... realizations in great detail. The peaks of these experiences include: (i) the knowledge of divine birth, (divyam janma) and divine work, (divyam karma); 69 (ii) the attainment of Brahma-nirvana, 70 the total nirvana in the state of immobile Brahman in the freedom of which divine work can take place; (iii) the great perception of the birth and development of divine qualities in the cosmic movement and... of Sri Krishna in action, 72 the great time-vision, specially granted to Arjuna by Sri Krishna. Divine Birth and Divine Work (Divyam Janma, Divyam Karma) Divyam janma, divine birth, can be regarded as the crucial means of Karma Yoga, and divyam karma, divine work, may be regarded, as the culmination of Karma Yoga. These two constitute the centrality of the answer that Sri Krishna gives... Prakriti and Apara Prakriti, and the resultant action is the divine work, divyam karma, which by its very nature unifies and promotes the highest good of all towards increasing and constant harmony, lokasangraha. This is the reason why Sri Krishna speaks of the object of lokasangraha as the distinguishing characteristic of the divine work. The consequence of this entire working of the sacrifice is ...
... selfish intention of personal perfection; we pursue it because the divine Work has to be accomplished. But why do we do this divine Work? It is to make ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. So long as a personal aspiration or desire, a selfish will... to do a divine work upon earth, one must come with to of patience and endurance. One must know how to live in eternity and wait for the consciousness to awaken in everyone—the consciousness of what true integrity is. Source Doing the Divine Work Mother, if for instance in the long jump one makes an effort to jump a greater and greater distance, how does one do the divine work? Eh... should consecrate myself to the divine Work, I am ready to do any work at all that you give me", then I say, "Good, that's all right. If you have goodwill, endurance, and some capacity, it is all right. But to find the solitude necessary for your inner development it is better to go somewhere else, anywhere else, but not here." Source Why This Divine Work? ...all this perfection which ...
... below and tackle all the problems. The Mother A special reason Mother, if for instance in the long jump one makes an effort to jump a greater and greater distance, how does one do the divine work? Eh? Excuse me, it is not for the pleasure of doing the long jump, it is to make your body more perfect in its functioning, and, therefore, a more suitable instrument for receiving the divine... are, then will come the time for work in which capacity can really be shown, although even then the showing of capacity Will be an incident and can never be the main consideration or the object of divine work. Sri Aurobindo All is the Mother's work In work there must be a rule and discipline and as much punctuality as possible in regard to time. What is good work and what is bad... Sri Aurobindo The spirit of Karmayoga Work here and work done in the world are of course Page 15 not the same thing. The work there is not in any way a divine work in special - it is ordinary work in the world. But still one must take it as a training and do it in the spirit of Karmayoga -what matters there is not the nature of the work in itself, but the spirit ...
... is a thing happening every minute. If all this energy, all this consciousness that is being ceaselessly poured upon you all were used for the right purpose, that is to say, for the divine work, for preparing the divine work, we would have gone by now far on the road, much farther than where we are at present. But unfortunately everyone, if not consciously, at least instinctively, absorbs as much as possible... the mutual dependence of things and beings is quite another matter: it is the indispensable basis for Sadhana. But cannot one study for the sake of the Divine, to prepare oneself for the divine work? One can. But that requires quite a different attitude. You have to study in altogether another spirit. First of all, there would be no subject that pleases you, none that displeases you... are in a condition when you begin to learn from everything Page 98 that you meet with, everything is an occasion for an experience, a knowledge: everything prepares you for the divine work, everything is interesting. If you study in that spirit, it is quite all right. How is it that so much money is allowed to be wasted here? People entrusted with a work seem to spend lavishly ...
... a thing happening every minute. If all this energy, all this consciousness that is being ceaselessly poured upon you, all were used for the right purpose, that is to say, for the divine work, for preparing the divine work, we would have gone by now far on the road, much farther than where we are at present. But unfortunately everyone, if not consciously, at least instinctively, absorbs as much as possible... of the mutual dependence of things and beings is quite another matter: it is the indispensable basis for Sadhana. But cannot one study for the sake of the Divine, to prepare oneself for the divine work? One can. But that requires quite a different attitude. You have to study in an altogether different spirit. First of all, there would be no subject that pleases you, none that displeases... preferences disappear. You are in a condition when you begin to learn from everything that you meet with, everything is an occasion for an experience, a knowledge: everything prepares you for the divine work, everything is interesting. If you study in that spirit, it is quite all right. How is it that so much money is allowed to be wasted here? People entrusted with a work seem to spend lavishly ...
... either to consecrate itself to the divine Work or go elsewhere, that is, in the higher worlds. But generally, having come to this stage, it remembers all that has happened to it and understands the great necessity of coming to the help of those who are yet struggling in the midst of difficulties. These psychic beings give their whole existence to the divine Work—this is not absolute, inevitable, they... of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses to continue doing the Divine Work or renounces... needs of its new experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage. And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the idea of service, of collective help and participation in the divine Work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain elements of the mind and vital from previous lives which, having been organised and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives, could ...
... Sri Aurobindo The divine Will But why do we do this divine Work? It is to make ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It Page 90 is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. The Mother Belonging totally to the Divine That is... Inner growth The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker. Sri Aurobindo Only for the divine work Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo The heavens within The heavens beyond are great and wonderful, but greater and more wonderful are... an offering Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo ...
... something which is happening every minute. If all the Energy, all the Consciousness which is constantly poured out upon you all, were used for the true purpose, that is, for the divine work and the preparation for the divine work, we should be already very far on the road, much Page 155 farther than we are. But everybody, more or less consciously, and in any case instinctively, absorbs as much... thing. It is one of the indispensable stages of sadhana. Mother, can't one study for the Divine? That means? Can one study for the Divine and not for oneself, prepare oneself for the divine work? Yes, if you study with the feeling that you must develop yourselves to become instruments. But truly, it is done in a very different spirit, isn't it?—very different. To begin with, there ... longer any teachers who are pleasant or any who are not—all that disappears immediately. One enters a state in which one takes whatever happens as an opportunity to learn to prepare oneself for the divine work, and everything becomes interesting. Naturally, if one is doing that, it is quite all right. What you have said in the Bulletin about "educating the mind"—this means that one educates oneself ...
... The Yoga of Divine Works The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XII The Divine Work One question remains for the seeker upon the way of works, when his quest is or seems to have come to its natural end,—whether any work or what work is left for the soul after liberation and to what purpose? Equality has been seated in the nature or governs the whole nature; there... the Presence, is once more before us. But the Divine is here in the world,—not only in status but in dynamis, not only as a spiritual self and presence but as power, force, energy,—and therefore a divine work in the world is possible. Page 267 There is no narrow principle, no field of cabined action that can be imposed on the Karmayogin as his rule or his province. This much is true that every... souls", and cannot therefore be confined to the movement of a personal salvation and escape. Page 270 Even in his transcendence of cosmic limitations he is still one with all in God; a divine work remains for him in the universe. That work cannot be fixed by any mind-made rule or human standard; for his consciousness has moved away from human law and limits and passed into the divine ...
... selfish intention of personal perfection; we pursue it because the divine Work has to be accomplished. But why do we do this divine Work? It is to make ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. So long as a personal aspiration or desire, a selfish will... for that and you want that; that's enough." You see, one may have a very good will, a life oriented towards a divine realisation, in any case, a kind of more or less superficial consecration to a divine work, and not do yoga. To do Sri Aurobindo's yoga is to want to transform oneself integrally, it is to have a single aim in life, such that nothing else exists any longer, that alone exists. And ...
... are, then will come the time for work in which capacity can really be shown—although even then the showing of capacity will be an incident and can never be the main consideration or the object of divine work. 28 August 1931 Page 750 When I was working in the Satyagraha movement, I worked with a zeal and energy I don't seem to have here. Is it because there is no fighting programme except... useful to a sadhak in the early stages of his sadhana so that he may learn equanimity; but the utility of it for a sadhak of the Asrama is not very clear. Personal or family work is not part of the divine Work unless as in X 's case it is dedicated to the Divine—for he gives all its profits here. But in your case it is family property and that is not possible. We are therefore rather doubtful as to how... how this would fit in at the present stage of your sadhana. 25 April 1935 Work here and work done in the world are of course not the same thing. The work there is not in any way a divine work in special—it is ordinary work in the world. But still one must take it as a training and do it in the spirit of karmayoga—what matters there is not the nature of the work in itself but the spirit in which ...
... are hostile to the divine Work. And usually I have heard many people speaking of "hostile forces"—for instance, "the hostile forces of illness which attack me". This is too personal a point of view, it may not be the result of hostile forces; you call them hostile because they attack you. But in fact, when one speaks of hostile forces it means forces hostile to the divine Work or the divine Will... one can't say that it is any kind of work for the progress of humanity or even for the progress of the universe. But there is nothing, not even the most hostile things, which can't be used for the divine Work. It depends on how it is taken. But it must be said that in their relation with human beings they take a very wicked pleasure in testing them. For example, if you are not extremely strong and extremely ...
... of the most important results of Yoga turned to action and is especially important in this Yoga. 8 August 1932 Page 765 Fund-Raising How can I make myself fit for the Mother's divine work? Should I actively pull her power or open myself passively and wait for it to descend and work in and through me? What are the conditions that I must fulfil to allow the materialisation of this money... can always be made. 13 March 1933 The vital forces who hold the money power do not want to give or yield anything except for vital purposes, it is only under compulsion that they give for divine work. 15 May 1933 I am rather anxious to know the average monthly expenses of the Asram. Over Rs. 6000 a month—including the building expenses and all other current expenditure. Of course buying... and the rest is desirable only in so far as it helps or leads towards that or when it is realised, extends and manifests the realisation. Manifestation and organisation of the whole life for the divine work,—first, the sadhana personal and collective necessary for the realisation and a common life of God-realised men, secondly, for help to the world to move towards that, and to live in the Light—is ...
... of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses to continue doing the Divine Work or renounces... needs of its new experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage. And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the idea of service, of collective help and participation in the divine Work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain elements of the mind and vital from previous lives which, having been organised and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives, could ...
... path of Karma or spiritual action—begins when one is luminously aware of the Guide and the guidance and when one feels the Power working with oneself as the instrument and the participator in the divine work. I gather from X 's letter to you that he has been following a very sound method in his practice and has attained some good results. The first step in Karmayoga of this kind is to diminish... need and one cannot give it up even if in moments of despondency one thinks one can. Work here and work done in the world are of course not the same thing. The work there is not in any way a divine work in special—it is ordinary work in the world. But still one must take it as a training and do it in the spirit of karmayoga—what matters there is not the nature of the work in itself but the spirit... all things is the condition for being a flawless servant. Yes, the use to which you have turned your vital capacities in Bengal and Bombay,—to turn them into instruments of service and the Divine Work, is certainly the best possible. Through such action and such use of the vital power, one can certainly progress in Yoga. Vital power is necessary for work and you Page 245 have an e ...
... likelihood of mistake being committed. If he is a mere human Guru, then if he is a Bengali he would like to give his grace to Bengalis or he would choose his relatives. That has nothing to do with the divine work. All that idea about patit-pāvan and adham uddhār means only this that however bad or seemingly wicked the external life may be, the man can yet be saved if he has something in him which can... there is nothing else to be done. They also maintain that after that all the work a man does is., not his but God's, Page 130 Sri Aurobindo : How do they know ? And what "divine" work do they do ? Disciple : Generally, they were monks and so they used to do the work of the Church. Sri Aurobindo : That is what I say, that even when one gets the experience of the... one generally remains what he was in his mental and vital being. And so they go about with the usual ideas of the Church or religion in the orthodox sense, making themselves believe that it is the divine work. It is another side of the Adwaitawadins – the monists – who believe the world to; be Maya, illusion. Once you get the realisation of the Brahman the rest does not matter – they don't ...
... body in which the Divine incarnates should be not only the most important thing, but even the thing exclusively important, more important than the divine Work itself, or rather that this body should become the symbol and the concretisation of the divine Work upon earth.' 1953 Feb-Aug Publication of her article The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations. 'Life on earth is not a passage or a... practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my body's sleep by several teachers'. One of them she was 'led to call Krishna' and she became 'aware that it was with him that the divine work was to be done'. c. 1891-92 Every night 'I went out of my body and rose straight up... clad in a magnificent golden robe, much longer than myself.... Then I would see men, women, children, ...
... A visitor to the Ashram in 1935-36, the French writer Maurice Magre, wrote in a book published in 1936 in Paris: In the order that reigns in the Ashram one feels admiration for the divine work. The work portioned out to 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.... their mission and, on the other hand, the scattered isolated pockets of doubt, dissidence, darkness, negation and even revolt in which the hostile forces found a favourable soil for their anti-divine work. Writing on 15 March 1937, Sri Aurobindo made a reference to this dichotomy: When people with a little perceptiveness come from outside, they are struck by the deep calm and peace in the ... want of me?" The Mother's answer is threefold: (i) find your true self or psychic being; (ii) master and govern your lower nature; and (iii) with this preparation, take your proper place in the Divine Work. 19 The regimen is not easy to follow, but the awareness of the Divine presence everywhere can be a help. But the disciple feels an inner unease and turmoil, and asks the Mother why. Her answer ...
... abstract sounding sentences tell us the following: 1. The dangerous international situation was the work of forces inimical to the Divine Work. 2. Hitler was an instrument of those forces. 3. War could have erupted at that moment but was provisionally prevented. The Divine Work was the effort of materializing a higher consciousness, the Supermind, in the terrestrial evolution. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... complex and generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and understanding they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those who work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those who are opposed to this fulfilment … Hitler is a choice instrument for the anti-divine forces who want violence, upheavals and war, for they know that these things delay and ...
... He wants that you first find yourself; that with your true being, your psychic being, you master and govern the lower being, and then you will quite naturally take your proper place in the great Divine Work. Where is my true being? Farther within or higher above, on the other side of the emotions, beyond the mind. Page 154 I feel indignant, Mother, for I cannot find my "self"... playing upon the water. Or, better still, not to have thought at all but contemplated the Divine Grace. If you do your work as an offering which you lay in all sincerity at the feet of the Divine, work will do you as much good as meditation. Perhaps I am mistaken in believing that I shall find myself close to you more rapidly by dissolving my being than by mixing with many people and doing... saying something stupid when one speaks. It is never good to tell a lie, but here its results cannot but be disastrous, for falsehood is the very symbol of that which wants to oppose the divine work of Truth. X Health is the outer expression of a deep harmony, one must be proud of it and not despise it. Why imagine always that one is ill or is going to be ill and thus open ...
... and comes from a collective impurity. The Ashram as a whole is evidently very far from what it should be to be equal to its task and give to the world the example of a total consecration to the Divine Work and the Page 298 preparation of the future. The forms of illness vary according to the condition of each person and his link with the whole. 8 July 1964 Sweet Mother, I... forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need to come to grips with life before they can be ready for the divine work, and that is why they leave to undergo the test of ordinary life. 11 November 1964 Sweet Mother, I have a habit of blaming myself, of making myself responsible for all misunderstandings;... Sweet Mother, What are the qualities needed for one to be called "a true child of the Ashram"? Page 345 Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the Divine work and unshakable trust in the Divine Grace. All this must be accompanied by a sustained, ardent, persevering aspiration and a boundless patience. Happy New Year 28 December 1966 Sweet ...
... t was a necessity of the general sadhana, i.e. of the Divine Work. That descent could not be held up till everybody had conquered his vital nature or till you personally had done so. What "Divine Work" is referred to here? The work of the Yoga which includes the preparation for the Supermind. There is no other divine Work being done here, so the question as to what work has no ...
... what it was. He continued : For ordinary men work is, of course, necessary, but one who wants to do "divine work" must prepare himself. He must learn to be "an instrument" first. All these Europeans have to learn that the work they take up is only a preparation for the divine work. They must know that it is not any mentally constructed work to which they must obstinately stick, if they... instance, all these tall ideas like Madame Y's about regenerating India and taking up big schemes and being regarded as big workers and saviours have got a fascination. One who wants to do the divine work must learn to forget the difference between important and unimportant work, – small work and great work – till the work that is intended is found by him. Disciple : She would profit ...
... worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, much of your will, and all that not for your own sake, but, say, for the divine work (that is the offering); now suppose that after having taken all this trouble, done all this work, made all these efforts, it all goes just the other way round, it does not succeed. If you are truly... On the other hand, if you do not have this deep and spontaneous surrender, you tell yourself: "How is it? I took so much trouble to do a thing which is not for a selfish purpose, which is for the Divine Work, and this is the result, it is not successful!" Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is like that. True surrender is a very difficult thing. For self-surrender, should one continue to do ...
... of the Divine Work, then he has a fresh progress to make, a progress in the capacity for work, for organisation of his work and for expression of the Divine Will. So there is a time when the thing changes. So long as he remains in the world, so long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will progress. Only if he withdraws into the psychic world and refuses to continue doing the Divine Work or renounces ...
... help in constructing the whole organisation of the Ashram. You can do it not with any personal Page 268 gain in view, but with the intention of making yourselves ready to accomplish the divine work! This seems to me even quite indispensable if you want to profit fully from the situation. If you keep the ordinary point of view, well, you will always find yourselves in conditions which are not... satisfactory, and incapable of receiving all the forces you can receive. Mother, if for instance in the long jump one makes an effort to jump a greater and greater distance, how does one do the divine work? Eh? Excuse me, it is not for the pleasure of doing the long jump, it is to make your body more perfect in its functioning, and, therefore, a more suitable instrument for receiving the divine ...
... either to consecrate itself to the divine Work or go elsewhere, that is, in the higher worlds. But generally, having come to this stage, it remembers all that has happened to it and understands the great necessity of coming to the help of those who are yet struggling in the midst of difficulties. These psychic beings give their whole existence to the divine Work—this is not absolute, inevitable, they ...
... universal one—and, consequently, if this truth had been realised at that moment, it would have dislocated a certain ensemble and many things which form a part of the divine Work (for everything, in fact, is a part of the divine Work, the entire creation, the entire universe): one part of the whole would have been left behind. Page 115 People always ask, "But if the Divine is all-powerful ...
... worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, much of your will, and all that not for your own sake, but, say, for the divine work (that is the offering); now suppose that after having taken all this trouble, done all this work, made all these efforts, it all goes just the other way round, it does not succeed. If you are truly... On the other hand, if you do not have this deep and spontaneous surrender, you tell yourself: "How is it? I took so much trouble to do a thing which is not for a selfish purpose, which is for the Divine Work, and this is the result, it is not successful!" Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is like that. The Mother Looking sincerely into oneself If in the work you meet with some difficulties ...
... all for him and the divine Ananda. Sri Aurobindo Money for the divine work How can one know if one's way of using money is in accordance with the divine Will? Page 36 One must first know what the divine Will is. But there is a surer way - to surrender money for the divine work, if one is not sure oneself. "Divinely" means at the service of the ...
... ble stages of sadhana. Page-168 Mother, can't one study for the Divine? That means? Can one study for the Divine and not for oneself, prepare oneself for the divine work? Yes, if you study with the feeling that you must develop yourselves to become instruments. But truly, it is done in a very different spirit, isn't it? very different. To begin with,... longer any teachers who are pleasant or any who are not all that disappears immediately. One enters a state in which, whatever happens one takes as an opportunity to learn to prepare oneself for the divine work, and everything becomes interesting. Naturally, if one is doing that, it is quite all right. What you have said in the Bulletin, "educating the mind" this means that one educates oneself ...
