... the supermind, that human life is exceeded, that true spiritual life begins, the life of the superman; for his law will come from within, it will be the divine law shining in the centre of each being and governing life from therein, the divine law multiple in its manifestation but one in its origin. And because of its unity this law is the law of supreme order and harmony. Thus the individual, no... joyful obedience to the divine law which inspires it, without any seeking for reward or results, as the supreme reward will be in the very delight of acting under such inspiration, of being identified in conscience and will with the divine principle within oneself. And in this identification the superman will find also his social standard. For in discovering the divine law in himself he will recognise... it is by and through reasoning that he takes his decision and chooses his way—or believes he does—in life. The new race shall be governed by intuition, that is to say, direct perception of the divine law within. Some human beings actually know and experience intuition—as, undoubtedly, certain big gorillas of the forest have glimpses of reasoning. In mankind, the very few who have cultivated their ...
... of the human growth and evolution. Those laws are required to be transcended, so that that transcendence becomes a gate of the attainment of the divine law of action of the higher nature of the Supreme. The knowledge of that divine dharma, the divine law, opens the gate of attainment of that liberation, that moksha, by Page 85 living in which every fibre of action that deviates from the... birth, or divine Incarnation, that establishes the divine law of action which is needed at that historical moment for lifting up humanity to a higher stage of evolution. The dharma that is established by every divine incarnation, which occurs at every epochal moment of human history, yuge yuge, is an explicit expression of the supreme divine law of action, but that expression is specifically related... evolution is led upwards at every stage of its development. It is when that dharma and the operation of that dharma becomes dimmed, and when there is uprising tide of the operations that resist the divine law of action, that at that critical point, the divine incarnation occurs as a part of the divine operation of the evolutionary process. It is by the assumption by the Supreme Lord of the human birth ...
... a little she gives wide vision and brings out into expression for them all the worlds. For she is a godhead of thought, the "young and ancient goddess of many thoughts who moves according to the divine law." She is the goddess of the perceptive knowledge who has the perfect truth; she is the supreme light of all lights and is born as a varied and all-embracing conscient vision. She is the light full... the awakening of our consciousness to immortality. 4 The sons of the Infinite have a twofold birth. They are born above in the divine Truth as creators of the worlds and guardians of the divine Law; they are born also here in the world itself and in man as cosmic and human powers of the Divine. In the visible world they are the male and female powers and energies of the universe and it is this... violation of the purity of the divine Right and Truth; its reaction is the wrath of the Pure and Puissant. Against those who like the Sons of Darkness serve self-will and ignorance, the king of the divine Law hurls his weapons; the cord descends upon them; they fall into the snare of Varuna. But those who seek after the Truth with sacrifice are delivered from bondage to sin like a calf released from the ...
... among the vilest of men, seek your friend who is to your good, who is among the best of men. [4] One who drinks deep of the Divine Law lives happy in the serenity of his soul. The wise always finds delight in the Divine Law as declared by those who have the Realisation . [5] The diggers bend the water to their will, the arrow-makers bend their arrow... As a solid rock is not shaken by the blast, even so the wise is not shaken by praise and blame. [7] As a deep lake is serene and clear, even so the wise listens to the Divine Law and attains serenity. [8] The wise may go anywhere, but being wise they do not prattle of desires and longings. Whether touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise do not show... [10] Few are they among men who reach the other shore, ordinary creatures run up and down along this shore only. [11] And they who follow the Divine Law as ordained, reach the other shore beyond the impassable domain of Death. [12] Leaving the way of darkness, the wise man must cleave to the way of light. Leaving home, homeless ...
... certainty of the command that had issued from the Supreme Divine Consciousness that was visioned by him in unmistakable light of the Divine Himself in His universal Action. There is, he perceived, a divine law of action, a divine dharma of universality proceeding from the divine transcendence, which constantly works in a state of universal harmony and for the promotion of world-harmony (lokasangraha)... action of the three gunas, and in that state of transcendence, it enjoys the state of immortality. There is then the attainment of s ā dharmyam, identity of the individual law of action with the divine law of action (XIV. 2, 20). Arjuna thereupon asks a question: "O Lord! What are the characteristics of him who has transcended the three gunas, trigun ā t ī ta ” ? In answer, Sri Krishna enumerates... for transcending the bondage to the three gunas and for union with higher nature (Para Prakriti). The attainment of that union would, according to the Gita, mean S ā dharmya, identity with the divine law of action. Hence, the seeker gains here invaluable help in indentifying those elements in his consciousness by developing which up to pure highest sattwic status, he can ultimately be enabled to ...
... healing and purification, to be made seers of knowledge, possessors of the truth, to be upheld in the divine law, to be assisted and armed with strength, manhood and energy. Dayananda has brought this idea of the divine right and truth into the Veda; the Veda is as much and more a book of divine Law as Hebrew Bible or Zoroastrian Avesta. The cosmic element is not less conspicuous in the Veda; the... justified by the substance of Veda itself, by logic and reason and by our growing knowledge of the past of mankind. The Veda does hymn the one Deity of many names and powers; it does celebrate the divine Law and man's aspiration to fulfil it; it does purport to give us the law of the cosmos. On the question of revelation I have left myself no space to write. Suffice it to say that here too Dayananda ...
