... the Divine it pours out on others, but freely without demanding a return. If you are capable of that, then that is the highest and most satisfying way to love. 1 Family Ties and Duties What you write about the family ties is perfectly correct. It creates an unnecessary interchange and comes in the way of a complete turning to the Divine. Relations after taking up Yoga should be less and less... sadhana—of sadhak with sadhaks, of others as souls travelling the same path or children of the Mother than in the ordinary way or with the old viewpoint. When one enters the spiritual life, the family ties which belong to the ordinary nature fall away—one becomes indifferent to the old things. This indifference is a release. There need be no harshness in it at all. To remain tied to the old physical... and Divine. You ought to be able to see, after receiving today's telegram, that the cause of the unrest is in yourself and not in the outward circumstances. It is your vital attachment to family ties and the ordinary social ideas and feelings that has risen in you and creates the difficulty. If you want to practise Yoga, you must be able to live in the world, so long as you are there, with a ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects Spiritual Life and Family Alignments All attachments is a hindrance to spiritual seeking. Family ties constitute one of the greatest, strongest and most persistent attachments of all. Needless to say that whatever be the necessity of such attachment to keep up the stability and solidarity of family life... the forms only are passing. There is no meaning in abstaining from killing involved in Dharma-Yuddha even though the killed were one's own flesh and blood. Pertaining to the forms only, the family ties are relative and passing while the soul is eternal and indestructible Page 91 and to the ties of soul only we should adhere. There is no difference and distinction in soul-substance... knowledge while Arjuna has it not. The family relations originate in primal selfishness and their tendency is to endure through habits, customs and traditions. Very few people can outgrow the family ties and be fair and just in their dealings with outsiders. Father and son, husband and wife will usually if not invariably join together to fight the third man even if he happens to be in the right ; ...
... Anthropos (man), Protanthropos (first or primal human), Adam or Adamas. The relationships between the spiritual principles are quite often explained in the way of human relationships, as sexual or family ties. This superficial or exoteric meaning has led to the misunderstandings which rendered Gnosticism suspect, not unintentionally. Yet, names of Man and Woman or Husband and Wife for the absolute ...
... still idyllic and partly carried by the real utopian and emancipationist spirit”, writes Sünner. “They profit from the general crisis in which the family, the school and the Church are involved. The family ties form no longer a close unity which would be able to provide a seeking youth with aims and values. The younger ones long for enthusiasm, tests of courage and overwhelming experiences with which neither ...
... nation. 332) A nation is not made by a common blood, a common tongue or a common religion; these are only important helps and powerful conveniences. But wherever communities of men not bound by family ties are united in one sentiment and aspiration to defend a common inheritance from their ancestors or assure a common future for their posterity, there a nation is already in existence. 333) Nationality ...
... participation in the Katsuragawa Summer Retreat, a gyoja may petition the Hiei Headquarters to be allowed to undertake the 1,000-day challenge (sen-nichi kaihogyo). This involves being free of family ties, willingness to observe a twelve-year retreat, and careful screening by the Council of Elder Gyoja. The first three hundred days are the basic training, the "boot camp" of the marathon monks ...
... 3 June 1930 You ought to be able to see, after receiving today's telegram, that the cause of the unrest is in yourself and not in the outward circumstances. It is your vital attachment to family ties and the ordinary social ideas and feelings that has risen in you and creates the difficulty. If you want to practise Yoga, you must be able to live in the world, so long as you are there, with a ...
... nation. 333—A nation is not made by a common blood, a common tongue or a common religion; these are only important helps and powerful conveniences. But wherever communities of men not bound by family ties are united in one sentiment and aspiration to defend a common inheritance from their ancestors or assure a common future for their posterity, there a nation is already in existence. 334—Nationality ...
... "blood-stained" a career in its earthly representative. True, Jesus did say that he had not come to bring peace but a sword, but this was in relation to the rupture he was bound to cause between family ties and the pursuit of the disciple-cum-missionary life for a wholehearted Christian. There is no question of persecuting people unto death. True, too, that Jesus was vehement in condemning "sinners" ...