... This Yoga implies not only the realisation of God, but an entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work. This means an inner discipline far more exacting and difficult than mere ethical and physical austerities. One must not enter on this path, far vaster and more arduous than most ways of Yoga, unless... one is fit—for all human beings are full of faults and incapacities—even the greatest sadhaks are not free. It is a question only of aspiration, of believing in the divine Grace and letting the Divine work in you, not making a refusal. It is difficult to say that any particular quality makes one fit or the lack of it unfit. One may have strong sex impulses, doubts, revolts and yet succeed in ...
... the life and the use of the powers. These powers are now used in an egoistic spirit and for undivine ends; they have to be used in a spirit of surrender to the Divine and for the purposes of the divine Work. That is what is meant by conquering them back for the Mother. If anyone feels himself too weak to resist the clutch of the egoistic money-force he need not make the endeavour. Page 384 ... of what has to be rejected, sex, vanity, ego-centrism, attachment, etc. etc.; but that does not include rejection of the activities and powers that can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work, such as art, music, poetry etc.—Yoga can be done without the rejection of life, without killing or impairing the life-joy and the vital force. I have objected in the past to vairagya of the ...
... On the other hand it is by means of the universe that the Page 50 individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must ... mysterious transcendent something of which his sense of personality gives him an obscure and egoistic representation. Otherwise he has missed his goal, the problem set to him has not been solved, the divine work for which he accepted birth has not been done. The universe comes to the individual as Life,—a dynamism the entire secret of which he has to master and a mass of colliding results, a whirl of ...
... consecrate itself to the Divine Work or to go and roam about elsewhere, in higher worlds,’ said the Mother. ‘But generally, once arrived at that stage, it remembers everything it had to go through and it becomes aware of the great necessity to come and help those who are still struggling and in difficulty. The psychic beings of this kind consecrate their existence to the Divine Work. This is neither absolute ...
... and do its work well, that nothing of true value is lost, that true love is always there, immutable, and that only those movements which were not in conformity with the Divine Work have been destroyed. For it is to the Divine Work that one must exclusively belong because it alone can, in our life, give us true happiness. What has happened was more or less expected. Each one in life acts according ...
... which the Divine incarnates should be not only the most important thing, but even the thing exclusively important, more important than the divine Work itself, or rather that this body Page 54 should become the symbol and the concretisation of the divine Work upon earth. 3 October 1952 It is never work that makes me tired; it is when I am compelled to work in an atmosphere of diss ...
... * Supramental Descent Page 266 sadhana, i.e. of the Divine Work." Will you kindly explain what work of the Divine is meant here? Is there any reference to the Super mind? The work of the yoga which includes the preparation for the Supermind. There is no other divine Work being done here, so the question as to what work has no meaning. Though ...
... for cherishing, conserving and making the right use of the "marvellous things that are Thy (God's) gifts to us at every instant,” an integral and dynamic aspiration for collaborating in the divine work, and most important of all, faith, a faith "active and ardent, absolute and unshakable”, not only in the Divine, but in His Victory. Faithfulness means to be completely under the influence of... perfection depend upon the spirit in which he makes use of them. Lastly, what is most fruitful in the self-surrendering attitude of the servant of the Divine, is a resolute will to collaborate in the divine work with an absolute, unshakable faith in the ultimate Victory. This collaboration implies an active, and not a passive, surrender; the perception of the divine Will and the nature and purpose of ...
... 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 can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action.... Even when the little ego has been abolished, the true Spiritual Person... image of a crowned potentate. We have not yet guillotined God, even if we claim to be atheists. We have not yet gone beyond the patriarchal image of the Divinity and are thus unable to recognize the divine work in the acoustic and visual games made possible by electron 7 ics, even though the refining of consciousness which they imply is a mark of a divine process. Where consciousness is expanded in whatever ...
... and do its work well, that nothing of true value is lost, that true love is always there, immutable, and that only those movements which were not in conformity with the Divine Work have been destroyed. For it is to the Divine Work that one must exclusively belong because it alone can, in our life, give us true happiness. The Mother ...
... ‘Hitler’s aim is not the establishment of the master race, nor world conquest either; these are only the means of the great work dreamed of by him. His true objective is to perform a work of creation, a divine work, the aim of biological mutation. It will result in an ascension of humanity without equal up to now, in “the apparition of a humanity of heroes, of half-gods, of men-gods.”’ 17 Hermann Rauschning... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura.’ ...
... the rest is desirable only in so far as it helps or leads towards that or when it is realised, extends and manifests the realisation. Manifestation and organisation of the whole life for the divine work – first, the sadhana personal and collective necessary for the realisation and a common life of God-realised men, secondly for help to the world to move towards that, and to live in the Light... all, something has been done in the outer field and that may help or prepare for getting something done in the inner field also. For instance, India is free and her freedom was necessary if the divine work was to be done. The difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to be cleared out. ...
... vanity or ambition, only willing to be a pure and perfect instrument, desiring nothing for itself but that the Truth may prevail within itself and everywhere and the Divine Victory take place and the Divine Work be done. It [ the true vital ] is capable of receiving the movements of the higher consciousness, and afterwards it can be capable of receiving the still greater supramental power and Ananda... vital strength there are also. It is often difficult for such a vital to surrender itself because of this sense of its own powers—but if it can do so, it becomes an admirable instrument for the Divine Work. No, a weak vital has not the strength to turn spiritually—and being weak more easily falls under a wrong influence and even when it wants, finds it difficult to accept anything beyond its ...
... "consecration", a flame even greater than in the word "offering". To consecrate oneself is "to give oneself to an action"; hence, in the yogic sense, it is to give oneself to some divine work with the idea of accomplishing the divine work. "When the resolution has been taken, when you have decided that the whole of your life shall be given to the Divine, you have still at every moment to remember it ...
... 11-12 How can one know if one's way of using money is in accordance with the divine Will? One must first know what the divine will is. But there is a surer way—to surrender money for the divine work, if one is not sure oneself. "Divinely" means at the service of the Divine—it means not to use money for one's own satisfaction but to place it at the Divine's service. Sri Aurobindo speaks of... understand well what you mean, if one knows that a man has acquired money by the most unnamable means, obviously, it would not be good to go and ask him for money Page 379 for some divine work, because that would be like "rehabilitating" his way of gaining money. One cannot ask, that is not possible. If, spontaneously, for some reason, he gives it, there is no reason to refuse it. But ...
... vital world, a world essentially hostile to the Divine. Only the vital in man, under the psychic influence, can change and become a collaborator in the divine work. Otherwise, the vital world is essentially formed of beings hostile to the divine work, and those who open themselves to these forces without any control are naturally under the influence of the adverse forces. So, one can't say what these ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura.... that may help or prepare for getting something done in the inner field also. For instance, Page 44 India is free and her freedom was necessary if the Divine Work was to be done. The difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to be cleared out. . . ...
... attention that one can do things quickly and one does them much better. The Mother Everything becomes interesting Can one study for the Divine and not for oneself, prepare oneself for the divine work? Yes, if you study with the feeling that you must develop yourselves to become instruments. But truly, it is done in a very different spirit, isn't it? very different. To begin... teachers who are pleasant or any who are not all that disappears immediately. One enters a state in which, whatever happens one takes as an opportunity to learn to prepare oneself for the divine work, and everything becomes interesting. Naturally, if one is doing that, it is quite all right. The Mother Sure means of progress Let us offer our work to the Divine; this is the sure means ...
... progressively God. "On the other hand it is by means of the universe that the individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must... mysterious transcendent something of which his sense of personality gives him an obscure and egoistic representation. Otherwise he has missed his goal, the problem set to him has not been solved, the divine work for which he accepted birth has not been done." 25 Now if we look at the problem of human relations from this perspective of progressive revelation of Sachchidananda here in this mould ...
... disciple: "But why do we do this divine Work? It is surely to make ourselves..." The Mother abruptly stopped the questioner from proceeding further and retorted: Page 159 "No, not at all. It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. So long as a personal aspiration ...
... the earth-consciousness through himself. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother represented in themselves the highest and deepest spiritual aspirations of humanity. As leaders of the evolution, it was their divine work to hasten the evolutionary process, to manifest the Supermind as its next decisive step. Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind the 'Truth-Consciousness'. He writes: 'The essential character of Supermind... complex and generally eludes the human consciousness; but for ease of explanation and understanding, they may be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine work upon earth, and those that are opposed to this fulfilment. The former have few conscious instruments at their disposal. It is true that in this matter quality compensates by far for quantity. As ...
... Page 14 People do the same; may we cling to the Life with its complex (of divine work). NOTES: Vratah = sangha (Sayana), group multitude. (6) May we, O Immortal Delight, install the Mind in our bodily formation; may we, enriched in our progeny, cling to your Divine Work. Page 15 ...
... of Troth never sets, where Ignorance is unknown and Death has no place. After staying in this region of Truth for some time, they look upon the earth and return to it in order to accomplish their Divine Work—the creation of a new humanity. Thus the legend is completely transformed by the creative vision of the great Master into a cosmic symbol. Page 7 IV TIME-SEQUENCE IN THE EPIC... Savitri and Satyavan, free from Death, rise to the Higher Consciousness, it is also the realm of the Eternal Day where human time does not exist. So, when they both return to the earth to begin their Divine Work, the day that dawned in the first Canto of the first Book has hardly ended. Perhaps they resume their work even on earth in the presence of the Eternal Day. So far as the time-sequence of the story ...
... His work in the world. The Proper Use of Money Once money has been won from the hands of the vital forces whom it serves, it has to be diverted into the developing channels of the divine work. Not to the animal or the Asura in man, but to the Divine Shakti, the supreme Creative Force alone has it to be offered; for, it belongs to Her and has been created by Her for the purpose of Her... integral consecration of all our consciousness and nature to the dynamic Master of the universe. Money, which is regarded as a source of evil, will thus be turned into a means of self-perfection and divine work. In the New Creation or the supramental new- . ¹ The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 259 moulding of life, money will be restored to the Divine Power and "used for a true ...
... active there, awaiting an opportunity. ......... Mother puts me on real tough test. It seems that we are surrounded with obstacles at every step and on every side. This is a sure sign of the Divine Work but still ... I do not have a divine body yet! rather a grumbling and protesting body. Sometimes I wish I had finished all these publications and could disappear in the Himalayas for good, till... Satprem came upon earth to wage the battle of Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and so he does. And it is quite natural that 99 per cent of the people should be against him — this is the best sign of the divine work. There are those who understand and those who don’t understand, that’s all. And this understanding does not occur in the head, it inexplicably vibrates in the heart. It is “like that,” and it ...
... direct or indirect. It is the contagion of collective attachment. Money is a god universally worshipped on the earth and difficult to dethrone. When it will be nothing but an instrument of divine work, the difficulty will disappear. 28.1.1970 Is it something in my vital aided by mental wisdom that preserves the dirt of money? The physical atmosphere is full of the suggestion... body, instead of being engaged with itself, wants to be Your faithful servitor. This is very good. It will have occasions for it more and more. Already all its endeavour is given to the divine work. 5.8.1970 The purity of the vital has become a great necessity. Page 150 The vital is the ego's fortress. The ego must abdicate. Only one will has value: the Supreme Lord's ...
... the service of all others. We become aware too of the individual Power of the Divine in us, that which directly uses these fourfold powers, assigns our strain of self-expression, determines our divine work and office and raises us through it all to his universality in manifoldness till we can find by it our spiritual oneness with him and with all that he is in the cosmos. Page 521 The external ...
... the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right I am born from age to age. He who knoweth thus in its right principles my divine birth and my divine work, when he abandons his body, comes not to rebirth, he comes to Me, Page 146 O Arjuna. Delivered from liking and fear and wrath, full of me, taking refuge in me, many purified by austerity ...
... aspiration. This Yoga implies not only the realisation of God, but an entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work. This means an inner discipline far more exacting and difficult than the ethical and physical austerities which are the rule at the Satyagraha Asrama. He must not therefore enter on this path, far ...
... wound to the work and the collective effort towards a higher life. Your proposed escape from your own fall by suicide would not have been a solution and would only do a still greater injury to the divine Work which is, as much as individual realisation, our spiritual endeavour. I trust that you are sincere in saying that these things are finished for ever. If you had not confessed, the Mother would ...
... transfigured and glorified; in Thee is found the key to all mysteries and all powers. But one can attain Thee only if one no longer desires anything except to live in Thee, serve Thee, make Thy divine work triumph more swiftly for the salvation of a greater number of men. O Lord, Thou alone art real and all else is an illusion; for when one lives in Thee one sees and understands all things, nothing ...
... here: (the disciple reads) "A new consciousness is at work upon the earth to prepare the coming of the superman. "Open yourselves to this new consciousness if you aspire to serve the Divine Work. (Mother had used the word "collaborate", then she changed it to "serve" and made several other minor corrections.) "To be able to enter into contact with this new consciousness, ...
... that money is lacking; there is a lot of money in the world. There are even people who have so much that they do not know what to do with it. But it will never come to their mind to give it for the divine Work.... They can't say that they do not know, for one has always the means to know if one wants to know. When the idea comes to you: "I want to make the best use of my money" (and the best use, not only ...
... is due to the yoga having come down against the bedrock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Ashram as well as in the outside world. Doubt, discouragement, diminution or loss of faith, waning of the vital ...
... at it from that standpoint or regard anybody's personality. In her view people's personalities which means their ego ought to have no place in the work. It is not your work or X 's work, but the Divine work, the Mother's work and it is not to be governed by your ideas or feelings or X 's ideas or feelings or Y 's or Z 's or A 's or anybody else's, but by the vision, perception and will of the Mother ...
... all, something has been done in the outer field and that may help or prepare for getting something done in the inner field also. For instance, India is free and her freedom was necessary if the divine work was to be done. The Page 506 difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to ...
... very wrong ideas in the minds of the workers and not at all the right attitude. But we have not to do the work for the satisfaction of the sadhaks, but rather because it is the Mother's work, the divine work and it has to be done well and in the right way. If the workers or others are not satisfied, it has still to be done well and in the right way. When their nature changes and they see their mistake ...
... plan; the movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses. Both, if truly surrendered to the Divine, will be utilised as instruments for its divine work Page 119 to the same degree and with an equal value. But when they are not surrendered both are alike moved by impulses of ignorance. One is pushed to throw away, the other is pulled ...
... that our field of work is always within our reach), it will come to nothing. And hence the required condition is to do it with an absolute sincerity in your aspiration for the realisation of the divine work. So if you start like that I can assure you that you will have such an interesting journey that even if it takes very long, you will never get tired. But you must do it like that with an intensity ...
... in union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the divine Work. Page 250 × Later a disciple asked Mother: "Why did you say 'almost'? Isn't then the disappearance complete ...
... no, no! Go away immediately somewhere else, you will be much more peaceful anywhere else than here." If someone comes and says, "Well, here I am, I feel that I should consecrate myself to the divine Work, I am ready to do any work at all that you give me", then I say, "Good, that's all right. If you have goodwill, endurance, and some capacity, it is all right. But to find the solitude necessary for ...
... will always be the object of temptation, of attack; and it will always be fully subject to this constant conflict with what, under the appearance of hostile beings, toils in spite of itself at the divine Work. The time is not absolutely determined. I have already explained this to you several times. There are many fields of consciousness, zones of consciousness superimposed upon one another; and in ...
... can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this... All this must disappear and you ...
... in union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the divine Work. Source The Need for the Grace What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude? Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it. This is the most important point. It is to ...
... aspiration, either to serve or to learn; others come in the hope of doing yoga, of finding the Divine and uniting with Him; finally there are those who want to devote themselves entirely to the divine work upon earth. All of them come impelled by their psychic being, which wants to lead them towards self-realisation. They come with their psychic in front and ruling their consciousness; they have a ...
... forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are those ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need to come to grips with life before they can be ready for the divine work and that is why they leave in order to go through the test of the ordinary life. 11 November 1964 ( A student received an invitation to follow a course of practical studies in Calcutta ...
... years, it may take a hundred years, and you may doubt about my being there; I may be there or not, but these children of mine will be there to carry out my work. And those who collaborate in this divine work today will have the joy and pride of having participated in such an exceptional achievement. 28 May 1953 Page 112 We are not here to do (only a little better) what the others ...
... one sees the Divine in all things that objects get a value for the Yoga, but even then not for their own sake or as objects of desire, but for the sake of the Divine within and as a means of the divine work and manifestation. Peace Comes Little by Little To nobody does the divine calm and peace come uninterruptedly in the early stages of the Yoga—it comes little by little—it is sometimes absent ...
... put the "divine souls" (Ishwarakoti) who can descend the ladder as well as ascend it higher than the ordinary Jivas (Jivakoti) who, once having ascended, have not the strength to descend again for divine work. The full truth lies in the supramental consciousness and the power to work from there on life and matter. Page 441 There is no real contradiction; the two passages 1 indicate ...
... Divine Force to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the Divine Work. First, it is a great exaggeration to deduce from your difficulties any idea of unfitness or of going away or being sent away or giving up the Yoga. I am certainly not going to pronounce you ...
... in the physical world—and it is through the Divine in the individual alone that this can be done. These are elements in the dynamics of spiritual experience and I am obliged to admit them if a divine work has to be done. The European type of monism is usually pantheistic and weaves the universe and the Divine so intimately together that they can hardly be separated. But what explanation of ...
... in Ahimsa, there is a truth in Destruction also. I do not teach that you should go on killing everybody every day as a spiritual 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 ...
... over his own nature the knowledge of the thoughts and feelings around her and she can then help, guide, change what has to be changed in their minds so that they can become more effective for the divine work. I shall await what further you have to tell me about X 's experiences before saying anything further about her entry into the field of Yoga. Occult Powers and Health Your generalisation cannot ...
... realise what would be the natural consequences of doing what is suggested to you by these Powers in your fits of irrational despair. In view of what it would mean for yourself and for me and the Divine Work, I ask you to give me your promise never again to yield to this suggestion or contemplate seriously its fulfilment. I have promised you that, if you keep on, the transformation shall take place ...
... obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that are unreserved ...
... lust, self-will etc., but they are not in their nature hostile. The hostile Forces are those whose very raison d'être is revolt against the Divine, against the Light and Truth and enmity to the Divine Work. Normal human defects are one thing—they are the working of the lower nature of the Ignorance. The action of the hostile forces is a special intervention creating violent inner conflicts, ...
... is due to the Yoga having come down against the bedrock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Asram as well as in the outside world. Doubt, discouragement, diminution or loss of faith, waning of the vital ...
... man from whom you ask will be judged by his response. If you are free from the money-taint but without any ascetic withdrawal, you will have a greater power to command the money-force for the divine work. Equality of mind, absence of demand and the full dedication of all you possess and receive and all your power of acquisition to the Divine Shakti and her work are the signs of this freedom. Any ...
... self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life ...
... things which are not Islamic but a caricature of Islamic faith and action; its intention is to make not only Islam but all spirituality and religion ridiculous through you. It hopes to disturb the divine work upon earth, even if it can only do it a little. It is trying to spoil your brain and destroy your intelligence, to make you say and do foolish and extravagant things and turn you into an object of ...
... he has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine Mother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not be determined by his mind and his vital desires. This is the thing you have to remember. Your psychic being is capable of giving itself to the Mother and living and growing in the ...
