... distinctive characters. For we may then cast a searching look at our own consciousness and judge for ourselves whether we have grown in true love for the Divine and, if yes, how far. For if true love develops in us, these signs of genuine love for the Divine are bound to appear in us. If any of these traits are found to be deficient on examination, that will attest to the fact that there is still... at a true and sincere and one-pointed love for the Divine. This sort of all-forgetting love and devotion is for the sadhaka his greatest treasure, his best means for attaining to his goal and is also at the same time his supreme attainment, siddhi. Let us recapitulate in a somewhat different manner the essential nature of this crowning love for the Divine. Well in that consummate state... with an observant eye we very well realise that this 'highest and intensest motiveless love' for the Divine, this parāprema, is far far beyond the reach of our meager spiritual capacity. It is true that we as sadhakas fervently feel the need of such a love but this is equally true that the love for the Divine we actually possess suffers from a thousand and one limitations, and falls far short ...
... things. Love for the Divine The love which is turned towards the Divine ought not to be the usual vital feeling which men call by that name; for that is not love, but only a vital desire, an instinct of appropriation, the impulse to possess and monopolise. Not only is this not the divine Love, but it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in the Yoga. The true love for the Divine is a ... psychic and spiritual elements of the being and no longer bring in the lower insistences of the ego. Love for the Divine must be there in all the being—not only in the spirit and the psychic heart, but in the vital and the physical consciousness also. The influence of the love for the Divine when it takes hold of any part is to turn it towards the Divine—as you describe it "concentration on... the supreme good, but self-extinction and the end of suffering—an intelligible aim, but something quite different from the stress towards the Eternal. The Vital and Love for the Divine When the vital joins in the love for the Divine, it brings into it heroism, enthusiasm, intensity, absoluteness, exclusiveness, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the total and passionate self-giving of all the nature ...
... flow nor can we in that case expect to grow in genuine love for the Divine. A Christian mystic of Europe of the Middle Ages has succinctly stated the same truth: "As soon as one begins to seek oneself in one's spiritual life, he ceases to love the Divine at that very moment." Indeed the co-existence of self-love and love for the Divine is an impossible proposition. The growth of one of these... in the measure in which a pure, unadulterated love for the Divine occupies the sadhaka' s heart, his penchant for feeding his self-love is bound to diminish and disappear. Equally, any (form or measure of self-pampering, whether knowingly or unknowingly done, cannot but proportionately dislodge from his heart the already existent love for the Divine. It is because of this fundamental truth of spiritual... of our activities during our daily life is devoted to the satisfying of the voracious hunger of this twin demon "I" and "Mine". But this sort of self-love is totally incompatible with true love for the Divine. This acts as a stumbling-block to our effort at offering ourselves to the Divine. As a result our life of sadhana cannot develop up to our expectation and the progress made by us remains ...
... of the Integral Yoga XV On Human Relationships in Sadhana In all spirituality with an ascetic orientation it is asserted that a sadhakas love for the Divine should be exclusive; that is to say, it should admit of no sharing with others . Do we not read in the Bible? - "1the Lord thy God am a jealous God." The Mother also has said: 'To love truly... some questions of perplexity as j regards the real nature and goal of the Integral Yoga. He may ask: "Have I to renounce all other loves, all without exception, far I the sake of the love for the Divine? How can I stay then in the world? Is it really suggested that in order to receive the love of the Page 190 Divine, one has perforce to give up all forms of human love... (Letters on Yoga, p. 754) After all, why should a genuine sadhaka feel any pain or any sense of deprivation if he is asked to renounce the lures of ordinary human love for the sake of the love for the Divine? Is human love so precious and so noble a thing? A close observation will reveal the sombre fact that "The snake is there and the worm in the heart of the rose. A word, a ...
... contemplate this living Love, this blazing Force Page 326 of dynamic divine Grace and Beatitude, She reveals herself to us under three arresting aspects : first, the aspect of her love for the Divine,—a white psychic flame burning in unabated intensity, second, the aspect of the Divine's Love in her,—the dazzling sun-fire, clothed in flesh, and, third, the two fires combined, the psychic... was exposed, the ordeals she had to pass through, and the battle she had to wage against the grim forces of Inconscience and Ignorance, Falsehood and Death. It was the greatest test of her love for the Divine, this "Calvary of the terrestrial consciousness, ” this descent into "the unfathomable depths of matter, ” this touching with her fingers "the horror of the false-hood and the inconscience... patience, for the spiritual freedom and perfection of mankind. Among the historical mystics of India Mirabai stands apart as an exceptional example of the most passionate, the most consuming love for the Divine. With a matchless lyrical intensity she gave all herself to her beloved Master and turned her life into a constant hymn and a devoted worship. But it was a life of absorbed contemplation and ...
... The human being transforms all his passions into love for the Divine and the Divine responds with his ineffable love. Roses as a whole, according to their form and colour, may be considered as “Love for the Divine.” There is one rose which is “Love from the Divine”. 30 June 1970 * * * "The balance of nature in love for the divine" (double color roses) Mother, does "nature" represent... represent here the material mother? or is it the physical nature of each person? Balance of the nature in the love for the Divine. 1 July 1970 * * * Mother, Yesterday you explained to me the difference between “Love from the Divine” and “Divine Love”. Could you write it down for me ? When I say “Divine Love”, I mean the vibration of love that is at the origin of all love and fills ...
... no place for worry, regret and depression, but, on the contrary, fills the consciousness with the certitude of victory. Integral love for the Divine: pure, complete and irrevocable, it is a love that gives itself for ever. Flaming love for the Divine: ready for all heroism and all sacrifice. To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments. ... Love Words of the Mother - II Love for the Divine Greed, greed, always greed... is the response of material nature. In whatever way the Divine manifests there, it becomes at once an object of covetousness. A rush to appropriate, an endeavour to rob, exploit, squeeze, swallow and in the end crush down the Divine, this is the receptivity of matter to... to give yourself sincerely to the Divine and then the joy of love will come afterwards. By giving yourself sincerely all your difficulties will disappear. 28 December 1955 The true love for the Divine is self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender. It makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger―for these ...
... deformations it has imposed, must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine Love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine Love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining... In the Mother's Light Love THERE is nothing in the art and literature of the world so moving, so inspiring and so exalting as the expression of man's love for the Divine. The soul's beauty and sweetness are, as it were, distilled into the love-lyrics of the mystics, and no human relation has ever reached the depth, the amplitude, the consuming intensity of passion... swear by the temporal waters on which he is so helplessly tossed. Psychic Love The most sincere and poignant expression of love for the Divine is essentially psychic. It is the soul in man that alone can pierce through the veil of appearances and deliver itself to the Divine with the unreserved self-abandon of an absolute Page ...
... be important. It is not true except that when the psychic love for the Divine is there, faith is there also. But so long as knowledge and realisation are not complete, faith is indispensable. The difficulties in sadhana come because we lack a real self-giving and spontaneous love for the Divine Mother. For the integral Yoga especially, they are our only permanent safeguards... for the manifestation of the soul's love, no longer for the desires of the ego which men call love. The present growth of the sadhana is to make my vital offer its full love for the Divine without any condition. Is it not so? Yes, love with surrender and dissolution of the ego. Usually I don't wear a coat. But yesterday it was chilly and I had a ...
... desire, an instinct of appropriation, the impulse to possess and monopolise. Not only is this not the divine Love, but it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in the Yoga. The true love for the Divine is a self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger—for these... life that is to express it. In the divine life all is for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of the ego. I should perhaps add one or two things to avoid misapprehensions. First, the love for the Divine of which I speak is not a psychic love only; it is the love of all the being, the vital and vital-physical included,—all are capable of the same Page 461 self-giving. It is a mistake ...
... deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine Page 74 love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; ...
... pass from human love to divine Love. He was speaking of human love manifesting as Bhakti, as a Page 174 force of devotion for the Divine, and he says that at the beginning your love for the Divine is a very human love with all the characteristics of human love. He describes this very well, besides. Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love... between two persons can change into divine love. It is not that at all! He has always said the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the sadhak's love for the Divine. At the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks of it even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotion. Why do we ...
... forms of love between human beings, for however beautiful and pure they may be, they cause a kind of short-circuit and cut off the direct connection with the Divine. For one who has known love for the Divine, all other forms of love are obscure and too mixed with pettiness and egoism and darkness; they are like a perpetual haggling or a struggle for supremacy and domination, and even among the best... goodwill that will not expect any reward or gratitude or even any recognition. However others may treat you, you will never allow yourself to be carried away by any resentment; and in your unmixed love for the Divine, you will leave him sole judge as to how he is to protect you and defend you against the misunderstanding and bad will of others. You will await your joys and pleasures from the Divine alone ...
... ardent aspiration for the Divine remains. Page 174 My beloved Mother, the whole day I thought of nothing else except that red rose which signifies "Human passions changed into love for the Divine". I want to know precisely what the human passions are. By "passion" we mean all the violent desires which take possession of a man and finally govern his life—the drunkard has the passion... uncontrollable love for another, this is called a passion , and it is of this we are speaking; it is this impassioned love which human beings feel for one another that must be changed into love for the Divine. Sensations belong to the vital domain and to that part of it which is expressed through the nerves of the body. It is sentiments and emotions which are characteristic of the heart. It ...
... stage in the development of Karma yoga or Jnana yoga, or even in the pursuit of the Divine merely for the cure of pain or fulfilment of wants, where there bursts in the heart that motiveless love for the Divine which irresistibly wants to be consumed in that love. This ahaituki bhakti, the highest form of bhakti, bhakti for the sake of bhakti, the beginning of which is bhakti, the middle of which... the seeker arrives at the discovery and the possession of the Divine Being in whom alone eternity and intensity of love are fulfilled. In the following passage, Sri Aurobindo describes that love for the Divine which suffuses the steps of Bhakti yoga and leads the seeker to inexpressible fulfilment, not only in knowing and possessing the Divine but also in divinising totality of our entire being and ...
... houses for the sea-faring souls of men. Page 35 because 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 ...
... come to perceive that a part of our consciousness, an inner and enlightened part, remains detached from the dynamic parts, and concentrated on the Divine. Here love for the Divine plays a very effective part. A spontaneous love for the Divine makes the concentration not only easy but natural—none can cease thinking of the object of his love. Bhaktiyoga thus reveals itself as the throbbing heart of Karmayoga ...
... Page 255 of the personal Divine are two different movements. My struggle has never been about the Self. All that is perfectly irrelevant to the question which concerns the Bhakta's love for the Divine. The sweet memory of that experience of the Self must have sustained you. There was nothing sugary about it at all. And I had no need to have any memory of it, because it was with me... only a mental conception or emotional belief in the Divine to support them. The whole point is that it is untrue to say that one must have a decisive or concrete experience before one can have love for the Divine. It is contrary to the facts and the quite ordinary facts of the spiritual experience. 17 March 1936 I quite agree with you in not relishing the idea of another attack of this nature. I ...
... earth's progress, Thus even the embodied God cannot be perfect upon earth unless and until men are ready to understand and accept perfection. It will be the day when all will be done out of love for the Divine and not, as now, out of a sense of duty towards Him. Progress will be then a joy, instead of an effort and often even a struggle. Or, more exactly, progress will be through joy in the full... goodwill. It shall not expect any reward or gratitude or even recognition. Whatever the way others treat you, you will not allow yourself to be carried away by resentment: and in your pure unmixed love for the Divine you shall leave him the sole judge as to how he is to protect you and defend you against the non-understanding and ill-will of others. Your joys and your pleasures you will expect from ...
... the physical as manifesting instruments and elements of that greater oneness. Page 158 In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and soul and body occupied by the One in all creatures. All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly... life and action altogether, to live alone with our adoration of the Divine in the heart's silence. It is possible too to admit only those acts that are either in themselves an expression of love for the Divine, prayer, praise, symbolic acts of worship or subordinate activities that may be attached to these things and partake of their spirit, and to leave aside all else; the soul turns away to satisfy ...
... needed is to awaken in the cells the love for the Divine, and once they love the Divine, it's like that all the time: it doesn't budge anymore—doesn't budge. It's even FAR MORE constant than any vital or mental movement: it's like this ( Mother clenches her two fists ), it doesn't budge anymore. The cells are constantly like that, in a state of love for the Divine. That's what is remarkable in the ...
... what is needed is to awaken in the cells the love for the Divine; it is always so, all the time, and it does not change, does not change any more. It is even much more constant than any mental or vital movement; it is like this ( Mother closes both her fists ), it does not move. The cells are all the while like this, in a state of love for the Divine. What is most remarkable in the physical is that ...
... now only by the knowledge of the command and as an instrumentation of the sacred Master of works. Arjuna's sacrifice of works is now turned into a state of adoration and Page 110 love for the Divine, and he has in that state of this new knowledge, given up all the human standards of action and surrendered himself in a close intimacy with the supreme Soul of all existence. This is a state... upholds every step of his conduct. Arjuna is now in the state of the Karma Yogin, whose works of sacrifice have led him to the knowledge and vision of the Lord and whose adoration and devotion and love for the divine is infused with knowledge. This is the solution that Sri Krishna gives to the dilemma of Arjuna, and that solution involves the possession of the secret of the union of Karma Yoga, Jnana ...
... spiritual atmosphere of the Ashram. For the benefit of these novices we quote below some of the words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo concerning this vital issue: (1) "For one who has known love for the Divine, all other forms of love are obscure and too mixed with pettiness and egoism and darkness; they are like a perpetual haggling or a struggle for supremacy and domination, and even among the best... goodwill that will not expect any reward or gratitude or even any recognition. However others may treat you, you will never allow yourself to be carried away by any resentment; and in your unmixed love for the Divine, you will leave him sole judge as to how he is to protect you and defend you Page 84 against the misunderstanding and bad will of others." (Ibid., p. 70) (4)"A human vital ...