... Letters on the Mother The Mother's Consciousness and the Divine Law What I seek is the total transformation of myself, so that no movement can be outside the Divine Law. Establish the Divine Consciousness (the Mother's consciousness) in you and the Divine Law will flow from that. 25 March 1932 ...
... out that this union is a necessary condition for approaching the divine Truth ( Rtam ) and its divine Law ( Satya Dharma ). The goal of the Vedic yoga is to arrive at the divine truth by possessing it in consciousness and knowledge and to act faultlessly and harmoniously in accordance with the divine Law. The knowledge of the Truth and the Will which is guided by the truth and inspired by harmony and... and sinless. 7. O Mitra and Varuna, you who are illumined in consciousness, by the Law, by the knowledge of the Mighty One, you guard the workings or divine rhythms of work determined by the divine law of the Truth; by the Truth you govern widely all the world of our becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of various splendour 20 This hymn brings out, as always the Vedic verses do, when ...
... to be constantly conscious with the Divine Consciousness, so that we know "at every moment, spontaneously, without any reflection being necessary, exactly what should be done to best express" the Divine Law. 8 And the very next day she wrote that such perfect identification with the Divine Consciousness was one of the things she expected from her journey to India. We may rightly surmise that she had... may constantly keep this communion with Thee.... 14 Page 399 On 4 June, she recorded that the two supreme obstacles to realisation, the two impediments to the action of the Divine Law, were "the darkness of ignorance and the black smoke of egoistic ill-will". 15 People were ignorant: and people were selfish and perverse, which was even worse. The light of knowledge and the warmth... toil preparing the earth for a new sowing which will rise in marvellous spikes of grain and give to the world the shining harvest of a new race.... The vision is clear and precise, the plan of Thy divine law so plainly traced that peace has come back and installed itself in the hearts of the workers. 24 There is another invasion of doubt and darkness a few days later: Darkness has descended ...
... Sanskrit counterparts: 2. E.g., B.K. Ghosh, "The Aryan Problem", The Vedic Age, pp. 204-05. Page 32 Artasumara = Ritasmara, "remembering the divine law." Artadama = Ritadhaman, "abiding in the divine law." Abiratta = Abhiratha, "owner of a superior chariot." Swardata = Svardata, "given by Heaven." Biridaswa = Brihadashwa, "possessing great horses." ...
... an ascending scale. The first is personal need, preference and desire; Page 192 the second is the law and good of the collectivity; the third is an ideal ethic; the last is the highest divine law of the nature. Man starts on the long career of his evolution with only the first two of these four to enlighten and lead him; for they constitute the law of his animal and vital existence, and... are rejected by Nature because they insist unworkably on an impracticable absolute rule. Others prove in the end to be evolutionary compromises and become obsolete in the march of Time. The true divine law, unlike these mental counterfeits, cannot be a system of rigid ethical determinations that press into their cast-iron moulds all our life-movements. The Law divine is truth of life and truth of the ...
... the vast cosmic Intelligence in which Knowledge and 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... In the last obscuration of Nature, in the lowest unintelligence of Matter, it is this Will that is a concealed knowledge and compels all these darkened movements to obey, as if mechanically, the divine Law and adhere to the truth of their Nature. It is this which makes the tree grow according to its seed and each action bear its appropriate fruit. In the obscurity of man's ignorance,—less than material ...
... which the Avatar descends has like his birth a double sense and a double form. It has an outward side of the divine force acting upon the external world in order to maintain there and to reshape the divine law by which the Godward effort of humanity is kept from decisive retrogression and instead decisively carried forward in spite of the rule of action and reaction, the rhythm of advance and relapse by... Vaishnava dispensation of adoration and love, the bhakta representing the fellowship of those in whom that law is manifest, bhagavān , the divine Lover and Beloved in whose being and nature the divine law of love is founded and fulfils itself. The Avatar represents this third element, the divine personality, nature and being who is the soul of the Dharma and the saṅgha , informs them with himself ...
... [5.7.37]. It is you who proposed writing and I thought it better to let the pen draw something out. Otherwise you won't act and will let us go on suffering. Divine Law, I suppose, what? My dear Sir, I suffer the Divine Law myself—damned slow affair. ... I have now no push at all for sadhana; vital is peaceless, restless and unhappy. Can't concentrate at all. Life is dull and deathlike ...
... first stage, politics in India had handled Western methods, soon the second stage came when, "imbued with the spirit of the Divine Law", the main stress was on the adoration of India as the Mother. Politics was not a thing apart from life, but was a part of the Divine Law, and Sri Aurobindo pleaded that our young men should learn to root out hatred from their hearts, for rajasic turbulence in ...
... The Second Hymn to Mitra-Varuna The Givers of the Rain [Mitra and Varuna are by their united universality and harmony the guardians of the divine Truth and its divine Law eternally perfect in the ether of our supreme being; thence they rain down the abundance of the heavens and its bliss upon the favoured soul. Seers in man of that world of Truth, as they are, by... is the outflashing of its sense. × Vratāni , called the Aryan or divine workings, those of the divine law of the Truth to be revealed in man. The Dasyu or un-Aryan, whether human or superhuman, is he who is void of these diviner workings, opposes them in his darkened consciousness and tries to destroy ...
