in which the spirit can give an unhampered and unlimited assent to the integral and comprehensive divine vision of things and to the integral divine action in Nature. A continual resort to meditation, dhyāna-yoga-paro nityam , is the firm means by which the soul of man can realise its self of Power and its self of silence. And yet there must be no ...
... expressive movements and activities serviceable and necessary to the principle of mind and the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit. While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life... possibilities of the mind transmuted into a thing of light,, of the life converted into a force of spiritual power and Page 157 joy, of the body transformed into an instrument of a divine action, divine knowledge, divine bliss. All can be taken into its scope that is capable of transforming itself, all that can be an instrument, a vessel, an opportunity for the expression of this totality ...
... he may be one with the Divine and act and would be free not to act. In case he acts, he is the individual centre of the Cosmic for Divine action. He is one with the Divine yet remains a different self – yet free. Cosmic forces would be available to him for Divine action. _____________ * Infant-like, inert-like, devil-like, or eccentric-like. Page 294 ...
... that here." So I concentrated—I called the Lord and put Him here [on the "sick" spot]. And then it's almost instantaneous: the first thing is a reaction—a STATE—which denies the possibility of divine Action. It isn't a will, it's an automatic negation. Then there is always a Smile that answers (that's what is interesting, there's never any anger or any force that imposes itself only a Smile), and almost... they remember), so they begin to collaborate, and the Action is even more rapid. Then a third time, a few hours later, it recurs once again; but then THE CELLS THEMSELVES call and ask for the divine Action, because they remember. [They remember the open air.] And then That comes in, gloriously, like something established.... The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (! )... it recurs with ...
... oneness with him and with all that he is in the cosmos. Page 521 The external idea of the four orders of men in life is concerned only with the more outward working of this truth of the divine action; it is limited to one side of its operation in the functioning of the three gunas. It is true that in this birth men fall very largely into one of four types, the man of knowledge, the man of power... immortal truth of the same soul in the now superconscious supreme nature. There we can live in oneness with God and our true self and all beings and, perfected, become a faultless instrument of divine action in the freedom of the immortal Dharma. Page 525 × II. 31. svadharmam api cāvekṣya. ...
... the Purusha and Prakriti are not the Sankhya's, since the same movement leads to a quite different result, in one case to cessation of works, in the other to a great, a selfless and desireless, a divine action. In the Sankhya Soul and Nature are two different Page 227 entities, in the Gita they are two aspects, two powers of one self-existent being; the Soul is not only giver of the sanction... 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 ...
... a greater Truth than men conceive. It is for this reason that the human mind cannot understand the divine action and its motives—he must first rise into a higher consciousness and be in spiritual contact or union with the Divine. But if anyone recognises that, he can no longer judge the divine action with his human mind and from a human point of view. The two things would be quite incompatible. ...
... transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then only can there be-a successful transformation of the physical nature or a free perfected divine action on the external world; for with our present means any such action is impossible. That is why you feel that the vital movement gives all the energy one can need, that all things are possible by this... transformation of the vital and its life-force into a pure, wide, calm, intense and powerful instrument of the Divine Energy, a transformation of the physical itself into a form of divine light, divine action, strength, beauty and joy are Page 14 impossible without this descending Force from the now invisible summits. That is Why in this Yoga the ascent to ...
... expressive movements and activities serviceable and necessary to the principle of mind and the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit. While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life... existence, a fullness of the possibilities of the mind transmuted into a thing of light, of the life converted into a force of spiritual power and joy, of the body transformed into an instrument of a divine action, divine knowledge, divine bliss. All can be taken into its scope that is capable of transforming itself, all that can be an instrument, a vessel, an opportunity for the expression of this totality ...
... transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then only can there be a successful transformation of the physical nature or a free perfected divine action on the external world; for with our present means any such action is impossible. That is why you feel that the vital movement gives all the energy one can need, that all things are possible by this... vital and its life-force Page 118 into a pure, wide, calm, intense and powerful instrument of the Divine Energy, a transformation of the physical itself into a form of divine light, divine action, strength, beauty and joy are impossible without this descending Force from the now invisible summits. That is why in this Yoga the ascent to the Divine which it has in common with other paths of ...
... is especially coupled with Indra and it would almost seem as if for the functionings demanded from him by the Vedic Rishis he needed the aid of the superior deity. When there is question of the divine action of the Life-forces in man, Agni in the form of the Vedic Horse, Ashwa, Dadhikravan, takes usually the place of Vayu. If we consider the fundamental ideas of the Rishis, this position of Vayu... Ananda which brings with it the divinising energies. Vayu, it is said, has the right of the first draught; for it is the supporting vital forces that must first become capable of the ecstasy of the divine action. In the third hymn, in which the result of the sacrifice is defined, Vayu is alone invoked, but even so his companionship with Indra is clearly indicated. He is to come in a chariot of happy ...
... aspire to replace our present confused and Page 699 ignorant action by the self-possessed and luminous works of a free spirit governing its nature and in tune with universal being. A divine action or even a perfect human action is impossible if we have not equality of spirit and an equality in the motive-forces of our nature. The Divine is equal to all, an impartial sustainer of his universe... equality. This equal poise in action is especially necessary for the sadhaka of the integral Yoga. First, he must acquire that equal assent and understanding which will respond to the law of the divine action without trying to impose on it a partial will and the violent claim of a personal aspiration. A wise impersonality, a quiescent equality, a universality which sees all things as the manifestations ...
... were as if shown to me side by side, and not only were they side by side, but I saw also the difference (it was almost simultaneous) between the two actions: how human action is generated and how divine action is produced or manifests. It came through a series of examples or absolutely concrete experiences, lived one after the other, as if a superior Wisdom had organized a whole set of circumstances ... say, they "love" this one, but not that one. Therefore, in one case, the Master loves, and in another case, he doesn't—( laughing ) simple! So I said that human action is based on reactions. Divine action, on the other hand, SPONTANEOUSLY stems from the vision through identity of the necessity of the "dharma" of each thing and each being. It is a constant perception, spontaneous, effortless, through ...
... here! But the fact that I concentrate and keep quiet....) And then it's almost instantaneous: the first thing is a reaction—almost a STATE rather than a reaction—which DENIES the possibility of divine Action. It isn't a will, it's an automatic negation. Then there is always a Smile that answers (that's what is interesting, there's never any anger or any force that imposes itself, only a Smile), and... , they remember), so they begin to collaborate, and the Action is even more rapid. Then a third time, a few hours away, it recurs once again; but then THE CELLS THEMSELVES call and ask for the divine Action, because they remember. And then That comes in, gloriously, like something established. Now I've got it—I've got the knack! It's for training the cells, you understand! It's not just like a sick ...
... in yoga. In the first, which is one of the process of surrender, the individual prepares oneself for the reception of the divine action. In this first movement of preparation through personal effort, a continual rejection of all that interferes with and falsifies the divine action is called for. Rejection, which is the negative element in yoga, is necessitated as a transitional movement due to the resistance ...
... taking up of the sadhana by the Divine becomes a sensible fact before the preparation of the nature is done. In other methods the Divine action and help may be felt from time to time, but it remains mostly behind the veil till all is ready. In some sadhanas the Divine action is not recognised; all must be done by tapasya. In most there is a mixing of the two; the tapasya finally calling the direct help ...
... chief secrets, the central secret of the Sadhana." (Sri Aurobindo, On the Mother, p. 121) We have by now understood the greatness and the essentiality of the sadhaka' s openness to the Divine Action. But what is actu- Page 77 ally meant by this openness of consciousness? How should a sadhaka know that he is in a state of opening? A few short extracts from Sri Aurobindo' s and... If he looks within himself with an observant eye, he will find there bristling about hundreds of serious defects and imperfections. With all these present is it not obvious that openness to the divine action is a far cry for him? It may be a far cry; but for that the sadhaka should not get disheartened or give up all hope for a total opening. 'Rome was not built in a day' and this ideal perfect ...