... circumstances. This faith cannot be acquired by personal effort and hard labour. It is a precious gift of Grace granted by the Divine himself to any sincere and self-surrendered sadhaka whose love for the Divine is constant and unvarying and entirely motiveless. Let us close this section with an admonition from Sri Aurobindo addressed to the sadhakas who would like to grow in true faith: ... on the divine Grace. 5.Even if the divine answer does not come according to the sadhaka's expectations, or even if his prayers get completely thwarted, he will not lose a whit his love for the Divine or his trust in the divine omnipotence but merely resign himself gladly to the divine Providence, accepting in full faith that such is what it should be at that moment for his veritable spiritual ...
... of Self and love of the personal Divine are two different movements. My struggle has never been about the Self. All that is perfectly irrelevant to the question which concerns the Bhakta's love for the Divine. But the sweet memory of that experience of the Self must have sustained you. There was nothing sugary about it at all. And I had no need to have any memory of it, because it was with... only a mental conception or emotional belief in the Divine to support them. The whole point is that it is untrue to say that one must have a decisive or concrete experience before one can have love for the Divine. It is contrary to the facts and the quite ordinary facts of the spiritual experience. It is only the lion-hearts that can go on without any experience. The ordinary Bhakta is not a ...
... of tension, and the aftermath of satiety. On the other hand, with its source in the psychic, true love can effect an integral change in the whole motivation and action: The true love for the Divine is self-giving, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger -... - these very elements that earlier barred the way to progress in the sadhana will now undergo an alchemic change and transformation and merge in the psychic flame. It may be added that love for the Divine, while it starts as psychic love, can presently infuse body, vital and mind also with its fire- pure quality, and this transformation will be facilitated when all action, all Page 250 ...
... natural in a certain sense. But the sunlight works on the flower on almost a different plane, their relation is on a higher plane and nearer the true expression of beauty. From that absolute love for the Divine as beautiful came the attitude of unconditional self-surrender known as Madhur-Bhava. Tagore's sense of beauty is keen, colourful, universal and mystic. Beauty to him is unseizable; though... natural in a certain sense. But the sunlight works on the flower on almost a different plane, their relation is on a higher plane and nearer the true expression of beauty. From that absolute love for the Divine as beautiful, came the attitude of unconditional self-surrender known as Madhur-Bhava. OVERMIND "At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind ...
... mightier indwelling spirit. And the crown of this equality is love founded on knowledge, fulfilled in instrumental action, extended to all things and beings, a vast absorbing and all-containing love for the divine Self who is Creator and Master of the universe, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram . !5.29! This is the foundation, the condition, the means by which the supreme spiritual perfection ...
... language sufficiently characteristic of a spiritual-mental illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with a familiar glow. For ...
... spiritual ulumination, "but it is Page 351 captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic thrill, a certain utterance of the yearning and push of psychic love for the Divine incarnate." 9 If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn Light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with ...
... Divine Mother. “As they come nearer, the waves all come together, and joyfully they rush on to the beach. People coming near to the Divine collect together. They bend down and all becomes love for the Divine.” Will you please share your experience of the first darshan with Sri Aurobindo? In the early days there was no line except from the Meditation Hall. Everyone sat in the courtyard. We ...
... consciousness of Multiplicity. avyavahā ryam — the incommunicable. Bhagwan — the Lord, God. Bhrighu Varuni —a Vedic sage. Page 405 bhakti — love for the Divine; devotion to the Divine. Brahman — the Absolute; the Supreme Being; the One besides whom there is nothing else existent. brahmarandhra — (in yoga) the opening at the top ...
... Divine; the hetu or special motive is simply an impulsion used by it to get the mind and the vital to follow the inner urge. If the mind and the vital can feel and accept the soul's sheer love for the Divine for His own sake, then the sadhana gets its full power and many difficulties disappear; but even if they do not, they will get what they seek after in the Divine and through it they will come ...
... Bombay. My sadhana was passing through a phase in which the psyche had suddenly burst to the surface and covered the whole consciousness for days on end, a great warmth of aspiration and love for the Divine blazing out through the heart-centre and surrounding the body and leaping upward from the head toward unknown immensities. I felt cut off from all that had been connected with my ordinary ...
... 1956 White Roses 14 February 1956 Let the aspiration and love for the Divine conquer in you all desires and all difficulties. ...
... A Few Words of the Mother Let all circumstances, all happenings in life be occasions constantly renewed, for learning more and ever more. Let the aspiration and love for the Divine conquer in you all desires and all difficulties. Never grumble, all sorts of forces enter you when you grumble and they pull you down. Suffering is not at all obligatory, nor is it even ...
... Here is a message from the Mother in connection with Love: Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love for the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love . The Mother, On Education: The New Age Association Somebody questioned the Mother: What is it in a flower which makes it ...
... one feels to be the highest good or else of the essence of the Highest. But the passion of love, the adoration of love, can bring in a quite different, even an opposite emotion. Especially in love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Loved, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of ...
... illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic thrill, a certain utterance of the yearning and push of psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with a familiar glow! For ...
... discouraged. Emotion itself is not a bad thing; it is a necessary part of the nature, and psychic emotion is one of the most powerful helps to the sadhana. Psychic emotion, bringing tears of love for the Divine or tears of ananda, ought not to be suppressed: it is only a vital mixture that brings disturbance in the sadhana. It is quite true that by going above one can get out of all problems ...
... development, perfection, siddhi of the Divine Consciousness, its will and its instrumentation in this body—and that can only be when these things become secondary, and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body, become the sole aim—the rest is then only the fulfilment of the Divine Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never difficult ...
... that each case differs—one rule for all is not practical or practicable. What is needed by each for his spiritual progress is the one consideration to be held in view. Love for Others and Love for the Divine The love of the sadhak should be for the Divine. It is only when he has that fully that he can love others in the right way. Yes. First, one should enter into union with the Divine ...
... by knowledge? Only the few. Bhakti and Knowledge To know about the sadhana with the mind is not indispensable. If one has bhakti and aspires in the heart's silence, if there is the true love for the Divine, then the nature will open of itself, there will be the true experience and the Mother's power working within you, and the necessary knowledge will come. Page 227 ...
... need, the breath of existence of the inmost being and as such it cannot be counted among desires. 28 December 1932 How can I have pure bhakti for the Mother? Pure worship, adoration, love for the Divine without claim or demand is what is called śuddha bhakti . From which part does it manifest? From the psychic. How can I unravel the confusion I feel between self, mind, vital and ...
... Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, Truth-consciousness and Ananda of the Supramental Divine. * Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body ...
... 19 May 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 7, "Love". There is a pure affection for the Divine and a pure love for the Divine. What is the difference? That depends upon the meaning you give to your words. It depends upon what you call affection. I don't know, but generally affection means something personal and ...
... sometimes referred to as the subliminal (being) or subliminal consciousness. It opens above to the Superconscient and below to the Subconscient and the Inconscient. bhakti (Bhakti) —devotion; love for the Divine. Buddhi —intelligence-will; understanding; intellect; reason; thinking mind; the discriminating principle, at once intelligence and will. central being —the portion of the Divine which ...
... November 1966 What is true love and how to find it? 10 Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love for the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love. Tenth Seminar: 19 February 1967 Why is the Choice imperative? 11 Because we are at one of the "hours of God" as Sri Aurobindo ...
... to refuse all mental agitation when it comes, also all vital desires and turmoils, and to keep the mind Page 213 and heart turned as constantly as possible towards the Divine. The love for the Divine is the strongest force for doing this. My love and blessings. 19 October 1939 Beloved! Why did the Mother choose this frail vessel for Her abode? I know that so long as She ...
... language sufficiently characteristic of a spiritual-mental illumination. In another passage there is this illumination but it is captured and dominated by the inner heart and by the psychic love for the Divine incarnate. If Thou desirest my weak self to outgrow Its mortal longings, lean down from above, Temper the unborn Light no thought can trace, Suffuse my mood with a familiar ...
... have satisfied some essential conditions for gaining the experiences. Yes, of course. But it varies with different people. It may be faith, it may be earnestness and persistence. It may be love for the Divine. There are many other things it may be. Like the Mahomedan with his tuft, you must give a handle somewhere for the Angel of the Lord to catch hold of you and lift you up. Otherwise I could ...
... move and live and have the bliss of our being. My heart in gratitude bows down at Thy feet. 63 O Victorious Kali Your boundless love for the Divine Is the most intense, fiery ardor And vehement Ecstasy. Your intolerant violence of passion For the Divine knows no control, No rule, no barrier, no frontier. ...
... suddenly set into my heart. I affirmed, "Mother I have felt the same, ever since I first saw you." She smiled and nodded. To the orange-red rose, she has given the significance: Flaming love for the Divine—ready for all heroism and sacrifice. After taking prasad from the Mother, we went to the Central Park, in front of Government House. Later this was renamed "Bharati Memorial Park". This ...
... of resisting the incoming temptation, the sadhaka should recall the bracing adage: "Always behave as if the Divine is looking at you, for he is indeed always present." He should activate his love for the Divine and try to grow in the living Presence of the Divine Mother. This love and the sense of Presence, if strong and genuine, will immensely fortify; Page 244 his will-power and ...
... spiritual sadhana is (1) An Absolute Love and Devotion for the Divine and His Shakti We have to make this precious virtue the central feature of our nature and consciousness. Our love for the Divine must possess a pure simplicity and a psychic rectitude. This love and devotion has to be utterly unconditional not buttressed by any expectation in return, and has to be protected from all confusion ...
... is the true faith and its natural attitude. It is said that, if one loves the Divine, faith ceases to be important. It is not true except that when the psychic love for the Divine is there, the faith is there also. But so long as knowledge and realisation are not complete, faith is indispensable. Page 247 KNOWLEDGE AND THE RISING OF EGO ...
... life-history of the Asura describe his end Page 165 as a submission to the Divine Will and a merging in Him. An entire life of bitter hostility culminates in the same degree of love for the Divine. The process of enmity seems to have a deeper occult meaning conducive to the more perfect union with the Divine. We know in Savitri how Sri Aurobindo speaks of Death as only a mask of Immortality ...
... between Bhakti Yoga and popular religion. Adoration and worship which are connected with popular religion change their character when they are practised in Bhakti Yoga; the path of the yogic love for the divine aims at transforming the character of adoration and worship into a means by which one can be led towards a closer union of the soul with the Divine. Prayer in the path of yoga is a means of preparing ...
... yoga. Advocates of Jnana yoga have rejected the claims of Karma yoga or Bhakti yoga, and vice versa. The advocates of Bhakti yoga maintain that the supreme status of liberation is a state of love for the divine page - 86 and they regard the process of Jnana yoga and Karma yoga as subordinate to the process of Bhakti yoga. The exclusive path of Jnana yoga maintains that action may prepare one ...
... the dark. The mass of this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, open to love for the Divine, the Divine Love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit ...
... able to do anything. What identification he had with the Motherland! I have rarely seen so much love in anyone. Sudhir-da’s passionate love for the country is akin to a saint’s one-pointed love for the Divine. When I see him, I feel that the Mother’s call has entered his blood, his flesh and bones and marrow. Always the overwhelming idea activating him, is the freedom of the Motherland. During that ...
... Consciousness. The sacred tulasi, which is indispensable for worship in India, was named Devotion; pārijāta, the night jasmine became Aspiration; jasmine, Purity; the rose, Love [psychic love] for the Divine; pink rose, Surrender; white rose, Integral Surrender; the yellow champak, Supramentalised Psychological Perfection. Likewise other flowers acquired names such as Sincerity Devotion, Radha' ...
... an excuse for the satisfaction of animal appetites or sensual desires". As for herself, She fully knows her mind: I now know for certain that only one love can satisfy my being: it is the love for the Divine, the divine love, for that alone never fails. Perhaps one day I shall find the favourable conditions and the necessary help for the achievement of the supreme realisation, the transformation ...
... can lead only to the silence of the Immutable, but not to the integral being of the Divine. A concentration of the mind, heart, will and the physical being of the sâdhaka, fired by the psychic love¹ for the Divine and maintained unflagging even in the midst of the full flood of life's activities, is the indispensable pre-requisite in the initial stages of the Integral Yoga. It is, in fact, nothing short ...
... the nature". Not that he is hard-hearted or callous, or indifferent with the impersonal indifference of the immutable Brahman. He overflows with love for all creatures, for he overflows with love for the Divine whom he meets in all creatures. He understands the sufferings of the world, for he sees beyond them their triumphant culmination in God's everlasting ecstasy, Page 326 and below ...
... enamoured of the soul is to tend towards it. When one fixes one's gaze on the immaculate psychic, and contemplates its Page 211 serene, smiling radiance, its intense, flaming love for the -Divine, its infinite tenderness and sweetness, its bound- less patience and forbearance with the evils of earthly life, and its consciousness of unity with all beings and things, one finds, deep in ...
... discouraged. Emotion itself is not a bad thing, it is a necessary part of the nature, and psychic emotion is one of the most powerful helps to the sadhana. Psychic emotion, bringing tears of love for the Divine, or tears of Ananda ought not to be suppressed, it is only a vital mixture that brings disturbance in the sadhana. (21.3.31) ...
... even when he has found oneness with the Divine in his timeless and immutable self, is he still capable, since he embraces the relations also of the play of Nature, of divine love for man and of love for the Divine, of bhakti. Page 239 That this is the drift of the meaning, becomes clearer when we have fathomed the sense of the sixth chapter which is a large comment on and a full development ...