... universal Power, Agni Vaishwanara, who contains in himself all the gods and all the worlds, upholds all the universal workings and finally fulfils the godhead, the Immortality. He is the worker of the divine Work. It is these symbols which govern the sense of the two final verses of the Upanishad. THE IMMORTAL LIFE-PRINCIPLE Life is the condition from which the Will and the Light emerge. It is said ...
... the Light arrives; she has made empty the path for the journey of the Sun; thither let us go where the gods shall carry forward our being beyond these limits." Pushan the Increaser Since the divine work in us cannot be suddenly accomplished, the godhead cannot be created all at once, but only by a luminous development and constant nurture through the succession of the dawns, through the periodic ...
... together. The gnostic being would feel a single consonant Force of supernature acting in all: he would accept its formation in himself and obey or use the knowledge and power it gave him for the divine work, but he would be under no urge or compulsion to set the power and knowledge in him against the power and knowledge of others or affirm himself as an ego striving against other egos. For the spiritual ...
... trying to make of the Divine Shakti an instrument of our own desires or our egoistic purpose. And Page 250 even if the ego is subjected but not eliminated, we may indeed be engines of the Divine Work, but we shall be imperfect tools and deflect or impair the working by our mental errors, our vital distortions or the obstinate incapacities of our physical nature. If this ego disappears, then we ...
... to go back to that peace, poise and silence and act out of it with the divine freedom from the bondage of qualities but still using qualities even the most opposite largely and flexibly for the divine work in the world. Only, while the Lord acts out of the centre of all things, we have to act by transmission of His will and power and self-knowledge through the individual centre, the soul-form of Him ...
... who tried to destroy Mother and separate her from Sri Aurobindo. In fact, it is clear and understandable that the darkest shadow is right under the light, and that he or she who comes to do the divine work must take on himself or herself the whole burden of the Opposer. Thus is it near Sri Aurobindo and Mother that the greatest adversaries will be found. That also explains Mother's departure and the ...
... note ) "You seem to forget that, by the very fact that you live in the Ashram, you work neither for yourselves nor for an employer, but for the Divine. Your life must be a consecration to the divine Work and cannot be governed by petty human considerations." Would you like to publish it, or have it posted up? Maybe it's a bit too public.... What we could do... It's especially at the ...
... little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time, she was led to call him Krishna and henceforth she was aware that it was with him, whom she knew she would meet some day, that the divine work was to be done. Being a painter she made a psychically impressionist sketch of him and waited for it to spring to life some day for even her physical eyes. A number of years she spent in ...
... what has to be rejected, sex, vanity, ego-centrism, attachment, etc. etc.; but that does not include rejection of the activities and powers that can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work, such as art, music, poetry, etc. Yoga can be done without the rejection of life, without killing or impairing the life-joy and the vital force. I will be praying all the time to you ...
... willingly, praying to the Mother to be present and guide us all in our activities of the centre and of life at large. Think only of the Divine Live only for the Divine Aspire only for the Divine Work only for the Divine Seek only the Divine Serve only the Divine Adore only the Divine —White Roses × ...
... of Karma or spiritual action – begins when one is luminously aware of the Guide and the guidance and when one feels the Power working with oneself as the instrument and the participator in the divine work. * June 2, 1946 Well, the Mother did not expect that you would take so seriously the vagaries of this mad cap, still less infer that he had her high authority for his behaviour ...
... over his own nature the knowledge of the thoughts and feelings around her and she can then help, guide, change what has to be changed in their minds so that they can become more effective for the divine work. I shall await what further you have to tell me about Janak Kumari’s experiences before saying anything further about her entry into the field of Yoga. About the blue flag, I presume ...
... Divine Force to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the Divine Work. As for the wire of blessings, I do not see much necessity for it. All that is necessary is that he should send information whenever necessary. January 19,1937 Yes, I see ...
... knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I would meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done.’ 16 We will see later on how Mirra met this ‘Krishna.’ And so she grew up, that quiet, well-behaved, intelligent and talented girl de bonne famille , and nobody knew about ...
... this evil whirlwind that is carrying people far from the true path? Mother, how can You agree to remain in this terrible darkness and ignorance? I am on earth because it is on earth that the divine work must he done, and for no other reason. 24 August 1935 Page 117 Is suffering indispensable in order to make progress? Certainly NOT. 26 August 1935 Is it true that ...
... have taken a stand against the Work, the Action, the Progress, and are intent on destroying as much as they can. Some of them get converted. Their conversion means a great entity joining the divine Work—but that seldom happens. Page 118 Yes, but what about the minor gods? You often speak of a "little Kali" or a "little Durga"; are these beings beneficent? Ah, they aren't from the ...
... insects is, so to say, the direct work of hostile creators in the vital world; they are the result of adverse and often diabolical thoughts and imaginations, directed not towards man but towards the divine work. Often an insect that looks quite harmless is the messenger of a bad and malevolent will; in that case one must deal severely with it. Love can tolerate anything—but in action, the Divine chooses ...
... .. Page 261 Yes, everything has changed since you now understand that your battle is not only a personal battle and that by winning it, it is a real service you are rendering to the Divine Work. Happy New Year, my dear child! I am sure it will bring us a decisive victory. I am near you with all my love. Signed : Mother P.S. I shall propose to Swami to enter into contact with ...
... should not happen again. 31 August 1953 When waking up every morning, let us pray for a day of complete consecration. 19 June 1954 Let us pray with all our heart that the divine work may be accomplished. All sincere prayers are granted, but it may take some time to realise materially. 28 June 1954 Page 207 All sincere prayers are granted, every call is ...
... Sincerity, faithfulness, modesty and gratitude. What qualities are necessary for one to be called "a true child of the Ashram"? Sincerity, courage, discipline, endurance, absolute faith in the Divine work and unassailable trust in the Divine Grace. All this must be accompanied by a sustained, ardent and persevering aspiration, and by a limitless patience. 28 December 1966 The Ashram is ...
... thing here: ( Satprem reads ) "A new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare the coming of the superhuman being. Open yourselves to this consciousness if you aspire to serve 5 the Divine Work. To come into contact with this new consciousness, the essential condition is no longer to have any desires and to be wholly sincere." That's what they must be told again and again ( same ...
... 'Oh, yes! It's good that way, he must stay and do his work. He must stay.... It's absolutely true that I am with trim,' I am wholly at peace, full of desire to be 'the instrument of this great divine work.'" Page 202 It's good. He is fine, this man. ( Mother goes on contemplating ) Then I have new questions from T.F.'s class.... The children have a very small thought, very small ...
... and more directly physical in the course of time, helped by the action of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother who have taken their station as concrete beings on the subtle-physical plane for their divine work to continue on earth. As for acceptance by them of people as disciples now, there can be no doubt if the aspirants are sincere and turned towards them. One's sincerity is the sign that they have ...
... put it in a suitcase and come and leave it at my door. And I'll say it's an anonymous gift, that's all. And they will be free—not only free, but ( smiling ) with a blessing, because it's for the divine work.... No, they are prisoners, prisoners of their money. And the rather interesting thing is that (without any exception so far) all those who had an opportunity to give me money and didn't want ...
... over there. Look, another new paper ( Mother holds out an extract from a letter of Sri Aurobindo ). It's very interesting: "For instance, India is free and her freedom was necessary if the divine work was to be done. The difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to be cleared out.... Here ...
... she could not have met Death to deal with the problem of this evolutionary creation. Her mission needed an instrumental prompting and it was provided by the Sage. His was a participation in the Divine Work. Vyasa's narrative makes Narad the Preceptor of Aswapati, revered as he was even by the gods. 33 How great indeed! In a certain luminous sense therefore he has initiated Savitri into Yoga. This ...
... s and religions at that time, she was led to call him Krishna and henceforth she was aware that it was with Page 5 him, whom she knew she would meet on earth some day, that the divine work was to be done. A number of years she spent in Algeria, learning the higher occultism from a Polish adept, Theon by name, and his still more profoundly experienced English wife. Under them she ...
... eliminated and destroyed; and we also find ourselves in the hands of the Supreme Being, who thereafter pours His will in us without any obstruction from our side; our work ceases to be "ours"; the Divine Work manifests automatically through us. We become vast and our work becomes universal capable of "lokasangraha", solidarity of the progressive march of humanity. This is the result that is appropriate ...
... Do you really mean to say that people like Kemal Pasha can be called the instruments of the Divine? Yes, certainly, they are unconscious instruments — not for the great divine work, but for the cosmic work in the human race. Is it true that one can be so extraordinary as to do several things simultaneously without any direct or indirect Yogic discipline, several ...
... wants to be a yogi; don't you see? He was moving in the vital plane which is not bound by the mental will or by the physical realities. There a certain capacity in him was being turned to the Divine Work and the building was symbolic of that, also the power of undertaking my suggestions without speech. Why then all these un-yogic engineering dreams and visions, when he is concentrating all his ...
... who upheld the ancient warrior code of life and battle. Arjuna and his Greek counter-part, Achilles, are representative men — master-men in the making who have been chosen by the gods and given a divine work. It is, in both epics, the warrior's dharma to battle for the right, to lay down his life, or to win a glorious victory for a just cause. Both men are conscious of a divine mission in life and in ...
... overleap her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will. 3 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The ...
... Father, he has to take charge of his own creation, see to its growth and fruition and fulfilment. Indeed that is the role of the Divine in us (and above us and around us): that is his work, the Divine Work. Since he has put us out of his consciousness (for a special experience of growth and development), it is also his work (and duty) to bring us back to him: after a process of self-separation a process ...
... were in union with this Grace, if you saw it everywhere, you would begin to live a life of exultation, all power and infinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the Divine Work. Page 25 ...
... is for the sake of manifesting the Divine, it is to put all at the service of the Divine. You do not do Yoga with the intention of perfecting yourself personally, for your own sake, but for the divine work that has to be done, for the fulfilment of the Divine Will So long as a personal aspiration is there, a personal desire, an egoistic will, it is a mixture, it is not the exact expression of ...
... a kind of preparation to make you capable of receiving the divine force, and then as service to help in the collective work. You can do it not for personal gain but in order to be ready for the Divine Work. This seems to me indispensable. If you keep the ordinary point of view, you will always find yourself in conditions that are not wholly satisfactory and incapable of receiving all the forces ...
... work. But all work, even the humblest, has the same value if it is that which ought to be done. There is something true behind, it is the idea of a work to be accomplished. And this work is the divine work—but one must be perfect to be able to undertake it. There are many men whose work has no need of perfection; they vaguely feel an impulsion, the mind mixes up its own desires and they go on thus ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura. ...
... all the plenitude of the Supreme Presence I say to you: "I love you." - Mother Page 335 26 January 1954 My beloved child, Your consecration to the divine work is so total that you have given your life to save mine. With all the mighty ardour that I have, I pray that this offering may not be in vain. My will to overcome all obstacles and to triumph is ...
... three principal categories of seekers: those who have undertaken self-mastery, those who want to find the road leading to the Divine, those who aspire to consecrate themselves more and more to the Divine Work.” Among these three, which path should one choose and practise? It is not a choice, it is a progression. One begins with the first one, then one passes on to the second, all the while retaining ...
... ecstatic? Might that also be why so much of this life has had to be lived before I could "remember"? My dear child, Yes, you are a conscious and living soul, come back upon earth to do the Divine Work. With my love and blessings 3 March 1961 ...
... shall overleap her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.³ And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme ...
... may take a hundred years, and you may doubt about my being there; I may be there or not, but these children of mine will be there to carry out my work. And those who collaborate in this divine work today will have the joy and pride of having participated in such an exceptional achievement. A new seed, the seed of integral knowledge, was being sown; and the time of sprouting and foliage ...
... choicest souls to his feet for his great work and master plan," says one writer, "so also Sri Aurobindo, the Master of the Supramental Age, has drawn this choicest instrument (Madhav Pandit) for his divine work and master plan." 16 With his calm unhurried demeanour and taut strength tuned to the Divine, Madhav has been one of the principal, if unobtrusive, power-houses in the Ashram. Not all ...
... such regularity, such clarity of outline and aura of divinity, that she knew it was only a question of time and that she would one day be led up to him and enabled to collaborate with him in the divine work to be done for the world. VI Around the age of thirteen, Mirra had a unique experience which returned night after night, and lasted for about a year: As soon as I had gone to ...
... it may take a hundred years, and you may doubt about my being there; I may be there or not, but these children of mine will be there to carry out my work. And those who collaborate in this divine work today will have the joy and pride of having participated in such an exceptional achievement. 10 A new seed, the seed of integral knowledge, was being sown; and the time of sprouting and ...
... was wonderful, it was like a prophecy of what was going to come." 1 Thus, after Munich, on 1 January 1939: Will be the year of purification. O Lord, all those who take part in the divine work implore Thee that by Page 422 a supreme purification they may be liberated from the domination of the ego. 2 Then, in the middle of the 'phoney' war, on New Year's day 1940: ...
... the money to pay up the loan, because Bejoy Goswami said that he could not leave Puri before paying the debt and he asked his disciples not to be calculating and practical but do the work, as a Divine work, without thinking of to-morrow. Page 256 Sri Aurobindo : It is one thing to think of tomorrow and quite another to try to remove poverty by feeding the poor. People don't ...
... letters which are addressed to Her from the standpoint of one's sadhana. Remember always that She has to manifest Herself in each one of us who have chosen to be Her disciples and instruments in Her divine work on earth. Re. your second letter, I am glad that you are continuing your intensive study of the Synthesis of Yoga. But you will allow me to tell you that the highest, definitive and most ...
... come to consider the supramental transformation of the body, how, through surrender to the Mother's Power, it is changed from a dense and impeding clod into a transparent temple of the manifest Divine. Work which, in the beginning of the Yoga, is a prayer of the body to the Divine, becomes in the end the prism of His Victorious Power. What the Integral Yoga aims to achieve, is not only the surrender ...
... play in our new way of life? What shall be the relation between them? Why make at all a distinction between them? They are all equally human beings, trying to become fit instruments for the Divine Work, above sex, caste, creed and nationality, all children of the same Infinite Mother and aspirants to the one Eternal Godhead. What should be the ideal of a woman’s physical beauty? A perfect ...
... fifty years, it may take a hundred and you may doubt about my being there; I may be there or not, but these children of mine will be there to carry out my work. And those who collaborate in this divine work today will have the joy and pride of having participated in such an exceptional achievement. With my blessings 28 May 1953 ...
... itself an instrument for the carrying out of God's wishes and is fulfilling His command naturally. There is no doubt that this commotion in the interior of the community will surely bring about some divine work. This agitation is certainly not propelled by human will. We went to Surat with a particular motive. We went to the Congress in order to propagate our views and doctrines. But there something different ...
... perfection of His divine force at work, shama & tapas united in an action which is the fulfilment of a mighty Silence expressing itself in waves of power & bliss. That harmony & oneness of divine calm & divine work is man's ultimate experience & the true nature of God active in the world. This high teaching of the Seer, na karma lipyate nare, seems to contradict violently the great current doctrine of the ...
... follow after it, the master men, the great spirits, the God knowers, Page 570 God-doers, God-lovers who can live in God and for God and do their work joyfully for him in the world, a divine work uplifted above the restless darkness of the human mind and the false limitations of the ego. At the same time, and here we get the gleam of a larger promise which we may even extend to the hope of ...
... boon of Love incarnate in a human body. This Love, as Savitri, will guide us now. The path is no longer a path of knowledge; it is a path of action and will. In the individual as in the world, the divine work is done behind a veil. The story of Savitri's Yoga and her ultimate conquest of death, fulfilling the promise of a divine life on earth, is told in the form of a legend, but its essential meaning ...
... current Indian conception, even though the Avatar is the Divine descended into the earth-consciousness, he is not supposed to participate in human imperfections. He comes down generally to do a divine work, — to save humanity in a crisis or help it forward in its evolution. But he remains all the time and always Divine and to the Divine nothing could be impossible. When he labours at his task it ...
... overleap her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will. 12 And She herself came down upon earth as Aswapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. -2- The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The ...
... aspiration, either to serve or to learn; others come in the hope of doing yoga, of finding the Divine and uniting with Him; finally there are those who want to devote themselves entirely to the divine work upon earth. All of them Page 83 come impelled by their psychic being, which wants to lead them towards self-realisation. They come with their psychic in front and ruling their consciousness; ...
... counted no cost in slaving for us sleeplessly to "bring the Immortal's knowledge into man's cave of birth."* To be called by him is to be chosen as his instruments, however inconspicuous, for his divine work, the task for which he sacrificed everything and dedicated all he had and was. I cannot honestly say, alas, that to me, personally, he is as good as living (as some others claim he is to them); but ...
... Do help me here, Guru. * March 13, 1944 Yes, the use to which you have turned your vital capacities in Bengal and Bombay – to turn them into instruments of service and the Divine Work, is certainly the best possible. Through such action and such use of the vital power, one can certainly progress in Yoga. Vital power is necessary for work and you have an exceptional ...
... aim one can set oneself by a simple mental decision; the dedication to such an aim can only be the consequence of an increasing aspiration throughout many lives, a selfless dedication to share the divine Work in the manifestation. This also explains why “surrender” is “the Alpha and the Omega” of the Integral Yoga: the souls who have given themselves to it cannot expect the realisation of the goal in ...
... generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and easy understanding, they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those that are opposed to this fulfilment … Hitler is a choice instrument of these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheavals and war, for they know that all this delays and ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura.” ...
... and generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and understanding, they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those which work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon Earth and those which are opposed to this fulfilment. The former have few conscious instruments at their disposal. It is true that in this matter quality by far compensates for quantity. As ...
... little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done … As soon as I saw Sri Aurobindo I recognized in him the well-known being whom I used to call Krishna.’ 12 She wanted to meet him alone that first time on 29 March 1914. And ...
... attachment in me for others; let there be purely a goodwill and a heart filled with loving consecration to the Divine. If help or consolation comes from me, or rather through me, let it be purely a divine work. Yes, it is like that that the help becomes true and effective. To do at each moment the best we can and leave the result to the Divine's decision, is the surest way to peace, happiness, strength ...
... and so began a work? Or had he reached a condition in which he was bound neither to rajasic work nor to mental prattling nor to inactivity and silence, but could do from the divine realisation the divine work and speak from the inner consciousness of the divine word? If the last, perhaps, in spite of his dictum, his example at least is rather in my favour. I do not know why you drag in humanitarianism ...
... with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 4 January 1934 My Mother, Bless me with Thy Love. I now go out of this compound for the Divine Work, protected and surrounded by Your Love and the Love of my beloved Sri Aurobindo. My Mother, though I shall be working outside, I am ever Thine, ever at Thy Feet. Why do you speak of working ...
... is due to the yoga having come down against the bed-rock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Ashram as well as in the outside world. Doubt, discouragement, diminution or loss of faith, waning of the vital ...
... progressively God. "On the other hand it is by means of the universe that the individual is impelled to realise himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman free from all conception of bound and term, he must ...
... now, then will come the time for work in which capacity can really be shown—though even then the showing of capacity will be an incident and can never be the main consideration or the object of Divine Work. Sri Aurobindo ...
... he brings with him into the world. Each has his own destiny and his entering into a particular family in one life is only an incident. Obviously, neither Nature nor Destiny nor the Divine work in the mental way or by the law of the mind or according to its standards—that is why even to the scientist and the philosopher Nature, Destiny, the way of the Divine, all remain a mystery. ...
... nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit Page 84 temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For that work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action,—and that will be when personal desire and egoism are abolished, but ...
... Usriyāsu , meaning both "bright ones" and "cows". × Kratu , the will to the divine work, the sacrificial will. × Agni, the fire of the divine Will which receives the sacrifice and becomes ...
... Divine Life is the first object of Yoga. The second is to know God in Himself and in ourselves and in everything. The third is to make ourselves one with the Divine Will and to do in our life a Divine Work by means of the Divine Power using us as an instrument. The fourth object is to enjoy God in all beings, in all things and in all that happens. Since the Life is to be Divine there must be siddhi ...
... s of individuality for work, for various standpoints of knowledge, for the play of the Lord with His creations; for the ego is there that it may finally convert itself into a free centre of the divine work and the divine play. That consciousness too he has sufficient love, joy and knowledge to accept; he is puissant enough to effect that conversion. To embrace individuality after transcending it is ...
... his work possible seems an idle dreamer Page 114 or a troublesome fanatic; to the idealist the practical man who realises the first steps towards his idea seems a coarse spoiler of the divine work and almost its enemy: for by attaching too much importance to what is immediately possible he removes the greater possibilities which he does not see, seems to prevent and often does prevent a larger ...
... to do so. When one is a sadhak the prayer should be for the inner things belonging to the sadhana and for outer things only so far Page 366 as they are necessary for that and for the divine work. What you say about prayer is correct. That [ impersonal prayer ] is the highest kind of prayer, but the other kind also (i.e. the more personal) is permissible and even desirable. All prayer ...
... and so begin a work? Or had he reached a condition in which he was bound neither to rajasic work and mental prattling nor to inactivity and silence, but could do from the divine realisation the divine work and speak from the inner consciousness the divine word? If the last, perhaps in spite of his dictum, his example at least is rather in my favour. I do not know why you drag in humanitarianism ...
... Cast off this invasion, let your consciousness recover the quietness it was more and more gaining, let your soul go on growing as it was growing—throw out this reaction that impedes it. Let the Divine work in you and establish in time the true outward and inward relation which is the only one that can satisfy and endure. 7 September 1933 Why do I get angry and make myself miserable when Mother ...
... themselves. If they grow psychically and spiritually and live within and above, instead of in the mind and vital and body, then there can be a psychic and spiritual solidarity created useful for the divine work. At present that does not exist, except in future potentiality. 18 April 1935 For some time there have been a lot of clashes here in our centre. [Details given.] The other day X called me ...
... You say, "When one is a sadhak the prayer should be for the inner things belonging to the sadhana and for outer things Page 314 only so far as they are necessary for that and for the Divine work." This latter portion about prayer for outer things is not clear to me. Can you kindly explain? All depends on whether the outer things are sought for one's own convenience, pleasure, profit etc ...
... future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have Page 463 been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura. ...
... spiritual possibility in them. But unless X has some understanding of the higher manifestation, such comments are just expressions of his own ignorance. Obviously. Neither Nature nor Destiny nor the Divine work in the mental way or by the law of the mind or according to its standards—that is why even to the scientist and the philosopher Nature, Destiny, the way of the Divine all seem a mystery. The Mother ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura. ...
... than I could wish for," replied the saint. "But ask all the same," Akbar insisted. "Then, Sire, I would ask that you do not call me again to your palace, for I want to devote my time to the divine work." "Let it be so," said Akbar. "But I in my turn have a favour to ask you." "Speak, Sire." "Give me some good counsel that I may bear in mind and act upon." Banarasi Das thought for a ...
... and alive. But the adverse forces have distorted it; they have turned it into a field of violence and selfishness and desire and every kind of ugliness and prevented it from taking part in the divine work. The one thing to be done is to change it, not to suppress its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywhere. The vital is in its very nature that in us which can give ...
... aspiration, either to serve or to learn; others come in the hope of doing yoga, of finding the Divine and uniting with Him; finally there are those who want to devote themselves entirely to the divine work upon earth. All of them come impelled by their psychic being, which wants to lead them towards self-realisation. They come with their psychic in front and ruling their consciousness; they have ...
... done in the outer field and that may help or prepare for getting something done in the inner field also. For instance, India is Page 252 free and her freedom was necessary if the Divine Work was to be done. The difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to be cleared out. Nehru's ...
... * This Yoga implies not only the realisation of God, but an entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work. This means an inner discipline far more exacting and difficult than mere ethical and physical austerities. One must not enter on this path, far vaster and more arduous than most ways of Yoga, unless ...
... What part will man and woman play in the new life? What relations will they have? Why make a distinction between the two? They are both human beings trying to become fit instruments for the divine work, above questions of sex, caste, creed and nationality; they are all children of the same infinite Mother and aspirants to the one and eternal Godhead. What is the ideal of physical beauty for ...
... union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness. "And that would be the best possible collaboration in the divine Work." Page 255 Talk of 1 August 1956 ( p. 250 ) The first condition is not very easy to realise. It is the result of a conscious growth, a constant observation and perpetual experience ...
... may like. All this work which you have done, which has taken almost a year, all these efforts you have made, all the difficulties you have overcome, all this you have done as an offering to the divine Work, you see, with all your sincerity and goodwill, the best of your ability and a complete good-heartedness. Yes, you have put into it all that you could, you have succeeded to a certain extent, in ...
... they can manage it. They have the power also; these are very powerful beings who, if they resolve to be converted, can do it; and then they become some of the most wonderful instruments for the divine work. The very ones who were some of the greatest adversaries. I am looking for someone who told me that she would ask me a question. It is Sujat. Where is she perched? At the end of the world! I shall ...
... sort of ignorant instinct, which stresses a danger and at the same time does not know its remedy. But certainly, the fact is that the adverse beings, beings of the vital world who fight against the divine Work, make an extensive use of fear. It is through that that they have the strongest hold on human beings. Besides, they are not the only ones: there are also all the political and religious means which ...
... almost... when one has those movements of great enthusiasm, great aspiration, when one suddenly becomes conscious of the divine goal, the urge towards the Divine, the desire to take part in the divine work, when one comes out of oneself in a great joy and great force... and then, a few hours later, one is miserable for a tiny little thing; one indulges in so petty, so narrow, so commonplace a self ...
... Then what is the position of the Asuras? To be taken back into the Divine. There were four great Asuras. Page 171 Out of the four, two are converted. They are taking part in the divine work. The other two are holding out well. How long will they hold out? We shall see. So, they have the choice between being converted, that is, taking their place, poised, in the whole totality or else ...
... experience. Can't trust be total and entire? Not necessarily. Well, there is a shade of difference—however, I don't know, it is not the same thing. One has given oneself totally to the divine work, one has faith in it, not only in its possibility, but faith that it is the thing which is true and which must be, and one gives oneself entirely to it, without asking what will happen. And so ...
... All this mostly gives Page 13 you the feeling "I am something." That's what I call ambition. If these very people who are ready to give money for schools were told that there was a divine Work to be done, that the Divine has decided to do it in this particular way, even if they are convinced that it is indeed the Divine's Work, they refuse to give anything, for this is not a recognised ...
... realise in themselves her realisations and would by the force of an unfaltering aspiration and a surrender free from narrow personal demand and self-regarding littleness, consecrated wholly to the divine work, return her forces for a new progress. At first partly realised, this rhythm of interchange has existed less and less. The whole burden of the progress has fallen physically on the body of the Mother; ...
... needs of its new experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage. And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the idea of service, of collective help and participation in the divine Work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain elements of the mind and vital from previous lives which, having been organised and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives, could ...
... in the individual alone that this can be done. Page 51 These are elements in the dynamics of spiritual experience and I am obliged to admit them if a divine work has to be done. June 12, 1932 Page 52 ...
... 1968* * It is only when people feel that it is their good fortune to help Auroville grow that the funds will come abundantly. December. 1969* * Give your money to the Divine work and you will be richer than you would be by keeping it. 1971 Page 53 Cleanliness To take pleasure in dirt and disorder is a sure sign of a nature which rejects its ...
... physical work is as indispensable to the balance of the body as food. To eat without working causes a serious imbalance. Feb.. 1970 * True spirituality lies in the service of the divine work. To refuse to work for all is only a demonstration of selfishness, and has no spiritual value. The first thing to do to be able to live in Auroville is to consent to free oneself from one's ...
... forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need to come to grips with life before they can be ready for the divine work, and that is why they leave to undergo the test of ordinary life. 11 November 1964 * (A student had nearly completed his course of studies. Uncertain whether to attend college ...
... experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage. And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the idea of service, of collective Page 268 help and participation in the divine Work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain elements of the mind and vital from previous lives which, having been organised and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives, could ...
... play in our new way of life? What shall be the relation between them? Why make at all a distinction between them? They are all equally human beings, trying to become fit instruments for the Divine Work, above sex, caste, creed and nationality, all children of the same Infinite Mother and aspirants to the one Eternal Godhead. 10) What should be the ideal of a woman's physical beauty? A perfect ...
... nucleus of Physical Education. They need not be many in number, but a good selection, first class people, true candidates for supermanhood, ready to give themselves entirely, unreservedly to the big divine work. This is what is expected from you. This must be your programme. March 1961 Sweet Mother, We aspire to work all together towards the goal that Thou hast proposed to us. Grant ...
... little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done. In the year 1910 my husband came alone to Pondicherry where, under very interesting and peculiar circumstances, he made the acquaintance of Sri Aurobindo. Since then we both strongly ...
... always to speak as little as possible and to act only when it is necessary. To avoid unconsciousness as much as possible. 17 February 1971 True spirituality lies in the service of the divine work. To refuse to work for all is only a demonstration of selfishness, and has no spiritual value. The first thing to do to be able to live in Auroville is to consent to free oneself from one's ...
... seem to forget that by the fact that you are living in the Ashram, it is neither for yourself nor for a boss that you are working, but for the Divine. Your life must be entirely consecrated to the Divine Work and cannot be governed by petty human considerations. 28 May 1970 Whatever is done here, must be done in a spirit of complete collaboration with one single aim in view―the service of the ...
... needed. Will you help? May 1970 You know our need. Will you not be the man who helps? Page 249 ( Message for raising funds for Matrimandir ) Give your money to the Divine work and you will be richer than you would be by keeping it. 1971 Page 250 × A spoken comment of the ...
... pension. The disciple intended to refuse the pension because he didn't want to feel bound to any government or any country, whatever the amount of money. Mother advised him to accept the money for the Divine Work.) Page 33 I had a revelation, in the sense that it was rather like a vision. For other reasons I was in the process of seeing the sorry state in which all countries are, the ...
... Source The Resolution to Do Yoga You see, one may have a very good will, a life oriented towards a divine realisation, in any case, a kind of more or less superficial consecration to a divine work, and not do yoga . To do Sri Aurobindo's yoga is to want to transform oneself integrally, it is to have a single aim in life, such that nothing else exists any longer, that alone exists. And ...
... complex and generally eludes the human consciousness; but for ease of explanation and understanding, they may be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine work upon earth, and those that are opposed to this fulfilment. The former have few conscious instruments at their disposal. It is true that in this matter quality compensates by far for quantity. As ...
... (Desire always finds a means to entrench itself in very small details and in very petty and stupid, though well-rooted, avidities.) Mother, I am seeing all the mean pettiness that obstructs your divine work. Destroy my smallness and take me unto you. May I be sincere, integrally sincere. With infinite gratitude, I am your child. Signed : Satprem Page 152 P.S. My system is not in perfect ...
... years. Shortly you shall reach the junction. When the time has come, you yourself will come and open a door in me and I shall give you initiation.' 1 And he made me understand that an important divine work was reserved for me in the future, a work for the Mother. The important practical point is that I have rapidly to develop my knowledge of Sanskrit. The mantra given to me seems to grow in power as ...
... work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favored—of course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domains—government, money and health—things always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you ...
... country. Or at least to prepare ourselves for this possibility? Your child who loves you, Signed : Sujata ( Mother's answer ) For those who are capable of it, the service to the divine Work is infinitely more important than the service to the country. I do not think I have said anything this morning that could contradict this undeniable fact. Signed : Mother ...
... possible. If you succeed and the work is done in that condition, then it will become perfect. 2 April 1970 Page 301 Be faithful to your ideal and dedicate your work to the Divine. Work for the Divine and you will feel an ineffable joy filling your being. Disinterested work done for the Divine: the surest means of progressing. Disinterested work: work done with ...
... all those whom the Divine Grace has kept far from the horrible conflict which is tearing men at, the only way to express their gratitude is by a complete consecration of their whole being to the divine work. May 1940 Don't worry about Hitler. No asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come. 27 May 1940 Page 43 ...
... ready for Thy Realisation. On the threshold of the new year we bow down to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Realiser. 1939 Will be the year of purification. O Lord, all those who take part in the divine work implore Thee that by a supreme purification they may be liberated from the domination of the ego. 1940 A year of silence and expectation... Let us find, O Lord, our entire support in Thy ...
... a war pension. Satprem's intention was to refuse that pension, not wanting to feel tied to any government and any country for any amount of money. Mother advised him to accept that money for the divine Work. ) I had a revelation, in the sense that it was more on the order of a vision. For external reasons, I was looking at the sorry state in which all countries find themselves, the truly painful ...
... is due to the yoga having come down against the bed-rock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all resistance in the individual and in the world to the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Ashram as well as in the outside world.... The description follows. You would think it was happening now: ...
... consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama. But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the physical consciousness—the material ...
... think it's Mahasaraswati: "perfection in work"), that he saw there, staying there. And at the same time he felt in himself, oh, a great desire to serve, to work well, to consecrate his life to the divine work, all that. And the next morning, when the doctors came they said, "Oh, everything is changed!" Interesting. And it coincided with the moment when I was doing my concentration here. (I had got ...
... set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Difficulties of Yoga Falsehood is the very symbol of that which wants to oppose the divine work of Truth. The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: Letters to a Young Sadhak - IX Anyone who lives in falsehood is an enemy of humanity... The Mother, Words of Long Ago: Sincerity ...
... is different from that outside, he answered, "This is said to create faith in the followers. Every great man says about whatever work he is doing that it is divine. Gandhi calls his Harijan work divine work." SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? The Divine has several works. SATYENDRA (after some time) : I find that you are the first to distinguish the planes above the mind. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? I have met ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura." ...
... Ashram which he founded in 1926, till his demise in December 5, 1950. 'From November 24, 1926, he went into complete seclusion leaving the Ashram in charge of the Mother, his collaborator in the divine work. It will be wrong to assume that because Sri Aurobindo retired from active public and political life, he had cut off all connection with the outside world on account of his pre-occupation with ...
... perfect love the Mother has prescribed for the sadhaka a certain programme of action which is as follows:' "Think only of the Divine. Live only for the Divine. Aspire only to the Divine. Work only for the Divine. Serve only the Divine. Be attached only to the Divine. Want only the Divine. Seek only the Divine. Only adore the Divine." (White Roses: Letters to Huta) ...
... Supermind Self-consecration in Works, Gita's way of Self-surrender, The yogic meaning of Sacrifice, The ascending stages of Sacrifice, Standards of Moral Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, The Divine Work, Supermind and the Yoga of Divine Works Emotions and Devotion, Aspiration and Prayer, The Divine Love and Grace, The Divine Personality. The Delight of the Divine Love, Ecstasy and Union with ...
... But just as the psychic being, at a suitable stage of human evolution, begins to come forward more openly and sovereignly on the surface consciousness and takes recourse to the path of knowledge, divine work and divine love, even so, it brings out more and more effectively its own divine nature, swabhava, and stamps it more and more visibly on the satwic, rajasic and tamasic personality. It is then that ...
... little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time, I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done.' And you already know that as soon as she first saw Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry she recognised him as the being she used to call Krishna. In her sixteenth year Mirra joined a ...
... on earth. It must have demanded of you a Herculean work. What work? You have said the purpose of existence is for the soul to have laya in the Divine. There can be no work — the only divine work possible is to get ready for laya and, once ready, to go into laya. But the other alternative became possible only because the Divine is here in a personal form. The soul may prefer ...
... He had from the first a violent Asuric strain in his nature, as he himself knew and he was always trying to incarnate new Asuras in the plea of offering their mighty strength and power for the Divine Work. I don't believe that at any time in his life he went "smoothly and confidently on one track"—it was from the beginning all leaps and shouts and catastrophes and upheavals. I thought I had destroyed ...
... overleap her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will." 2 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material in conscience. The Supreme ...
... her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will. 10 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to 8.Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, SABCL, Vol. 28, pp. 335-336, 341. 9. Ibid., p. 345. 10. ...
... is for the sake of manifesting the Divine, it is to put all at the service of the Divine. You do not do Yoga with the intention of perfecting yourself personally, for your own sake, but for the divine work that has to be done, for the fulfilment of the Divine Will. So long as a personal aspiration is there, a personal desire, an egoistic will, it is a mixture, it is not the exact expression of the ...
... kind of preparation to make yourself capable of receiving the divine force, and then as service to help in the collective work. You can do it not for personal gain but in order to be ready for the Divine Work. This seems to me indispensable. If you keep the ordinary point of view, you will always find yourself in conditions that are not wholly satisfactory and incapable of receiving all the forces ...
... were in union with this Grace, if you saw it everywhere, you would begin to live a life of exultation, all power and infinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the Divine Work. (2) THERE is a time when one becomes conscious enough to see that things in themselves are neither good nor bad. What they are and what their effects are upon us depends entirely upon ...
... current Indian conception even though the Avatār is the Divine descended into the earth-consciousness he is not supposed to participate in human imperfections. He comes down generally to do a divine work—to save humanity in a crisis or help it forward in its evolution. But he remains all the time and always Divine and to the Divine nothing could be impossible. When he labours at his task it is only ...
... live—in what woeful, colossal ignorance not only of our own true self and its incalculable possibilities, but also of the selfless labour of the greatest of our benefactors who, identified with the Divine, work out His Will in the silent majesty of their spiritual Page 328 strength. The aim of their labour lies beyond our ken and the methods they employ are inscrutable to our mind. We ...
... vital strength there are also. It is often difficult for such a vital to surrender itself because of this sense of its own powers - but if it can do so, it becomes an admirable instrument for the Divine Work."7 * * * " No, a weak vital has not the strength to turn spiritually-and being weak, more easily falls under a wrong influence and even when it wants, finds it difficult to accept ...
... the peace of liberation or the divine Ananda." 46 In the first three parts of The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo outlines the dynamics of the three classical paths—the Yoga of Divine Work, the Yoga of Integral Knowledge, and the Yoga of Divine Love, and in the final part describes the Yoga of Self-Perfection which uses all three disciplines in a bold way: To arrive by the ...
... the feet of Mahakali in her fearful dance in order to destroy the whole creation with that terrifying dreadful aspect of hers. She will not tolerate falsehood or the slightest deviation from the divine work. Mahadeva sees the danger and lies down at Mahakali’s feet. And unknowingly her feet fall upon Mahadeva’s chest and she suddenly stops. She withdraws her power. The battleloving Mahakali calms down ...
... little of the Indian philosophies and religions at that time I was led to call him Krishna, and henceforth I was aware that it was with him (whom I knew I should meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done. "In the year 1910 my husband came alone to Pondicherry where, under very interesting and peculiar circumstances he made the acquaintance of Sri Aurobindo. Since then we both strongly ...