... demands, the superstition of the perfect rhyme and the superstition of the original rhyme. It is no objection to a rhyme that it is imperfect. There is nothing occult or cryptic in rhyme, no divine law compelling us to assimilate two rhymed endings to the very letter such as the law of the Vedic chant by which a single letter mispronounced sterilizes the mantra. Rhyme is a convenience and an ornament ...
... were the supreme significances of Indian religion and Yoga. He reached by them the fruits of his perfect spiritual evolution, an identity with the Self and Spirit, a dwelling in or with God, the divine law of his being, a spiritual universality, communion, transcendence. But distinctions are lines that can always be overpassed in the infinite complexity of man's nature and there was no sharp and ...
... but the spiritual aim makes them much more than this, first, a framework of life within which man can seek for and grow into his real self and divinity, secondly, an increasing embodiment of the divine law of being in life, thirdly, a collective advance towards the light, power, peace, unity, harmony of the diviner Page 36 nature of humanity which the race is trying to evolve. This and ...
... Force— which they must always feel. For them and by them, the words of Sri Aurobindo must be substantiated: this consummation is "fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law.... This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For the work ...
... Similar is Satyavan's experience in the forest when he sits with the sages: There poured awaking streams of diamond light 73 It bring association of diamond with light, with will, with divine law, with vision which have their original source in the Divine. No hostile force can counter it, no ordinary man can challenge it. Satyavan is privileged enough to receive this all-penetrative light ...
... True, Death is known as the son of Vivasvan, the Sun-god, and in him does the Dharma abide and by it does he protect or guard immoertality. "Surya the Lord of Light is bom as the guardian of the divine Law and the Yama-power." 33 This is the positive aspect of Yama in the creation; therefore he is also known as the ordainer of the worlds. On the other hand, Death as a dark power in the material creation ...
... especially as lovers. August 25, 1934 But, great snakes ! when did I ever tel1 you that faith in poetry an and his statements and the greatness of his ,__ as a Ending part of the Divine Law? Or that to _________ (Sri Aurobindo's Note :) Haradhan owes nothing to me except his "philosophy" - in his faith in himself etc., he is his own creator—a self-made man. and do you mean ...
... sheer escapism. The great Newton had stated in mathematical formulas the fixed laws of the heavenly bodies. According to Newton himself, the grand determinism of the starry processions proclaimed a divine law-giver. But the scientists who came after him had not the same gravity of mind as the discoverer of the Law of Gravitation. They were more interested in physical things as such, and the discovery ...
... concentration has possessed and is possessed by the three master instruments, the thought, the heart and the will,—a consummation fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law,—the perfection of mind and life and body can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute ...
... take upon himself as a robe of spiritual light and beauty. The revolvings of the great wheel bring to him no sense of terror or giddiness; he rises above it in his soul and knows from above their divine law and their divine purpose. The difficulty of harmonising the divine life with human living, of being in God and yet living in man is the very difficulty that he is set here to solve and not to shun ...
... religions. The sentiment of fear is indeed perfectly consistent with devotion of a certain kind and up to a certain point; at its highest it rises into a worship of the divine Power, the divine Justice, divine Law, divine Righteousness, and ethical obedience, an awed reverence for the almighty Creator and Judge. Its motive is therefore ethico-religious and it belongs not so strictly to the devotee, but to ...
... consecrated foundations, & even uses the ruins of old truth as stones for its irregular building. But such an usurpation can never endure. For, since the need of man's being is truth & light, the divine law, whose chief article it is that no just demand of the soul shall remain always unsatisfied, raises up Reason to clear away Superstition. Reason arrives as the Angel of the Lord, armed with her sword ...
... guides and determinants of their steps and their purpose. Secondly, it is executed with a mind concentrated and fixed on the idea of the thing to be done as a true sacrifice imposed on us by the divine law that governs our life and therefore performed out of a high inner obligation or imperative truth and without desire for the personal fruit,—the more impersonal the motive of the action and the t ...
... communities and races are formed. By destruction Page 384 of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit. Whoever turns from it in the weakness of ...
... toil preparing the earth for a new sowing which will rise in marvellous spikes of grain and give to the world the shining harvest of a new race.... The vision is clear and precise, the plan of Thy divine law so plainly traced that peace has come back and installed itself in the hearts of the workers. There are no more doubts and hesitations, no longer any anguish or impatience. There is only the grand ...
... What do we understand by the term "chance"? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute ...
... into self-giving, all darkness into light and all suffering into immutable happiness. But art Thou not already performing this beautiful miracle? I see it flowering everywhere around us! O divine law of beauty and love, supreme liberator, there is no obstacle to Thy power. Only our own blindness deprives us of the comforting sight of Thy constant victory. Page 54 My heart sings a ...