... that by the elimination of all desires and an integral self-giving to the Divine alone through knowledge, works and love, one can come to do the works of the liberated, muktasya karma, or the divine action, divyam karma, unhindered and unharassed by the ego. Here we must pause to clarify two points : first, whether the ego which is rooted in the sub-soil of our being, can be grubbed out and cast... the intention of the Divine in the individual. In a pure and perfect Yogic action the individual soul with its integrated and transformed nature must be an active agent and participant in the divine action, each part of its being, in tune with the others and in tune with the Divine, developed to its utmost perfection and responding to every touch of the divine Force. In the midst of its passivity ...
... really knows me." Gita points out that divine action by the human being is possible; it is possible by a gradual development of the human consciousness. This is made clear in the Vibhuti Yoga chapters by Sri Krishna declaring: " I am Arjuna among the Pandavas " and Arjuna would be carrying the Divine Will and therefore doing divine action if he participated in the battle. To act ...
... confiners or censurers. But we are given also many specific names. Vritra, the Serpent, is the grand Adversary; for he obstructs with his coils of darkness all possibility of divine existence and divine action. And even when Vritra is slain by the light, fiercer enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail ...
... Desire & attachment to possessions have to be cast & dissolved into the mould of a desireless and all-possessing bliss (Ananda or Jana); self-will & self-action cast & dissolved into the mould of a divine action of the universal Shakti or World Force (Chit or Tapas) which shall use the mind, body and life as a passive, obedient and perfected instrument; ego-sense cast and dissolved into the mould of divine ...
... of the cosmic unity and enters into the Transcendent Self which here cosmos expresses by a multiple oneness. The liberation of the individual soul is therefore the keynote of the definitive divine action; it is the primary divine necessity and the pivot on which all else turns. It is the point of Light at which the intended complete self-manifestation in the Many begins to emerge. But the liberated ...
... XII The Way and the Bhakta In the eleventh chapter of the Gita the original object of the teaching has been achieved and brought up to a certain completeness. The command to divine action done for the sake of the world and in union with the Spirit who dwells in it and in all its creatures and in whom all its working takes place, has been given and accepted by the Vibhuti. The disciple ...
... sacrifice of self in an instrumental action becomes the easy, free and blissful expression of a living oneness. The whole means of the spiritual liberation has been given; the whole foundation of the divine action has been constructed. Arjuna accepts the entire knowledge that has thus been given to him by the divine Teacher. His mind is already delivered from its doubts and seekings; his heart, turned ...
... of the individual's joy or grief. But it will be ultimately a self-luminous action moving in self-delight. To start with, the faith; faith transformed into a self-aware will resulting in the divine action must be the object of sadhana, and that is the synthesis. A VISION AND A VOICE I The Vision A bright circular disc of water surging with something that it does not ...
... of the individual's joy or grief. But it will be ultimately a self-luminous action moving in self-delight. To start with, the faith; faith transformed into a self-aware will resulting in the divine action must be the object of sadhana, and that is the synthesis. A VISION AND A VOICE I The Vision A bright circular disc of water surging with something that it does not know, filled ...
... work. A year’s sojourn gave a powerful experience of the living force and might emanating from the Ganges River as it flowed through Varanasi. Came 1973, and Mother withdrew from the body. The Divine Action is full of the unforeseen. All the external came to rest within . The pressure of the inner became more powerful and one could say more concrete. The forms changed but the work became swifter and ...
... affairs, that it be the vehicle of the highest dharma, of the inner movement finding its way in cosmic modalities. Savitri Mahatmya can therefore be appropriately proclaimed as the tale of a decisive divine action in this evolutionary unfoldment. If it is to be considered as a book, then it would qualify to be the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit. When the poet becomes the seer and hearer of the ...
... don’t know what to do. Help me, O friend! Instead of trying to do something which is necessarily artificial, wait in peace for the Lord to make you do something which will necessarily be a divine action and give you the plenitude you desire. 7 February 1967 ...
... will can not prevail over it . The difficulty is far more general than that. Page 139 That however would not matter—it would be only a question of a little more or less time, if the divine action were admitted wholeheartedly by the sadhaks. But the condition6 laid down by them and the conditions laid down from above seem radically to differ. From above the urge is to lift every thing above ...
... demands, reproaches, their throwing of their unregenerate vital nature upon him. And in the Gita he speaks of this human world as a transient and sorrowful affair and, in spite of his gospel of divine action, seems almost to admit that to leave it is after all the best solution! The traditions of the past are very great in their own place,—in the past; but I do not see why we should merely repeat them ...
... herself. Its presence with the Sadhak is not dependent on his consciousness of it. If everything were dependent on the surface consciousness of the Sadhak, there would be no possibility of the divine action anywhere; the human worm would remain the human worm and the human ass the human ass, for ever and ever. For if the Divine could not be there behind the veil, how would either ever become conscious ...
... it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on Page 36 its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever ...
... through what medium is the divine Shakti to act in the human being? Is it to be always through the mind only and on the mind plane or in some greater supramental formulation which is more proper to a divine action and which will take up and replace the mental functions? If the mind is to be always the instrument, then although we shall be conscious of a diviner Power initiating and conducting all our inner ...
... and takes the place of the ordinary intelligence and reason. Meanwhile a higher supramental power of a much greater character has been revealing itself above which takes the supreme lead of the divine action in the being. The divine Page 812 reason is of a more limited character because, although not of the mental stamp and although an operation of the direct truth and knowledge, it is a ...
... capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world. The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the ...
... own universal self-fulfilment. Thus it removes the reality of strife and division and opposition and leaves only their appearances. By that knowledge therefore we arrive at the possibility of a divine action, a working which is personal to our nature, but impersonal to our being, since it proceeds from That which is beyond our ego and acts only by its universal sanction. We proceed in our works with ...
... Force are unified. For there all Will is in harmony with the truth of things and therefore effective; all thought part of Wisdom, which is the divine Law, and therefore perfectly regulative of a divine action. Agni fulfilled becomes mighty in his own home—in the Truth, the Right, the Vast. It is thither that he is leading upward the aspiration in humanity, the soul of the Aryan, the head of the cosmic ...
... be full and ample; for Usha is vājena vājini, maghoni ; rich is the store of her substance; she has all the plenitudes. This dawn moves in her progression always according to the rule of a divine action; many are the thoughts she brings in that motion, but her steps are sure and all desirable things, all supreme boons, the boons of the Ananda, the blessings of the divine existence,—are in her hands ...
... obstructed, the struggle more intense in the Akasha, because the conquest has been less thoroughly prepared. The later chatusthayas have been reserved for a swifter movement and a more powerful divine action. At present there is no sign of any new swiftness or power. The Mahakali Tapas is being farther strengthened and confirmed by the test of adverse experience. Dakshina Maghoni, the discernment ...
... by which the defects taken advantage of by the Censurers are to be removed. (8ᵗʰ). The seven affirmations completed will be the sign of the perfect siddhi of the foundation, after which the divine action can manifest. Samadhi — Brihat & satyam in swapnasamadhi. Firm & frequent combination of speech, form & action. Taste repeated, also tivrananda. Long stability is not yet active. There ...
... separate element of the personality, or else, if he remained as a separate part of the personality, he would be a sort of enlightened and passive instrument for the Purusha with a view to a certain divine action of a kind it is difficult to describe. There would be a divine use of the Rakshasa force changed from a nervous egoism to a sort of powerful dynamic utility on that plane, just as the animal power ...
... Page 1477 V. Karma Chatusthaya Krishna is the Ishwara taking delight in the world. Kali is the Shakti carrying out the Lila according to the pleasure of the Ishwara. Karma is the Divine Action. Kama is the Divine Enjoyment. VI. Brahma Chatusthaya Sarvam, Anantam, Jnanam, Anandam Brahma Sarvam Brahma—when we realise one thing in the universe. Anantam Brahma—when we realise ...
... Being in his infinite consciousness and the supreme Nature is the infinity of power or will of being of the Spirit,—it is his infinite consciousness in its inherent divine energy and its supernal divine action. The birth is the movement of evolution of this conscious Energy out of the Spirit, parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā , its activity in the mutable universe; the dissolution is the withdrawing of that activity ...