... intense blue sky, and exactly where the house of Land's End stands, covering the whole spot, a pagoda in the shape of the golden Buddha. At once, Ludmila thinks or sees or hears: "the place where a divine work is to be accomplished." December 4, 1978 (Letter to Kireet Joshi) Dear Kireet, I don't know (the letter from Frederick that you have referred to me)... If they said they intended ...
... Ganapati Muni recognised in the Mother the goddess Sakambari, an exalted manifestation of the Supreme Shakti and himself as Ganapati who "was at her service to be utilised as her instrument for Divine Work". While Nayana was expatiating on Sakambari, the Mother went into a trance, and Nayana, who was closely observant, perceived "bright light emerging through her toe and there was a halo of light ...
... so-called progress that humanity has achieved", well, so much the worse for civilisation! In the age now unfolding it should be woman's privilege as also man's to try to become a fit instrument for the Divine Work, and, as children of the same infinite Mother to be "aspirants to the one Eternal Godhead". And the New Woman should opt only for this integral ideal of Beauty: A perfect harmony in the proportions ...
... approbation. Page 623 During his interview with the Mother, she told him that he was doing his missionary work perfectly well, and when she was pressed for a message, added: "Aspire for the Divine, work for the Divine." It was after their visits to the Ashram and witnessing spirituality in action that Jawaharlal Nehru and Vinoba Bhave began to stress in some of their speeches the importance of ...
... instruments were heightened in their capacity and the occult powers working in the cosmos began to reveal their hidden processes to him so that they might serve him in the realisation of his divine work. The narrow limits of ordinary human instrumentation serve only to keep the little human being safe against the invasion of the forces of the universe. But man has to grow beyond his ...
... itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on earth. Over a year later - when the position had eased somewhat for the Allies - the question was raised again ...
... much like everyday life. People are shocked when a few thousand rupees are wasted, but they are not shocked when torrents of consciousness and energy are diverted from their true ends!... To do a divine work on earth, one must come prepared with tons of patience and endurance, one must know how to live in eternity and await the awakening of consciousness in each one—the consciousness of what true honesty ...
... ² Referred to in the chapter on "The Triple Foundation" in the first part of The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Page 311 extolled in the Gitâ, is the very foundation of divine work I shall touch upon it when I deal with the perfection of Karmayoga in the next chapter. What distinguishes the equality of the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga from that of most of the traditional yogas ...
... of individuality for work, for various stand-points of knowledge, for the play of the Lord with His creations; for the ego is there that it may finally convert itself into a free centre of the divine work and the divine play. That consciousness too he has sufficient love, joy and knowledge to accept; he is puissant enough to effect that conversion. To embrace individuality after transcending it is ...
... trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receiving. How can we know that we are receptive? When we feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine's work, then we can be sure that we have become receptive. 12... 12 July 1965 To be receptive To be receptive is to feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine's Work all one has, all one is, all one does. Page 148 ... - II Receptivity Receptivity is the capacity of admitting and retaining the Divine Workings. Receptivity: conscious of the Divine Will and surrendered to it. Integral receptivity: the whole being is aware of the Divine Will and obeys it. Psychic receptivity: the psychic responds joyously to the ascending force. Mental receptivity: ...
... is after all a certain consciousness, the divine consciousness, and this consciousness was there even before the earth came. The question of his 'absence' has little meaning. "A world war may destroy civilisation, but it won't destroy the Divine's work. Sri Aurobindo once told me that he had so arranged things that nothing would interfere with his work." Page 105 ... intimate and voluminous. So, just before taking my leave, I expressed my hope to have Sri Aurobindo back with us in the near future. I spoke too of my concern over world-factors threatening the Divine's work. The Mother, with great sympathy and kindness in her eyes but with a quiet steady voice, replied: "The return of Sri Aurobindo very soon is not likely. His going was connected with world-conditions... presence amongst us, his going itself would have been unnecessary. "Also, the return cannot be in a startling miraculous manner. That would not be consistent with Sri Aurobindo's method and our work. A more probable way of return would be: the present occasional visions of Sri Aurobindo which some people see—the almost material appearance he makes now to some people at certain times—may increase; ...
... I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Offering It must not be forgotten that the offering is made to the Divine's Work and not to any human enterprise. So the only thing that can be done is to express some appreciation in a few words. The Mother ...
... s Treasures - Edition-II The Joy of Giving How can we know that we are receptive? When we feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine's work, then we can be sure that we have become receptive. 12 July 1965 The Mother ...
... asked the Mother about agriculture and commerce before he started work in the Auroville office. She replied on 17-8-66: 17-8-66 Vijay, Both agriculture and commerce will have their place in Auroville. So you choose the one you like best. My blessings will always be with you to prepare yourself for the Divine's work. With love and blessings. Later on he was taken seriously ...
... chance for me in this life. Earnestly praying for Thy guidance and help. I am your ignorant child. Madanlal, my dear child, Find your joy and satisfaction in being of service to the Divine’s work upon earth — which is a realised fact — and the rest will come in due course, surely sooner than you expect. With all my love and blessings 6 April 1967 ...
... and not aware of the soul’s will, the agony was there. The union with the soul brought the peace. (5) Will her soul come again to take part in the Mother’s work of supramental manifestation? The soul is bound to come for the Divine’s Work. When the time comes and the circumstances are favourable, we shall know about it. Love and blessings 10 December 1964 ...
... refusal to let the divine Grace work in you. It is a justification of your own ill-will. The Mother Resistance The resistance with which we meet in the accomplishment of our work is proportionate to its importance. The Mother The difficulties are for the strong, and help to make them stronger. Persevere and you will conquer. The Mother Fear, work, courage ... Fear is slavery, work is liberty, courage is Victory. The Mother Page 71 Weakness To feel hurt by what others do or think or say is always a sign of weakness and proof that the whole being is not exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine influence alone. The Mother Quarrel When you start a quarrel it is as if you were declaring... declaring war on the Divine's work. The Mother Defects of others Do not dwell much on the defects of others. It is not helpful. Keep always quiet and peace in the attitude. Sri Aurobindo Wilful indulgence Everybody knows this; those who do not want to change their way of doing things or their way of being always say, "Oh! what do you expect, it is human nature." This is what is called ...
... for the Divine―not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the aspiration―to want the Divine for the Divine's sake, not for fame or name or prestige or power or any satisfaction of vanity. Be perfectly sincere in your consecration to the Divine's work. This will assure you strength and success. Be sincere and absolute in your consecration to the Divine and your... Sincerity is the key of the divine doors. Be sincere. Sincerity is the gate to Divinity. Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will. 21 February 1930 ... your life will become harmonious and beautiful. Page 65 Fear not, your sincerity is your safeguard. 22 November 1934 If earnestly you say to the Divine, "I want only Thee", the Divine will arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled to be sincere. 8 June 1954 Simple sincerity: the beginning of all progress. To reach your spiritual goal, be sincere ...
... spontaneously co-operate in the Divine's work. Eventually they reach their goal. The Mother favours these people and loves them immensely. We are just zeros beside these highbrows." I was too credulous. But I did put up some defence, saying, "Look my dear, since we have been accepted by the Mother, how can we be zeros? Alas! If I could only learn to unite with the Divine, I would gain everything, wouldn't... and progress, without any preference or partiality. The knowledge I promised you is not any superficial knowledge of philosophy, science or art, it is the knowledge of the Divine and of the way to unite with the Divine—This is the only knowledge worth having, and you are right in telling so. As for the attacks, it is a long standing affair and it may not be easy to make them stop at once—but ...
... goodwill are indispensable for good work. 11.8.54 1955-08-15 The closer you come to the Divine the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidences of His immeasurable Grace. 15.8.55 Before getting angry for the mistakes of others one should always remember one's own mistakes. It is by combined and patient effort that. all good. work is done. When you start a quarrel... quarrel it is as if you were declaring war to the Divine's work. For the work steadiness and regularity are as necessary as skill. Whatever you do, do it always carefully. If mistakes were not to be effaced, then never the world could reach salvation. There is no fire that can be compared with passion, no misfortune equal to hatred, no misery comparable with the agitation of the mind. He who... who follows the steep path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss. Divine solicitude is supporting you in the disinterested work through which you will attain transformation. Open to the New Light that has dawned upon Earth and your path will be illumined. To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness—of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish ...
... offer all my little person to the Divine. I want it to be a good instrument for Him to express Himself, that I may be ready one day for the transformation." The Mother A perfect instrument Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. The Mother A true instrument Let nothing short of perfection be your ideal in work and you are sure to become a true... true instrument of the Divine. The Mother Psychic instrument Care should be taken that there should be no ambitious or selfish misuse, no pride or vanity, no sense of superiority, no Claim or egoism of the instrument, only a simple and pure psychic instrumentation of the nature in any way in which it is fit for the service of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo Work done for the Mother ... world, if we offer to this Reality instruments which are refined, rich, developed, fully conscious, the work of transformation will be more effective. The Mother Acting always from within You must learn to act always from Within - from your inner being which is in contact with the Divine. The outer should be a mere instrument and should not be allowed at all to compel or dictate your speech ...
... reciprocal good will are indispensable for good work. 11 August 1954 The closer you come to the Divine the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidences of His immeasurable Grace. 15 August 1955 Before getting angry for the mistakes of others one should always remember one's own mistakes. It is by combined and patient effort that all good work is done. When you start a quarrel it... it is as if you were declaring war to the Divine's work. For the work steadiness and regularity are as necessary as skill. Whatever you do, do it always carefully. If mistakes were not to be effaced, then never the world could reach salvation. There is no fire that can be compared with passion, no misfortune equal to hatred. no misery comparable with the agitation of the mind. He who... who follows the steep path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss. Divine solicitude is supporting you in the disinterested work through which you will attain transformation. Open to the New Light that has dawned upon Earth and your path will be illumined. To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish ...
... Sri Aurobindo. They require no commentators to throw light on them. That can only be done as a sort of intellectual gymnastics for the writers. One must have the divine's command and the divine commission to do the divine's work, then only his voice will carry the needed weight. In the Parliament of Religions held at Chicago there were many representatives of the different religions of the world... because he had the divine commission and was an orator by divine right while the others were not. In India, during the last seventy-five years or so, we have had a number of commentaries on the Gita written by many eminent men in different fields of life but without any or much spiritual background. The result is all these commentaries have disappeared leaving to posterity only the work of Sri Aurobindo... various writings of Sri Aurobindo, from his daily letters to the ashramites to the highest flights of his imagination in poetry, literature and philosophy, we cannot but be impressed by the stupendous work he has left for posterity covering every field of human thought and activity with the only exception of finance and economics. Yoga, philosophy and spirituality are his forte but there is hardly any ...
... 1956 White Roses 11 November 1956 Avoid as much as possible to be restless or impatient because it is in calm and peace that the forces of the Divine Grace work at their maximum. ...
... incarnates, not only as the most important thing, but as the thing exclusively important, more important than the Divine's work itself, or rather that this body should become for him the symbol and the concretisation of the Divine's work upon earth. 3 October 1952 A vision repeated for the third time. A small mountain train (funiculaire) open, without sides or roof, just seats in rows close to... understood perfectly by all. 12) And all else necessary for the accomplishment of Thy work. 23 October 1937 Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it when it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation. D.'s belief: The Divine (as manifested in me) is all irony and deceit. It thinks only of playing tricks. When... with the work of transformation unfinished. In order that the Divine may keep till a total transformation takes place, the body through which He is manifesting upon earth, it is necessary that at least one individual, if not more, fulfilling the required conditions of harmony, strength, sincerity, endurance, unselfishness and poise in the physical, should consider the body in which the Divine incarnates ...
... offers itself spontaneously and fully to the service of the Divine's Work upon earth. 1 6 January 1955 Give all you are, all you have; nothing more is asked of you but also nothing less. 2 6 January 1956 True wealth is that which one offers to the Divine. You are rich only by the money that you give to the Divine Cause. 30 January 1959 You are richer with the... meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation. It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return. Wealth under the psychic influence: wealth ready to return to its true possessor, the Divine. Page 48 A day shall come when all the wealth of this world, freed at last... any obligation to anybody, one has an obligation only to the Divine and there totally. When a gift is made without conditions , one can always take it as coming from the Divine and leave it to the Divine to take care of what is needed in exchange or response. As for ill-will, jealousy, quarrels and reproaches, one must sincerely be above all that and reply with a benevolent smile to the bitterest ...
... Work Work Words of the Mother - II Progress and Perfection in Work You will become more and more perfect in your work as the consciousness grows, increases, widens and is enlightened. 7 October 1934 In all action, all work done, the degree of perfection depends upon the degree of consciousness. To work in the Divine's way is not easy for... Faultless planning of work cannot be obtained except with the consciousness of the Divine. If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we must progress and purify ourselves. Continue to do the work you are doing but never forget that it can and must become better. 23 December 1971 To do the work that one does with all sincerity... 8 April 1954 Perfection in the work must be the aim, but it is only by a very patient effort that this can be obtained. 12 April 1954 Open yourself more and more to the Divine's force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection. 11 June 1954 Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. 27 August 1954 Let nothing short ...
... wrong. It is always wrong to quarrel, even if one is not the aggressor. When you start a quarrel it is as if you were declaring war on the Divine's work. Yes, all these quarrels are a very sad thing—they interfere terribly in the work and make everything more difficult. Before getting angry at the mistakes of others one should always remember one's own mistakes. 22 July 1954... individual Sadhana and that is why I engage myself in it and take special interest in it. We do not work for the success of X's play, or of Y's dance, or of Z's scenario. We want to render in physical terms, as perfectly as possible, the inspiration sent by the Lord for the accomplishment of His work upon earth. And for that each individual soul is a helper and a collaborator, but each human ego... each one gave more thought to his work as the really important thing, all these little quarrels would be seen for what they are, that is, as utterly ridiculous. I hope that everything will be settled soon and that harmony will reign once more among the bakery-workers. With my blessings. My blessings and my help are always with you and with those who work in the bakery, so that harmony may ...
... steps to follow for (1) sadhana and (2) silence of the mind? (1)Do work as sadhana. You offer to the Divine the work you do at the best of your capacities and you leave the result to the Divine. (2)Try to become conscious first above your head keeping the brain as silent as possible. If you succeed and the work is done in that condition, then it will become perfect. 2.4.1970* ... the work will be realised. (Reply to a member of the Auroville study group) Aug, 1966 * Everything can be part of "sadhana"; it depends on the inner attitude. Naturally, if one lets himself be invaded by the Western atmos-rhere, farewell to the sadhana. But even in the most materialistic milieu, if one retains one's aspiration and one's faith in the Divine Life... but it is good. 13.11.1970 * Should I spend some time in solitude? It is the old methods of yoga which demand silence and solitude. The yoga of tomorrow is to find the divine in work and in relation with the world. Look within yourself, reflect upon it and tell me what your choice is. 24.1.1971 * Several among us have passed or are passing through a period ...
... no confidence in any human means, however powerful; our trust is in the Divine Grace alone. For us here there is only one thing that counts. We aspire for the Divine, live for the Divine, act for the Divine. July 1956 Page 108 It is ages of ardent aspiration that have brought us here to do the Divine's Work. Sweet Mother, we are told that the conditions were much more strict... of the integral yoga do not retire from the world to lead a life of contemplation and meditation. Each one must devote at least one-third of his time to a useful work. All activities are represented in the Ashram and each one chooses the work most congenial to his nature, but must do it in a spirit of service and unselfishness, keeping always in view the aim of integral transformation. To make this... consciousness. 11 June 1967 Here we do not have religion. We replace religion by the spiritual life, which is truer, deeper and higher at the same time, that is to say, closer to the Divine. For the Divine is in everything, but we are not conscious of it. This is the immense progress that man must make. 19 March 1973 Page 110 × ...
... see his mother who loves him dearly and would be very miserable if she were deprived of his visits. As for his work it is a matter between myself and him, and I know we shall come to some satisfying arrangement. So I must ask you once more to be in peace, and to trust in the Divine's Grace and Wisdom. 26 January 1962 The proximity of the heart and feelings is much stronger and truer... foreigners (and even among themselves): "When you have nothing pleasant to say about something or somebody in the Ashram, keep silent . "You must know that this silence is faithfulness to the Divine's work." I am thinking of inviting articles for publication in our journal from two writers whose names have been recommended to me by X. But I do not know what is their attitude towards Sri Aurobindo... the ordinary life, in order to carry on our special work of bringing down a new consciousness for the earth. This letter was written in 1933. But now all types of people from the outside world are freely allowed to come to the Ashram, and the sadhaks of the Ashram also freely mix with them. Is it because we have now reached a new stage in our work in which the earlier restrictions in our contacts ...
... The Guest ============= This is Sri Aurobindo' s Yoga: The Yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in relation with the world. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Ascetic Practices Sri Aurobindo states: To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim. When one has some kind of constant Union, one can be called a Yogi, but the union has to be made ...
... foreigners (and even among themselves): "'When you have nothing pleasant to say about something or somebody in the Ashram, keep silent. "'You must know that this silence is faithfulness to the Divine's work.' " (Words of the Mother, CWM Vol. 13, p. 150) Finally, for the proper functioning and the progressive evolution of our Ashram life towards its destined goal, all the sadhaks should always... not renounce their attachment to their own ignorance which they call truth, right, justice. All the trouble rises from that; if that were overcome, the true basis of life, of work, of harmony of all in the union with the Divine would more and more replace the trouble and difficulty of the present." (The Mother, p. 239) And we should not forget even for a moment what our Sweet Mother has told... displeases it, starts an inner storm that rises to the surface and spoils all the work. "This work of overcoming the ego is long, slow and difficult: it demands constant alertness and sustained effort. This effort is easier for some and more difficult for others. "We are here in the Ashram to do this work together with the help of Sri Aurobindo's knowledge and force, in an attempt to realise ...
... The Mother Work, bhakti and meditation I have always said that work done as sadhana - done, that is to say, as an outflow of energy from the Divine and offered to the Divine or work done for the sake of the Divine or work done in a spirit of devotion is a powerful means of sadhana and that such work is especially necessary in this yoga. Work, bhakti and meditation are the... best prayer Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body's best prayer to the Divine. The Mother Praying with the body To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. The Mother Progress through work One can progress through meditation, but through work provided it is done in the... something that burns like an offering. The Mother Work as offering Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine. The Mother Page 2 Work is yoga I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender. ...
... have the vibration of their meaning, a sort of crystalline little vibration. And it comes without alteration. I put: "To be receptive is to feel the urge to give and the joy of giving to the Divine's Work all one has all one is all one does." 1 Page 176 It's the one that came first. After it, there came the old story of "being pure"—what does being pure mean? It doesn't mean all ...
... psychic centre, the divine centre of your being so that you can possess a single, cohesive, fully conscious being: as this centre is wholly consecrated to the Divine, if all the elements are organised harmoniously around it, they too get consecrated to the Divine. Thus, when the Divine wills it, when the time comes, when the work of individualisation is complete, then the Divine permits you to let your... exist for the Divine alone. But it is the Divine that takes the decision. You should have done the whole preliminary work first, become a conscious being, solely and exclusively centred around the Divine and governed by Him. When your ego has served its purpose in forming a complete individual out of you, when that work has been perfectly, fully achieved, then you can say to the Divine, "Here, I am... am ready now; do you want me?" The Divine generally says, "Yes". Then everything is worked out, everything accomplished. You become a true instrument for the Divine's work. But the instrument must be built up first. You are sent to school, you are asked to do exercises (both mental and physical); do you think it is just to put you to trouble? No, it is because a surrounding is absolutely necessary ...