... fill one's lungs with pure and wholesome air, to get rid of all useless weariness, be relieved of all cumbrous loads, so as to run briskly towards the only goal worth attaining: the triumph of Thy divine Law! O Lord, with what joy and trust I greet Thee this morning!... Page 105 ...
... Mother - I: Relations with Others “Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute ...
... sudden show may be very useful for Sadhana. 22 August 1966 According to the law of man the guilty ought to be punished. But there is a law more imperative than the human law. It is the Divine law, the law of compassion and mercy. It is because of this law that the world is able to endure and progress towards Truth and Love. November 1966 Mother, Does the Divine punish ...
... of Thee, for I know that Thy Presence is constant and sovereign, I know that all we see and all that escapes our sight is just what it is only through Thy marvellous intervention, because of Thy divine law of love; but I say this and repeat it, I implore, in order to escape from forgetfulness and negligence. Oh! to become Thy living love so powerfully as to transfigure and illumine all things, so ...
... to awaken all things to the consciousness of Thy love which animates all. All those who do not recognise Thee, all those who do not know Thee, all those who try to turn away from Thy sweet and divine law, I take into my arms of love, I cradle them in my heart of love and offer them to Thy divine flames, so that penetrated by Thy miraculous effluence, they may be converted in Thy beatitude. O Love ...
... do we understand by the term "chance"? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramcntal— the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supcrmind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute ...
... Generally speaking, only those people indulge in Zulm who have acquired power, position, prestige, enormous wealth, state and government through unfair means. Such people ignore the divine law, forget the reality of the Day of Judgement and do not have the fear of God in their hearts. But those who fear Allah, they never indulge in Zulm; instead, when given a chance to rule, they ...
... not as ego or the vital creature; it turns him upside down –urdhomulo' vaksakhah-and establishes him upon his soul, his inner godhead. Thus established the individual soul finds and fulfils the divine law that by increasing itself it increases others and by increasing others it increases itself and thus by increasing one another they attain the supreme good. Unless man goes beyond himself and reaches ...
... guhyatamam rahasyam. This secret is that of the possibility of the transmutation of lower nature by higher nature, of the attainment of sadharmyam, where human law of action is substituted by the divine law of action. And the secret method is to move Page 276 at a stage where all that one is or one has is reposed unconditionally in the hands and in the being of the Supreme, as a result of ...
... inherent in the divine nature of bliss, the essential character of Aditi (or Para Prakriti, to use the term of the Gita). According to the Vedic parable of Shunahshepa, Varuna, the mighty lord of divine law and harmony, comes down in the aid of Shunahshepa, the symbolic individual soul, aspiring for liberation from three cords of Prakriti. Varuna sunders the threefold restraint, and the individual soul ...
... guhyatamam rahasyam. This secret is that of the possibility of the transmutation of lower nature by higher nature, of the attainment of sadharmyam, where human law of action is substituted by the divine law of action. And the secret method is to move at a stage where all that one is or one has is reposed unconditionally in the hands and in the being of the Supreme, as a result of which all that flows ...
... divine lover and the divine soldier, — these four types of the spiritual being, would be integrated in their entirety and the Gnostic individual would live and act in the world in union with the divine law of action, sādharmya, — not only through he perfected mental and vital consciousness but even through he supramentalised physical consciousness. He would be in he world and of the world but would ...
... and rise into the supra-conscious. And this brings us to the other line of discipline, the supreme discipline which means obedience not merely, not even to the cosmic law but to the transcendent Divine Law. Here the individual is absolutely, utterly, free from his little self, the minor self-law, he is totally merged in the Divine, his being and living becomes the Divine's own law of existence. ...
... obscurities of our mind and heart and senses, then she becomes the mistress of the house, the queen whom none thenceforth can disobey -all the limbs become her willing servitors and adorers. The divine Law rules even the external personality. The significance of the human personality, the role of the finite in the play of the infinite and universal, the sanctity of the material form as an expression ...
... individual. Beyond the moral law are spiritual ideals. These ideals are not limited to moral data but embrace the totality of our Page 218 being and totality of existence. The true divine law is not fully represented in exclusive formations of the mind or even in religious creeds that collide with other religious creeds. That is the reason why exclusive religions, even when proclaimed ...
... into the spiritual ecstasy. It is here that Hinduism provided various systems of Yoga so as to arrive at an identity with the self and spirit, or at a dwelling in or with God, at the practice of the divine law and at the highest spiritual universality in communication with transcendence. The frame of Hinduism which provided to each individual the needed guidance, the required "aspiration, and the ...
... their yield (the sweet drink). O Earth, establish in me the sweetness of speech (the Word). (17) S4e begets all things, the Mother of healing plants, the firm, the wide Earth, upheld by the Divine Law, full of bliss, full of happiness: upon this earth may we live and move ever and ever. (18) A mighty abode thou hast become mightiness itself: a great, speed and vibration and energy are ...
... Gupta - Vol. 8 Hymn to the Mental Being RIGVEDA Mandala X: Sukta 58 (1) THAT Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the solar world of Divine Law — We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in life. (2) That Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the Heaven, to the Earth — We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in ...