... discouraged. Emotion itself is not a bad thing; it is a necessary part of the nature, and psychic emotion is one of the most powerful helps to the sadhana. Psychic emotion, bringing tears of love for the Divine or tears of Ananda, ought not to be suppressed: it is only a vital mixture that brings disturbance in the sadhana. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti, Devotion, Worship The ...
... bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle of delight: a self-delight which is the very nature of the transcendent and infinite existence. Bhakti — devotion, love for the Divine. central being — the portion of the Divine which supports the individual being and survives from life to life; it has two forms: jivātman, which is above the manifestation in life ...
... is in love with only one being. 427—The whole world is my seraglio and every living being and inanimate existence in it is the instrument of my rapture. Someone who has experienced love for the Divine can no longer love anything but the Divine, and it is the Divine he loves in all those for whom he feels affection; besides, this is the best way to love, because in this way one can be a powerful ...
... and the event that has followed do not mean an irreparable misfortune to you. Page 469 SHE Have no fear. I now know for certain that only one love can satisfy my being: it is the love for the Divine, the divine love, for that alone never fails. Perhaps one day I shall find the favourable conditions and the necessary help for the achievement of the supreme realisation, the transformation ...
... me the sense of the symbol of the Gopis. There are many other significances, of course—that is only one among the many. Page 493 Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the body ...
... only a mental conception or emotional belief in the Divine to support them. The whole point is that it is untrue to say that one must have a decisive or concrete experience before one can have love for the Divine. It is contrary to the facts and the quite ordinary facts of the spiritual experience. The ordinary Bhakta is not a lion heart. The lion hearts get experiences comparatively soon but the ...
... return, reward or personal fruit or recompense; but in Yoga it means desireless work done for the Divine as an offering without condition or claim—only because it is the Divine's Will or out of love for the Divine. Your object is not only to practise Yoga for your own internal progress and perfection, but also to do a work for the Divine. Page 231 This is not an Asram like others—the ...
... Divine; the hetu or special motive is simply an impulsion used by it to get the mind and the vital to follow the inner urge. If the mind and the vital can feel and accept the soul's sheer love for the Divine for his own sake, then the sadhana gets its full power and many difficulties disappear; but even if they do not, they will get what they seek after in the Divine and through it they will come ...
... pretend for anybody's comfort that they are otherwise. But there is the fact also that nobody need keep himself in this danger. One-mindedness ( ekaniṣṭhā ), surrender to the Divine, faith, true love for the Divine, complete sincerity in the will, spiritual humility (real, not formal)—there are so many things Page 674 that can be a safeguard against any chance of eventual downfall. Slips, stumbles ...
... of our substance. When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness and set right almost automatically the movements ...
... representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms ...
... with God and the soul of man and the universe.' Cent. Ed. Vol. XVI, p. 384 × Devotion, love for the Divine. × After 1958. × ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 23 December 1934 My dear Mother, May S have submission and love for the Divine, may she be filled with gratitude, may she progress in the sadhana. I shall add: may she have a simple humility, because that is what she needs most. The Divine Grace is infinite. O Mother, ...
... under the domination of the highest will. Passion: it is a force, but is dangerous and cannot be used unless it is perfectly surrendered to the Divine. Human passions changed into love for the Divine: may they become a real fact, and their abundance will save the world. Perfect attachment to the Divine replaces all vital attractions and passions. ...
... because they refused to make a god of the Roman emperor. They were considered dangerous traitors. Jesus is to me a genuine avatar but a limited one with an emphasis mostly on emotional love for the Divine and a broad-based philanthropy. Though he lived in an age which had, as our Mother once told me, a somewhat obscure religious atmosphere, the Divine's touch on him should not be ignored, nor ...
... is yet not a denial of them but a poise where one is their masterful source and not their helplessly drifting captive. You have spoken of the bhakta and his mad illogical rapture of love for the Divine, amounting almost to mind-lessness. And you have asked: ''Shall we then disregard all the bhajans of India, the uttering of the Sufis of Persia, the rapturous love songs of Mira and countless ...
... the one Soul-topic -the discovery of our true self which is a child of the Divine Mother, implicitly, intrinsically, inherently. Ever since I came here I have tried to find that self whose love for the Divine is spontaneous and unconditional. I don't remember whether 1 have quoted to you the letter I wrote to the Mother after some years in the Ashram. Here it is, along with the answer it got from ...
... lost his head over Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and that surely was the heart's doing — but for a long time he didn't know what had happened and felt a kindling and unkindling of the heart's love for the Divine — and was all agog to stop the latter and keep always the flame he knew in the Mother's presence. Poor chap, he is still trying to tend the sacred fire. We'll wish him a steady progress and as ...
... free from all lower bondage, vast, pure and luminous? Divine love is of two kinds — the Divine love for the creation and the souls that are part of itself and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and physical instincts. 5) As a definition can it be ...
... yoga. Advocates of Jnana yoga have rejected the claims of Karma yoga or Bhakti yoga, and vice versa. The advocates of Bhakti yoga maintain that the supreme status of liberation is a state of love for the divine and they regard the process of Jnana yoga and Karma yoga as subordinate to the process of Bhakti yoga. The exclusive path Page 118 of Jnana yoga maintains that action may prepare ...
... Rishis but thrown into the background by the intermediate ages. In the Vedantic yoga which was developed by Sri Caitanya, a new element in the synthesis was added by means of which the psychic love for the divine consciousness could inundate the mind, life and the body. In the nineteenth century, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Swami Vivekananda have provided a vast system of synthesis in the light ...
... There is in our consciousness a secret delight, but that delight is covered by suffering of division to heal which one Page 68 takes recourse to various forms and intensities of love for the Divine. And one may begin the pursuit of yoga on account of suffering of division, which may manifest as physical pain, or as dire need of physical help in terms of material wealth or else as irresistible ...
... not wait for the future. But no real progress is possible without equality. The time comes when this has to be learned definitely and to me most new things come through love. It is not real Love for the Divine if it is still without equality. So I feel that She will teach me equality now, through love for Her in all people, things, events. I aspire and aspire for equality. If I could apply the same ...
... prove that their love for the Mother is overflowing! This theory is terrible nonsense. It is applying the formulae of the most vital kind of love to the Yoga. This vital idea of love for the Divine has been a great stumbling-block in the Yoga in the Ashram. Are not the movements of depression and despair big and strong movements? They can hardly be called big ...
... pretend for anybody's comfort that they are otherwise. But there is the fact also that nobody need keep himself in this danger. One-mindedness (एकनिष्ठा), surrender to the Divine, faith, true love for the Divine, complete sincerity in the will, spiritual humility (real, not formal) ; there are so many things that can be a safeguard against any chance of eventual downfall. Slips, stumbles, difficulties ...
... rob and enslave other countries. Again, if you consider God as your self and love Him as your self, then too it would be the same thing. For love means supreme vision: if I am a yogi, full of love for the Divine, if I am a man of action acting desirelessly, then I shall be able to possess a power, a knowledge or joy beyond the reach of the common man. And finally, if I consider the indefinable Supreme ...
... profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish, there remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that radiates in all things. (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification and is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth. ...
... alone, made the Lord's will the sole and sufficient law of life. Even though to outward regard such a person be full of sins, the Lord promises to deliver him from all that. It is the soul's love for the Divine given unconditionally and without Page 30 reserve that can best purify the dross of the inferior nature and render one worthy of the Divine Grace. Such was Arjuna's capacity; ...
... alone, made the Lord's will the sole and sufficient law of life. Even though to outward regard such a person be full of sins, the Lord promises to deliver him from all that. It is the soul's love for the Divine given unconditionally and without reserve that can best purify the dross of the inferior nature and render one worthy of the Divine Grace. Such was Arjuna's capacity; herein lay his strength ...
... NIRODBARAN: There is a difference of opinion between A and P regarding something A has written. The sentence is: "What we give in dross we get back in gold." A means that even if our devotion, our love for the Divine, is not pure at the beginning, the Divine accepts them and gives the rewards. Purani is unable to accept it. Purani says, "The sentence should begin: 'What we give up as dross...' " SRI A ...
... more profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish, there remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that radiates in all things. (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification and is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth. ...
... legends in narrating the life history of the Asura describe his end as a submission to the Divine Will and a merging in Him. An entire life of bitter hostility culminates in the same degree of love for the Divine. The process of enmity seems to have a deeper occult meaning conducive to the more perfect union with the Divine. We know in Savitri how Sri Aurobindo speaks of Death as only a mask of ...
... or burn them in the flame of Agni. It is good. But the most potent remedy is to open oneself more and more completely to Divine Love which is changed in our consciousness into love for the Divine and which by its mere presence consumes all impurities. 19.8.1967 Here is an amusing phrase from an anonymous author: "Thank God, I am an atheist." The phrase would be even ...
... soul of wide equality .... And the crown of this equality is love founded on knowledge, fulfilled in instrumental action, extended to all things and beings, a vast absorbing and allcontaining love for the divine Self who is Creator and Master of the universe, suhrdam sarvabhūtānām sarva-lokamaheśvaram. 14 While there were the usual irritations of ignorant indifference or perverse negation ...
... natural in a certain sense. But the sunlight works on the flower on almost a different plane, their relation is on a higher plane and nearer the true expression of beauty. From that absolute love for the Divine as the Beautiful came the attitude of unconditional self-surrender known as Madhur-Bhava. Tagore's sense of beauty is keen, colourful, universal and mystic. Beauty to him is unseizable ...
... of all creatures. This love may take one of the five principal forms: śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and madhura . The bhakta or devotee of the śānta type may have a deep and intense love for the Divine, but the intensity is always firmly based on a wide and clear calm. Dāsya is the love of the servant for the Master, of which Hanuman is the legendary type. Sakhya is the love between two ...
... eternity of our essential Self and Spirit. Knowledge delivers us from all bondage and suffering, and ushers us into the freedom and bliss of our spiritual existence. It illumines and widens our love for the Divine, and impeccably guides our action into the channels of a divine fulfilment. Without knowledge, love, however intense, would be narrow and fanatical, and our action, however disinterested, would ...
... of the Gitâ. The deepest mystery of existence, the ultimate truth of our soul's individuality, the teleological significance of its descent into the material world, the secret of our heart's love for the Divine, and its yearning for His infinite joy and love and beauty, the hidden sense of our aspiration for perfection and fulfilment—all these are: resolved and revealed in the all-illumining Light of ...
... preparation for infinity and impersonality; its final stage, so vividly mirrored in many of the Mother's Prayers, is a supreme triumph of the Divine in man. The former is an ascent of man's love for the Divine, the latter is a descent of the Divine's Love for all creatures. The first is a God-ward service, the second is a God-possessed earthward service. The ideal of true service is the only ideal ...
... our substance. "When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness and set right almost automatically the movements ...
... “Certainly, Mother, I can.” She was pleased and blessed me. With much joy I did pranam at her feet and received, along with her blessing, a big red rose, signifying “All human passion turned into 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 ...
... thrown out from the being. When the psychic being is in the front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspiration and love for the Divine. The constant prominence of the psychic being tends of itself to bring out the true consciousness. This is what is happening in you; so you need not be over-anxious about the desires, only careful ...
... the development, perfection, siddhi of the Divine Consciousness, it will and its instrument in this body — and that can only be when these things become secondary and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body becomes the sole aim — the rest becomes merely the fulfilment of the Divine’s Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never ...
... dissolved, annulled. The method suggested here is simpler. Dissolve the ego through divine love. First you love the Divine—but you can love the Divine only when he has already entered into your heart, when he is already there; it is his Love that radiates through you and you love him. The fact that you love the Divine shows that the Grace has touched you, has come down upon you; and it is this Grace... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections Love the Divine "Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you." Mother wrote this to one of her children. It is the key to solve problems, the magic mantra to cure the ills of human life and consciousness, the one remedy for all inner and outer ailments. Take ego, for example. It epitomises, in a... To love the Divine means to open wide the gates of your house to this Grace, and after that there is nothing that is impossible, be it the effacement of the ego or a new birth of the entire being. Published November 1981 Page 94 ...
... waste or diminish. Can human love change into divine love, human strength into divine strength and human knowledge into divine knowledge? There is only one love. Human love is nothing but divine love perverted and distorted by the instrument through which it is expressed. The same holds true for strength and knowledge. In their essence they are eternal and unlimited. It is the limitations... Aphorism - 534 534—Human love fails by its own ecstasy, human strength is exhausted by its own effort, human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half the globe of truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths and reconciles them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste ...
... own love which does not exist that we do not feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine's Love which permeates all existence. 5 March 1970 When the psychic loves it loves with the Divine Love. When you love, you love with the Divine's love diminished and distorted by your ego, but in its essence still the Divine's love. It is for the facility of the language that you say the love of... True love, that which fulfils and illumines, is not the love one receives but the love one gives. And the supreme Love is a love without any definite object―the love which loves because it cannot do other than to love. 15 May 1968 Page 123 There is only one love―the Divine's Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is... Elements of Yoga Elements of Yoga Love Words of the Mother - II Divine Love and Human Love Lean more exclusively on the Divine's love. When one receives the Divine's love, of what value can be any human love? 2 September 1939 There is always a bitter taste behind the human love―it is only the Divine Love which never disappoints. 5 May 1945 ...
... not capable of loving the human, one will not have the capacity to love the Divine, just as one's love of the Divine will not be complete if cut off from love of the human. But the converse is even truer and more basic: one cannot fully and freely love the human without rooting oneself in love of the Divine. What we name love of one another is as much coloured — whether grossly or subtly — by... what you write on love of one's fellows as a builder of Auroville. There is a fundamental truth in what I may call the essence of your message. For, the love you speak of is a mighty idealism and a forgetfulness of oneself. Your vision answers in its own way to Sri Aurobindo's in those glorious lines of Savitri: Love must not cease to live upon the earth; For Love is the bright link... twixt earth and heaven, Love is the far Transcendent's angel here; Love is man's lien on the Absolute. But you will observe that Sri Aurobindo's definition of love is openly charged with a sense of "heaven", the "Transcendent", the "Absolute". Unless these high realities are made an active force in the lover's consciousness, the unity towards which love drives will never be set on ...