... something or somebody in the Ashram, keep silent. "You must know that this silence is faithfulness for the Divine's work." All of us have read this on the Dining Hall wall but how many of us practise it sincerely? Amal-da has succeeded and has kept himself engrossed in his work, read-ing and drawing more and more within to be closer and closer to our Gurus. He never ran after any fame... When I went to meet him, I was surprised to see that he was sitting in his bed and editing the papers of Mother India . When he saw me, he immediately stopped his work and started talking to me. I felt rather guilty that his work suffered due to me. But he told me fondly that he could continue it after I Page 93 leave, and he was not at all disturbed. Somebody else also came... always we forget it and tend to react, which is a wrong step. We have to practise "Constant Remembrance of the Divine" and offer everything to Him. In spite of repeated failures we have to persist. Here we see him as the brightest example of this ideal. By regular practice he has established a divine equanimity in him. That is why we always see him as the same sweet person - Amal Kiran. Another ...
... psychic centre, the divine centre of your being so that you can possess a single, cohesive, fully conscious being: as this centre is wholly consecrated to the Divine, if all the elements are organised harmoniously around it, they too get consecrated to the Divine. Thus, when the Divine wills it, when the time comes, when the work of individualisation is complete, then the Divine permits you to let your... may exist for the Divine alone. But it is the Divine that takes the decision. You should have done the whole preliminary work first, become a conscious being, solely and exclusively centred around the Divine and governed by Him. When your ego has served its purpose in forming a complete individual out of you, when that work is perfectly, fully achieved, then you can say to the Divine, "Here, I am ready... ready now; do you want me?" The Divine generally says, "Yes." Then everything is worked out, everything accomplished. You become a true instrument for the Divine's work. But the instrument must be built up first. Page 8 You are sent to school, you are asked to do exercises (both mental and physical); do you think it is just to put you to trouble? No, it is because a surrounding is ...
... well-wishers for their goodwill and collaboration in the Divine's Work. When the first version of The Story of a Soul was read out to the Mother on October 5, 1972 by her son Monsieur Andre, she wrote and sent to me through him a message which conveys everything. This is the interesting story of how a being discovers the Divine Life. Nolini Kanta Gupta, the Mother's personal secretary... was very interesting to go back to the origin and observe the development of the consciousness. Each of the Mother's letters and talks revealed numberless unknown things in a new light. I enjoyed this work thoroughly. On 31st October 1969 I showed the Mother the many notebooks containing the first rough handwritten draft of The Story, which I had completed. She asked me to read something from them... Yes, Mother, but this is how the Story begins. She nodded. I told her that now I would have to type everything that was written in all those notebooks, and she remarked, Oh! It is a big work. Then she touched each of the books, in order to surcharge The Story with her Force. The Story of a Soul runs from 1954 to 1973 and is divided into several volumes. This first one covers ...
... of the Divine which is the spiritual reality behind all religions and the descent of the supramental which is not known to any religion are the sole things which will be the foundation of the work of the future . Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: Islam, Hinduism, and the Integral Yoga The Mother has explained: Jesus is one of the many forms which the Divine has assumed... The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles The Mother also says: All religions must unite with a higher knowledge . The Yoga for tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in relation with the world . Sri Aurobindo's view: Our Yoga is not a retreading of old walks but a spiritual adventure . Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Transformation... ignorance and falsehood and moves to the knowledge, rejects darkness and moves to the light, rejects egoism and moves to the Divine Self rejects imperfections and moves to perfections. My truth is not only the truth of Bhakti or of psychic development but also of knowledge, purity, divine strength and calm and of the raising of all these things from their mental, emotional and vital forms to their supramental ...
... incarnates, not only as the most important thing, but as the thing exclusively important, more important than the Divine's work itself, or rather that this body should become for him the symbol and the concretisation of the Divine's work upon earth. 3.10.52 1953-07-04 The Lord has said: The hour is come and all the obstacles will be surmounted. A vision repeated for the third time. ... for me, in action, is Sri Aurobindo's work, automatically my conscious support is with all that helps that work and in proportion of the help. And for the work to be carried on as it must be I need all collaborations and all helps, I cannot accept only this one or that one and reject the others. I cannot belong to this party or that party. I belong to the Divine alone and my action upon earth is and... by all. 12) And all else necessary for the accomplishment of Thy work. 23 Oct. 1937" }, { mo: 1, yr: 1950, txt: "Silence all outside noise, aspire for the Divine's help; open integrally to it when it comes and surrender to its action, and it will effectively bring about your transformation. D.'s belief: The Divine (as manifested in me) is all irony and deceit. It thinks only of playing ...
... 30 January 1945 Page 325 With a quiet mind and a peaceful heart, let us do the work happily. 16 May 1954 All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine. To work for the Divine is very good, it is a delight. But to work with the Divine is a felicity infinitely deeper and sweeter still. 12 July 1957 There is no existence... become a short-cut for reaching the Divine. Page 324 It is true that the divine protection is always around us, but it fully works only when we are faced by dangers which were unavoidable; that is to say, if dangers suddenly rise on the way when we are doing some work for the Divine, then the protection works at its best. But to take up some work which is, after all, not at all ind... because we do not perceive the labour of the Sublime Worker, we ascribe the merit of the Work to ourselves. 19 January 1933 Power of action: the power which results from a true surrender to the Divine. Once the consciousness is settled in the aspiration, it cannot depend on work or absence of work. 17 December 1933 There is a time for action and there is a time for concentration; ...
... In our Yoga, work is an indispensable means of sadhana. In truth life means action; one cannot do without it. But when you consciously offer your work to the Divine, when you do it as a service to the Divine, the work changes its character: it becomes an offering. Then the work in itself, the nature of the work matters no more: it is your attitude, the spirit behind your work, the state of your... there may be two types of work. In the beginning, whatever work comes to you, you do it for the Divine; you do not make any distinction between this work or that work: you do it in the way of the Gita, without ego, with a disinterested attitude, with a spirit of dedication. But then there is another type of work, a work that is the expression of your being, a work for which you are destined... because one aspires for it. It is the aspiration, the will in the seeker, the yearning of his soul for the Divine that pushes him forward and carries him on the difficult path of yoga. To aspire means to yearn for something, to yearn for something higher or for the highest something, the Divine. But the nature of this aspiration depends on its source, on the level of consciousness from which it comes ...
... learning to work in the true yogic way, dedication through service, practical selflessness, obedience, scrupulousness, discipline, setting the Divine and the Divine's work first and oneself last, harmony, patience, forbearance, etc. 30 The work in the Ashram ... was meant as a service to the Divine and as a field for the inner opening to the Divine, surrender to the Divine alone, rejection... that, firstly, the work assigned to him was really the Divine's work, and must be done in the right attitude of consecration; and, secondly, that the work being the Mother's, the Divine's, if the application or dedication was truly sincere and free from all egoistic distortion, the Mother herself would give the strength and the expertise to the sadhak to see the work through. The first ... personality. 31 Work is not only for work's sake, but as a field of Sadhana, for getting rid of the lower personality and its reactions and acquiring a full surrender to the Divine. 32 IX Again, even as the selection of the sadhaks was governed by considerations other than the sheerly logical, not easily analysable by the mere intellect, the allocation of work to the inmates ...
... the particular work you do, but on the spirit in which all work, of whatever kind it may be, is done. Any work done well and carefully as a sacrifice to the Divine, without desire or egoism, with equality of mind and calm tranquillity in good or bad fortune, for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of any personal gain, reward or result, with the consciousness that it is the Divine Power to which... with concentration on the Divine. The foothold is there always; the foothold is the reliance on the Divine, the opening of the being, the will, the energies to the Divine, the surrender to the Divine. All work done in that spirit can be made a means for the Sadhana. It may be necessary for an individual here and there to plunge into meditation for a time and suspend work for that time or make it s... within concentrated in the sense of the Divine Presence while the surface mind does the work, or when you can begin to feel always that it is the Mother's force that is doing the work and you are only a channel or an instrument, then in place of memory there will have begun the automatic constant realisation of Yoga, divine union, in works. * The only work that spiritually purifies is that which ...
... would be far better for the work and for yourself if you remain here. 30 May 1966 Page 139 My dear child, You are my son and I am your mother for eternity. Do not worry, I take the entire responsibility of your spiritual growth and you can live in the Ashram so long as you feel it your home and you sincerely consecrate yourself to the Divine's Work. With love and blessings... arrange for that? Blessings. 25 February 1939 I did not approve much of X's departure, but as for yours I disapprove of it completely, and cannot understand why you should abandon your work and interrupt and imperil your sadhana because she chooses to go back to her village. I do not find this decision either good or fair to yourself and your spiritual aspiration, so I hope you will... the pernicious influence of an environment full of sterile doubts, defeatist pessimism, egoism and unfaithfulness. Our path is not easy, it demands great courage and untiring endurance. One must work hard and make a great effort with quiet stability to obtain results which at times are scarcely perceptible outwardly. There are many human beings who need to roll in the mire in order to feel the ...
... inertia of the will that were as crucial. This dullness and this inertia were not only an obstacle to the descending Divine: they were also perilous for the world itself. To the obscure occult forces — powers and principalities of darkness — which always oppose the Divine's work and which were reacting against the tremendous pressure of the Aurobindonian light in a vast upsurge, to these forces bent... gift of the descending Supermind. Something in the gross constitution of terrestrial creatures would not thrill to the Grace from on high, would not appreciate with a response deep enough the colossal work that was being done at a selfless expense of energy and with a silent bearing of "the fierce inner wounds that are slow to heal". If the earth's consciousness had been more receptive, the crisis of... structure through the ages. Not only to build a golden dome but to transform what he symbolically called the dragon base in the Inconscience from which the universe has evolved: this was Sri Aurobindo's work. And it had to be done one way or another. There could have been a way of slow conquest, preserving his own body by a careful rationed spirituality which would run no deadly hazards for the sake of ...
... will come spontaneously. 30 March 1970 Should I spend some time in solitude? It is the old methods of yoga which demand silence and solitude. The yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in relation with the world. Look within yourself, reflect upon it and tell me what your choice is. 24 January 1971 According to my experience people fall into tamas when they... more you will have to realise that it is not only in meditation that one can reach the Divine consciousness, you will learn that one can remain in contact with the Divine even while playing or doing gymnastics or walking or doing anything; at every moment, you should remember the Divine and try to remain in the Divine consciousness. 31 August 1953 Here sensibleness is indispensable and the... A sannyasi who makes demands is not sincere. To be sincere a sannyasi must be perfectly satisfied with what is given to him and ask for nothing more. In all that happens to him, he must see the Divine's Grace and be at once happy and grateful for it. Moreover, he who wants to do "intensive sadhana" must be able to isolate himself from his surroundings and, if necessary, to sit in deep meditation ...
... for eternity. Do not worry, I take the entire responsibility of your spiritual growth and you can live in the Ashram so long as you feel it your home and you sincerely consecrate yourself to the Divine's Work". (13-12-1966) Page 71 ... thesis written by a student of Sri Aurobindo's vision and work. A certain Indian University once sent her an M.A.-thesis to scrutinise and adjudge, and it offered her a remuneration of Rs. 50 for the task. The Mother accepted the assignment. In advance of the thesis, she had received a letter from the student. He said in effect: "My work was not considered up to *Mother India, February... genius. I wrote out a favourable report of four pages for the University Board and a far longer private piece for the student himself so that he might rectify the numerous howlers before publishing the work in book-form after obtaining his degree. My shorter report was read out to the Mother. It had a passage on technical points of English poetry. She said: "I don't know English prosody. So I couldn't ...
... attitude. The Mother Work as offering You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing the contact with the inner presence. The Mother Live to serve the Divine Do not live to be happy, live to serve the Divine and the joy that you will experience... attitude The ideal attitude is to belong only to the Divine, to work only for the Divine and above all to expect only from the Divine strength, peace and satisfaction. The Divine is all-merciful and gives us all that we need to lead us as quickly as possible to the goal. The Mother The spirit in which one does It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important... attitude with which you do the work. If done with the right attitude, it will surely bring you nearer to me. The Mother Page 48 Inner and outer attitude The progress in sadhana comes from the rectification of the inner and outer attitude, not from the nature of the work one does - any work, even the most humble, can lead to the Divine if it is done with the right ...
... this perfect consciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limits, to educate it, to open it to the Divine Light and to let the Divine Light work in it fully and freely. But the Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear, when you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or a... and, even if the thing came near, it would not be able to touch you; you would remain unhurt and unmoved by its presence. If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils that abound upon earth? All is from the Divine; but the One Consciousness, the Supreme has not created the world directly out of itself; a Power has gone out from it and has descended ...
... change or progress. Work, meditation, bhakti, all must be done as sadhana. I have always said that work done as sadhana—done, that is to say, as an outflow of energy from the Divine offered to the Divine or work done for the sake of the Divine or work done in a spirit of devotion—is a powerful means of sadhana and that such work is especially necessary in this Yoga. Work, bhakti and meditation... but they progress through work or through bhakti or through the two together. By work and bhakti one can develop a consciousness in which eventually a natural meditation and realisation become possible. The growth out of the ordinary mind into the spiritual consciousness can be effected either by meditation, dedicated work Page 209 or bhakti for the Divine. In our Yoga, which seeks... It is very indispensable, but there is nothing of the short cut about it. Karma is a much simpler road—provided one's mind is not fixed on the karma to the exclusion of the Divine. The aim must be the Divine and the work can only be a means. The use of poetry etc. is to keep one in contact with one's inner being and that helps to prepare for the direct contact with the inmost, but one must not stop ...
... realization of the Descent of Grace of the Personal and Impersonal Divine. —Victory to Sri Aurobindo I launched on the dedication pilgrimage with the object of learning to live for the Divine, to do every little work as best as I can for the Divine and to establish a living and constant contact with the Divine through work. It began with the introduction of my book in all educational institutions... astonished when they came to know about it. The Mother Divine was much pleased to hear from Dyuman the story of the dedication pilgrimage and the body that was co-operating in the work so nicely and she had sent her blessings both to the work and the worker. The fourth edition of the book was available for sale in August 1973. I had decided to visit the Ashram again in October to celebrate my birthday... going from village to village for the dedication pilgrimage. I prayed to the body in a concentrated mood that it was very fortunate to get this opportunity to do this pilgrimage to realize the Divine. This work could not be carried out without the co-operation of the body. I prayed to the body to co-operate and in response joy, peace and power filled up every cell of my body. I approached members of ...
... 27, 1971 ( Mother hands to Satprem a note that she sent to an Aurovillian ) "It is the old methods of yoga that demand silence and solitude. "The yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in contact with the world." ( Then a quotation from Sri Aurobindo that Mother wants to include in the next "Bulletin." ) "The power that works in this yoga is of a thorough-going... It is supposed to come out [in the Ashram] in French next month. All the more reason we should work on it everywhere—everywhere. There are the northern European countries.... We have someone from there who has just been called back to his post in Sweden or Norway.... He could do some work over there. He should be given the introduction and the book when it appears. Yes, we should get it... In America it's doing VERY WELL. It's already been sent to many people. And so now you've got an enthusiastic reader, R.! She's absolutely fervent, she told me she's transformed. So she's going to work very vigorously over there in America. N. on his side is pressing to have it translated into Spanish and Italian. Some people want to do it in Portuguese. But when I saw the effect on R.... You ...
... dedicated to the Divine, the life that is in some way connected with the higher consciousness, through which something of the world of light and delight comes down into our mortality acquires a special worth and naturally calls for divine protection. Likewise the property placed at the service of the Divine, which is used as an instrument for the Divine's own work upon earth, the Divine will surely... special protection. The Divine extends that protection, but under conditions – for his rule in the material field is not yet absolute. The Asura too extends his protection to his agents, and his protection appears sometimes, if not often, more effective; for the present world is under his domination and all forces and beings obey him; God and the godly have to admit his terms and work out their design on... serves the divine purpose. Asura represents the hard dark passage through which the ignorant human soul cuts out its forward march: it is the crucible in which the growing consciousness is purified of its dross in order to regain the fullness of its divine quality and nature. Finally, it must also be understood that because the divine protection is there upon whosoever belongs to the Divine, this ...
... belong only to the Divine, to work only for the Divine and above all to expect only from the Divine strength, peace and satisfaction. The Divine is all-merciful and gives us all that we need to lead us as quickly as possible to the goal. It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all... September 1954 In the Divine's light we shall see, in the Divine's knowledge we shall know, in the Divine's will we shall realise. 1 October 1954 Outside the Divine all is falsehood and illusion, all is mournful obscurity. In the Divine is life, light and joy. In the Divine is the sovereign peace. 2 October 1954 All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount... The Divine's Presence is for us an absolute, immutable, invariable fact. 12 September 1954 In the Divine, by the Divine all is transfigured and glorified; in the Divine is found the key of all mysteries and all powers. 14 September 1954 Page 11 In all there lacks the unchanging peace of the Divine's sovereign contemplation, and the calm vision of the Divine's immutable ...
... the Mother has disturbed one's self-complacence. Instead of wondering how the Divine could make mistakes, one should ask: "Why not, it they help to do the Divine's work with a startling swiftness?" The Divine could certainly make mistakes, but even the mistakes are divine. Of course the benefit of the Divine's mistakes can be reaped only if the sadhak is ready to look into himself with... only was the old profound relationship with the Mother re-established, but the storm-tossed wanderer came again to the old "haven-heaven". Now the saint-nature has the chance to be permanently at work. The Mother's compliments are surely no mere emotional responses, much less tactics of convenience. They reach deep down to some basic trait, particularly when that trait has sent a radiation... presented. Indeed it it true that the proper attitude has a say in all matters and that there is something called incalculable Grace in the Mother's dealings. But an ever-present truth-sense is also at work in her actions. There is a straight plunging into the heart of a situation and a luminous feeling of the future. Behind it all is the drive, sometimes open, sometimes concealed, often direct, often ...
... offering ) entirely to the Divine, if everything is organised harmoniously around it, everything is consecrated to the Divine. And so, when the Divine thinks it proper, when the time has come, when the work of individualisation is complete, then the Divine gives you permission to let your ego merge in Him, to live henceforward only for the Divine. But it is the Divine who takes this decision. You... first have done all this work, become a conscious being, solely and exclusively centred around the Divine and governed by Him. And after all that, there is still an ego; because it is the ego which serves to make you an individual. But once this work is perfect, fully accomplished, then, at that moment, you may tell the Divine, “Here I am, I am ready. Do you want me?” And the Divine usually says, “Yes.”... build you, it does not give up its work so easily, and it asks for the reward of its efforts, that is, to enjoy the individuality. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 12 January 1955 So there is a long, long, long way to go before merging one’s ego in the Divine. Merge one’s ego in the Divine! But first, one can’t merge one’s ego in the Divine before becoming completely individualised ...