... to the gods which lead to the infinite wideness of the divine existence". "The eye of Dawn has come into being in front. The path of man is that of his journey to the Supreme plane. There is a divine law of the life into which soul has to grow". The Dawn leads to the "level wideness" Samāne ūrvé. This is the vast Truth and the infinite being of Aditi. The error, the crookedness, falsehood ...
... t which still governs us and has to be mastered. "It is impossible that in every terrestrial action there should not be a good and a bad side. Even the actions which best express the most divine law of Love contain in them something of the disorder and darkness inherent in the world as it is at present. "Some men, those who are called pessimists, perceive almost solely the dark side of ...
... desire. There is the sense of the common good of the community, which governs the actions even of animals; there is the reign of a moral code or of a religious ethic; and there is, above all, the divine law inherent in Nature though obscured and held in check by. the perversions of human egoism. For mankind the ultimate aim should be the realisation of the dream of Satya Yuga, an order of divine di ...
... June 9, 1981 (Extracts from a letter to Sir C.P.N. Singh, originally in English). ... There is no such thing as "illness" or "death" and all the bodies can enter another Law, a divine Law, if only they consent to shed their fears and wrong hereditary beliefs. So Mother has given me an overwhelming and almost fabulous proof of what can be done and how it can be done. (...) ...
... miracle — they do not understand that it is a concentrated evolution, rapid but following the law of creation, that has to take place. A miracle can be only a moment’s wonder. A change according to the Divine Law can alone endure. (14.11.33) ...
... supramental manifestation. For this supermind or gnosis is the entire organising will and knowledge of the spiritual, it is the Truth Consciousness, the Truth Force, the organic instrumentation of divine Law, the all-seeing eye of the divine Vision, the freely selecting and generating harmony of the eternal Ananda. Page 432 ...
... relative view-point has no validity at all? Not for a moment. On the contrary, it must be the expression, proper to each mentality according to the necessity of its nature and standpoint, of the divine Law. Heraclitus says that plainly; "Fed are all human laws by one, the divine." That sentence ought to be quite sufficient to protect Heraclitus against the charge of antinomianism. True, no human law ...
... is that of his journey to the supreme plane and that which the journeyings of the gods do not violate is, as we see, in the fifth verse where the phrase is repeated, the workings of the gods, the divine law of life into which the soul has to grow. We have then a curious image which seems to support the Arctic theory. "Many were those days which were before the rising of the Sun (or which were of old ...
... illuminations and powers of the Truth concealed behind the lower life and its crookednesses; Atharvan forms in their strength the Path and Surya the Lord of Light is then born as the guardian of the divine Law and the Yama-power; Ushanas drives the herded illuminations of our thought up that path of the Truth to the Bliss which Surya possesses; so is born from the law of the Truth the immortality to which ...
... error. This swadharma is of four general kinds formulated outwardly in the action of the four orders of the old Indian social culture, cāturvarṇya . That system corresponds, says the Gita, to a divine law, it "was created by me according to the divisions of the gunas and works,"—created from the beginning by the Master of existence. In other words, there are four distinct orders of the active nature ...
... sannyasa to a greater Power is free from Karma. Action he will do, for some kind of action, less or more, small or great, is inevitable, natural, right for the embodied soul,—action is part of the divine law of living, it is the high dynamics of the spirit. The essence of renunciation, the true Tyaga, the true Sannyasa is not any rule of thumb of inaction but a disinterested soul, a selfless mind, the ...
... open my eyes, illumine my heart, and lead me on the paths that go straight to Thee. O Lord, Lord, grant that I may have no other will than Thine and that all my acts may be an expression of Thy divine law. A great Light floods my whole being, and I am no longer conscious of anything but Thee.... Peace, peace, peace upon all the earth. Page 39 ...
... O my divine Master, not to let me make any mistakes; even if the instrument is still condemned for a time to unconsciousness, grant that it may let itself be guided faithfully and docilely by Thy divine law. I bow to Thee, O Lord, with a deep and pure devotion. Oh! Be the sovereign Master of all hearts. Page 130 ...
... which should exist parallel to and simultaneous with the first. It is the consecration, the constant and constantly repeated surrender of all the elements subject to our control to the Supreme and Divine Law. Each element that has become conscious of itself, each tendency, Page 132 each faculty, must surrender to the Sovereign Guidance of the Eternal Essence of Being, with the simple trust ...
... June 4, 1914 O thou who triumphest over all obstacles, Thou shalt be in us the victory over all that would be an obstacle to the accomplishment of Thy divine law. Thou wilt dispel the darkness of ignorance and the black smoke of egoistic ill-will; Thou wilt dissolve all wrong suggestions and strengthen in us a pure and clear vision and the perspicacity which ...
... of something in the subconscient which still governs the being and has to be mastered. Every action on earth is bound to have a good and a bad side. Even the actions which best express the most divine law of Love carry in them something of the disorder and darkness inherent in the world as it is today. Some people, those who are called pessimists, perceive almost exclusively the dark side of everything ...
... this stage, he who has given himself to Thee in all the sincerity of his being, with all his conscious will, he who has resolved to make every effort to help in the manifestation and triumph of Thy divine law of Love in himself and the whole field of his influence, sees all things in his life change, and all circumstances begin to express Thy law and assist his consecration; for him it is the best, the ...