... him always for its origin, substance and end. Arjuna is to become aware of himself as existing only in God and as acting only by the power within him, his workings only an instrumentality of the divine action, his egoistic consciousness only a veil and to his ignorance a misrepresentation of the real being within him which is an immortal spark and portion of the supreme Godhead. This vision is to ...
... evolution of its thought, been elucidated in a certain measure; 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 ...
... lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing, mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate ...
... all power is the Divine's and therefore self-effort is also a use of the Divine Power conceded by the Divine, but there is a great practical difference between the delegated use and the direct Divine Action. In the book The Mother Sri Aurobindo says, "The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender." And "rejection of the movements of the lower nature ...
... way and his mental will cannot prevail over it. The difficulty is far more general than that. That however would not matter—it would be only a question of a little more or less time, if the divine action were admitted whole-heartedly by the sadhaks. But the conditions laid down by them and the conditions laid down from above seem radically to differ. From above the urge is to lift everything above ...
... Now, Sri Aurobindo means that when one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it's no longer an effort, it's an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared and the moment has e, then the bud opens. Page 24 Is there an aspiration for growth in children also, as there is in plants? Yes. Even, very often ...
... nothing can shake it any longer. Page 256 And when one is in this state of perfect receptivity and perfect adherence, one diminishes to that extent the resistance of the world to the divine Action; consequently, this is the best collaboration one can bring to the Action of the Divine. One understands what He wants and, with all one's consciousness, adheres to His Will. Page 257 ...
... 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, it is the Divine; power, it is the Divine; action, it is the Divine; individuality, it is the Divine. And the body has understood, felt very well; it has realised, understood that this sense of being a separate individuality is ...
... a force behind all this. What is it? This uncertainty and these departures are due to the lower nature, which resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to slow down the divine action, not out of ill-will but in order to be sure that nothing is forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need ...
... 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 the Divine; power, it is the Divine; action, it is the Divine; individuality, it is the Divine. And the body has understood, felt very well; it has realised, understood that this sense of being a separate individuality is altogether useless ...
... equivalent of this word, it is something twisted, which instead of going straight to the mark makes sharp, unnecessary zigzags. This is one of the things that is most opposed to the harmony of a purely divine action which has a simplicity... that seems childlike. Direct—direct, instead of making absurd and completely useless circumvolutions. Well, it is obviously the same thing: disorder is a way of stimulating ...
... feel there is a force behind all this. What is it? This uncertainty and these departures are due to the lower nature, which resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to slow down the divine action, not out of ill-will but in order to be sure that nothing is forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need ...
... don't know how to say it. It's hard to explain.... It's sensing or having the... (I don't know how to explain exactly what it is) how, in the manifestation, the human consciousness distorts the Divine Action ( gesture of direct flow ). It's our constitution which is so pitiable. We reduce, distort, diminish EVERYTHING—everything. We know things (Knowledge is there all around us, in us), but we are so ...
... lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing, mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, ...
... nature to that higher condition of working pitch of their power and capacity (shakti) on which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. This would mean the perfection of the powers and capacities of the mind, the vital and the physical. At the same time, there is a need to perfect the dynamic force (virya) in us of the temperament ...
... Page 127 is actually helping the person concerned through these adverse crcumstances to advance on the path of spiritual progression. And that is, after all, the only purpose behind all divine action and the sole essential thing needed by the individual. Both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have elaborately discussed this point at many different places in many of their writings. The essence of ...
... indispensable purification. And I would add this: that fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they are capable, even ...
... Yoga. 7. Experience of identity with the Divine After the annulment of the sense of 'I' being the actor, after the abrogation of even the sense of oneself being an instrument of divine action, the sadhaka will arrive at the last stage of Karmayoga in which he will feel himself completely identified with the divine consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has described this summit realisation ...
... upon earth itself in a human body if possible, through the integral transformation of the triple instruments of mind and life and body; (iii)to be a willing and effective participant in the divine action of achieving collective liberation and perfection on the earthly plane. Now, as there is no end to the self-manifestation of the Divine in the earthly field, nāsti anto vistarasya me, ...
... knowledge of the will that issues from the Supreme, the pressure of Karma yoga towards the divine knowledge increases to such a degree that one bursts into a vision, even of time-vision and of the divine action at a given epoch of time. One such vision has been described in the Bhagavad Gita in one of its most powerful poetic passages, in his Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo describes the Supreme ...
... renunciation, the seeker becomes aware of the Lord of Prakriti as the ultimate doer of all activity. The individual then recognises himself as an instrument of the Supreme and as a conscious centre of divine action in the world. Here also, the object can be the release of the soul from its bondage to the reactions of phenomenal activities and a departure into the Supreme. But a larger path of action would ...
... the human nature to that of higher condition of working pitch of the power and capacity on which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. This would mean the perfection of the powers and capacities of the mind, the vital and the physical. This would also imply the perfect dynamic force of the temperament, character and inmost soul-nature ...
... sarvabhāvena, in every way of conscious self and instrumental nature. For all other Dharmas or norms of action are only a preparation for that highest Dharma which is the law of divine nature and divine action, and all processes of Yoga are only a means by which we can come first to some kind of union, and finally, to an Page 25 integral union with the Master and supreme Soul ...
... the true determining factor. At the same time, the divine fore- knowledge does not bind the omniscience and omnipotence of the divine consciousness, and in the working of the universe, the law of divine action is not a mechanical law and 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 ...
... when he declared that he would use no arms in the battle? And what about his injunction that one should rise to the state of utter equality, of utter quietude, even nirvana, in order to perform Divine action? 'Are you and your colleagues 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 ...
... herself. Its presence with the sadhak is not dependent on his consciousness of it. If everything were dependent on the surface consciousness of the sadhak, there would be no possibility of the divine action anywhere; the human worm would remain the human worm and the human ass, the human ass, for ever and ever. For if the Divine could not be there behind the veil, how could either ever become conscious ...
... Mother must have put some Force on me in order to test my receptivity and when, at the meeting, she found that the ādhāra was not bad, she was happy. This is the explanation I offer to myself of the divine action. Perhaps there was more to it than I could sound. Probably it was also a form of initiation. The next evening, I was to leave for Calcutta. Dilip came to see me off. As soon as he started me ...
... the action in the world be the manifestation of the dynamic nature of the Master of the Work, and then only can our law of action be one with the law of action of the Divine. Perfection of the divine action through the transformed and supramentalised mind, life and body would deliver us into liberation and perfection of what is called sddharmya mukti. Page 50 Ananda Brahman (Blissful ...
... nature to that highest condition and working pitch of that power and capacity, s'akti, at which they become capable of being divinized into the true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. This second element includes four things: the full powers of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamism of the fourfold soul-nature, the ascension of the powers of the instrumental nature ...
... to the Supreme. This total Page 76 surrender is evocatively described as the sacrifice of all human standards of conduct by means of which the divine standard of all-harmonising divine action (divyam karma) is discovered and made operative. The Gita's insistence on the attainment of the state of trigundtita (attainment of transcendence of the three qualities or gunas of the lower ...
... wideness and freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, and one is able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in one's mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world. Fourthly, the object includes the unity of freedom, purity, beatitude and perfection in their integrality. The integral purity implies the perfect reflection ...
... Jnana yoga maintains that action may prepare one for liberation but action can never be itself the instrument of liberation. The exclusive path of Karma yoga tends to assign supreme importance to divine action rather than to divine knowledge or divine love. These conflicts became prominent in India soon after the period of the original and esoteric system of the Vedic synthesis of yoga and they have ...
... And the pinnacle of Karmayoga is reached when one raises one's cognitive, conative and affective capacities and potentialities in a great synthesis where the divine love, divine knowledge and divine action flow through the liberated individual in a plenary and ecstatic and triumphant symphony. You will think that I am getting poetic; but the joy of my discovery compels me to dance with words, and ...
... nature to that higher condition of working pitch of their power and capacity (shaktī) on which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. This would mean the perfection of the powers and capacities of the mind, the vital and the physical. At the same time, there is the need to perfect the dynamic force (virya) in us of the temperament ...