... the people say, we should have been ruined long ago. My dear loving Mother, make me more and more true and faithful to Thee. O my dear Love, may the Divine Grace alone manifest. You have chosen the right path. Do not mind what the others say. In all love and trust 10 February 1935 ...
... 476—Discipleship to God the Teacher, sonship to God the Father, tenderness of God the Mother, clasp of the hand of the divine Friend, laughter and sport with our Comrade and boy Playfellow, blissful servitude to God the Master, rapturous love of our divine Paramour, these are the seven beatitudes of life in the human body. Canst thou unite all these in a single supreme and rainbow-hued ...
... 131 Divine Love can overcome the evil and the cruel―the tiger does not attack the yogi. Unmanifest Divine Love: the splendour of the marvellous love which the Divine keeps for the pure heart. Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it. 13 July 1963 Sweetness is within every heart. Bitterness is an illusion that melts in the Sun of Divine Love. July 1966... of Yoga Love Words of the Mother - II General Love is with all, working for the progress of each one equally―but it triumphs in those who care for it. ( Message for the World Vegetarian Congress ) Love alone can overcome hate and violence. Let the divine compassion express itself through you always and in all circumstances. The divine compassion ...
... Elements of Yoga Elements of Yoga Love Words of the Mother - II Divine Love In the Divine's love we always find all support and all consolation. 7 May 1954 When you reach the contact with the Divine's love you see this love in everything and all circumstances. 20 July 1954 The Divine's love and knowledge must always govern our thoughts... 24 July 1954 May the Divine's love dwell as the sovereign Master of our hearts and the Divine's knowledge never leave our thoughts. 29 October 1954 The Divine's love can generate in all peace and the satisfaction that comes from benevolence. 27 November 1954 The Divine's love is an eternal truth. 21 July 1955 The Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot... Consciousness is a state and a power. Love is a force and an action. The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love. Truth is wonderful. It is in our perception that it is distorted. 26 November 1971 Page 118 Only he who loves can recognise love. Those who are incapable of giving ...
... Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswati's care, Maheshwari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high—it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but intensifies and sublimates it to its highest. It is this love that the Divine has to give and... thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring in you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they ...
... Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswathi's care, Maheshwari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high; it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but intensifies and sublimates it to its highest. It is this love that the Divine has to give and... looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces, and absorbing them without resistance as they were pouring down. When I read your letter and saw that you thought... Divine Love Why didn't you come yourself? I would have seen you for a few minutes and told you something interesting and helpful as an answer to your letter of this morning. For, in speaking it would have been better than anything I could write. At Pranam time I felt that you were still depressed. I thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking ...
... and experience. At the age of nineteen his guru, Shri Ambananda Nath, initiated him into the Tantric discipline of Sri Vidya and the Agamic rituals , and directed him to strive only for the Love of the Divine Mother, Lalita Tripurambika . Panditji's deep knowledge of philosophy and his profound sadhana are reflected in his writings and oratory. ...
... embodiment of the Supreme Ananda or Sachchidananda. And yet Love is one and indivisible, it is always and everywhere the same, essentially the Divine Love – in various moulds. And the mould in which Sri Aurobindo has cast even earthly human love is divinely noble and beautiful. Love has been uttered, as it were, by a Divine tongue and it has been transmuted, irised and is full of the redolence of heaven's... Gods of Light and Love. The force that transforms darkness into light, passion into pure energy, gloom into happiness, is the touch of Love. Even the human agencies of this divine element acting in the human way express as Sri Aurobindo has shown, something of the magic and beauty and the sense of elevation here below, something from love's higher native state. In Eric, Love's appeal is to the... , Love is depicted as something royal and noble and aristocratic, it is something refined and beautiful, an adornment of a consciousness cultured and luminous; it is a special gift bestowed by the Gods only upon a few godly creatures, men and women. As I have said, love depicted here in these plays of Sri Aurobindo is of earth, earthly, even earthy: it is not, one might say, the Divine Love – ...
... ego in union with the Divine, purification, surrender, the substitution of the Divine guidance for one's own ignorant self-guidance based on one's personal ideas and personal feelings is the aim of Karmayoga, the surrender of one's own will to the Divine Will. "If one feels human beings to be near and the Divine to be far and seeks the Divine through service of and love of human beings and not... not the direct service and love of the Divine, then one is following a wrong principle - for that is the principle of the mental, vital and moral not the spiritual life." (Letters on Yoga, pp. 850-51) ... between the sadhaks and an expression of the vital movements, a free vital interchange whether with some or with all. "The work 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 of ego and all the ordinary vital movements and the training in a psychic elevation, selflessness, obedience, renunciation of all mental, vital ...
... is inherent in God too, if he is a personality, and not Page 129 merely an abstract idea. God shares in the sufferings of men. He yearns for responsive love. There are divine as well as human passions and therefore divine or creative personality must always suffer to the end of time. A condition of anguish and distress is inherent in it." The view is logically enforced upon the Christian... and suffering – evil – as an integral part of the Divine Consciousness. It is born out of the Divine, no doubt, as nothing can be outside the Divine, but it is a local and temporal formation; it is a disposition consequent upon certain conditions and with the absence or elimination of those conditions, this disposition too disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality... but is not touched by them; he need not contract the illness of his patient in order to be in sympathy with him. The Divine -the Soul-can be in flesh and yet not smirched with its mire; the flesh is not essentially or irrevocably the ooze it is under certain given conditions. The divine physical body is composed of radiant matter and one can speak of it even as of the soul that weapons cannot pierce ...
... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter I Love and the Triple Path Will, knowledge and love are the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the divine. The integrality of them, the union of man with God in all the three, must therefore, as we have seen,... real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to a highest oneness and it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth and intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in oneness, by which... passion which says, "I do not understand, I love," and, loving, cares not to understand, is not love's last self-expression, but its first, nor is it its highest intensity. Rather as knowledge of the Divine grows, delight in the Divine and love of it must increase. Nor can mere rapture be secure without the foundation of knowledge; to live in what we love, gives that security, and to live in it means ...
... Love in the mind, love in the heart, love in the vital, love in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny or reject the Divine love in their heart of hearts; even there in their true reality, glows the pure Divine love. To reach the Divine love... is also an invariable entity. Mother said of love the same thing as I have been saying of consciousness. She says, there is only one love, the divine love and none other. There are various expressions of that love according to the conditions in which it manifests, to the degree or status of being but every where it is the same divine love behind in essence. Because of inadequate expression it... love, to enjoy its divine ā nanda, it is not necessary to make a bonfire of these earthly goods and go beyond into the transcendent. Even here in this earthly mould the Divine love in its full purity can be established for it is already there behind and needs only earnest evocation. Consciousness essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but in its expression there ...
... Love in the mind, love in the heart, love in the vital, love in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny or reject the Divine love in their heart of hearts; even there in their true reality, glows the pure Divine love. To reach the Divine love... ess is also an invariable entity. Mother said of love the same thing as I have been saying of consciousness. She says, there is only one love, the divine love and 'none other. There are various expressions of that love according to the conditions in which it manifests, to the degree or status of being but everywhere it is the same divine love behind in essence. Because of inadequate expression it... love, to enjoy its divine a nanda , it is not necessary to make a bonfire of these earthly goods and go beyond into the transcendent. Even here in this earthly mould the Divine love in its full purity can be established for it is already there behind and needs only earnest evocation. Consciousness essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but in its expression there ...
... not easy to put into words. “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven.” It is not often that a person gets the privilege of close proximity, guidance and love from the Divine incarnate in a human form and that too of a wonderful Mother. “A Mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil counsellor and mentor, chasing away with Her radiant... the eternal sunshine.” My destiny took me to Pondicherry and engulfed me in Her Divine embrace at the tender age of eight . Since then there has been no looking back. The Mother has been my pole star and my guiding light and will ever be the “raison d’etre” of my existence. Over the years I received Her boundless love, affection, guidance and protection through personal contact and through letters... me to collect, compile, correct, illustrate and prepare the material for this book. They have inspired me with words of encouragement throughout. For me they have been the instruments of the Mother’s love. As we enter the new millennium which is the harbinger of a new light and force and life, I feel a deep joy in sharing this treasure of messages, correspondence and conversations, that give a wonderful ...
... what is beautiful in the world. Instead of thinking bad things... having these common thoughts, and all that, you think: "How full of compassion, how benevolent is the Divine! How full of Love is the Divine! How beautiful is the Divine creation — the rising of the sun, the setting of the sun! The vast sky full of sweetness. And what a grandeur, what a harmony is there in Nature — all her beauty and... mystery that remains concealed? Reveal thyself. I bow to Thee." You see the good side of the creation and what the Divine has made, and you open yourself to the Divine influence, thinking of nothing else but that. You look at the vast sky that surrounds us, and how the boundless Divine sweetness is embracing us. To remain in such a state is already something, and when you become Page 81 ... And if you can feel the Presence, or the flame of aspiration, then you can throw all these movements into the Flame and the Flame burns brighter. Only, if you can feel the flame of aspiration or the Divine Presence, then it blocks all the passages and you find yourself before an immense silence. Or else, another method is to detach yourself from the thoughts coming from outside, and to try to ...
... of xxvi, 59 Consciousness-Force 108,110 Consecration 101 Desire 57 soul of, (desire-soul) 18,90, 94 Dharma 10 Divine Love 55, 56 Divine (Presence), the 14,18, 24, 25, 36, 55 and the psychic being 8, 15, 22 Divine spark 14; see also the Psyche, Psychic entity Emotions (feelings) 19, 21, 35 Enthusiasm link with the psychic 50-51 ... Ignorance, the xvii, 5, 15 Immortality, feeling of 61-62 Individuality 16,16-17,63.68-69 Inner mind see under Mind Intuition 18 Joy xxvii-xxviii, 52 Liberation xxxi Love 7,9 aspiration for, 37 Memories of past lives xxviii-xxix, 60, 60- 61,66-67 Mind (the mental) XVI, 6,81, 107 inner 99, 103 leader of life 80 progress from life... 112 Peace 52 aspiration for 37 Physical, the 6 inner 99 Prakriti xxxi, 4, 5,65 Page 133 Psyche, the 2, 3, 4; see also Divine spark, Psychic entity; cf. the Psychic Psychic, the xvi, xvii asleep in most cases xviii and aspiration 20 awakening of xxvi, xxix, 86 coming forward see ...
... Mother 21 September 1966 If one loves somebody, to what extent can one act and change the life of the person one loves? It all depends on the quality of the love. If it is an egoistic, monopolising love, one can do nothing for the person one thinks one loves. Only divine love has the power to change someone’s life by opening in him the doors of his soul ...
... sufferings and sorrows. Page 247 One should try never to be the cause of any additional suffering. 10 October 1970 The only remedy for all human suffering: divine love. Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear. Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements. ...
... sadhaks as much as possible out of contact with the outer world. 9 August 1933 In The Synthesis of Yoga you write of the love of the Divine in all beings and the constant perception and acceptance of its workings in all things. If this is one of the ways of realising the Divine, why do we have to restrict our contact with people? That is all right in the ordinary karmayoga which aims at union with... struggles and difficulties, but not accepting the nature of man and the Page 812 world as it is—our aim is to move towards a more divine working which will replace what now is by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour of divine Love. 22 October 1933 It seems as if we avoid the world much more than the Mayavadin sannyasis. Some of them start hospitals and schools and... It is not that love for all is not part of the sadhana, but it has not to translate itself at once into a mixing with all—it can only express itself in a general and when need be dynamic universal goodwill, but for the rest it must find vent in this labour of bringing down the higher consciousness with all its effect for the earth. As for accepting the working of the Divine in all things that is ...
... friend of Huta without fear. If you love me, she will love you. Some people have the bad habit of talking too much. When you talk much you are bound to speak nonsense. The best is not to listen to them and to attach no importance to what they say. When one has a big heart one can have friends and be faithful to them—provided the friends love the Divine! Blessings . So there! Isn't... knew) you were right. Tomorrow I will try the new paints from you. And you will see the result (may be) then. Hope you are well now. Wishing you a very very happy day tomorrow. With love, Alice ...
... unattackable. There is also the way of the psychic,—when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the divine, self-giving, surrender and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master throughout, then there is no or little subjective suffering and the objective... perceiving what is to be done, feeling and seeing it done by the Divine Force itself and helping constantly by its own vigilant and conscious assent to and call for the divine working. Usually there cannot but be a mixture of these two ways until the consciousness is ready to be entirely open, entirely submitted to the Divine's origination of all its action. It is then that all responsibility ... deciding what is or is not to be done. Of course it acts with the Divine force behind it, drawing or calling in that Force—for otherwise nothing much can be done. But still it is the personal effort that is prominent and assumes most of the burden. The other way is that of the psychic being, the consciousness opening to the Divine, not only opening the psychic and bringing it forward, but opening ...
... 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 than the proximity of the bodies. Love truly your mother and without sorrow or suffering you will let her go to America, knowing that the earth is small and the love is vast. 22 July 1968 Page 144 My dear... dear child, Certainly we are your true parents, and your true duty is towards the Divine. Let the ignorant say according to their ignorance and keep in you the light, knowledge and peace of the Divine Consciousness. With our love and blessings. I am glad you are taking all this "drama" as it deserves to be taken, that is to say with a good laugh. They call you "refugees" but it is... please enlighten me on this point? ( Question to Sri Aurobindo ) "Love of the Divine in all beings and the constant perception and acceptance of its workings in all things" 1 ―if this is one of the ways of realising the our contacts Page 146 with people in the outside world? Why can we not give our love to all? ( Reply of Sri Aurobindo ) That is all right in the ordinary ...