... future; but in this state there is no longer a past, present or future, all is eternally. The order of manifestation of all these relations does not solely depend upon the supreme impulsion, the divine Law, it depends also upon the resistance put up against this law by the most external world; from the combination of the two there comes forth the manifestation and so far as it is at present possible ...
... 14 May 1951 "Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the supramental—the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the Supermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature, the supreme Truth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose and action which alone can constitute ...
... isles of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects—that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki—and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine. Whitman will remain great after all the objections that can be made against his method or his use of it, but the question is whether what served his unique ...
... spiritual anarchist, all men will be deeply free, and it will be so because the preliminary condition will have been satisfied. In that state each man will be not a law to himself, but the law, the divine Law, because he will be a soul living in the Divine Reality and not an ego living mainly if not entirely for its own interest and purpose. His life will be led by the law of his own divine nature liberated ...
... relations with God, the urge of the Divine upon him whether concealed in his nature or conscious in his higher self or inner genius. He obeys an inner ideal, not an outer standard; he answers to a divine law in his being, not to a social claim or a collective necessity. The ethical imperative comes not from around, but from within him and above him. It has been felt and said from of old that the laws ...
... discrimination; therefore by truth, by this truth-revealing action of the ideal faculty they increase in us the Truth, raising our thought, action & feeling into a spontaneous conformity with the divine law, devánám vrata. Mitra & Varuna are the lords, possessors & keepers of the ritam jyotih, the true light, and impart it to the man who gives himself to them in the sacrifice. I shall return to this ...
... miracle—they do not understand that it is a concentrated evolution, rapid but following the law of creation, that has to take place. A miracle can be only a moment's wonder. A change according to the Divine Law can alone endure. If the supramental can stand in the mind and vital, then it must stand in the physical also. If it does not stand in the physical, it cannot stand in the mind and vital also; ...
... Varuna as the upholders of the worlds or planes of being, especially the three luminous worlds in which the triple mental, the triple vital, the triple physical find the light of their truth and the divine law of their powers. The strength of the Aryan warrior is increased by them and guarded in that imperishable law. From the luminous worlds the rivers of the truth descend with their yield of bliss. In ...
... unity with all beings, a life governed and formed from within outwards in which the source of all thought, will and action shall be the Spirit working through the truth and Page 769 the divine law which are not built and constructed by the mind of Ignorance but are self-existent and spontaneous in their self-fulfilment, not so much a law as the truth acting in its own consciousness and in ...
... straining into excess and defect of force, incapacity, the rhythm of attainment and disappointment, possession and recoil, a constant strife and trouble and unease. Into the mind as a whole, instead of a divine law of narrower truth flowing into greater truth, lesser light taken up into wider light, lower will surrendered to higher transforming will, pettier satisfaction progressing towards nobler and more ...
... , and in proportion as it overcomes the material limitation giving and receiving become one. For in its upward ascent it grows towards the rule of conscious unity in differentiation which is the divine law of the manifest Page 216 Sachchidananda. The second term of the original status of life is subconscious will which in the secondary status becomes hunger and conscious desire,—hunger ...
... Space Page 153 and a movement, a working out, a development of relations and possibilities by causality—or what so appears to us—in Time and Space. The true name of this Causality is Divine Law and the essence of that Law is an inevitable self-development of the truth of the thing that is, as Idea, in the very essence of what is developed; it is a previously fixed determination of relative ...
... consciousness a subtle body of the mental being and a spiritual or causal body of the gnostic and bliss soul in which all the perfection of a spiritual embodiment is to be found, a yet unmanifested divine law of the body. Most of the physical siddhis acquired by certain Yogins are brought about by some opening up of the law of the subtle or a calling down of something of the law of the spiritual body ...
... of the Divine in the world. Here again the change is not any alteration of the essential modes of the Self, but consists in our emergence into the freedom of the Highest and the right use of the divine law of our being. Connected with this triple mode of the Self is that distinction which Indian philosophy has drawn between the Qualitied and the Qualitiless Brahman and European thought has made ...
... isles of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects—that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki—and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine." Thus, in Sri Aurobindo's estimate, Whitman, with the help of his modern intellectualism, is a pioneer of things beyond the mind and is one who blends ...
... dispense with morality unless you submit yourself to a law that is higher and much more rigorous than any moral law. 28 May 1947 You can break the moral rules only when you observe the Divine Law. Moral laws have only a very relative value from the point of view of Truth. Besides, they vary considerably according to country, climate and period. Discussions are generally sterile and ...
... sustenance. This conclusion is borne out by another phrase combining the latter with Christ: Teach me, O Holy Spirit, the Testimony of Jesus! let me Comprehend wonderous things out of the Divine Law! 275 So it is almost as if Blake were addressing a winged Christ to grant him grace for artistic and spiritual creativity. We may add that a symbolic association of wings with divinity ...
... enlightening remark about such a term: Gods as men The sons of the Infinite have a twofold birth. They are bora above in the divine Truth as creators of the worlds and guardians of the divine law; they are born also here in the world itself and in man as cosmic and human powers of the Divine.... The antique view of the world as a psychophysical and not merely a material reality is at the ...