... its real worth as a scripture which conceals in itself the deep and energetic spirit of the fore- fathers who made this country and nation - a scripture of divine knowledge, divine worship, and divine action.... He seized justly on the Veda as India's Rock of Ages and had the daring conception to build on what his penetrating glance perceived in it a whole education of youth, a whole manhood and a whole ...
... But it was a life of absorbed contemplation and rapturous exaltation, of rapt union and longing for re-union, of radiating purity and contagious sweetness; and not a life of dynamic union and divine action. The Mother's life affords a new vision of the Will of God in the material world and a new perspective to the goal of human existence. Union with the Divine, she holds, is the first objective ...
... could suspend your judgment till you became competent to judge. For this deeper judgment only comes through the dawn of a greater consciousness by whose light alone can you hope to understand Divine action behind its terrestrial or occult disguises." "But – I mean – it's all right in theory," I still demurred, "but when one is actually confronted – for instance, take the case of Sri Bijoy Goswami ...
... but it is the same single Substance which is in you all, despite differences in appearance; and a vibration in one centre awakens a vibration in another. This innate truth of oneness is "a divine action and a divine fact", but whether one is aware of it or not depends on one's consciousness. But the fact exists, whether you are conscious of it or not. For evolution, she concluded, may be regarded ...
... lower nature; what the three gunas stand for are three essential powers of the Divine which are not merely existent in a perfect equilibrium of quietude, but unified in a perfect consensus of divine action. Tamas in the spiritual being becomes a divine calm, which is not an inertia and incapacity of action, but a perfect power, śakti, holding in itself all its capacity and capable of controlling ...
... of the life-energy to the Divine, so that He could pour His riches into it and perfect it for the fulfilment of His Will in the world. A full prāna is the most important condition for divine action and manifestation. Nothing great can be achieved in life except by the force and fervour of prāna . Prasannatā is a crystal purity and gladness. The prāna must not be a restless, passionate ...
... 27 There’s no more at all the sensation of “this through which,” this through which the Divine flows—there isn’t. It’s still and nonexistent, without any self- awareness, aware only of ... the Divine Action, like that. Then everything is fine. And the minute there’s even a slight impression of the thing flowing “through,” discomfort comes. See, I might say (it sounds like literature!) that in a certain ...
... that one must pray; if the divine justice were to manifest, they will be few who would be able to stand up in front of Her. *** Love alone can understand and enter into the secrets of divine action, the mind, especially the physical mind is incapable of seeing correctly, and yet it always wants to judge. *** Only a true and sincere humility in the mind which allows the psychic to ...
... in it its real worth as a scripture which conceals in itself the deep and energetic spirit of the forefathers who made this country and nation,—a scripture of divine knowledge, divine worship, divine action. I know not whether Dayananda's powerful and original commentary will be widely accepted as the definite word on the Veda. I think myself some delicate work is still called for to bring out other ...
... enthroned in firm union Page 504 with the Self and Spirit and Godhead. Arrived upon that summit we can leave the Highest to guide Nature in our members in the free spontaneity of a divine action: for there there is no wrong or confused working, no element of error or impotence to obscure or distort the luminous perfection and power of the Spirit. All these lower conditions, laws, dharmas ...
... protecting arms of the Friend of creatures, in the midst of evil the presence of a pure unalterable Benignity and in the midst of death the Master of Immortality. From the terror of the King of the divine action the Rakshasas, the fierce giant powers of darkness, flee destroyed, defeated and overpowered. But the Siddhas, but the complete and perfect who know and sing the names of the Immortal and live in ...
... have not renounced the experiences of the Kshara Purusha, they have divinised them; for the Kshara, the Gita tells us, is all existences, sarvabhūtāni , and the doing universal good to all is a divine action in the mutability of Nature. This action in the world is not inconsistent with living in Brahman, it is rather its inevitable condition and outward result because the Brahman in whom we find Nirvana ...
... universal method with creatures. Why then should we Page 153 suppose that in any form he comes forward into the frontal, the phenomenal consciousness for a more direct and consciously divine action? Obviously, if at all, then to break the veil between himself and humanity which man limited in his own nature could never lift. The Gita explains the ordinary imperfect action of the creature ...
... lower nature to that which is above the three gunas, that which is founded in the highest principle, in the soul. Only when you have attained to peace of soul, can you become capable of a free and divine action. The quietist, the ascetic, on the other hand cannot see any possibility of perfection into which life and action enter. Are they not the very seat of bondage and imperfection? Is not all action ...
... into an ancient book, of the present-day European or Europeanised intellect into a thoroughly antique, a thoroughly Oriental and Indian teaching. That 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 ...
... helping, increasing, raising each other's workings and satisfaction, a commerce in which man rises towards a growing fitness for the supreme good. He recognises that his life is a part of this divine action in Nature and not a thing separate and to be held and pursued for its own sake. He regards his enjoyments and the satisfaction of his desires as the fruit of sacrifice and the gift of the ...
... this God in man, the divine Consciousness always present in the human being who manifested in a visible form speaks to the human soul in the Gita, illumines the meaning of life and the secret of divine action and gives it the light of the divine knowledge and guidance and the assuring and fortifying word of the Master of existence in the hour when it comes face to face with the painful mystery of the ...
... 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 very rare but may happen. If you have ...
... things it wanted to do. But now, when there is no longer a body left, it is no longer interesting.... You see, it was this body which was meant to do a certain number of things to act against the divine action. Once the body has disappeared, the emanation is withdrawn and all the force that was with it, and it is swallowed up again for another opportunity. They spend their time doing this. They emanate ...
... 1914 The one important thing is the goal to be reached; the road matters little, and often it is preferable not to know it beforehand. But what we need to know is whether the time for the divine action upon earth has really come, and whether the work conceived in the depths can be realised. Of this, O Lord, Thou hast given us the assurance, an assurance which has been accompanied by the most ...
... work in each one of its cells to knead it and make it supple and enlighten it, and in the whole being, to arrange, organise and harmonise it. Everything is in movement, everything is changing; Thy divine action makes itself felt as an ineffable spring of a purifying fire that circulates through all the atoms. And this flowing spring has brought into the being an ecstasy more marvellous than any it had ...
... ble purification. And I would add this: that fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they are capable, even ...
... Endurance, Effort Fear Is an Impurity fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they are capable, even ...
... when one has the vision; but when it comes down and presses on Matter, everything begins to seethe and resist. Therefore, to attempt to impute the disorders and confusions and destructions to the divine Action, to the divine Power, is another human foolishness. It is the inertia—not to mention the bad will—which causes the catastrophe. It is not that the catastrophe was intended, nor even foreseen, ...
... as things lived. I do not know how to explain. It is difficult to say... it is to feel (but, really, I do not know how to explain that) how in manifestation the human consciousness deforms the divine Action ( gesture of a direct flow ).... It is the constitution which is miserable. We belittle, we deform, we diminish everything —everything. We know the things, the Knowledge is there, around us, in ...
... everything is all right. All the while things are happening in the consciousness as if all that was coming from the whole world ( gesture of assault from all sides ): all that denies or contradicts the divine Action—that is coming thus all the time ( same gesture ). And so, if I know how to be quiet ( gesture of self-offering, hands open upward ), in an attitude of... ( Mother smiles ) of non-existence, a kind ...
... feel there is a force behind all that. What is it? This uncertainty and these departures are caused by the lower nature which resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to slow down the divine action, not through ill-will, but in order to be sure that nothing is forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are those ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied ...
... demands, reproaches, their throwing of their unregenerate vital nature upon him. And in the Gita he speaks of this human world as a transient and sorrowful affair and, in spite of his gospel of divine action, seems almost to admit that to leave it is after all the last solution! The traditions of the past are very great in their own place,—in the past; but I do not see why we should merely repeat them ...
... the Force or the Will works to do what is necessary—in that also is the action of Agni or the psychic. Page 271 It is this quiet and spontaneous action that is the characteristic divine action. The aggressive action is only, as you say, when there is resistance and struggle. This does not mean that the quiet force cannot be intense. It can be more intense than the aggressive, but its ...