... established. Sri Aurobindo ###April 25, 1932 The psychic or the yogic attitude consists of calm, detachment, equality, universality—added to this the psychic element—bhakti, love, devotion to the Divine. Sri Aurobindo ...
... magnified egoism which is not love but a condescending pity which assumes a patronising air. In this Aphorism Sri Aurobindo refers to those who follow the ascetic path in solitary search of a solitary God, by trying to cut themselves off completely from the world and men. But for Sri Aurobindo men form part of the Divine; and if you truly love the Divine, how can you not love men, since they are an... s (1960-1961) On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 52 52—This is a miracle that men can love God, yet fail to love humanity. With whom are they in love then? Is it possible to reach the Divine through philanthropy? 1 It depends on what you mean by philanthropy. Normally, we call philanthropists those who do charitable works. ...
... (chakras) in different individuals. The colour of the fire coming out from each one indicates the consciousness; white (the Mother's Light), red (Divine Love), Green (Vital Energy), yellow (Mind Plane), blue (Illumined Mind), pink (Psychic Love), golden (Light of Divine Truth). The Asura represents the evil forces that are at work even in the premises of the Ashram; they even want to destroy the samadhi... is disturbed by the Asura. He is finally vanquished by the descent of brilliant, white light (The Mother's Light) followed by the descent of the “Two-in-one” figure radiating bright golden light of Divine Truth, indicating clearly the presence of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...
... will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible. My force and love are with you. At the end of the struggle there is Victory. 7 January 1966 In silent endurance, one step forward towards victory with the help of eternal love. Open to the Divine Grace and thou shalt endure. ...
... she tries to lose herself in love's divine frenzy: Vainly she fled into abysms of bliss From her pursuing foresight of the end. The more she plunged into love that anguish grew; Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose. Remembrance was a poignant pang, she felt Each day a golden leaf torn cruelly out From her too slender book of love and joy. 261 Vain... wave of the laughter of light from morn to eve. 259 Can love with its divine accent and 'sex' with its human base ever fuse into the 'holy' wedded state? Before their 'fall', did Adam and Eve experience what C.S. Lewis has called 'paradisal sexuality'? John Keats could not imagine any mingling of 'goatish winnyish lustful love with the abstract adoration of the deity'. But nothing is impossible... attempt—vain are all her attempts—to escape the pain in her heart that is like her own inseparable shadow. Her life with Satyavan, although it is the very image of love's complete fulfilment, is for her now more and more a mask. Nor love's maddening excesses nor the minutiae of an ardent housewife's round of duties are an effective cure for the wound in her heart that she cannot bare to others, not even ...
... feels human love as something divine, something that can be transfigured and become a very powerful driving force. I did not believe it possible, except in dreams, until the day I met someone here. But you do not believe in these things, so I shall not speak of it further. I can gag this also and tell myself that one day all will be filled in the inner Page 306 divine love. But that does... solution. X will not understand, and I will not say anything to him. But I obey you because everything is futile and there is too much pain in this world, and also someone in me needs you, someone who loves you in his own way. Signed : Satprem ( Mother's reply ) Friday, 29.5.59 Satprem, my dear little one, I have read your letter in its entirety and I remain convinced that one day all... excluding any, will be fully satisfied. But we shall see about that later. For the moment, I only want to tell you, from the bottom of my heart—which is so deeply touched—thank you. With all my love. Signed : Mother Page 307 I will see you tomorrow morning at ten o'clock and I hope that a few small misunderstandings may be clarified. I am sending you forthwith the note that I ...
... was so divine, so serene, so lovable. She caught me watching her when she opened her eyes abruptly. Then she told me what I should write to my family and my in-laws, explaining my departure for good. In the course of our conversation I asked the Mother, "What are the important points of this Integral Yoga? What should I do?" She smiled and replied, "Have faith in the Divine, love the Divine, and develop ...
... towards the Knowledge of Self arid the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss, the divine heights and largenesses, and opens us to the touch of spiritual sympathy, universality, oneness." 23 × Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Double Soul in Man ... Missioned to lead man in the Ignorance towards the light of the Divine Consciousness, it takes the essence of all experience in the Ignorance to form a nucleus of soul-growth in the nature; the rest it turns into material for the future growth of the instruments which it has to use until they are ready to be a luminous instrumentation of the Divine .... It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as... Greek psukhē , meaning the soul) for the inmost being which supports the outer and the inner beings. The psychic being in its essence, called the psyche or psychic entity, is a spark or portion of the Divine present in all things and creatures. In the course of evolution the psyche grows into an individual psychic personality in the human being and is then called the psychic being. Whereas the universal ...
... Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Divine Grace and Love THE MOTHER says that there can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the two are essentially one and the same. Grace means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should... But instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love – His own Self. It is His own substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or extraneous. One remembers the story... is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own special form and gesture. Or, Page 206 varying the image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Krishna is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality. Page 207 ...
... part of divine love or its fulfilment. If it is true love with a psychic or higher element in it, then it helps to awaken the Divine in oneself or bring a high uplifting of one's nature. I said there "love and adoration". Love, adoration and desire for union are the three features of that love. NIRODBARAN: Sometimes even when there is a true spark, that gets lost afterwards by vital mixture, sometimes... to the parties concerned. SRI AUROBINDO: In so far as there is truth in the love, it will have its reward in the evolution of the being. NIRODBARAN: If that love helps to turn one towards the Divine, can it be said it was an unconscious seeking for the Divine? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, or it may be a seeking for love itself and its realisation or fulfilment. NIRODBARAN: I have read a novel where... where the hero—an artist—has been depicted as unconsciously seeking for the Divine through human love but every fresh contact or relation seems to disillusion him because he finds jealously, pettiness, etc. coming in. Could it be said it was really a seeking or was it merely a vital play? SRI AUROBINDO: Can't say, it depends on the particular psychological case. Which novel was it? NIRODBARAN: ...
... would not be understood by others—the other is a certain reserve, an unwillingness to expose one's deeper feelings to the gaze of others, the wish to keep sacred and secret the relations of love with the Divine—that is a psychic feeling. Indecision and Instability The first [ case ] is vital indecision—the other is vital instability. 1 Those who can't choose, have the vital indecision and... pleasure of the relation. So long as there is either of these movements, the other also is possible. It is only when you get rid of this sentimentalism and turn all your purified feelings towards the Divine, that these fluctuations disappear and a calm goodwill to all takes their place. Sensitiveness It [ sensitiveness ] is a matter of temperament. Some are psychically and vitally sensitive and... of your imagination which is what you would like the real world to be. But the real world is not all that could be desired, you know, and that is why it has to be acted upon and transformed by the Divine Consciousness. But for that, knowledge of the reality, however unpalatable, is almost the first requisite. This knowledge often enough is best brought home to us through blows and bleedings. True, ...
... Aurobindo - Part 10 XII The Divine Grace and Love The Mother says that there can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the two are essentially one and the same. Grace means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should... But instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love—His own Self. It is His own substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or extraneous. One remembers the... self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi, it is her own special form and gesture. Or, varying the image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Krishna is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality. Page 48 ...
... closer to the Light. 11 July 1935 Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine because the Divine is always with him. 7 March 1937 So many problems have been facing me of late. I wonder how they are to be solved happily. The only way to a true and lasting happiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine's Grace. 19 October 1941 Always be good and you will always... happy. 13 October 1951 Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and happy. 24 May 1954 Let us seek our happiness only in the Divine. 5 June 1954 Page 180 When the Divine grants the true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away. 5 October 1954 Spiritual happiness: calm and smiling, nothing can disturb ...
... (In true love for ever.) Page 165 (O thou who art the strength of my body, to thee all my love and my gratefulness.) Page 166 (Love Divine. With love we fight. For love we conquer. Through love we transform. In love we realise.) Page 167 (To Pranab. The divine love and affection wishes you... (My loved one. The Divine's love is with you always and for ever.) Page 172 (Bonne Fête To Pranab with everlasting love.) Page 173 Pranab, The Divine loves you.) Page 174 (Bonne Fête to Pranab. With all my love I pray for your full Realisation.) Page 175 Sri Aurobindo's book The Mother... (To Pranab. Let the Divine's Love be with you at every moment and in everything.) Page 169 (Bonne Fête! to Pranab. May Heaven and earth collaborate to make you live in Light, Force and Joy. With love.) Page 170 (Bonne Fête! To Pranab. Love manifested in Truth, is the Supreme Victor and will conquer earth for the Divine Life. With love.) Page 171 ...
... service allow the Divine protection to be with you in your aspiring concentration for integral transformation . 23.9.1929 Love the Victor will manifest when there will be established—through the fivefold psychological perfection , the love of the physical being for the Divine , and when, through loving consecration , there will be a complete faithfulness to the Divine. (Fivefold... the forerunners of transformation . 29.9.1929 With simple sincerity offer your vital being to the Divine and the realisation will begin. 2.10.1929 To an aspiration for the Divine Love , supported by faithfulness and sincerity in the vital , the Divine's Love will surely answer. 4.10.1929 The devotion that accompanies Radha's absolute consecration , this alone... to Radha's influence the true supramentalised friendship with the Divine. 12.10.1929 Approach the Divine with loving gratitude and you will meet the Divine's Love . 14.10.1929 Let your aspiration for progress be cheerful and you will get the Ananda of progress . 15.10.1929 Let the Divine cheerfulness suffuse your work . So your mind will be purified ...
... perfectly awake.... Sweet Master of Love, grant that all my consciousness may be concentrated in Thee so that I may live only by love and light and that love and light may radiate through me and awaken in all on our journey; may this physical journey be like a symbol of our action and may we leave everywhere a trace of Thee like a trail of light and love. O divine Master, eternal Teacher, Thou livest... says. Outside this state there are infinite grades of consciousness, going right down to complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain yet untouched by the light of Thy divine Love (but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which is, for some kind of reason of ignorance, outside our individual range of perception. This is, however, only a way of speaking, and... livest in all things, in all beings, and Thy love bursts upon the sight of even the most ignorant. Grant that all may become aware of it in the depths of their being and that hatred may disappear for ever from their hearts. My ardent gratitude rises to Thee like a tireless chant. Page 98 ...
... living for, and it is love!' And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 2 June 1929 ) Where does love come from? Where does love come from? From the Origin... apply it also to their relation with the Divine. They say to the Divine: "If you do what I want, I shall say that you love me, and I shall love you. But if you don't do what I want, then I won't think at all that you love me, and I certainly will not love you." That's how it is. That means that it becomes commercial. But "If you don't love me, I shall love you"? That begins to be better! ... have made of love. And besides it is not very pretty and leads to all kinds of things which are still less pretty, like jealousy, for instance, or envy, and in violent natures it goes as far as hatred. The small beginning is this: the need, when one loves, that what one loves or the person one loves should know that he is loved. But in the relation with the Divine: one loves the Divine but insists that ...
... the Divine Love and Grace. 45 What was this world but insentient matter, till the Divine Love came down and stirred it into life? Love has so far flowered in a million imperfect ways, the noblest of them all being a mother's love for her child. But the ascent of Love towards the Divine summits hasn't been halted, and it may. be that man's consciousness will now wake up to "the Divine love... expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love... And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not clothe itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of its sacrifice. 43 Aren't all the million manifestations of human love but the result of the "impulse given by a Divine love behind the human... passion chants to love. 41 Page 315 At its highest peaks of manifestation, this Love Divine coalesces and unites with Divine Knowledge: Even the seekers through knowledge come to a point beyond which if they want to go farther, they are bound to find themselves entering at the same time into love and to feel the two as one, knowledge the light of the divine union, love the very heart ...
... energy. You must not only see the light and recognise it, but love it and be devoted to it. And here comes the Mother's central work, her special gift, her grace to us. When you love a thing, you love, as it is said, through the heart; but there is love and love, and there is a heart within the heart. True love, the love that is divine, is within this inner heart, which is your soul, the real being... child. Some may even have seen it as the Divine Child in you. These things—visitations as they are called—usually come in dreams. At least I know of some who have seen it, who came and told me of their miraculous experience. It is a possibility for everyone and if you happen to see it you must Page 28 recognise it, hold it, grasp it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living... soul. I have often said that it is the special privilege for each one of us here, for each one of you, to carry this being, this inner being, this intimate person, the Divine Child who is you. It is this that is building your divine personality, it is this that will give you in the end a mind beautiful, a vital beautiful, a body beautiful—all that you need, all that is perfect and flawless in your ...
... your vital energy. You must not only see and recognise it, but love it and be devoted to it. And here comes the Mother's central work, her special gift, her grace to us. When you love a thing, you love, as it is said, through the heart, but there is love and love and there is a heart within the heart. True love, the love that is Divine, is within this inner heart which is your soul, the real being... child. Some may have seen it even as the Divine Child in you. These things - visitations as they are called - usually come in dreams. At least I know of some who have seen them, who came and told me of their miraculous experience. It is a possibility for everyone and if you happen to see it you must recognise it, hold it, grasp Page 7 it with all love and affection. The Mother is still living... your soul. I have often said that it is a special privilege here for each one of us, for each one of you, to carry this being, this inner being, this intimate person, the Divine Child who is you. It is this that is building your divine personality, it is this that will give you in the end a mind beautiful, a vital beautiful, a body beautiful – all that you need, all that is perfect and flawless in your ...