... fair. 22 December 1934 X told me that for the last few days everything has been done according to Your will. But I think just the opposite—that very few things are done according to Your divine law. (I didn't tell him that.) You were right not to tell him; but it is quite true that in this world very little is done according to the divine will. 27 December 1934 Tell me, Mother ...
... Give us faith in a glorious future and the capacity to realise it. Lord, let consciousness and peace increase in us so that more and more we may be the faithful intermediaries of Thy one divine law. 31 December 1951 Lord, let nothing in us obstruct Thy work. February 1952 Page 216 Lord, deliver us from falsehood, make us emerge in Thy truth pure and worthy of ...
... first is personal need, preference and desire; the second is the law and good of the collectivity; the third is an ideal ethic; the last page - 77 is the highest and divine ideal and the divine law of the nature. (i) Standard of conduct which is prescribed by psychological and ethical but egoistic hedonism, falls into the first category; its argument is that because every individual ...
... Vol. 20, p. 190. Page 50 Beyond the moral law are spiritual ideals. These ideals are not limited to moral data but embrace the totality of our being and totality of existence. The true divine law is not fully represented in exclusive formations of the mind or even in religious creeds that collide with other religious creeds. That is the reason why exclusive religions, even when proclaimed ...
... spiritual anarchist, all men will be deeply free, and it will be so because the preliminary condition will have been satisfied. In that state each man will be not a law to himself, but the law, the divine Law, because he will be a soul living in the Divine and not an ego living mainly if not entirely for its own interest and purpose. His life will be led by the law of his own divine nature liberated from ...
... obscurities of our mind and heart and senses, then she becomes the mistress of the house, the queen whom none thenceforth can disobey—all the limbs become her willing servitors and adorers. The divine Law rules even the external personality. The significance of the human personality, the role of the finite in the play of the infinite and universal, the sanctity of the material form as an ...
... who has both knowledge and meditation, can reach Nirvana. [14] The Bhikkhu who has entered the house of emptiness, whose mind is quieted, who clearly distinguishes the Divine Law attains superhuman delight. [15] Each time he concentrates on the appearance and disappearance of the contingents, he enjoys the happiness and delight of those who have ...
... demand that we clear your paths in a moment and lead you to the divine realisation straightaway, then, I'm afraid, we will not do so. I have just explained why. Secondly, we too are subject to the Divine Law, a Law which our whim or desire may not break or alter. Thirdly, there is the human nature that is full of impurities like jealousy and anger, restlessness, desires, fears and inertia. This nature ...
... of Greece. What he has not, is the unfailing poetic beauty and nobility which saves greatness from its defects - that supreme gift of Homer and Valmiki - and the self-restraint and obedience to a divine law which makes even the gods more divine. 14 Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles before the work of Hopkins, Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Auden and the later Yeats achieved publication, and even ...
... relativity. But to give up the ordinary human laws before one has securely anchored oneself to the spiritual law will be to cause and to court disaster. Like the lower human and the higher Divine law, there is the lower human justice ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"!), and there is the higher Divine Grace: The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course ...
... each, the glances filled with quietude, the form of the shadow projected by the tree [the Service Tree in the Ashram courtyard], everything proclaims obedience to law. Happy the one who can find the divine law beautiful.. .. 1 Although it is not easy to get entry into the world invisible yet omnipresent of the Spirit, his new-found faith was such that he apostrophised the Mother in a rhapsody: ...
... Divine. "He who, in all sincerity of his being, has given himself to Thee With all his conscious will, he who has resolved to make every effort to help in the manifestation and triumph of Thy divine law of Love in him and in the whole zone of his influence, sees everything change in his life and all circumstances begin to express Thy law Page 49 and facilitate his consecration; ...
... beneficent framework within which one's real self could be sought and made to grow into the image of the Divine, and the truly cultured Indian would try to become increasingly the embodiment of the divine law and being in everyday life. In the concluding passage of The Renaissance in India, Sri Aurobindo has summed up his great hope for India when the renaissance would have perhaps fulfilled itself: ...
... उक्थ्यः ॥६॥ 6) O Flame, thou burnest high and increasest the divine laws and art the conqueror of a thousandfold riches; thou art the messenger of the gods who hast the word. न्यग्निं जातवेदसं होत्रवाहं यविष्ठ्यम् । दधाता देवमृत्विजम् ॥७॥ 7) Set within you the Flame who knows the births, bearer of the offering, youngest vigour, divine sacrificer in the seasons of the Truth. प्र यज्ञ ... Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Priest and Sacrificial Flame [The Rishi invokes the Divine Flame in all its usual attributes as the sacrificer, the luminous seer who has the vision of the luminous world, the bringer of the gods, the carrier of the offering, the envoy, conqueror, increaser of the divine workings in man, the knower of the Births, the leader of the march of the sacrifice with its ...