... Abodhi hotá yajatháya deván, Úrdhwo Agnih sumanáh prátar asthát, Samiddhasya ruśad adarśi pájo, Mahán devas tamaso niramochi. The purpose of the waking is next emphasised. It is for divine action in man that God's force awakes in us. It is the divine priest of the offering who stands up in the dawn of the illumination to offer to the gods, to each great god his portion, to Indra a pure & ...
... herself. Its presence with the sadhak is not dependent on his consciousness of it. If everything were dependent on the surface consciousness of the sadhak, there would be no possibility of the divine action anywhere; the human worm would remain the human worm Page 180 and the human ass the human ass for ever and ever. For if the Divine could not be there behind the veil, how could either ...
... does not assemble them in the pastures, an upholder of our powers and remover of obstacles and enemies much more than a builder of our parts. Who then gathers knowledge into this nodus or links divine action in this sustainer of works? Mitra is the harmoniser, Mitra the builder, Mitra the constituent Light, Mitra the god who effects the right unity of which Varuna is the substance and the infinitely ...
... But we are given also Page 24 many specific names. Vritra, the Serpent, is the grand Adversary; for he obstructs with his coils of darkness all possibility of divine existence and divine action. And even when Vritra is slain by the light, fiercer enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail ...
... of Divine Works The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IV The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising principle, a saving power descends to limit ...
... expresses itself in them and in all that we see and experience. This equality and this oneness are the indispensable twin foundation we must lay down for a divine being, a divine consciousness, a divine action. Not one with all, we are not spiritual, not divine. Not equal-souled to all things, happenings and creatures, we cannot see spiritually, cannot know divinely, cannot feel divinely towards others ...
... the stilling of the mind is a thing in itself complete and absolute, but if we rest in that alone, it will exclude the companion absolute, not less great and needed and true, of the bliss of the divine action. Here too our faith must be an assent that receives all spiritual experience, but with a wide openness and readiness for always more light and truth, an absence of limiting attachment and no such ...
... the lower nature; what the three gunas stand for are three essential powers of the Divine which are not merely existent in a perfect equilibrium of quietude, but unified in a perfect consensus of divine action. Tamas in the spiritual being becomes a divine calm, which is not an inertia and incapacity of action, but a perfect power, śakti , holding in itself all its capacity and capable of controlling ...
... instrument only, but is itself without initiative or action, niṣkriya, sarvārambha-parityāgī . But if it rises to the gnosis, it is at once an instrument and a participant in the bliss of the divine action and the bliss of the divine Ananda; it unifies in itself the prakṛti and the puruṣa . The ego turn, the separative turn of the being, is the fulcrum of the whole embarrassed labour of the ...
... that all in us is done and directed by the Master of our being, yathā prayukto 'smi, tathā karomi , which was before only a strong idea and faith with occasional and derivative glimpses of the divine action behind the becomings of our personal nature. Now every movement is seen to be the form given by the Shakti, the divine power in us, to the indications of the Purusha, still no doubt personalised ...
... that essential spirit and nature in us which, knowing, warring, working, loving, serving, is always divine, towards the fulfilment of God in the world, an expression of the Eternal in Time. A divine action arising spontaneously, freely, infallibly from the light and force of our spiritual self in union with the Divine is the last state of this integral Yoga of Works. The truest reason why we must ...
... being; to be free all values must be destroyed, all limitations not only transcended but abolished. Page 414 They have the liberation of the divine rest, but not the liberty of the divine action; they enjoy the peace of the Transcendent, but not the cosmic bliss of the Transcendent. Their liberty depends upon abstention from the cosmic movement, it cannot dominate and possess cosmic existence ...
... it "explains," whereas this is spontaneous. It's not the result of a decision, it's spontaneous. One might almost say it's automatic. We always feel ("we," I mean human beings), we think of the divine Action as a supra-human action, that is, which first sees THEN decides—but it's not that! It's... yes, an automatism, I don't know how to put it. Page 276 I must say that two days ago, I had ...
... parts all this that we are apparently, yet to exceed it and become in the body what we are really in the secret self,—God, spirit, supreme & infinite being, pure Bliss of divine joy, pure Force of divine action, pure Light of divine knowledge. Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being ...
... of "this [the body] through which": this through which the Divine flows—there isn't. It's like this ( immutable gesture ), still and nonexistent, without any self-awareness, aware only of... the Divine Action, like that. Then everything is fine. And the minute there's even a slight impression of the Thing flowing "through," discomfort comes. You understand, it has become a very acute state. See, I ...
... it's worthless, it's time is over. It had its time, it had its usefulness—it's over, it's past, it's way past. Now... ( Mother lowers her fist sharply ): consciousness is the Divine; power is the Divine; action is the Divine; individuality is the Divine. And the body has understood, sensed very well; it has realized and understood , as they say in English, that the sense of being a separate personality ...
... something crooked which, instead of shooting straight to the goal, weaves its way in sharp and unnecessary zigzags). It's one of the Page 141 things farthest from the harmony of a purely divine action—which is something so simple.... It looks like child's play... and direct—direct, without those absurd and completely useless twists and turns. Well, it is clearly the same phenomenon: that disorder ...
... all goes well. A lot of things constantly come into the consciousness, from the whole world, it would seem ( gesture of being assailed from all sides ): all the things that negate or oppose the divine Action. They keep coming all the time like this ( same gesture ). But if I can remain quiet ( gesture of offering, hands open ), in an attitude of... ( smiling ) nonexistence, a sort of... I don't know ...
... expressive movements and activities serviceable and necessary to the principle of mind and the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit”, writes Sri Aurobindo. And he goes on: “While the capacity for taking up and ...
... work in each one of its cells to knead it and make it supple and enlighten it, and in the whole being to arrange, organize and harmonize it. Everything is in movement, everything is changing; Thy divine action makes itself felt as an ineffable spring of a purifying fire that circulates through all the atoms.’ 52 That early she was already working on what would be one of the main tasks of her incarnation ...
... been given certain promises—great promises. Not "promises," but what comes is: "This is how it will be." Great things—concrete manifestations of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the divine Action. And spontaneous, natural, inevitable.... This is obviously being prepared ( Mother touches her body ) so that it won't put the usual obstacles in the way of expression. But I would much prefer ...
... perhaps, but it would be seen differently. Both. There would be a difference. It is the present ignorance Page 75 and obscurity in the world that give a deforming appearance to the divine Action; and that naturally must tend to disappear; but it is also true that there is a way of seeing things which... one might say, which gives another meaning to their appearance—the two are there, like ...
... true world, everything would perhaps be the same as now, but it would be seen differently. Both. There would be a difference. The ignorance and obscurity present in the world are what gives divine Action a distorted appearance; and naturally, that must tend to disappear. But it is also true that there is a way of looking at things which ... you could say, which gives their appearance another meaning—the ...
... proud when the vital and the mind are in them. But without that... it's not possible! Not possible. ( meditation ) But it constantly has the sensation not only of the Presence but of the divine Action, like this ( gesture like a flow passing through Mother and onto people ), and it doesn't even think, "It's through me," not even that. It feels (to translate) that it could be through anything ...
... and if she has succeeded in touching it to glory in one place an opening has been made through which her light can reach every place. Among true friends the promise of the pervasiveness of the Divine Action is not difficult to perceive. A beautiful experience of one is a matter for rejoicing by the other: the jealous look is never cast. So it is perfectly right to share with an intimate friend one's ...
... organization, which you can see when you have the vision. But when It descends and presses down on Matter, everything starts seething and resisting. Page 153 So to want to ascribe to the divine Action and the divine Power the disorder and confusion and destruction is yet more human nonsense. It's inertia (not to speak of ill will), it's inertia that CAUSES the catastrophe. It isn't that the ...
... consciousness. The story of the Earth, the stir of awakening life, the repeated coming and rejection of the Ray, the surge and sweep of the evolutionary adventure, the culminating definitive divine-action of Savitri — all somehow mix and mingle and merge marvellously in the impressionistic Revelation of The Symbol Dawn. "It is a symbolic work," says the Mother, "not the telling of a story ...