... The Philosophy of Love The Philosophy of Love Everyday I awake a philosopher. I look at the state of the world and the ages. Today I awoke with the philosophy of Love. Love Love for the sea Love for music Love for beauty Love for Mother Divine Love I feel great pity for these poor men, who are what, who love what ? This world... the very depths In search of this marvelous bursting forth of the Vibration of Love." The very depths, is right at the beginning of the worlds. The bursting forth of the Vibration of Love In a tiny cell That is what made the world For the joy of loving And that is what can make it again in a Divine twinkling of an eye or in the smile of a tiny loving cell. "It is the... has blossomed under so many stars and disappeared species because they have not found their Goal of love Page 18 and joy, which a first annihilated child discovers wondrously when he cries out from all the cells of his old encrusted body: YOU ARE THERE ! And in this same Life Divine Sri Aurobindo made it still more clear: "Man as he is cannot be the last term of that evolution: ...
... poet says: when childhood and youth meet and unite 2 , then there is born the true love, love Divine. The Vaishnava discipline is to keep and maintain love at this stage and mode; for early youth is the best time and age (vaya kaisorakam vayam). Love Krishna the boy, Jet your heart's yearning be moulded in the crystal clear limpid stream welling out of the pure spring of a new-born heart – that is... with a whole bevy of 16000 1 Gopikas – divine powers, emanations – Matrikas – to rule His new creation, His divine Lila. He was the lord of the Overmind, the cosmic manifestation. He cannot be satisfied with less than cosmic dimensions! It is said the Avatar descends with His family repeatedly age after age pushing forward the Earth's march towards its divine goal. Krishna is always conceived... capacity but invokes the Mother's help; he calls the Mother; the Divine Prakriti into himself so that she fights the battle for him; he simply lies quiet behind, perhaps like the Lord Shiva at her feet. The battle is fought by the Divine herself, the victory he enjoys – even like the victory of the gods given to them by the Divine U ma. But the Vaishnava has followed the safer and a more pleasant ...
... detachment which human love has not; and yet Divine love can be as passionate as human love, nay, Divine love has an intensity which human love carowt attain. It is the element of detachment which intensifies love, because it is this which purifies love. Detachment means freedom from attachment to the body and to the bodily desires and, more than that, freedom from attachment to one's own self. ... hearth of Aspiration, the divine door that opens into Immortality. *** Of Love Ananda is the soul, self-mastery the head, and purity the foundation. *** The human approaches to the Divine are dangerous. Seek God in God's ways. *** Aspire and love. . . Ascending Love leads to Immortality. Descending Love leads to Death. Love is defeated as often as... as Lust is victorious. Love is ascending Ananda that leads to Immortality. Lust is descending Ananda that leads to Death. Page 346 The secret of Love is the joy of self-giving. The secret of joy is self-giving. If any part in you is without joy, it means that it has not given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself. *** Divine love has an element of detachment ...
... figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members. This is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love and attains... into these four movements, the desire of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards him, the pain of love and the divine return of love, the delight of love possessed and the play of that delight, and the eternal enjoyment of the divine Lover which is the heart of celestial bliss. These are things that are at once too simple and too profound for methodising or for analysis... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IV The Way of Devotion Bhakti in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine and as simple and straightforward as love and desire going straight towards their object. It cannot therefore be fixed down to any systematic method, cannot found itself on a psychological science like ...
... * Divine love has an element of detachment which human love has not; and yet Divine love can be as passionate as human love, nay, Divine love has an intensity which human love cannot attain. It is the element of detachment which intensifies love, because it is this which purifies love. Detachment means freedom from attachment to the... the divine door that opens into Immortality. * Of Love Ananda is the soul, self-mastery the head, and purity the foundation. * The human approaches to the Divine are dangerous. Seek God in God's ways. * Aspire and love . . . Ascending Love leads to Immortality. Descending Love leads to Death. Love is defeated... surrender and dissolve itself into the Divine self. * Never seek through your desire-soul the person you love. You invite thereby not only misery to yourself but bring a curse upon one you profess to love. Place always a space of detachment between yourself and your beloved; make the Divine your mediator. Page 5 ...
... the lesson should be accepted with joy and gratitude. For one who aspires to the divine life, what can the actions of a blind and ignorant humanity matter to him? 18 January 1967 If truly you love the Divine, prove it by remaining quiet and peaceful. All that comes to each one in life, comes from the Divine to teach us a lesson, and if we take it in the right spirit, we make rapid progress... the Truth and to live it. Be confident, you will conquer; and it will mean a big step forward. With love and blessings. 12 September 1969 The difficulties come always to make us progress. The greater the difficulty, the greater can be the progress. Be confident and endure. With love and blessings. November 1969 The hours preceding Victory are most often the most difficult... to a resistance, some part or several parts of the being refusing to receive the force, the consciousness and the light put upon them and revolting against the divine influence. It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine's Will without having to face one or another of these difficulties. But to keep steady one's aspiration and to look at oneself with an absolute sincerity are the ...
... discovers the secret presence of the divine Force in the inconscient depths of Matter as the "Irresistible Healer ” , setting in motion, stirring and churning the innumerable elements, so that "from their primal darkness, their primitive chaos, they may be awakened to consciousness and to the full light of knowledge. ” It is the supreme Love of the Divine, His redeeming and transfiguring Grace... stretches of his being with a conscious will, and establish there the Light and Law of the Divine. It is perhaps the most difficult work and discipline ever undertaken by spiritual seekers, the most perilous exploration and bitter combat; but it is also the most glorious endeavour pregnant with the possibilities of a divine perfection of man upon earth. The conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient... our animal-human traits and proclivities are developed. Heaven is our eternal father and the divine qualities are the stuff and composition of our essential self and nature. It is not the Inconscient and the Subconscient that are the ultimate determinants of our destiny, but the Superconscient, the Divine. Fear is one of the gifts of the Subconscient to the body. The Mother says, "In fact, 90 ...
... Love Divine "The intensity of Divine Love does not produce any perturbation in any part of the being" (The Elements of Yoga). Why should it? If there is aperturbation, it is more likely that a different kind of love was in question. If it is Divine Love, there can be no perturbation, for each one receives it according to his capacity, Divine Love is there in its... with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare occasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the impression of something, and you say: "there, the Divine Love came to me!" Well, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other you happened to be just a little open and you had the perception of the thing that is always with you. The Love is there, the divine consciousness... you declare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the matter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more than a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; for the atmosphere is surcharged with it and wherever there is a possibility of its being received, it is received. The same is true of all things divine. They are there: you ...
... Love Divine "THE intensity of Divine Love does not produce any perturbation in any part of the being".¹ Why should it? If there is a perturbation, it is more likely that a different kind of love was in question. If it is Divine Love, there can be no perturbation, for each one receives it according to his capacity. Divine Love is there in its full intensity... with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare occasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the impression of something, and you say: "there, the Divine Love came to me!" Well, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other you happened to be just a little open and you had the perception of the thing that is always with you. The Love is there, the divine consciousness... you declare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the matter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more than a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; for the atmosphere is surcharged with it and wherever there is a possibility of its being received, it is received. The same is true of all things divine. They are there: you ...
... "There is a power within that knows beyond our knowings; "To live, to love are signs of infinite things, Love is a glory from eternity's spheres." Page 284 Even though lower elements of human nature debase and mock at it, still, love is a divine power by which "all can change". Love is like a bud in the human being, it opens slowly; or it is like a somnambulist... —which is sufficient to awaken it. It "wakes blindly to a voice, a look, a touch, the meaning of a face." Love by its mystical power "in earth's alphabet finds a God-like sense", a divine significance. In the purest form of love "all strives to enforce the unity all is." Rare is such pure love, rarer one who can hold it pure in himself. The meeting of Savitri and Satyavan was not an accidental... cranes, peacocks and parrots "jewelled soil and tree." Doves moaned and drakes swam in pools. Earth was in love with Heaven there was music, blooms, riot of scents and hues. In that wonderful place "Magician of her rapt felicities, Blithe, sensuous-hearted careless and divine, Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms"; All over Nature there was calm and peace. "Life had ...
... unable to respond. And, where intimacy is wanted, the relation has to be of love — if the Divine does not bring love to humanity, humanity will fail to respond to the Divine's call. And how shall solid and concrete earth know Divine Love unless the Divine Himself becomes solid and concrete to earth? I believe the central truth here has been seized with a fair degree of success by an Ashram poet at almost... clarifying word. All true mystery is ultimately the Divine Presence. Now, to the Divine His own Presence is self-luminous: it is not a mystery in the ordinary sense at all. It is a mystery only to the mind of man. It is a supreme, a colossal clarity to the Divine Himself. So I should say that in order to be poetic we have to try and be clear in the way the Divine, when expressing Himself, would be clear and... instruments are obstinate creatures, they set conditions to the Divine — they say: "If we are to be divinised, show us that you can be humanised!" I think the conditions are quite legitimate, and the Divine knows it very well and He hurries to become an Avatar every now and then — that is to say, every few thousand years! For, unless the Divine gets on intimate terms with the earth, the earth is unable ...
... Page 152 was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive." 1 Bliss is the original movement of the Divine in which Love is implicit, Love is the Divine's final movement by which Bliss grows... universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the "fi... Reality. Beauty is not an Ultimate. Along with Love, it is an expression of Delight. Does Page 147 not Sri Aurobindo say in The Synthesis of Yoga, "the general power of Delight is Love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty." 1 Divine Bliss is the fundamental which can give rise to Beauty as well as to Love in their highest modes. Ancient Indian sp ...
... Source To Know What Love Is ...if one wants to know what love is, one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and more like the Divine, and then one can be identified with the divine love and know what it is, otherwise... its outer appearance and find the divine principle which is behind and which gives it existence. Naturally, it is full of snares and difficulties, but it is more effective. That is to say, instead of ceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one must cease to love wrongly and want to love well. For instance, love between human beings, in all its forms, the love of parents for children, of children... realise one day that love is not something personal, that love is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finely, but which in its essence is something divine. The first step is to stop being selfish. For everyone it is the same thing, not only for those who want to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, one must not love oneself first and ...
... supramental consciousness—its ultimate goal in terrestrial life. From a world of ignorance, sorrow and suffering, full of strife and discord, we shall enter a new world of peace, harmony, bliss and love. The Divine omniscience and omnipotence will reign in the transformed human beings, the supermen in the new creation and the whole world order will be one of peace and harmony because of the superior race... realisation on the part of the spiritual seekers. His Yoga is called the yoga of Transformation or the Integral yoga and the way to it is perfect and unreserved surrender to the Divine Mother who Page 9 is the Divine Shakti and the mystery behind the whole creation. "Those who wish to help the Light of Truth to prevail over the forces of darkness and falsehood can do so by carefully... remains unimpaired to this day because of the eternal verities it contains. Sri Aurobindo's Mother is not so well-known to the present-day spiritual seekers as his more renowned Magnum Opus, the Life Divine to the elites, the intellectuals and others who are interested in philosophical literature. From the point of view of practical guidance to spiritual or more properly speaking, the supramental Truth ...
... human beings who can understand and feel divine Love, because divine Love is free of attachment and of the need to please the object loved." Page 237 That was a discovery. That's why people don't understand; for them, love is so much like this ( Mother intertwines the fingers of her two hands ) that they cannot even feel or believe that they love if there isn't an attachment like this... And necessarily, the consequence of attachment is the will, the desire, the need to please the object of one's love. If you take away the attachment and the need to please, people scratch their heads and wonder if they love. And it's only when you take away those two things that divine Love begins! This, mon petit, we'll talk about again, it's a revelation. That's why they don't understand and... again, "It's not Life was only , but Life only ." × The experience of the "great pulsations" of divine Love (in April, 1962 ). ...
... companionship and oneness when it deepens into the more intimate adoration which lives in the sense of the fatherhood of God, the friendhood of God, the attracting love between the Divine Spirit and our human soul and nature. For the Divine inhabits the human soul and body; he draws around him and wears like a robe the human mind and figure. He assumes the human relations which the soul affects in the... world for God, God dwelling in man and turning to his own divine ends in him the enigmatic world-process. And beyond the end is a yet more wonderful oneness and inliving in the last transfigurations of the Eternal. The Godhead in answer to Arjuna's prayer reassumes his own normal Narayana image, svakaṁ rūpam , the desired form of grace and love and sweetness and beauty. But first he declares the i... ; for such a man comes to me." In other words superiority to the lower nature, unity with all creatures, oneness with the cosmic Godhead and the Transcendence, oneness of will with the Divine in works, absolute love for the One and for God in all,—this is the way to that absolute spiritual self-exceeding and that unimaginable transformation. Page 395 ...
... this eternal divine Consciousness always present in every human being, this God in man, takes possession partly 4 or wholly of the human consciousness and becomes in visible human shape the guide, teacher, leader of the world, not as those who living in their humanity yet feel something of the power or light or love of the divine Gnosis informing and conducting them, but out of that divine Gnosis itself... instrument, does not perceive that he is an instrument and has to confess at last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in... is revealed ordinarily in an efflorescence of its powers, in energies and magnitudes of its knowledge, love, joy, developed force of being, 3 in degrees and faces of its divinity. But when the divine Consciousness and Power, taking upon itself the human form and the human mode of action, possesses it not only by powers and magnitudes, by degrees and outward faces of itself but out of its eternal ...
