... Devotion and Self-giving Words of the Mother - II Self-giving Self-giving is true prayer. Self-giving: by this the whole being gets progressively unified round the central psychic being. Give yourself up―it is the best way of finding yourself. Page 100 Give yourself, all that you are and what you do, to the Divine, and you will ...
... works only as an instinct, a result of impulse and passion from almost the subconscient level; whereas in mind it becomes a necessity of interchange and a desire for interchange, and even self-giving,—self-giving in the form of love. Now in this third process of awakening of life, life moving from the subconscient material physical world to create more conscious mind, goes through an intermediate ...
... definition of two more of these. The higher vital by which the means "that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving... throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature The lower vital by which he implies "the pettier movements of action and desire" such... on omitting being. The vital being by which he means the being behind life-force. He writes in one of his letters: "There are four parts of the vital being — first the mental vital which gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being." Those who would know more Page 375 about his ...
... speak of the rights of love but love's only right is the right of self-giving. Without self-giving there is no love; but self-giving is very rare in human love which is full of selfishness and demands. 15 August 1955 So long as the ego is there, one cannot love. Love alone can love, Love alone can conquer the ego. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love is the great remedy... whom one gives oneself totally only if the gift is reciprocated. Instead of enlarging oneself to the size of the Divine and having a love as vast as the universe, one tries to reduce the Divine to one's own size and have His love for oneself alone. Therefore, human love is not a need of the soul, but rather a concession it makes for a time to the ego. I have postponed my answer to give you time... and most satisfying way to love. It is not the love that someone feels for you that can make you happy, it is the love you feel for others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly. 20 March 1967 All the forms that love has taken in the human consciousness on earth are but awkward attempts, deformed and incomplete ...
... Vital: the appearance, the dramatic representation of the Thing, not the Thing itself. Pulling down is always an egoistic movement. It's a distortion of aspiration. True aspiration involves a giving—a self-giving—while pulling down is wanting for oneself. Even if you have in your thought a vaster aspiration—the earth, the universe—it makes no difference, those are mental activities. ( long silence... " then it makes you smile. It's showing off, but you have to know the truth in order to discern the showing off. Basically, it's the same for everything. The Vital is a sort of super-theater giving performances—very alluring, dazzling, deceptive performances—and it's only when you know the True Thing that immediately, instinctively, without reasoning, you discern and say, "No, I don't want that... November November Mother’s Agenda 1965 November 23, 1965 Regarding the message Mother will give for the November 24 darshan: Page 300 "It is certainly a mistake to bring down the light by force—to pull it down. The Supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the time is ready it will open of itself—but first ...
... you pull, the appearance, the theatrical show of the Thing, not the Thing itself. To pull is always an egoistic movement. It is a deformation of aspiration. True aspiration consists in a giving, a self-giving, whereas to pull means to want for oneself. Even if in the mind you have a vaster ambition—the earth, the universe—that means nothing, these are mental activities. Page 23 ( Long... ah! then you smile. Page 22 It is quackery, but you must know the truth in order to recognise quackery. At bottom, it is the same for everything. The vital is like a superstage that gives shows—very attractive, dazzling, deceptive; it is only when you know the True Thing that you recognise immediately, instinctively, without reasoning, and you say, "No, I do not want that." And for... capital importance in human life is with regard to love. Vital passions, vital attractions have almost everywhere taken the place of true feeling, which is quiet, whereas the other puts you in ferment, gives you the feeling of something "living". It is very deceptive. And you do not know it, you do not feel it, you do not perceive it clearly unless you know the True Thing. If you have touched true love ...
... vital nature. In the first case, the term higher vital is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second arrangement... higher action in Yoga. In sleep it is also the vital plane into which you enter. If properly seen and coordinated, what is experienced in the vital plane has its value and gives knowledge which is useful and control over the vital self and vital plane. But all that is coming to you through the subconscient in an incoherent way—this is the cause of the trouble. The whole thing has to be quieted down and... the nature. It [ the vital mind ] is a mind of dynamic (not rationalising) will, action, desire—occupied with force and achievement and satisfaction and possession, enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth, expansion, success and failure, good fortune and ill fortune etc. etc. That [ repetitive imaginative thinking ] is the ordinary activity of the vital mind which is always ...
... things go fast. 28.5.1970 For most of the problems there is now only one answer: self-giving. When self-giving is truly and completely realised, there is no longer any problem, all becomes simple. 30.5.1970 An integral love seems to me to be the first necessity for self-giving to be integral. From the moment the first contact with the Supreme Lord takes place... that the best way to the body's well-being is to concentrate all one's consciousness on the Divine leaving the watch over one's body in His care. Further, we have only to be attentive to the orders He gives us in all circumstances and to obey scrupulously. 14.1.1970 The little moment passed before You, O Divine Mother, becomes a life in itself; it is going to be an eternal moment.. . ... as a collaboration with the Divine Will. Here is something very good. Surely it will have a very good effect. The food has also to be taken care of. 20.1.1970 I pray to You to give me indications for food. What you should eat depends on your condition of general health, what is lacking in your body and what your body cannot tolerate. This only a doctor, expert in the ...
... the true science of the thing to be done. There will be no giving of food in the sacrifice,—and that act in the Indian ritual is symbolic of the element of helpful giving inherent in every action that is real sacrifice, the indispensable giving to others, the fruitful help to others, to the world, without which our action becomes a wholly self-regarding thing and a violation of the true universal law... of self-offering founded on the largest meaning of existence. All this manifold universe comes into birth and is constantly maintained by God's giving of himself and his powers and the lavish outflow of his self and spirit into all these existences; universal being, says the Veda, is the sacrifice of the Purusha. All the action of the perfected soul will be even such a constant divine giving of itself... law of solidarity and interchange. The work will be done without the dakshina, the much-needed giving or self-giving to the leaders of the sacrificial action, whether to the outward guide and helper of our work or to the veiled or manifest godhead within us. It will be done without the mantra, without the dedicating thought which is the sacred body of our will and knowledge lifted upwards to the godheads ...
... nature. In the first case, the term 'higher vital' is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for further action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second a... ideal, impose a balance or a sublimating and refining influence, and give a high consistency to the multipersonal confusion and conflict or the summary patchwork of our divided and half-constructed being. He can be the observer and governor of his own mind and life, can consciously develop them and become to that extent a self-creator. ...to live in mind and the things of the mind, to be... for something more than what life seems able to give it: it brings about a vast enlargement of the field of physical actuality by the actualisation of our unrealised possibilities, but also a constant demand for more and always more, a quest for new worlds to conquer, an incessant drive towards an exceeding of the bounds of circumstance and a self-exceeding. To add to this cause of unrest and i ...
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