... that it be the vehicle of the highest dharma, of the inner movement finding its way in cosmic modalities. Savitri Mahatmya can therefore be appropriately proclaimed as the tale of a decisive divine action in this evolutionary unfoldment. If it is to be considered as a book, then it would qualify to be the precious life-blood of a master-spirit. When the poet becomes the seer and hearer ...
... the Vedic Word or Mantra in its profoundest aspect as the expression of the intuition arising out of the depth of the soul or being." Thus the Rigveda 11.24.3 in its closing portion tells us of divine action: "...the firm places were cast down, the fortified places were made weak; up Brihaspati drove the cows (rays), by the hymn (Brāhmaṇa) he broke Vala, he concealed the darkness, he made Swar visible ...
... ." 42 It is with religious utterance, the soul-charged sound, that Indra and the other gods operate. Thus in the closing portion of II.24,3, a part of which we have already quoted, we read of divine action: "....the firm places were cast down, the fortified places were made weak; up Brihas-pati drove the cows, by the hymn (Brāhmaṇā) he broke Vala, he concealed the darkness, he made Swar visible ...
... prepared by (a) processes of thought and meditation, by (b) perfection in works by processes that lead the ascension of the soul from one level to higher level that stabilizes it in divine status of divine action, and by (c) the search and eagerness of the heart for beatitude. (a) The role of the austerity of the practice of thought and meditation on the Truth and its dynamic diffusion in all parts ...
... Jnana yoga maintains that action may prepare one for liberation but action can never be itself the instrument of liberation. The exclusive path of Karma yoga tends to assign supreme importance to divine action rather than to divine knowledge or divine love. These conflicts became prominent in India soon after the period of the original and esoteric system of the Vedic synthesis of yoga and they have continued ...
... immortal truth of the same soul in the now super- conscious supreme nature. There we can live in oneness with God and our true self and all beings and, perfected, become a faultless instrument of divine action in the freedom of the immortal Dharma."¹ ________________________________ ¹ Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita, Centenary Edition, Vol. 13 p. 507. Page 206 ...
... Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature.'22 This would also mean a complete synthesis of divine knowledge, divine love and divine action, leading to an integral perfection of all the members, parts and planes of being the divine supermind in the divine body, a temporal sign of the spirit's victory here over Death and Matter. ...
... action gets changed. One 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 ...
... the human nature to that of higher condition of working pitch of the power and capacity on which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. This would mean the perfection of the powers and capacities of the mind, the vital and the physical. This would also imply the perfect dynamic force of the temperament, character and inmost s ...
... p. 257) A second nagging question may often confuse the sadhaka's mind, which may prevent him from making an effective surrender to the Divine. The question is: Is self-surrender to divine action tantamount to cessation from all personal initiative to action? If Page 91 so. will it not turn me into an inert piece of clod? How can I lead my life then in a fruitful and ...
... amanastā, where the mind loses all its faculties, yadā na manute manaḥ and becomes non-mind so to say, unmanībhūyāt. What is then the solution for us who aspire after the freedom of divine action as well as the liberation of divine rest ? If mind-consciousness inclusive of its highest spiritual reaches proves its inadequacy as an instrument and medium for the divine possession of our ...
... Page 101 spiritual seekers? What makes our present worldly existence apparently so incorrigible in its nature as to induce even Sri Krishna, the propounder of the gospel of divine action, to almost admit at the end that to shun this transient and unhappy world is perhaps after all the best possible solution? 1 And what about that wonderfully dynamic saint Swami Vivekananda ...
... Gita is not a book of practical ethics, but of the spiritual life which permits us to transcend the clash of all dharmas that the human mind can conceive, and to discover a new dharma, the law of divine action, divyam karma, by the attainment of divine freedom in which the nature of the individual transcends its limitations, the limitations of the nature subject to three gunas, — tamas, rajas, and sattva ...
... in such a quiet and spontaneous way that one may well doubt if it was really a Force and not merely a deep peace. It is this quiet and spontaneous action that is the characteristic divine action. The aggressive action is only, as you say, when there is resistance and struggle. This does not mean that the quiet force cannot be intense. It can be more intense than the aggressive, but its ...
... Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there— although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into ...
... Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into ...
... 29 February 1956, a conversation took place between the Mother and the Ashram children. A passage from The Synthesis of Yoga was under discussion: The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct ...
... of the Earth, the stir of awakening life, the repeated coming and rejection of the Ray, the surge and sweep of the evolutionary adventure, the culminating Page 688 definitive divine-action of Savitri - all somehow mix and mingle and merge marvellously in the impressionistic Revelation of 'The Symbol Dawn'. "It is a symbolic work," says the Mother, "not the telling of a ...
... mixed material world does not appear to the ignorant human sight as the triumph of good, what men call good and true." It is this wrong vision of things that gives "a deforming appearance to the divine Action". As to our ethical notions of good, ...no sage... has ever said: "Be good, and all will go well with you externally" - because it is a stupidity. In a world of disorder, in a world of falsehood ...
... the Soup ceremony and the Flower Game; the rhythm of the Darshans and pranams; the portentous accident to Sri Aurobindo's leg in 1938; the unleashing of the Second World War by Hitler; the occult divine action from the Ashram trying to counteract at crucial moments the ferocity of the Nazi onslaught in the European theatres of war; the coming of the children and the opening of the Ashram School; the ...
... art at work in each one of its cells to knead it, and make it supple and illumine it, and to class, organise and harmonise it in the ensemble of the being. All is in motion all is changing; Thy divine action makes itself felt as the inexhaustible source of a purifying fire that circulates through all the atoms...”¹ "Break, break the last resistances, consume the impurities, strike with Thy thunder ...
... supramental force, will be released forever from the obscure hold of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and, based on Light, filled with Light, and moved by Light, become a flexible means of divine action. MANIFESTATION OF GOD IN MATTER—THE THIRD AIM The ascent to the Supermind and the descent of the Supermind lead inevitably to the third aim of the Integral Yoga—the full and ...
... cruelty perpetrated, "Cities uprooted, blasted human homes, Burned writhen bodies, the bombshell's massacre." They had to invoke the blessings of God. This they thought was a divine action. In fact these dark forces wanted to command the Divine and not to obey Him. Hatred was like an all-pervading element in this region "Burning the soul with its malignant rays". Even physical objects ...
... there are confiners or censurers." Among the Sons of Darkness is Vritra the Python, the grand Adversary, "for he obstructs with his coils of darkness all possibility of divine existence and divine action." Vritra the Besieger prevents the sevenfold Waters of Truth from flowing down upon the earth-consciousness in which we mortals live. These streams of Truth do not flow upon earth, but in heaven ...
... 28 March 1932 Dyuman, I find no good use for this lace except to give it back to you. When holding your hair together, it will remind you of the Divine's unifying action and thus be of double use. 28 March 1932 ...
... fight against the Divine, in spite of themselves, in spite of everything, their origin is divine. And they work in vain, try in vain to cut themselves off from their origin; they cannot do it. Deliberately, consciously, they try all they can; but they know very well they cannot do it. Even the most monstrous being there is always a means to touch. The Divine, the Divine's action in the world, always... its extreme. But this extreme itself is a limit. There is always a halt, because there is a point where the Divine rises up and says, "You won't go any farther." Whether it be the great destructions of Page 419 Nature or men's monstrosities, there is always a moment when the Divine intervenes and prevents things from going farther. ( Long Silence ) Sweet Mother, do those who have... cellular—the molecular and atomic, is progressing in its capacity to express the divine Force and Consciousness. Through all these organisms this substance becomes more and more conscious, more and more luminous, more and more receptive, until it reaches a perfection sufficient for it to become a possible vehicle for the divine Force itself which will be able to use it as it uses the elements of the other ...