... condition was: 'Nothing more to do with your family...' Well, we are a long way from that! But I repeat that it only happened because of the war and not because we stopped seeing the need to cut all family ties; on the contrary, this is an indispensable condition because as long as you hang on to all these cords which bind you to ordinary life, which make you a slave to the ordinary life, how can you possibly ...
... problem of 'human relationships' is a ticklish one for the sadhak, but Sri Aurobindo's guidelines in the matter can give no room for ambiguity: When one enters the spiritual life, the family ties which belong to the ordinary nature fall away - one becomes indifferent to the old things.... There need be no harshness in it at all. To remain tied to the old physical affections would mean to ...
... a vast country full of rich material and unused capacities, should give up acting like "the inhabitants of an obscure and petty village". India had to go beyond the cribbing movements of little family ties and constant exercises in money-making, and march out into the broad life of the world. The time had come when India had to outgrow its earlier total preoccupation with national politics: ...
... bride for Satyavan and a good daughter-in-law for you. Dyumatsena said: It had been my long-cherished desire to have a family Page 25 tie with you; and, with the loss of the kingdom, I thought I had lost all hope for such a relationship. But if this old wish of mine, which I always held close to me, is to be ...
... respectively Mathura and Krish-napura on the Jamunā (Jobares). The story about Pāndaia is a confused reference to Krishna's close personal association with the Pāndavas in the Bhārata War and to his family-tie to them by the marriage of his sister to the Pāndava Arjuna. A further fact is spotlighted by Sircar: 2 "There is some evidence to show that the association of Vasudeva with the Pāndya country... records could easily lend themselves to making him for them a genealogy-starter. For, although Svāyambhuva was the first king on earth and Vaivasvata the king at the source of all detailed human families, Prithu initiated the special status and significance enjoyed by kingship in ancient Indian history: he is "celebrated as the first consecrated king, from whom the earth received its name Prithvī"... Prithu? He cannot be even 15th from Vaivasvata, for he was a contemporary of Sahadeva. In fact, Pargiter, when followed not along the lunar line leading to Sahadeva but along another line of the Lunar family which leads to Krishna, shows him to be the 53rd name, though the 94th generation, if Vaivasvata is the 1st name and generation. This would make him (53+7=) 60 in name-number after Prithu and (94+7=) ...
... human beings gets farther strengthened by the mental idea of the lasting family tie which prevents the relation from being evanescent as in the animal creation. All that creates a very powerful samskar which has become automatically effective and tenacious. It is natural that in a majority of cases, it should be stronger than a tie not supported by all these things together. And the human vital, even... that is so indicated always turns out to be that of those who have been together in the past and were predestined to join again (though the past circumstances may not be known) drawn together by old ties. It was the same inward recognition in you (apart even from the deepest spiritual connection) that brought you. If the outer consciousness does not yet fully realise, it is the crust always created... greatness for myself or others. (This is not to be circulated.) February 10, 1935 My reason for wanting you to get rid of the mental concepts is that they are rigid and keep you tied to the idea and feeling of your incapacity and the impossibility of the sadhana. Get rid of that and a great obstacle disappears. You could then see that there is no reason for the constant sense ...
... There is a tale about a Hindu Brahmin who, every day at the hour of his worship, had the family cat tied up so that he would not be disturbed in his ritual. Eventually, both the Brahmin and the cat died, and the Brahmin's son, now in charge of the worship ceremony, procured a new cat, which he then conscientiously tied up during the sacrifice! From father to son, the cat had become an indispensable element... (English was his "mother tongue") and discovered a spontaneous affinity for France: There was an attachment to English and European thought and literature, but not to England as a country; I had no ties there.... If there was attachment to a European land as a second country, it was intellectually and emotionally to one not seen or lived in in this life, not England, but France. 5 The poet had... think, the "miracle" less pompous and more profound than all this primitive imagery. Once we have deciphered one of those little signs that pass us by, or even once seen the imperceptible link that ties all things, we are closer to the great Miracle than if we had touched some heavenly manna. Indeed, perhaps the real miracle is that the Divine is also natural, but we do not know how to look. Thus ...
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