... persisted in his own line of living, we should have to concede to him that he knew better than we the art Page 149 and science of being spiritual and doing the Divine's work. The Mother too knows her work best and is better aware than we of the right way to embody and express the spiritual realisation and to lead others to it. Of course, doubts and questions are not unnatural, but... in increasing union with the Divine and increasing expression of the Divine as a result of that union. In whatever we do we must seek to serve God. If you give a dying man some water and save his life, you do a fine thing, but it is not in itself a spiritual act unless you remember intensely that Page 144 you are offering the saving cup to the Divine within the man. A conscious ... the Supreme Shakti and Mother of the worlds, seated in all things and beings and exceeding them and drawing them to an ever greater perfection. "Remember and offer" - this is the essence of spiritual work. To come back to my point: spirituality does not imply a spurning of the earth and its calls. To flee from them is the exact opposite pole of the error of remaining enmeshed in them, and has ...
... that the force that will bring about the result and is already at work is not any individual human power, however great it may be, but the Divine himself, it is the Divine's own Shakti that is labouring for the destined end. Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous Page 3 or miraculous... lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there— although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness... view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole eternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be grudged to such a labour—for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold millenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as we have said, since it is the Divine's own Page 6 work and since Yoga means a co ...
... that the force that will bring about the result and is already at work is not any individual human power, however great it may be, but the Divine himself, it is the Divine's own Shakti that is labouring for the destined end. Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear... lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness... analogy. In view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole eternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be grudged to such a labour – for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold millenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as we have said, since it is the Divine's own work and since Yoga means a concentrated and ...
... plan is a mere metaphor. But the Divine sees what arises out of the movement of being and there is Foresight and a Sanction above. Does the Divine Power work in us at all times, even though we may be unconscious of it? Page 3 It does not work directly at all times; very often it allows the Nature to work. What is the cause of impurity in our understanding... If the Cosmic Shakti has come from the Divine, why is the world such as to allow the hostile forces to reign in it? Page 2 It is the nature of this world because it is an evolutionary world moving out of the Inconscient into the full consciousness of the Divine. Is it not the Cosmic Shakti's work to reach the Divine through all her evolutionary forms? ... Page 1 What are the forces at work in the cosmos? There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature— the forces of Light, Truth, Divine Power, Peace, Ananda — there are the forces of the lower nature which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error— there are also the hostile forces whose whole aim is to maintain the reign of Darkness, Falsehood ...
... towards all and every nation. A complete sincerity is required in this attitude. April 1968 Divine Mother, Do you want me to personally interview the people who come here to work for Auroville before we send their pictures to you? Yes. 20 June 1968 Divine Mother, Last Sunday several of the Ashram younger children unexpectedly went out on the Auroville lorry... concrete experiment and to learn how to live in Auroville. 18 August 1969 Divine Mother, I want to help build Auroville. I feel that the most practical way for me to help would be to go back to America and work for Auroville. Is this your will? My will is that you do some useful, practical and effective work in America or here according to your feeling. With love and blessings. ... Blessings. 28 June 1968 Divine Mother, 1) Do we need a Personnel Department in Auroville? No. 2) Should it be a part of the Liaison Office? Do not multiply departments, titles and names. It complicates life uselessly. 28 June 1968 ( Message for the laying of the foundation-stone of Aurofood Private Limited ) We shall work for a better tomorrow. 14 August ...
... (God the Poor). NIRODBARAN: Vivekananda did perhaps see Narayana in the Daridra. SRI AUROBINDO: But ordinarily, in the man drawing water from the well, people hardly have the vision of the Divine at work: they see only the peasant. PURANI: Kalelkar says that substance is more important than form in art. He gives the analogy of the vessel and the food in it, and emphasises that the food is the... his extraordinary vision, what he has inwardly seen. Others may find difficulty in understanding it, but it is not consciously written with a view to making it unintelligible. It is not a laboured work. On the contrary, if one tries to make it easily intelligible it becomes laboured. NIRODBARAN: Tagore goes on: "The sculptor who erects a chapel does it on the common soil. He does not think that ...
... play. We must carry out our work without expectation of rewards. To serve the Divine is a joy sufficient in itself if the soul is behind the service. Even otherwise one can be happy through the action of the idealistic mind to devote oneself to a great cause. Of course, it is hardly unnatural to expect the Divine's Grace again and again during the execution of the Divine's work, and indeed its intervention... intervention is seen quite often, but one cannot count on one's safety and security being assured just because of one's devotion to the Divine. In a deep sense the Divine's true servitor always gets the Divine's Grace, but it is not possible to sit in judgment on the mode in which this Grace comes. It may come in a most paradoxical form for the sake of some future good - even good in a future birth! Even... humanity, along with being a part of the Divine's followers, we have to be ready for failures and mishaps along with successes and windfalls. The universe we live in is too complex for cut-and-dried solutions of the problems it poses to each individual. What we have to do is to keep the firm faith that the Divine's servitor will never be without the Divine's Grace, but we must not prejudge how this ...
... know the Divine's will. Psychic perfection means to smile at everything. Superficial reactions are not desirable. Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose. Sri Aurobindo is always present. Be sincere and faithful, this is the first condition. The ideal attitude is to belong only to the Divine, to work only for the Divine, and above... The Divine Grace will do the rest. Let his life be a strong, successful happy and powerful life at the service of the Divine. Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine, because the Divine is always with him. Do not confuse calm with inertia. Calm is self-possessed strength, quiet and conscious energy, mastery of the impulses, control over the unconscious reflexes. In work calm is... into a powerful and efficient entity. Bienvenue et succès 1) The Divine alone is true—all the rest is falsehood. 2) The Divine alone is real—all the rest is illusion. 3) The Divine alone is life—all the rest belongs to the kingdom of death. 4) The Divine alone is light—all the rest is semi-obscurity. 5) The Divine alone is love—all the rest is selfish sentimentality. Man must ...
... merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins ! It was the work of the Divine; it was the Divine's work for the world. There were no formal evening sittings during these years but what appeared to me important in the talks was recorded and has been incorporated in this book... energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how he comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time—in... clear that Sri Aurobindo interpreted the traditional idea of the Vibhuti and the Avatar in terms of. evolutionary possibilities of man. But more directly he has worked out the idea of the "gnostic individual" in his masterpiece The Life Divine. He says: "A Supramental gnostic individual will be a Spiritual Person, but not a 1 Essays on the Gita, p. 258. ² Ibid ³ Ibid p. 258. ...
... the battle that is always on between the forces of Light and those of Darkness — a battle in grim earnest, the long-entrenched powers of obscurity even on the alert to spoil the chances of the Divine's work. Bosanquet's death in early manhood has always struck me as comparable in its own way with the mortal collapse of Keats at the age of twenty-three as a result of pulmonary tuberculosis... of what the Gita calls abandoning all set rules (dharmas) and taking refuge in God alone, there is the action of the Divine Grace, the Godhead coming forward in all its plenitude to uplift the human instrument. And it is fundamentally by Page 135 the Divine Grace that the Integral Yoga can be fulfilled. Man's consciousness can climb by its own initiative up to the Overmind... lady whom we all knew by her Ashram name "Nishtha". Sri Aurobindo wrote on 5 November 1928: "the name means one-pointed and steady concentration, devotion and faith in the single aim — the Divine and the Divine Realisation." Nishtha was the daughter of the one-time President of the U.S.A., Woodrow Wilson. She lived for several years in the Ashram and died amongst us. Few can show the strength of ...
... Asuric forces, would offer itself "spontaneously and fully to the service of the Divine's Work upon earth". In 1954, the "Honesty Society" had been set up under the Mother's inspiration and direction by her disciples to demonstrate how money could be earned and spent honestly in the name and in the service of the Divine. Industries like "The New Horizon Sugar Mills" were soon to be established under... and sadhak, pupil and pupil, pupil and teacher, male and female, and, manager and subordinate. They were all children of the Mother and dedicated servitors of the Divine as also vessels of the immortal Spirit. But in their day-to-day work or in the pursuit of their sadhana, they encountered the Mother in a hundred different ways, and her force sustained them in their moments of trial or difficulty and... future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. 15 IV The Mother's New Year message for 1956 was a warning doubled with a promise: The greatest ...
... merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins ! It was the work of the Divine; it was the Divine's work for the world. There were no formal evening sittings during these years but what appeared to me important in the talks was recorded ^and will be incorporated in the next book... energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how he comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time—in... clear that Sri Aurobindo interpreted the traditional idea of the Vibhuti and the Avatar in terms of. evolutionary possibilities of man. But more directly he has worked out the idea of the "gnostic individual" in his masterpiece The Life Divine. He says: "A Supramental gnostic individual will be a Spiritual Person, but not a 1 Essays on the Gita, p. 258. ² Ibid ³ Ibid p. 258. Page ...
... – "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health bulletins!It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world. There were no formal evening sittings during these years but what appeared to me important in the talks was recorded and has been incorporated in this book. ... energies to the task of saving humanity from the threatened reign of Nazism. It was a practical lesson of solid work done for humanity without any thought of return or reward, without even letting humanity know what he was doing for it! Thus he lived the Divine and showed us how the Divine cares for the world, how he comes down and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time – in... that Sri Aurobindo interpreted the traditional idea of the Vibhuti and the Avatar in terms of the evolutionary possibilities of man. But more directly he has worked out the idea of the "gnostic individual" in his masterpiece The Life Divine . He says : "A Supramental gnostic individual will be a Spiritual Person, but not a personality, in the sense of a pattern of being marked out by a settled ...
... It's all the time—constantly, unceasingly—all the time brought face to face with this experience that when you are like this ( Mother tips two fingers on one side ), that is, turned to the Divine, things work out miraculously—miraculously... it's unbelievable; and being like that ( Mother tips two fingers on the other side ) is enough for everything to be disgusting, to go wrong, to grate: a TINY... We must have patience. I've been wondering.... All these last few weeks I have been waking up in the morning with aching eyes. I've been wondering where it came from? Do you work a lot in the evening? I work normally. But the strange thing is that as the day goes by, it gets better. Then, in the night, my eyes start aching. What's going on?... I've been wondering if there wasn't something... know, its modesty is total; it has a keen sense of all its limitations, all its incapacities, all its ignorance, all... and at the same time—at the same time—the ABSOLUTE sense of the divine Presence, absolute; and a divine Presence that can break everything to pieces if it wants to. It's quite interesting.... A Presence with such power! A power... which is incalculable, with no possible comparison with ...
... that she undertook her world-work under certain conditions of the universe as it has been and still is — conditions of a difficult and long-drawn-out evolutionary process in which anti-divine no less than undivine forces have play and, because of the Inconscience and the Ignorance that are part and parcel of this process, get the chance of impeding the Divine Mother's work. If it were not so, all could... said about India's Independence on 15 August — that the date being the same as of his birthday is not a mere coincidence nor a fortuitous accident but the seal and sanction of the Divine Force that guided his steps in the work with which he began life — this statement cannot be generalised to mean that whatever occurs on certain great days in our spiritual calendar or even on this very day is symbolic... ANSWERS TO READERS' QUESTIONS 1 On the Agenda and the Divine Will I can see that although you do not favour Satprem for a moment you are genuinely puzzled at the turn that things have taken in relation to the Agenda. Your puzzlement may be summed up as follows: "How is it that the Divine Mother who, by definition, must be both omniscient and omnipotent, has allowed ...
... conscious individual being, master of itself and moved exclusively by the divine Will. That is to say, an individual expression of the Supreme. This is what we call the "psychic being." Generally speaking, those who practice yoga have either a fully developed, independent psychic being which has taken birth again to do the Divine's work, or else a psychic being in its last incarnation wanting to complete... that grows.... It is the individual consciousness. Aspiration is almost always an expression of the psychic being—the part of us that's organized around the divine center, the small divine flame deep within human beings. You see, this divine flame exists inside each human being, and little by little, through all the incarnations and karma and so on, a being takes shape around it, which Théon called... there is only one Supreme, there is only one jiva, but with millions of individual forms. This jiva begins as a divine spark—immutable, eternal and infinite too (infinite in possibility rather than dimension). And through all the incarnations, whatever has received and responded to the divine Influence progressively crystallizes around the jiva, which becomes more and more conscious as well as more and ...
... Union with the Divine, 28 Universal divine, 12 . University centre, 2, 110 Upanishad, 11 Uttarpara speech, 11 Veda, 14-5, 30, 41, 136 Page 286 Vision, premonitory, 30 Vital, 75, 82, 254-6 Vital, descent into, 82 Vital-physical, 254-5 Vivekananda, 13, 28 Worker, divine, 232 Work is done,194, 199... Levitation, 13 1968 (Auroville, inauguration of), 178-9 Liberation, 72-3, 75 1968 (Great turning-point), 179 Life Divine, the, 76 1969 (Consciousness of superman), 182 Life and yoga, 70 1970 (Sri Aurobindo's work is done), 191-7 Light, golden, 233 1970 (New body in the subtle physical), 206-7 Love supreme, 144-5, 149... 186-9, 206, 211, 212, 213, 220, 261 Adwaita, 7 Descent, 33, 76, 78, 146-7 Alipore jail, 11, 12 Descent of the Supermind, 85, 87 Arya, 2, 56, 67 Divine body, 95-6, l63 Ascent, 33, 76, 78 Divine, integral, 71, 75 Ashta Siddhi, 17-8, 241-3 Dying, new way of, l68 Auroville, 3, 178-9 Bengladesh, 214 Education, revolutionary ...
... is not to figure out the occasion and wonder how the Divine will act. Stop bothering about it altogether - as if it had completely vanished from your life. Leave the Divine to work out the solution. I don't mean that one should sit motionless and see what happens: one should go about one's business but not expect this or that result. The Divine will do all that is necessary and you will have won a... fulfilling their instinctive cry. The fiery red of the sun seems to be the supramental arch-mage of the dull red of the earth. And it occurs to me that a great Force of the Divine has announced Page 130 its coming to work on your very body. Meet it with a great calm, a wide silent happiness, a quietly self-dedicating receptivity - and whenever you take any medicine do so with a thankful... call has set soothing your trouble. When I say "call' I do not mean that you have asked the Divine just to cure you: you have sent out your cry basically for the Divine just to come. There is nothing wrong in praying for the welfare of your body, but the core of every invocation is the appeal to the Divine to fill wholly your being and make it a humble part of his perfection. I remember those lines ...
... the contradiction of all the spiritual assertions of the past: "If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, give up your body—the body cannot follow"; well, Sri Aurobindo came and said: the body, not only can it follow, it can even be the base for manifesting the Divine. The work remains to be done. But now a certitude is there. The result remains still far off, very far; much has... spiritual depths: within the body). To enable that to manifest what is within... This will come last, and it is good it is so, for if it came before time, one would neglect the work, one would be so satisfied as to forget to finish his work; everything should be done within, should be well and good, should be thoroughly changed, then the outside will speak it out. But it is all one single substance, all... I asked you: "How is one to do it, I do not know how it is done."... For example, in the morning I shave myself; well, in the morning one is stupid, one is tired, the mind refuses to work, the vital refuses to work... Yes, it is an excellent occasion. Certainly, it is just what I do, and I say: well, no, I do not see. I do not know how to make it move—it does not move. It does not move unless ...
... birthday) as his date with destiny was itself an indication that he was being blindly driven to hurl himself against the Divine. In a conversation on 20 May 1940, Sri Aurobindo had said that Hitler's fascination for 15 August was itself the sign that he was the enemy of the Divine's work that was being attempted in the Ashram; "and from the values concerned in the conflict it should be quite clear that... significance, Sri Aurobindo said in 1949: The blue of the flag is meant to be the colour of Krishna and so represents the spiritual or divine consciousness which it is her work to establish so that it may reign upon earth. It is used as the Ashram flag because "our work is to bring down this consciousness and make it the leader of the world's life". 23 It was by no means irrelevant to talk of the... force to surmount them.... How often we heard her praying to Sri Aurobindo, "Lord, there should be no rain now."... The Divine Force would of course win.... But as soon as the intended object was achieved, a deluge swept down as if in revenge.... During the roof-construction, work had to go on all night long and the Mother would mobilise and marshal all the available Ashram hands and put them there ...
... Circle—is in trouble with the police for having tried to smuggle out currency through another man. That man was caught and the police are on the scene. He prays for help. What has he done for the Divine's Work that he asks for help? September 1964 The parents of Z (of Children's Home) have written asking if Mother would approve of the girl's going to Bombay for the school holidays. The girl... anybody. Only the Divine will be for you if you are for the Divine." In a flash a whole pathway was lighted for him and the strength given to tread it. Are they not words of our Mother? These words are exactly the message I sent you yesterday evening after I felt you had received my card, as an explanation of what was written. Put your trust in the Divine alone. The Divine will never fail... disciple withdrew from a certain work—the shifting of two persons to new quarters—but did not inform the Mother. Later, when she enquired, he explained the reasons for his decision and asked her forgiveness for not consulting her. ) My dear child, When love is there, the need for forgiveness does not exist. There is a complete understanding. I wrote for the sake of the work, and also because there is ...
... six represents divine creation; so the six horses signify the powers of divine creation. The coach stands for realisation, for the thing that has to be realised, achieved, brought up to the Page 13 summit, to the height where dwells the Light. Although these powers of creation are divine, it is a hard labour even for them to consummate the realisation; for they have to work against heavy... thinking of the Divine, difficult to come down to the ordinary consciousness. Then you are sure of progress, then you have made real progress when concentration in the Divine is the necessity of your life, when you cannot do without it, when it continues naturally from morning to night whatever you may be engaged in doing. Whether you sit down to meditation or go about and do things and work, what is required... want to become conscious of my nights, I have not the knowledge, let the Divine Will work it out for me." Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end to be achieved. This is the first step. If you are vigilant, if your attention is alert, you will certainly receive something ...
... ) It's a denial of all the spiritual assertions of the past: "If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, leave your body—the body cannot follow." Well, Sri Aurobindo came and said, "Not only can the body follow, but it can be the base that will manifest the Divine." The work remains to be done. But now there is a certitude. The result is still very far—very far off, there is much... spiritual depths: within in the body). For it to be able to manifest what is within ... That will come last, which is very good because if it came earlier, we would neglect the work; we would be so happy that we'd forget to complete the work. Everything must have been done within, everything must be fully and thoroughly changed, then the outside will express it. But it's all ONE SINGLE substance, the very... question. I am not doubting anything. I asked you how it's done, that's what I don't see.... For instance, I shave every morning. Well, in the morning you are dazed, tired, the mind doesn't work, the vital doesn't work.... Yes, it's an excellent opportunity. Well, yes, so that's what I do! But I tell you, I just don't see, I don't. I don't know how it can be stirred—it doesn't stir.... It doesn't ...
... from below and presided over by the Divine stationed on one plane or another. This soul passes through various lives as world-helping Vibhutis until the time arrives for the presiding Divine to descend from above into it and constitute the Avataric manifestation. Once that manifestation has occurred, the line concerned has reached its climax, and its work has culminated. The line of mental Avatarhood... did not even know the existence of Rome?¹ ... So if the Mother was present in the life of Christ, she was there not as the Divine Manifestation but as one altogether human. For her to be recognised as the Divine would have created a tremendous disorder and frustrated the work Christ came to ¹ Guidance from Sri Aurobindo, p. 283. Page 63 do by breaking its proper... dilating on Vibhutis, he alludes (X.37) to himself as being a Vibhuti at the very time that he is Krishna the Avatar, meaning thereby a Vibhuti to be whoever is outstanding in any category of the Divine's work in the world during all periods. He equates himself to being in varied ways the most pre-eminent in every category. And when he speaks in this style he refers not merely to past top echelons ...