... the earth Was great indeed, a firm and mighty birth. A century's progress lived before my eyes. Delivered from amazement and surprise, Man's spirit measuring his worlds around The laws of sight divined and laws of sound. Light was not hidden from her searching gaze, Nor matter could deny its myriad maze To the cold enquiry; for the far came near, The small loomed large, the intricate grew... Other Poems Collected Poems A Vision of Science Know more > I dreamed that in myself the world I saw, Wherein three Angels strove for mastery. Law Was one, clear vision and denial cold, Yet in her limits strong, presumptuous, bold; The second with enthusiasm bright, Flame in her heart but round her brows the night, Faded as this advanced. ...
... and reads ): "According to the law of men, the guilty must be punished. But there is a more imperative law than the human law: it is the law of the Divine, the law of compassion and mercy. It is thanks to this law that the world can last and progress... The vision was so clear. It was such a clear vision.... If you Page 269 follow this law of the guilty who must be punished,... then little by little, with the unfolding of things, everything should be punished! ( Mother laughs ) Nothing would remain! So Sri Aurobindo said: "It is thanks to this law that the world can last and progress towards Truth and Love." The guilty must be punished!... It's always the same idea; men always have that idea: the guilty must be punished—but where does that lead to?? ( silence... translations: And earth [shall] grow unexpectedly divine. It's again the quality of the vibration: sans s'y attendre ["without expecting it"] is fuller—it's fuller, more golden. The other, d'une Page 274 façon inattendue ["in an unexpected way"] is a bit cold and dry. "Et sans s'y attendre, la Terre deviendra divine..." × ...
... into the divine. The law, the Dharma which the Avatar establishes is given for that purpose chiefly; the Christ, Krishna, Buddha stands in its centre as the gate, he makes through himself the way men shall follow. That is why each Incarnation holds before men his own example and declares of himself that he is the way and the gate; he declares too the oneness of his humanity with the divine being, declares... moral law. 4.The Message of the Gita, as interpreted by Sri Aurobindo, edited by Anilbaran Roy (George Allen & Unwin Ltd,, London, 1946), pp. 67, 68-69. 5.Ibid., p. 70, fn. 1 (Continued to p. 71). Page 85 manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising into the divine nature... manifestation and there is a gradation between the supreme being of the Divine and the consciousness shrouded partly or wholly by ignorance of self in the finite. The conscious embodied soul is the spark of the divine Fire and that soul in man opens out to self-knowledge as it develops out of ignorance of self into self-being. The Divine also, pouring itself into the forms of the cosmic existence, is ...
... instrument of a complete divine living on earth is a necessary part of the supramental transformation. In its highest movement, Sri Aurobindo envisages illumination of the whole physical consciousness and a divinizing of the law of the body. The yogic literature, particularly relating to Hatha yoga and Tantra, speaks of physical siddhis acquired by some opening up of the law of the subtle or a calling... Personality and impersonality, the two eternal aspects of existence, are made one by its action in the spiritual being and Nature body of the Purushottama." 64 Gnostic Perfection and Divinizing the law of the Body The fourth element of perfection relates to the supramental Page 74 or Gnostic perfection and the physical body, and it aims at and accomplishes the transformation... desireless instrument of the divine will that works itself out triumphantly through the individual. But there is also another consequence. With the knowledge of the divine being and the divine will as also with the dynamic operation of the divine will in the individual instrumentality, the individual grows not only into the divine Consciousness and divine Force but also into the divine Delight. There is then ...
... assumption. Far from the world being a mechanism of law with no soul or spirit intervening in the movement of its forces or the action of its minds and bodies,—only some original indifferent Spirit passively existing somewhere outside or above it,—the whole world and every particle of it is on the contrary nothing but the divine force in action and that divine force determines and governs its every movement... and easy in the human world; it belongs indeed to that world alone. The other, the divine self-fulfilment in man by the sacrifice with knowledge to the supreme Godhead, is much more difficult; its results belong to a higher plane of existence and they are less easily grasped. Men therefore have to follow the fourfold law of their nature and works and on this plane of mundane action they seek the Godhead... fourfold law, yet I must be known also as the non-doer, the imperishable, the immutable Self. "Works affect me not, nor have I desire for the fruit of works;" for God is the impersonal beyond this egoistic personality and this strife of the modes of Nature, and as the Purushottama also, the impersonal Personality, he possesses this supreme freedom even in works. Therefore the doer of divine works even ...
... Nature were wrested one by one, and they were sorted out, Page 159 categorised, and all but taken for granted: Man's spirit measuring his worlds around The laws of sight divined and laws of sound, Light was not hidden from its searching gaze, Nor matter could deny her myriad maze To the cold enquiry; for the far came near, The small loomed large... in vain among the "unwonted stars" and covered the infinite spaces? The Rishi answers: King, not in vain.... ... I saw How earth was made Out of His being; I perceived the Law, The Truth, the Vast, From which we came and which we are; I heard The ages past Whisper their history, and I knew the Word That forth was cast Into the unformed... and this may be inferred from Kama's own exhortation: Thou, O solid earth, Enter into all life, support the worlds. I send forth joy to cheer the hearts of men, I send forth law to harmonise and rule. And when these things are done, when men have learned Page 172 My beauty. My desirability, My bliss, I will conceal myself from their desire ...
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