... space, and a hymn of praise arises. Immortal Love, O Love Divine, Compassion endless, pure, Vast Wisdom, Majesty benign, Thee Goddess we adore. Queen of the Sun-World, Knowledge, Light, Creatrix great and wise, Spouse of the Truth, Supernal Might, Who mak'st this sacrifice; Immortal Love, 0 Love Divine, Who giv'st thyself for us, Enthroned within our... And asks each one to seek her Child Divine. "Search, search," she says, "the night falls dark, Without the Child Divine your gardens bloom not, Nor in your fields can any harvests come. Your works will barren lie, your mind and life; The springs will fail, the waters cease to flow. Awake, 0 men, and find the Child Divine." - Thus speaks her ardent love to everyone. (Hesperus enters... And yet Must I drink it, if so your Law requires. I'll keep the Law that I may break it so. For only so will your stream flow with love, The love that is your truth divine, of old, The Love that fashioned and sustains the worlds. Give me the cup. Titan 2 (mockingly) Ha, ha! What high-pitched talk, Poor woman! Nay, first have a taste of mine ...
... that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive." Bliss is the original movement of the Divine in which Love is implicit, Love is the Divine's final movement by which Bliss grows... of Yoga 1 , "the general power of Delight is love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty." He also says: 2 "Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. Love leads us from the suffering of division into the... universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the "f ...
... Mother's love, but I wonder how many of us truly love the Mother. Where indeed do we see one-pointed, Page 479 ever-sacrificing, never-failing love? Who has love only for the Divine? It does not mean that there is no love, but that the love is mixed up and covered with egoism, demand and vital movements. At least that is the case with many. There are some of course who have no love at all... consecrate himself so that he may become conscious as well as receive. The Divine Love, unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. He must make it his whole object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to the Divine Wisdom and Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in the mind not... 1 May 1935 The Mother loves because she is Love and cannot but love. Still, we feel that she cannot love as we do, and on our part we cannot bear the constancy and wideness of her Love. Obviously, if people expect the ordinary kind of love from the Mother they must be disappointed—the love based on the vital and its moods. But that is just the kind of love that has to be overpassed in Yoga ...
... in the Divine Consciousness, submitting the personal will to the Divine Will, calling into the being the Divine Peace, Purity, Oneness, Knowledge, Light, Ananda, replacing the ego by the psychic being devoted and surrendered to the Divine. It is the love of the Divine that saves, not a love turned towards human beings. When the Divine Consciousness is there, then there comes based on the love of the... the Divine a true love and oneness for all beings. But that does not act separately from the Divine but only according to the Divine Mother's will and in her service. Unselfishness is not the only thing to be aimed at—by itself it would be only a moral, not a spiritual attainment. Page 428 Humility A spiritual humility within is very necessary, but I do not think an outward one... 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 the Divine Will the highest way. Buddha did not aim at action in the world, but at cessation from the ...
... person love another truly? Page 101 Love another? I have said there that it is impossible. I have said that if one wants to know what love is, one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and more like the Divine, and... aspect of the Divine, an aspect which here on earth has suffered the same distortions as the others." What is it, what haven't you understood? That the universe and the world as it is, are a deformations of the Divine? The world as it is, in the state of consciousness in which it is, is a deformations of the Divine, and love here also is a deformations of the Divine. So, even if your love remained as... marvellous delight of love, and this gives him the impression that he has come into contact with the Divine. But most often it is only a fleeting contact, for in the human being love is immediately mixed with lower egoistic movements, which debase it and rob it of its power of purity. But even if it remained pure, this contact with the divine existence could not last for ever, for love is only one aspect ...
... be resolved in human life by the intervention of a power of the Divine. It is she who acts as an "ambassadress" between Eternity and Time. She embodies forth herself in the form of Divine Love, or rather of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it. Love, in truth, is that embodiment of the Eternal in Time which carries... carries with it the stamp of immortality. Eternity drew close disguised as Love And laid its hand upon the body of Time. 4 Savitri affirms the necessity of the birth of a new power, the Power of Divine Love, which alone can save man from the reign of Ignorance which is Death. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is, in many respects, comparable to the highest spiritual poetry of... great epic "the most sublime throb of an organic divine creation." 5 Sri Aurobindo's life-work naturally comes in line with that of the Rishis of the Vedas and the Upanishads. His work surely adds to the rich spiritual treasures of the past by giving to mankind his great vision of the Supermind and by insisting that life must be related to the Divine if man wants to arrive at the true solution of ...
... response that never fails is the Divine's. The only love that never fails is the Divine's. Love the Divine alone and the Divine will always be with you. 6 August 1963 The opinion of the Supreme Lord alone has importance. The Supreme Lord alone deserves all our love and He returns it to us a hundredfold. 11 February 1970 Take the Divine alone into your soul's confidence... Man's Relationship with the Divine Man's Relationship with the Divine Words of the Mother - II The Divine Is with You Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you. Never forget... forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. The more you feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will do everything for you. 27 September 1951 Page 9 It is in the Divine that we shall always find all that we need. ...
... ultimately and absolutely, it is the Divine that exists in and through the Divine, moves in and through the Divine to the Divine. It is the Divine that knows the Divine through the Divine. Page 69 It is the Divine that dynamises the Divine through the Divine. It is the Divine that enjoys, loves the Divine through the Divine. The Vedic Rishis declared the... This is a possibility we envisage and which we are working for. The Divine life empties the cells of desire hut fills it with the energy of solar Light. (4) Ego To renounce is a greater delight than to enjoy. To give is a greater joy than to take. To love is a greater ravishment than to be loved. In one it is the ego, man's self-centredness that limits, dilutes... the ignorance that Maya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins with the sense of separation, "I am other than the Divine." That is how Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing ...
... es of the human life are offered up, in the symbol of a sacrifice, to the divine Life in the Cosmos. Knowledge, Force and Delight are the three powers of the divine Life; thought and its formations, will and its works, love and its harmonisings are the corresponding human activities which have to be exalted to the divine level. The dualities of truth and falsehood, light and darkness, conceptional... dualities of egoistic love and hatred, joy and grief, pleasure and pain are the confusions of Love, perversities of Ananda; the dualities of strength and weakness, sin and virtue, action and inaction are the confusions of will, dissipators of the divine Force. And all these confusions arise and even become necessary modes of our action because the triune powers of the divine Life are divorced from... from each other, Knowledge from Strength, Love from both, by the Ignorance which divides. It is the Ignorance, the dominant cosmic Falsehood that has to be removed. Through the Truth, then, lies the road to the true harmony, the consummated felicity, the ultimate fulfilment of love in the divine Delight. Therefore, only when the Will in man becomes divine and possessed of the Truth, amṛto ṛtāvā , can ...
... Krishna in the Gita say? "Thou that hast come into this transitory and unhappy world, turn thy love to Me." Surely there is no cheap cheerfulness here. Deeply and poignantly the misery of time is felt; but together with it is felt also the possibility of a huge and happy escape by way of love of the Divine, the Inner Being, the indestructible and eternal Reality. Indeed, all Yoga is radiantly realistic... Doubts and the Life Divine A LETTER OF 1947 I myself have gone through many of your doubts and waverings. I have none of them any more. I may not be able to dispel all your difficulties, but some remarks may be of help to you. You seem to be struggling against three kinds of obstructions. The first is a fundamental uncertainty about the Divine's presence. This uncertainty... most baffling riddle. What is more, you will feel that since the Divine is there, it is only by getting into full communion with Him that the complete and satisfying solution can be arrived at, for the mind has not made the world or woven its manifold texture and so cannot grasp in an "interior" way its warp and woof. The Divine's consciousness is not like the mind, it is not divided from the ...
... have not found oneness of will and consciousness with the Supreme. When once that is found, works become the very power of knowledge and the very outpouring of love. If knowledge is the very state of oneness and the love its bliss, divine works are the living power of its light and sweet- ness." Recognising, adoring and seeking union with the Transcendent and universal Master of all works, it regards... power. How can one offer all one's action to the Divine unless one has some perception Page 297 and knowledge of the reality of His existence, and a moved feeling of love and devotion for Him? Karmayoga thus reconciles knowledge and love in itself, and gives the amplest scope to every part of our being and every energy and faculty of our nature for the highest perfection and fulfilment... an integral ¹ sāyujya means liberation into an absorbed union with the Divine, sāmīpya into a blissful nearness of the Divine, and sārupya or sādharmya into the infinite and luminous Supernature of the Divine. Page 294 union with the Divine. The Integral Yoga aims at union with the Divine not only in His Consciousness but also in His Nature. There is another ...
... standing. For originally and ultimately and absolutely, it is the Divine that exists in and through the Divine, moves in and through the Divine to the Divine. It is the Divine that knows the Divine through the Divine. It is the Divine that dynamises the Divine through the Divine. It is the Divine that enjoys, loves the Divine through theDivine. The Vedic Rishis declared the same truth, in... order. This is a possibility we envisage and which we are working for. The Divine life empties the cells of desire but fills it with the energy of solar Light. (4) EGO To renounce is a greater delight than to enjoy. To give is a greater joy than to take. To love is a greater ravishment than to be loved. In one it is the ego, man's self-centredness that limits, dilutes, and even... through the ignorance that Maya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins with the sense of separation, "I am other than the Divine." That is how Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing is ...
... in several forms. It can become concentrated in silence as the witness—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the Divine Force flowing through it, the work being a result—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the presence of the Divine or the Ananda or love of the Divine while the working goes on separately in front. All this becomes so habitual that it goes on of itself without the need... which sees what is wrong, ignorant, selfish, egoistic, moved by desire in the nature and puts it right. It needs a quiet mind [ to know the Divine Will ]. In the quiet mind turned towards the Divine the intuition (higher mind) comes of the Divine's Will and the right way to do it. Once the mental silence is attained, then in that the mental thoughts can be replaced by some vision and intuition... ess can develop—one engaged in the work, another behind silent and observing or turned towards the Divine—in this consciousness the aspiration can be maintained even while the external consciousness is turned towards the work. That is how the consciousness must work when it lives in the Divine. One part of the Force in it works and offers the work to the Mother, another part lives in the experience ...
... With my best love, 3 February 1932 The Mother P.S. Don't you find this picture very poetic? My dear little child, Once more this morning I had no time to tell you that tomorrow the is no pranam and to remind you to come at seven o'clock for the work. I hope you have well understood what I meant this morning. When the true and sacred love is there (love from the Divine and for ... 3 March 1932 The Mother Mon petit enfant cheri, ma chupi... I am obliged to go down. But my love remains with you with all its intensity. And in the intensity of this love, I have prayed and prayed to our Lord asking Him to pour His Grace upon you and to make you consciousness of the Divine Light and Soul in you, to give you the supreme realisation of His Presence. With all my heart I kiss... the Divine whatever happens is always utilized as a means for increasing and perfecting the union. This leaves no place for worry, regret and depression but, on the contrary, fills the consciousness with the certitude of victor With my best love, The Mother Thursday I will never be willing to send her away. Sri Aurobindo My sweet dearest little child, I am so very happy to receive ...
... shall take that." That spoils everything. There is neither sincerity nor purity. It is bargaining. Nothing must be mixed with your sincerity, your aspiration, your motive. You do things for love of the Divine, for truth, for perfection, without any other motive, any other idea. And that brings results. Page 20 ... It is difficult to understand?... I can see that! The Divine is everywhere. So if one serves humanity, one serves the Divine, isn't that so? That's marvellous! The clearest thing in this matter is to say: "The Divine is in me. If I serve myself, I am also serving the Divine!" ( Laughter ) In fact, the Divine is everywhere. The Divine will do His own work very well without you. I see quite... you do not understand. But truly, if you do understand that the Divine is there, in all things, with what are you meddling in serving humanity? To serve humanity you must know better than the Divine what must be done for it. Do you know better than the Divine how to serve it? The Divine is everywhere. Yes. Things don't seem to be divine.... As for me, I see only one solution: if you want to help humanity ...
... monstrous things, there is only one force—only one force that can dissolve them. I knew it in principle, but now I know it in practice: it is the force of Love. Love is truly all-victorious—but true Love, not what men call "love," not that: true, divine Love. You see one drop of "That" in its perfection, and all shadows Page 278 disappear—all disharmony disappears. It can only be in its perfection ...
... and loving concentration of our thought on the Divine is another potent means of freeing ourselves from the hold of the physical mind. Whenever ¹ "Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. Page 272 the mind turns towards the objects of sense, or towards the body and its urges, it has to be directed with love towards the Divine, the infinite and Eternal Master and Author of... is that the intensities of the deeper ¹ On Yoga, II by Sri Aurobindo. Page 273 and higher parts of the being that sweep into the physical mind and fire it into spells of love and devotion and surrender, do not abide long in it—they are soon covered up or fade away. The sâdhaka feels drained and depleted. When one falls into the physical consciousness, one finds it... reaches the glories of his spiritual existence, he does not necessarily die to his mental - and material life, but can bring those glories down into his earthly nature, and achieve a dynamic harmony of divine existence. Therefore, any philosophy or culture that clips his spiritual wings and chains him to the material- life is, by the very logic of evolution, an obscurantism,, a reactionary movement doomed ...
... earlier the Mother had said: Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love/or the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love. 5 To serve the Truth, then, to serve the supreme Truth, the best course was the way of love, the way of surrender, the way of offering all thoughts, all joys, all... "we must obey unconditionally the one Divine Will alone in all our being and life." This meant a total self-surrender to the Supreme: Love is the key to perfect surrender. Therefore, to love the Lord and obey His Will in all sincerity is the most perfect way to serve the Truth. 4 In another seminar held on 27 November, the theme was What is true love and how to find it? A fortnight earlier... a fresh aspiration of the cells for peace and. plasticity: pain was "the smack of a whip" that set the body on the road back to aspiration, cure, ānanda. The aspiration evoked the response of Divine Love, the intervention of Grace, and the return of health and sweetness, for "an evil always carries its own remedy.... The three things - suffering as a means of progress, progress and the cure of suffering ...