... Narayan Prasad, Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1968), p. 288. ³ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 39. Page 229 It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world."¹ But Sri Aurobindo's participation was not confined to following the war news or to making contributions and public statements:" Inwardly, he put his spiritual... al magnum opus, The Life Divine, which had first appeared in the Arya between 1914 and 1919, and of several other works was not undertaken due to want of time for the thorough recasting which Sri Aurobindo desired to give them. During the period of his recovery from the accident of November 1938, Sri Aurobindo had the opportunity to work on The Life Divine. The first edition, in two... is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though ...
... limited ego will now become an interplay of the Divine with Himself. There will be no disturbance of any sort m the being but a smiling search for the Divine's progressive purpose in whatever situation stands before you. The outward aspects of the situation would not seem all in all; they would be merely the channels through which the Divine would work upon your inner self instead of upon your surface... dislike, pleasure and pain, desire and disgust, self-exaltation and self-abasement. Secondly, these reactions whenever they occur have to be inwardly offered to the Divine: the cultivation of the calm and the offering of the reaction to the Divine have to go on side by side. Thirdly, a call has to go forth to the Supreme to bring His presence into you in answer to the offering. This presence would consolidate... actualities inspiring that imagination to perceive a many-sidedness in the unitary Divine Being who is at the same time an impersonal infinity of omnipotent peace self-multiplied endlessly and a super-personal eternity of omniscient love with innumerable soul-forms of his own to be interrelated. The experience of this Divine Being, even the vivid concept of it, give not only a proper meaning to the diversity ...
... complete knowledge of it in all its principles which will leave nothing yet to be known. The whole knot of the ignorance which has bewildered his human mind and has made his will recoil from his divinely appointed work, will have been cut entirely asunder. This is the wisdom of all wisdoms, the secret of all secrets, the king-knowledge, the king-secret. It is a pure and supreme light which one can verify... cannot be divine. Nature, ignorant and mechanical, cannot be a power of God; for divine Power must be free in its workings, spiritual in its origin, spiritual in its greatness. The soul bound and egoistic in Nature, mental, vital, physical only, cannot be a portion of the Divine and itself a divine being; for such a divine being must be itself of Page 307 the very nature of the Divine, free... it is not the whole clue to the divine mystery,—for by itself it would leave Nature unexplained and the natural active part of being isolated from the spiritual and quietistic self-existence. The divine detachment must be the foundation for a divine participation in Nature which will replace the old egoistic participation, the divine quietism must support a divine activism and kinetism. This truth ...
... 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 of Universal Justice. The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. 15 ... sun upon clouds - it disperses them. Happiness is not the aim of life. The aim of ordinary life is to carry out one's duty, the aim of spiritual life is to realise the Divine. To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. All was gold and gold and gold, a torrent of golden light pouring down in an uninterrupted flow and bringing with it the consciousness that the path... close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony Perfection are their several attributes. and it is these powers that they bring with them into the world, manifest in a human disguise m their Vibhutis and shall found in the divine degree of their ascension in those who can open their earthly nature ...
... light and initiate a salutary, expansive change in it. But for the divine Grace to descend and do its work fully and freely in the human being, it is essential that the surrender should be unreserved and integral. There are many pitfalls on the path of surrender. We may start with a sincere surrender, but when the divine Power descends into us and achieves something extraordinary—as it not... should be done; you do not sit down idle and wait. The surrender comes in when you take the attitude that says, 'I will give my will to the Divine. I intensely want to become conscious of my nights. I have not the knowledge, let the divine Will work it out for me. Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as... "Grant that we may be Thy vivifying breath. Thy sweet peace. Thy luminous love upon the earth amongst our ignorant and sorrowful human brothers. "O divine Master, accept the offering of my integral holocaust, so that Thy work may be done and the time may not pass in vain... "The whole being is transformed into the ardent flame of a sacrifice of pure love. "Become again ...
... shown in their proper perspective. Man is represented as not only great but Divine in his potentiality, and ultimate fulfilment. Beginning as a "death- bound littleness" man emerges at the end as the conqueror of death, as the Immortal who participates consciously in the Divine's work here to build a creation based upon the Divine Truth. The second prominent power of Sāvitrī is its vast life-throb... of true spiritual knowledge. And also see how in the lines that follow, we find a true value given to the myths by the divine power that works for the growth of man. There is. also a contrast of the value of reason which has been overestimated by the modem mind: "Thus worked the Power upon the growing world; Its subtle craft withheld the full-orbed blaze, Cherished the soul's childhood... Reason's tilth, Its heaped fodder of innumerable facts, Plebeian fare on which today we thrive." Sāvitrī, Book II, Canto 10. There is here not only an explanation of why the divine power at work in the cosmos does not give the full blaze of spiritual knowledge to the infant soul of humanity, but there is also here a true appraisement of reason and its service to the growth of knowledge ...
... Pakistan War? During the Bangladesh War? Mother has said and written many things on these topics. I do not remember them. But I remember her saying that the asuric force wanted to destroy the Divine's work and so there occurred the Second World War. The partition of India was a mistake. The Pakistan War was the result of that mistake and during the Bangladesh War India got a chance to unite Bangladesh... very soon and Mother's work continued. Mother did not give me any special instructions except that I had to stand by her side. All her true children felt that they had to do their part of the work as well as possible. I expected to see Sri Aurobindo's supramentalised body so when He left His body I did not feel like taking photographs. What was your role in her work? Can you enlighten... continue doing its work, elsewhere, wherever It finds sufficient aspiration and sincerity. We have committed ourselves to the work of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. If we are truly worthy of the Grace and Compassion that Mother and Sri Aurobindo have poured on us abundantly, we must remain absolutely loyal to them. Individually and collectively, we must do our inner and outer work, with absolute ...
... and the power itself is the Divine's. No attachment to work, for the work is not the ego's, but the Divine's. No attachment or insistence on the fruits, for that too belongs to the Divine and will come when mind and circumstances are ready. It is the same with sadhana. Only one thing is to be the aim, to be in union and contact with the Divine through love and surrender,—the rest will come out of that... the Divine. Yes—it is from looking at things from the ego point of view that there comes all the confusion and trouble and ignorance. One has to think of the Divine, be still and let the divine consciousness come in and replace the egoistic human—then all that disappears. All attachment and ego must disappear. No temptation of power, for power is given only to do the Divine's work and... their claims and desires would be to make her work meaningless and a failure. Apart from that, the Page 224 basis of this Yoga is self-giving and surrender of the sadhak to the Divine, his acceptance of guidance by a higher consciousness than his own. A reversal of the position, an imposition of the will of the lower consciousness on the Divine or the Guru is not admissible; yet the position ...
... following an intense spiritual discipline till he left his body in August 2005. His whole work is still in his little Sanctuary expressing the intensity of his search and the depth of his spiritual experiences. One can truly say that his life has been a song of love and adoration to the Mother Divine, a complete dedication to the Ideal of Sri Aurobindo. iv - v ... gamblers and death-dealers, Starving children, the dead and the dying, prisoners without ransom, Perverted visionaries who would gladly blow up creation, Even those who hate the Divine and work against His will, All in that miraculous instant gathered around the sacrificial Fire of Grace, solicitous bees surrounding the Mother-Queen to draw their sustenance of Faith. ... O Mother Divine, come down in me, Down the stairway of my rising aspiration. O Aspiration, set fire to my heart, mind, soul, My body, all the cells of my body. O Aspiration, when you are there I know I am with the Divine. Keep me, keep me always with the Divine. How auspicious you are for in truth, Aspiration is the rising, the awakening of the Mother Divine in us, ...
... must find some work for him too! Most opportunely came a demand from the Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, for a book from Sri Aurobindo, preferably The Life Divine. The work had appeared long ago in the Arya and it could now be published in book form. The Mother caught hold of the idea and asked for his approval. Sri Aurobindo wanted to write one or two new chapters. So he set to work. A new writing... situation before and had to face it all alone — as a doctor. I needed much strength and faith. So far it was Sri Aurobindo who had been giving me his constant spiritual support in my medical work. Now the Divine Physician himself was the patient. Whom should I approach for help? Though I did not openly ask him to cure himself using my poor self as the physical instrument, as I did in my other medical... that Sri Aurobindo was very pleased with his work. So long as Sri Aurobindo could use his own eyes, we had no direct means of knowing what he was about. Of course, we could sometimes overhear or he would himself tell us about the topics, how far he had come, if something new he had added, etc. Purani and Satyendra were interested in The Life Divine , and the former would try to fish for some i ...
... said, It's a denial of all the spiritual assertions of the past: "If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, leave your body—the body cannot follow." Well, Sri Aurobindo came and said, "Not only can the body follow, but it can be the base that will manifest the Divine...." The work remains to be done.'s They used to go far, far above, in deep meditation, into something more and more ethereal... the certitude that what is to be done Is DONE and the Supramental Manifestation IS REALIZED... 13 At that instant, it was done. The work of Sri Aurobindo and Mother was accomplished, as if this one pure contact with That, in an earthly body, had made the Work be. Perhaps much like the first time in the world when a mineral object came in contact with Life—or dissolved enough to allow the first... stupendous, carrying everything.... And the thing is DONE. Then She added, this time in French, Later on, I will explain it more clearly. The instrument is not yet ready.... Now, let us get to work. 14 Get to work to make that live in a body that is... capable. This "new" thing (It's nothing new! Mother exclaimed. What's new is the capacity to perceive the thing 14 ), this something in the depths ...
... strictly speaking, Adoptionism came to connote the stance of the "heresy" known as Gnosticism and Docetism which held that at Jesus' baptism a supernatural being entered one who was not himself divine and worked through him as a receptacle for a time and left him before the Crucifixion, so that Jesus was merely a "seeming" or "phantasmal" Son of God and not truly born as such in the flesh. Page... a disciple from Jerusalem (Ac 12:12) who assisted Paul in his apostolic work (Ac 12:25; 13:5, 13; Phm 24; 2 Tm) and Barnabas his cousin (Ac 15:37, 39; Col 4:10) and Peter (1P 5:13), whose 'interpreter' he was, put Peter's preaching down in writing at Rome." But the book called "The Gospel according to Mark" could not be the work of John Mark to whom Paul refers towards the end of his Colossians: "A... Testament? Popular Christian belief, especially Roman Catholic, and even a fair part of Biblical scholarship take the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles as the double work of the Luke who figures three times in the Epistles of Paul (Colossians 4:14; Philemon 24; 2 Timothy 4:11). Similarly they accept, as the author of the Gospel that passes under the name of Mark, another ...
... The time has come to rely only on the Divine Will and to let it work FREELY through you. This is the same answer as the one I wanted to send to you yesterday but I had no time to write. I repeat—the time has come at last, not to rely any more on one's own petty will, to hand over the whole affair to the Divine's Will and to let It do Its work through you, not only through your mind and... spoke yesterday morning, I wonder whether the Divine also shares this view. No, the Divine knows and cannot share in any nonsense. When exhibitionism seems to be more important than anything else, when all possible facilities are being given to make life easy, when everything is being given to us without any expectation of return, how can people work unless there is a change from within?—and,... best of his capacity, and with his eyes fixed upon the magnitude of the Divine's work which will surely help him in his personal difficulties. Times are hard for everybody and in everything—but it is surely to teach us to overcome our limitations. I have full confidence in you, count upon you, need your Page 214 work, and feel sure you will get over the present difficulties. With love ...
... the Gita XXII The Supreme Secret The essence of the teaching and the Yoga has thus been given to the disciple on the field of his work and battle and the divine Teacher now proceeds to apply it to his action, but in a way that makes it applicable to all action. Attached to a crucial example, spoken to the protagonist of Kurukshetra, the words bear... its truth, plastic to the shaping breath of the Spirit. The man who has this harmony may be motionless within and absorbed in silence, but his Self will appear free from disguises, the divine Influence will be at work in him and while he abides in tranquillity and an inward inaction, naiṣkarmya , yet he will act with an irresistible power and myriads of things and beings will move and gather under... extinction may be a rigorous demand of the mind's logic of self-annulment; it is not the last word of the supreme mystery, rahasyam uttamam . The refusal of Arjuna to persevere in his divinely appointed work proceeded from the ego sense in him, ahaṅkāra . Behind it was a mixture and confusion and tangled error of ideas and impulsions of the sattwic, rajasic, tamasic ego, the vital nature's fear ...
... body is all the time—constantly, unceasingly—all the time brought face to face with this experience that when you are like this [Mother turned two fingers to one side], that is, turned to the Divine, things work out miraculously- miraculously... it's unbelievable; and being like that [Mother turned her fingers to the other side as if she were crossing an invisible wall] is enough for everything to be... in the cage. But once you come out of it, it is different. Once you come out of it, it is divine. It is the Divine. And everything remains just as concrete and just as real—it doesn't become misty. It's just as concrete, just as real, but... it becomes divine, because... because it is the Divine. Its the Divine playing... 30 See, that Lord, how many things He possesses: He plays with all that—He plays... all—there are many, many degrees, but it all belongs to the domain of complications (mental complications) and desire. Whereas the other way is immediate. Then people tell you, "Oh, you've worked a miracle!" No miracle was worked: it should always be that way. It's because the intermediary did not add himself to the action. 6 The bird does not add itself to the Action, and it goes straight to its unseen goal; ...
... but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other. The Divine, the Eternal is the Lord of our sacrifice of works and union... Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice. It is clear that a conception of... changing all that belonged to the Ignorance. A Force has poured into him in currents or like a sea, worked in his being and all its members, dissolved, new-made, reshaped, transfigured everywhere. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasure. A Love without limits has joined him to all creatures or revealed to him a world of ...
... all luminous on the surface. This call of the being, when very strong, can also bring about the descent of a divine emanation, an individuality, a divine aspect which joins with your individuality at a given moment in order to do a given work, win a battle, express one thing or another. The work done, the emanation very often withdraws. Then one may retain the memory of the circumstances that were around... has taken birth again to do the Divine's work, or else a psychic being in its last incarnation wanting to complete its development and realize itself. This is what aspires, this is what has the contact. Page 11 So, when you're told "become conscious of your psychic being," it's for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being... kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its Page 27 direct guidance. In most cases these two methods emerge and work together and finally fuse into one. But one can begin with either the ...
... of the Divine in us. The aspiration to be awakened in the cells of the body has to stem from the veiled knowledge of the Divine in them. Unity, surrender, sincerity, equanimity, aspiration in the cells. They often overlap each other, precisely because their aim is the same: to provide a material body for the One. They were the five main tools the Mother now used to allow the Divine to work the miracle... the preparatory work done on her cells in the course of her yoga, the Mother was capable of universalizing them. Can one even imagine what it means to be universalized? To be as big, wide, infinite as the universe? To contain the universe in oneself? Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had been supramentalized in their mind and vital, and compared to the Supramental, which is the Divine, the universe is... sufficiently perfected for Thee to complete its transformation, its transmutation, Thou art at work in 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 ...
... sensational movement, no visits from people except on business. Silent consecration of oneself to the work in order to make it a flawless and harmonious achievement was evident in each one’s sincere effort. Each member’s work was indeed a marvel. Could one work in this manner unless one deeply loved the Divine? The girl about whom I spoke was barely 14 years old and with what joy and ardour she was embroidering... you and the psychic liberated from these veils flood you with the divine love and the soul’s happiness. We shall certainly concentrate our endeavour to help you towards that.” I had a bent towards meditation. I was not attracted by the gospel of work nor did I understand its place or need in Sadhana. But gradually the necessity of work made itself felt and I came to see that the radical change and... love for the Divine.” I returned with the firm resolve that I must fulfil my promise. I surmised that if I had to do it I must work eleven to twelve hours a day. I started in right earnest. It was a great surprise that I never felt tired in the least after working at a stretch for many hours. Since the mind dwelt in the Mother’s consciousness it brought deep concentration, and joy in the work, especially ...
... spiritual assurances of the past [which say]: “If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, give up your body, for the body cannot follow [the spiritual aspiration].” But you see, Sri Aurobindo has come and he has said: “Not only can the body follow, it can even be the base which manifests the Divine.” The work remains to be done. ‘But now there is a certitude. The result is still far off, very... world, embodied in mental substance, and sure to work out the intention with which it has been charged. When such thoughts were directed at the Mother, she sometimes had to react with vigour, simply to protect herself. Question: ‘How is Mother doing?’ – Her answer: ‘Mother is not doing. There is no person here any more to be doing. Mother does what the Divine wants her to do.’ And she explained: ‘If, for... that had been rejected before, and all that contradicted and opposed the Divine. ‘I think … I don’t know, but this seems to be the first time that the instrument [i.e. the Avatar], instead of having been made in order to bring the “Good Tidings,” the “Revelation,” to light the spark, has been made to try and realize – to do the work, the obscure chore.’ 27 What was measured out to her was ‘three minutes ...
... supramental state. From the millennia-old way in which those organs and functions were used to work, they had to be transferred to a working under the direct governance of the divine Unity-Consciousness. The body had to be divinized, and if one remembers more or less how a divine body is supposed to work, one can hardly find words for the awesomeness of the undertaking. The most perceptible, external... receptivity and they have opened to the divine Influence, directly … ‘This is the denial of all spiritual confirmations of the past: “If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, leave your body, for the body cannot follow.” But Sri Aurobindo has come and he has said that the body can not only follow: it can be the base manifesting the Divine. The work still has to be done. ‘But there... ‘No idea,’ replied Sri Aurobindo. ‘If one has an idea the result will be what has been in the past. We must leave the Supermind to work everything out.’ 14 He did not want to define the Undefinable because such definitions would inevitably become caricatures of the divine Reality in the mind of his mental audience, perhaps even with negative consequences for them. And in spite of all their ideas and ...
... sadhana. I have always said that work done as sadhana—done, that is to say, as an outflow of energy from the Divine offered to the Divine or work done for the sake of the Divine or work done in a spirit of devotion is a powerful means of sadhana and that such work is especially necessary in this Yoga. Work, bhakti and meditation are three supports of Yoga. One can do with all three, or two or... with the Divine, But that cannot, I expect, be hoped for for a long time to come. Vairagya comes easily enough but anuraga [admiring love, devotion] is difficult, what ? Last night, for instance, I tried to meditate from 9 p.m. but felt so drowsy that slept for ten hours, strange ! For I sleep much less when I work hard—and usually I work hard enough you know. Night before last I worked till 1... "I have been resisting so long—sincerely trying—still, the Divine helps not, etc...” these familiar grievances came. And on top the weakness which I have been resisting for some time past at [ ?] occasionally failing a little. Last night however I felt terribly feeble and sad because of this sense of feebleness. I worked and worked still it was bad as ever. Then I went to Ashram and prayed to ...
... he saw the Divine Mother behind her; and love for the Divine Mother was inherent in him, suffusing and animating every fibre of his being. It was the overmastering passion of his soul. And it was this love for the Divine - in the beginning it was an imperceptible influence 35 - that made him a nationalist. Even when he found himself irresistibly drawn towards Mother India and the work of national... total self-offering to God, the second; and divine realisation and manifestation, the third. But it must not be supposed that each of them worked by itself, during the period of its domination, to the exclusion of the others. Essentially they formed an organic unity, each helping the others, and all contributing to the accomplishment of his life's work. The patriotism which fired his being since... his passionate love of his motherland, and his ardent appeal to the Divine Mother to raise the masses of India triggered the movement of a Force which has been unsleeping in its action, and which will not rest till it raises India to her highest, divine stature. Page 85 of the national spirit, after the spade work done by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, was inspired and initiated by Sri Aurobindo's ...
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