... all existences as becomings of the One Being who is always himself ( so'ham asmi , He am I), he is able to carry out divine actions in the world, no longer subject to the Ignorance, because free in the Knowledge. The perfection of man, therefore, is the full manifestation of the Divine in the individual through the supreme accord between Vidya and Avidya. Multiplicity must become conscious of its oneness... subject to Avidya. But this subjection is itself a play of the Ignorance, unreal in essential fact ( paramārtha ), real only in practical relation ( vyavahāra ), in the working out of the actions of the divine Energy, the Chit-Shakti. To get back to the essential fact of his freedom he must recover the sense of Oneness, the consciousness of Brahman, of the Lord, realise his oneness in Brahman and... multiplicity separated from the true knowledge in the many of their own essential oneness,—the Page 51 view-point of the separate ego identifying itself with the divided form and the limited action,—is a state of error and delusion. In man this is the form taken by the consciousness of multiplicity. Therefore it is given the name of Avidya, the Ignorance. Brahman, the Lord, is one and all-blissful ...
... the mode of action of divine Grace: "... you seem to think it {the Divine Grace] should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not vary different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that." (/bid., p. 609) Another important point to note. Even when the Grace inter-venes in a case and starts acting in the life of a sadhaka, its mode of action may assume altogether... person ward-oriented mobile divine Grace and this is the most wonderful Force of all which can really work miracles at any time overriding altogether the laws of universal Karma and rigorous Justice. But what is this third Force? Well, it is divine Compassion but in another form and in another mode of action. In a simplistic language of imagery we may say that divine Compassion is like a frozen... message of the Mother: "Have faith in the Divine Grace and the hour of liberation and transformation will be hastened." If such is the sixfold wondrous action and effectivity of the divine Grace, every sadhaka would surely want to know the process of sadhana he should adopt which would make the Grace of page-125 the Divine intervene in his behalf and help him in every possible ...
... too it is not by utter flouting of those rules and laws, a freakish and ultimately inconsequential movement. A process is still followed. Sri Aurobindo sums up the several sides of the Divine's action thus: "The Divine also acts according to the conditions of the game. He may change them, but he has to change them first, not proceed, while maintaining the conditions, to act by a series of miracles."... in the physical also, but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind... "Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and not leave the earth atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be worthy of this marvellous Presence ...
... the basis of a progressive manifestation of the Divine out of all that seemed its very opposite, Page 36 there took place a sort of division between the Higher and the Lower. The history of the world became a battle between the True and the False, in which the details are not all direct representations of the Divine's progressive action but rather distortions of it owing to the mass... misapplied with Page 34 regard to the Divine. For, in the Divine you do not really lose your individuality: you only give up your egoism and become the true individual, the divine personality which is not temporary like the construction of the physical consciousness which is usually taken for your self. One touch of the divine consciousness and you will see immediately that there is... stands for, any more than by being conscious of your own nature self you possess at once the divine reality which you secretly are. Whereas if you arc one with the divine consciousness, you know—over and above how the tree feels—what the truth behind it is, in short, you know everything, because the divine consciousness knows everything. Indeed, there are many means of attaining this unity. ...
... accepted as the basis of a progressive manifestation of the Divine out of all that seemed its very opposite, there took place a sort of division between the Higher and the Lower. The history of the world became a battle between the True and the False, in which the details are not all direct representations of the Divine's progressive action but rather distortions of it owing to the mass of resistance... instinct in many respects, but misapplied with regard to the Divine. For, in the Divine you do not really lose your individuality: you only give up your egoism and become the true individual, the divine personality which is not temporary like the construction of the physical consciousness which is usually taken for your self. One touch of the divine consciousness and you see immediately that there is no... 1931 1930 - 1931 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 ...
... of union with the Divine in action and work, and in the consecration of one's work to the Divine. That's all. Sweet Mother, "the consecration of works is a needed element in that change. Otherwise, although they may find God in other-life, they will not be able to fulfil the Divine in life." The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 85 Why these two words: "God" and "the Divine"? I don't think... from the point of view of the divine reality. It is the path of meditation, concentration, of withdrawal from life and action. This was the one most practised in the old yogas. Or else, the path of devotion and love, like that of Chaitanya or Ramakrishna. Page 43 This book [Part One of The Synthesis of Yoga ] is entirely about the yoga of works, of action, that is to say, the finding... oneself to receive the advice of the Divine! For, truly speaking, each one finds only what he wants to find of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has said this by turning it the other way round; he has said—I am not quoting the exact words, only the idea: what you expect from the Divine is what you find in the Divine; what you want from the Divine is what you meet in the Divine. He will have for you the aspect ...
... and God-vision. Its aim is to see, know and be the Divine. Works, 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... This concentration of powers is then directed towards that physical centre in which the divine consciousness sits concealed in the human body. The power of Life, Nature-power, coiled up with all its secret forces asleep in the lowest nervous plexus of the earth-being,—for only so much escapes into waking action in our normal operations as is sufficient for the limited uses of human life,—rises awakened... which liberation and cosmic action and enjoyment are unified in a final overcoming of all oppositions and dissonances. It is this wider view of our spiritual potentialities from which we begin, but we add another stress which brings in a completer significance. We regard the spirit in man not as solely an individual being travelling to a transcendent unity with the Divine, but as a universal being capable ...
... the freedom consists in freedom from the darkness, limitation, error, suffering, transience of the ignorant lower Nature, but also in a total surrender to the Divine. Free action is the action of the Divine in us and through us; no other action can be free. That seems to be accepted in II and III; but this perception, this conception is as old as spiritual knowledge itself—it is not peculiar to Catholicism... effected and have to add only one more reserve. The solitude of the self in the Divine has no doubt to be active as well as static and passive; but none who has not arrived at the silence and motionless solitude of the eternal Self can have the free and integral activity of the higher divine Nature. For the Page 509 action is based on the silence and by the silence it is free. V. "...the Christian... to the Divine Nature of Light, Peace, Truth, Divine Power and Bliss beyond the Ignorance. It journeys towards a supreme self-existent good and leaves behind it the limited struggling human conception of sin and virtue; it is not an intellectual light that is the sun of its aspiration but a spiritual supra-intellectual supramental light; it is not sainthood that is its culmination but divine consci ...
... flawless divine Supernature, a miracle of transfiguration. But action is the indispensable means, and without it the transformation of the physical nature is out of the question. It is not only a state of passive peace and purity that is sought for in the Integral Yoga, but a free and unhampered expression of the divine Will and a fulfilment of the divine purpose in a life of God-guided action. ... usually constitute the active life of spiritual men. By service of the Divine the Mother means the constant and conscious offering of each movement of one's nature- physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual—to the Divine and to none and nothing but the Divine. All actions of life are accepted and turned towards the Divine except those which are tainted with desire or clearly detrimental to spiritual... motives to the Mother, the supreme Force of the Divine, so that they may all be purified, illumined and transfigured for the very purpose for which they have been created—the perfect manifestation of the Divine. Service has, therefore, two stages: one, in which, casting away all our de- sires and self-interest, we offer all our actions to the Divine, and through this integral self-consecration attain ...
... men. By service of the Divine the Mother means the constant and conscious offering of each movement of one's nature—physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual—to the Divine and to none and nothing but the Divine. All actions of life are accepted 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —August 17, 1913 Page 33 and turned towards the Divine except those which are tainted... out of it a flawless divine Supernature, a miracle of transfiguration. But action is the indispensable means, and without it the transformation of the physical nature is out of the question. It is not only a state of passive peace and purity that is sought for in the Integral Yoga, but a free and unhampered expression of the divine Will and a fulfilment of the divine purpose in a life of... motives to the Mother, the supreme Force of the Divine, so that they may all be purified, illumined and transfigured for the very purpose for which they have been created—the perfect manifestation of the Divine. Service has therefore two stages: one, in which, casting away all our desires and self-interest, we offer all our actions to the Divine, and through this integral self-consecration attain ...
... n in the use of the term "motherland" for the Divine's beauty present secretly in all parts of the earth. The two closing lines of this stanza apply to the process of time what has been just applied to the extension of space: all periods of one's life, even old age with its infirmities, become full of the Divine's contact, the Divine's gracious action. From "the wounds of age" as "sweet enemies" the... People believe in the Divine on the strength of the happiness they get or the beauty they see around, but that would be to depend on conditions and, when those conditions on which they have reared their confidence are shaken or removed, what happens?... This poet is an absolutist: he makes his position independent of this or that reason. He will feel and love and declare the Divine Presence in joy and... notable instance of it. This word means "water-lilies". The Divine's luminous steps are pictured as kindling in the depths of the night the stars looking like water-lilies in a dark pool. The result — "a night of nenuphars" — is to be contrasted to "the night between the stars", the sheer darkness which too the poet visions as the heaven of the Divine. The verse, I love the night between the stars ...
... Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit;... 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 actions. In reality, it has there no actions; for all its activities are a rhythm of the Supreme and sovereignly proceed... our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature. When the individual soul is entirely at one in its being and knowledge with the Lord and directly in touch with the original Shakti, the transcendent Mother, the supreme Will can then arise in us too in the high divine manner as a thing that must be and is achieved by the spontaneous action of Nature. There is then no desire ...
... of the nature of our well-acquainted desire-will. The Seer-Will represents the Divine 'Desire', the Will of the Divine, which is entirely enlightened and irresistible in action. As Sri Aurobindo writes: "There is a will, tapas, śakti, by which the secret spirit im poses on its outer members all their action... This Tapas is the will of the transcendent spirit who creates the universal... part of the sadhaka automatically prevents the action of the divine Grace. After all, this "I can' cannot stand the scrutiny. For, it is a fact of spiritual life that whenever a sadhaka sincerely decides to fight against any of his weaknesses, the Divine himself actively intervenes to help him in his enterprise. And what is there impossible for the divine Power ? So if it is ever found that... God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous selfdetermining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration 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 ...
... unreserved and loving surrender to the Divine through action. A long and arduous discipline of selfless and surrendered action alone—and this is Yogic action—can purify and impersonalize the numberless elements of our dynamic personality and prepare them for participation in the integral union. I quote below a Prayer² which is a brilliant exposition of Yogic action as understood by the Mother and Sri... circle around the Mother "to form, as it were, an immense roof over the town." It is always, indeed, the Grace that acts first, the divine Love that leans down first and exerts a secret, silent pressure from above, and the human aspiration and appeal are but a reflex action from below. The fourth movement — it is not really the fourth in succession, but a constant accompaniment of the others—is the... Concentration. .." The Mother, therefore, rightly insists in many of her Prayers on the unwearied performance of Yogic action, so that the whole of our life, which has been up till now under the sway of the forces of Ignorance and Falsehood, may be conquered for the Divine and rendered a radiant scene of His rapturous self-manifestation. The Manifestation of God in Matter We have ...
... dharma. I say that destruction can be done when it is part of the Divine work 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... man must be immoral—as if there were no other law of conduct than the moral. The law of action of the spiritual 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... an offering of oneself, one's being, one's mind, heart, will, body, life, actions to the Divine. It has the original sense of "making sacred" and is used as an equivalent of the word Yajna. When the Gita speaks of the "sacrifice of knowledge", it does not mean a giving up of anything, but a turning of the mind towards the Divine in the search for knowledge and an offering of oneself through it. It is ...
... standardised action which is all that the intellectual reason or ethical will can achieve. Its sole aim will be the expression of the divine in us and the keeping together of the world and its progress towards the Manifestation that is to be. This even will not be so much an aim and purpose as a spontaneous law of the being and an intuitive determination of the action by the Light of the divine Truth and... all existence as an indivisible whole: all work too is part of this divine indivisible whole. His personal action and its results can no longer be or seem a separate movement mainly or entirely determined by the egoistic "free" will of an individual, himself separate in the mass. Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they are put or, more accurately, put themselves into their place in... throws back only an imperfect and falsified similitude of the divine Spirit. All our opinions, standards, formations, principles are only attempts to represent in this broken, reflecting and distorting mirror something of the universal and progressive total action and its many-sided movement towards some ultimate self-revelation of the Divine. Our mind represents it as best it can with a narrow approximation ...
... sir! Uncle Self-distrust, sir! Cousin Self-depreciation, sir! The whole confounded family, sir! I congratulate you for having such a fine instrument, and him as well for being so for the Divine's action. I will try to make it clear, but no time tonight as it is 4.40 a.m. already. December 23, 1935 You have shown me my fallacy, but I am afraid, the fundamental points of perplexity... is left. In this action of mind and vital on the body faith and hope have an immense importance. I do not at all mean that they are omnipotent or infallibly effective—that is not so. But they assist the action of any force that can be applied, even of an apparently purely material force like medicine. In fact however there is no such thing as a purely material force, but the action may be purely material... considered that sex-force has a great part to play in the production of poetry, art etc. and in the action of genius generally. Finally, it is a doctor who has discovered that the sex-fluid consists of two parts, one meant for sex-purposes, the other as a basis of general energy, and if the sex-action is not indulged the first element tends to be turned into the second, (retas into ojas, as the Yogis ...
... dharma. I say that destruction can be done when it is part of the Divine work 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... Dharma? What becomes of the eightfold Way? You set aside the whole doctrine and say that one can kill, massacre with absolute Ahimsa within, if called by the Divine to do so. Buddha laid stress on complete abstinence in spirit and action, from any killing. That's why, perhaps, he is looked upon as the greatest man of compassion. Did Buddha preach absolute Ahimsa? I thought it was a Jain teaching... the Rudrabhava, but without anger, though people may mistake it for anger. That is a higher stage. There there is no disturbance even in the outer being, only a mass of very calm, but intense divine force in action. A few Blessings—24th. Many April 23, 1935 Lack of interest and energy, disinclination to go to the hospital—this is my condition for the last few days. Curiously enough ...
... beauty, jasmine-crowned; And often in high Indra's hall the spirits Immortal met to watch the shows divine Of action and celestial theatre. Page 77 For not of earth alone are delicate arts And noble imitations, but in heaven Have their rich prototypes. So on that day Before a divine audience there was staged The Choice of Luxmie. Urvasie enacted The goddess, Ocean's child, and Ménaca... boats and white with oars, From all that life quite separate, only lives Towards Ocean, so thou doest human work, Making a mighty nation, doing high And necessary deeds, but, all untouched By action, livest in thy soul apart And to the immortal zenith climbest pure." But he, blind as from dazzling dreams, said low: "One I thought spoke far-off of purity And whiteness and the human soul in... planted earth with deeds and made The widest heavens my monument, have brought From Paradise the sempiternal fire And warred in heaven among the warring Gods. O people, you have shared my famous actions Done in a few great years of earthly life, The battles I fought, edifications vast, And perfect institutes that I have framed. High things we have done together, O my people. But now I go to claim ...
... both to be born of the sacrifice and to make it effective, is the triple strength of divine Force, divine Light and divine Bliss. The primitive verbal sense of the word yajna was action, effort, endeavour done with a force directed towards some goal, some object or some person; its idea-sense in the Veda is action or effort internal or external directed towards the gods or immortal principles of higher... it off (यवया, causal).” The reference seems to me to be to that power of the mental force in which the Indian Yogin has always believed, the power which, substituting a divine mental action for the passive, helpless & vulnerable action of the body, protects the individual and turns away all attempts physical or otherwise to do him hurt. If I am right in my interpretation, we see the source of the Tantric... heights of the divine being; generating the divine Light, pouring itself out on the surge of the infinite harmonies of this Truth is the ocean of the divine Bliss & the plenitude of self-existence. These are the five states or stairs of Being easily accessible to the tread of the human soul. Yet beyond is the absolute divine self-Awareness manifesting itself cosmically as the divine creative Force ...
... and be in touch with the universal consciousness and I abandon oneself completely to the Divine — the action, the work and everything. Then alone can one perceive gradually the action of the Eternal and the Infinite. But now, to carry out the work harmoniously in the present condition with the people and the time available, one cannot do better otherwise, even though time is only an indication for... for us, the world is the field of action and it is worth something to transform it. And me, I do not advise this method of escape because as soon as they come out of their caves, they become victims of time and become what they were before, and what I they were afraid of becoming. This is of no value to us. But for us, where the world is the field of action, one must widen the consciousness... been able to find the effect and the action of some elements, but know nothing of what is happening in the constituents, and how the elements function under a certain pressure and charge to increase the tension and the force which is inherent in each atom. Man does not know the reason and the procedures which determine the sequence of these consequences of the actions of the energy which is hidden within ...
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