... presence and guidance of the Divine and his shakti. This means that the seeker should have already made considerable advance on the triple path of knowledge, divine love and divine works as a result of which the seeker has become aware of the Object of divine knowledge and has developed love of the Divine Lover and has also become confident of the working of the Divine and his shakti in the difficult... Page 28 The second method is to turn inward which comes naturally to the way of Divine Love. In this method, one rejects the intellect and its action, one listens for the voice, waits for the impulsion or the command, obeys only the idea and the will and power of the Lord within, the divine Self and Purusha in the heart of the creature. The movement of this method tends to become more... complex, and Page 36 in the integral yoga, the ascent to the supermind has the eventual aim that implies transformation of material life into divine life, carrying with it eventually the appearance of a new physical vehicle of divine life by means of the descent of the supermind on all planes of consciousness right up to the physical, subconscient and the inconscient. Hence, even when ascent ...
... that my love for Thee may go on increasing incessantly, so that I may become all love, Thy very love, and that being Thy love, I may unite integrally with Thee. May this love become more and more intense, complex, luminous, powerful may this love be an irresistible élan towards Thee, an invincible means to manifest Thee. May all in this being become pure love profound, disinterested, divine, from... feelest already beforehand what sublime felicity accompanies this inexhaustible expansion of love; for, love is sufficient unto itself and has no need of any reciprocity. This is true even of individual love, how much more true, then, of divine love which so nobly reflects the infinite. "Be this love in everything and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will... possession and government of the whole being by the divine Love, so that the divine Will, realized by the Mother in her union with the Eternal, may fulfil itself in her terrestrial existence. But what is this divine Will in regard to the Mother ? "To be the Life in all material forms, the Thought organizing and using this Life in all . forms, the Love enlarging, enlightening, intensifying, uniting ...
... All-Power that brings all fulfilment. He has no doubts or baffled seekings left, for all knowledge streams upon him from the Light in which he lives. He loves perfectly the Divine and is his beloved; for as he takes joy in the Divine, so too the Divine takes joy in him. This is Page 287 the God-lover who has the knowledge, jñānī bhakta . And this knower, says the Godhead in the Gita, is... another and greater necessity for the Karmayogin who has unified his Yoga of works with the Yoga of knowledge. Not knowledge and works alone are demanded of him now, bhakti also, devotion to the Divine, love and adoration and the soul's desire of the Highest. This demand, not expressly made until now, had yet been prepared when the Teacher laid down as the necessary turn of his Yoga the conversion of... to their nature, as they approach him, he accepts their bhakti and answers to it with the reply of divine love and compassion. These forms are after all a certain kind of Page 286 manifestation through which the imperfect human intelligence can touch him, these desires are first means by which our souls turn towards him: nor is any devotion worthless or ineffective, whatever its limitations ...
... that is in Page 81 oneself opposed to the Divine and divine life; (5) an unshakable faith and trust in the Power and Love of the Divine Mother; (6) to keep the Divine always in one's thought under all situations of life; (7) an attitude of glad enthusiasm free from all excitement; (8) a spirit of self-surrender to the Divine, and its effective application in the form of a constant ... vainly hope to hold in our one-litre vessel the infinite downpour of the Divine's gifts. The third failing we suffer from is that, even if we receive at times some knowledge, power, love and grace of the Divine, a major part of it we spill out from the ādhāra, the vessel of our consciousness: our retentive power is almost next to nothing. The net result is that days and months and years... to the path of sadhana with even a moderate sincerity of purpose, he becomes immediately enveloped with an atmosphere of active divine Grace which presses upon his consciousness with all the bounty of its divine attributes. He can then so easily imbibe this light, and love and power and what not almost at every step, with each inhalation,- most spontaneously, without any conscious effort, if only he ...
... approach them with humility, with imagination, with love. Wounds and sensitive spots are to be touched, if at all, only with love. Here, for example, are two entries in K. S. Yenkataraman's diary: July 23, 1933 Long interview with the Mother. When I asked about my progress, she said: "Cease this asking about progress - feel the Divine everywhere and in everything - first feel it within... seriously ill and dying and presently dead, and the Mother who is compassionate and all-understanding, and is the home of all souls. Sastriar loves the mother who gave him his body and cared for him through his childhood and boyhood years, and he loves the Mother Divine to whom he has made ātmasamarpana, śaranāgati, and at the appointed time his mother joins the Mother, the river mingles with the Sea... burning brazier of love and adoration of the "Divine. V The burning brazier of aspiration is the primary requisite as far as the sadhak is concerned, but even as under Newton's Law action and reaction are always equal and opposite, it is the spiritual law too that, invariably, the ardour of the aspiration summons an appropriate or equivalent response of the Divine. In the Ashram, the ...
... back to the Mother. 16 May 1937 (2) I want to love and love completely and lose myself in love. If one can think of losing oneself for mortal love, why not for the love of the Divine? Well, why not? But it must be done in the divine way, not in the mortal. Otherwise— Let me then say definitely that I love you and you love me a little and let us meet somewhere in this matter. You... one is divine oneself? Unfortunately, experience seems to show that one must be divine oneself before one can bear the pressure of divine love. 8 April 1935 The Divine loves all equally but there seem to be some who are dearer to Him. You seem to say some such thing in Essays on the Gita—that Arjuna was dearer to Krishna because he Page 443 came nearer to the Divine and those... nearer to the Divine. That, I think, can be swept aside since degrees of manifestation can never be a criterion. What is it that determines this? I really don't know. Of course you don't—nor does anybody. Is love a creation of the reason? or dealt out by this or that scale? Or does the Divine calculate "This fellow has so much of this or that quality. I will give him just so much more love than to that ...
... some very far, distant goal. I say to you all, it is not because He was especially fond of me. God loves those who love Him. If you love Him or love Her (it's the same thing; when I speak of Sri Aurobindo, I mean the Mother as well), if you love God, if you love the Divine this much, He will love you that much more. If you offer Him this little, He will offer you that much more, that is what I... and said, "Then, sala, 306 why do you come to me?" and began to abuse him. And Vivekananda gave a reply, "I come to you because I love you." Then Ramakrishna forgot all his anger and hugged him, embraced him. That is what love is. We have only to love the Divine and do everything for Him or for Her. Then it does not matter where you go or what you do; you may be a scientist, you may be an artist... matter. In all your 305Ripe, complete, or confirmed, in Hindi. 306Rascal - in Bengali. Page 270 activities, the Divine will help you. Truly, let us engage in all activities as an offering to the Divine, as instruments of the Divine. We are not sannyasis, we are not ascetics; we accept life. We want to change this life from what it is to what it should be. You ...
... (theologians) of Christendom, the higher Heavens sheltered also non-human, that is to say, godly or divine beings – angels and archangels, cherubs and seraphs – powers of Love, powers of Knowledge – Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Principalities, as Dante names them – various grades and modes of the divine force and energy – or, as we say, Personalities and Emanations. Indeed Dante's mind was full... questions and doubts and Beatrice herself had noticed it and given warnings to him. As she was purifying his heart movements lifting his human love to the divine level, so she sought to cleanse his mind too and as they moved on she was disclosing to him with her love and with her consciousness the nature of true mind and consciousness. At one place she said almost echoing an Upanishadic utterance: "Truth... know gradually. I have been sent to you by a person whom you know. She is a divine person, you will recognise when I name her. She is Beatrice." Dante was thunderstruck, almost stunned hearing the name. You must have heard the story, it is a well-known legend. When he was young he met a girl and immediately fell deep in love over head and ears. It was a most casual meeting but it left its mark on his ...
... [ is absolute surrender to the Divine ] as anyone who has done it can tell you. It is also the easiest and most powerful way of "getting the Divine". So it is the best policy also. The phrase [ "for the Divine" ], however, means that the object of the Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be turned in our... ready for transformation and in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love. Secondly, to develop the Yogic consciousness—i.e. to universalise the being on all the planes, become aware of the cosmic being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine on all the planes up to the Overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine, beyond the Overmind, through the supramental ... from others,—for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter. This is an exceedingly difficult aim and difficult Yoga; to many or most it will seem ...
... 1951 *** Peace and silence are the greatest remedies of all illnesses. 29.05.1951 *** The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of universal justice. 03.06.1951 *** In truth he is happy who loves the Divine for the Divine is indeed always with him. 10.06.1951 *** Peace of mind and Equanimity — here is the first step.... impatience and no rashness. 21.06.1953 *** Glory to Thee O Lord, victor over all obstacles. 28.06.1953 *** How I would love to go out in such beautiful weather! cried Poupette. 06.09.1953 *** Only the divine grace will be our support. (SMALL) 13.09.1953 *** The noblest courage is to recognise one’s faults. 20.09.1953 *** Forward... will feel that the Divine protection, help and strength are always with you. 25.05.1952 *** May the immense peace of the Divine permeate your whole being and be the origin of all your actions. 15.06.1952 *** May the Peace manifest in you more and more constantly and integrally. 22.06.1952 *** Sincerity is the key to the gates of the Divine. 29.06.1952 ...
... realise one day that love is not something personal, that love is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finely, but which in its essence is something divine. The first step is to stop being selfish. For everyone it is the same thing, not only for those who want to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, one must not love oneself first and above... conscious of divine Love all other love has to be abandoned. What is the best way of rejecting the other love which clings so obstinately (Laughter) and does not easily leave us? To go through it. Ah! To go through, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the Page 300 appearance, not to be satisfied with the outer form, to look for the principle which is behind this love, and not be... on for the refusal of Life to acknowledge the supremacy of Knowledge and Love alone,—for its push towards the satisfaction of something far more unreflecting, headstrong and dangerous that can yet venture too in its own bold and ardent way towards the Divine and Absolute. Love and Wisdom are not the only aspects of the Divine, there is also its aspect of Power." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of ...
... 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 understand... blessings. Have faith and unshaken confidence. 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... 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. Those who are ready for the transformation can do it anywhere and those who are not ready cannot do it wherever they are. Be sincere in your consecration. Our best help is faith—The Divine is all merciful. With love and blessings ...
... sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is it exclusively the Divine. "I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine." Try—try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! And during that time take great care that... is the sign to indicate that a sadhak's determination to surrender to the Divine is having practical effect in his life?" And Sri Aurobindo replies: "The sign is that he has full obedience without question or revolt or demand or condition and that he answers to all divine influences and rejects all that are not from the Divine." Isn't this a resigned surrender? Resigned? What does that mean... have the power of rejecting all influences except that of the Divine. These are great results. When one has attained these, one is already quite advanced. Do you know how to distinguish between an influence coming from the Divine and one coming from elsewhere?... When you feel an impulse in you, can you tell whether it comes from the Divine or from elsewhere? A little. A little! Ah! That's good ...
... wer of the nameless, bud of the mystical name." You have asked: "What is psychic other than laughter and delight and love of the Divine?" The answer is: "luminous strength." If it were no more than what you have mentioned, it could never bring about the Divine's Victory in earthly evolution. Remember that the god of the psyche is Agni who in the Rigveda is named "Son of Force". Sri Aurobindo... your vision, acquires a plenitude by her bringing in one hand a lotus and in the other a hammer. The lotus would point to a power of effecting a spontaneous opening of our being to the Divine, especially to the Divine as Avatar. The hammer suggests a forceful action of swift grace. And what she did with the hammer to you personally is for me the climax - the most momentous part -of the vision. You do... because the Divine shall call you for purposes that you may not even know. The thinking mind will have no part in the motive of your travels. The thinking mind has been hit open and' something more inward has been set free - something inward beyond all your previous depth. Deriving from that suddenly revealed centre, your movements are bound to be a sheer motiveless response to the Divine Will - the ...
... (Because I love you, I come), and Sri Ramakrishna simply embraced him and forgot everything. It doesn't matter whether you believe or don't believe, the fact that you love Page 130 me is enough. This is what divine love is. A true love. If we can love the Divine in this way well, forgetting our ego, that itself is a big achievement. Mother also said in one context, "I show my Divine form... form only to those who love me" - Divine form, mind you. Sri Krishna said to Arjuna after the world vision: "I've shown these forms to you, which I don't show even to the gods, this 'VishwaPurusha' vision because you love me, you are dear to me." So such is love, such is the power of love, but love pure, unstained, undemanding, self-giving. That is the key to heaven. All that does not mean, my... hurt Sri Chaitanya badly and he was bleeding from his forehead, and even then he said: "Merecho kolsbi kana. Ta boleki prem dobona?" (Because they have hurt me, shouldn't I love them?) This is the Divine Friend, Divine Love. Then another anecdote comes to my mind, apropos of the relation between Sri Ramakrishna and his famous disciple with the independent spirit - Vivekananda, before he was ...
... consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother. One is then aware of two consciousnesses, this inner one and the outer which has to be changed into its counterpart and instrument—that also must become full of peace, light, union with the Divine. At present you are moving between the two and in this period all... probably of the Atman and confusing it with the inner being. The Inner Being and the Psychic Being I did not mean by the inner being the psychic or inmost being. It is the psychic being that feels love, bhakti and union with the Page 93 Mother. I was speaking of the inner mental, inner vital, inner physical; in order to reach the hidden seat of the psychic one has first to pass through... the full development of the inner consciousness in which you will be able to live. There is always a double nature in human beings, the inner (psychic and spiritual) which is in touch with the Divine; the outer, mental, vital and physical, which has been brought up in the Ignorance and is full of defects, imperfections and impurities. It is for this reason that in sadhana things cannot be changed ...
... psychic love, and all power of effectuation. Whenever and where- ever the divine Light or the divine force has been brought down into human life, it has been invariably by the power of psychic love, and not by any other means. The mind's adoration and the heart's love and devotion are powerful aids to the development of psychic love, but in themselves they are incapable of reaching the Divine Love and... own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must go together to make the highest divine love."² Psychic love springs from a living sense of essential identity seeking to realise itself in the bliss of perfect union with the Divine. In its widest perfection, it is a yearning for an integral divine union in the context... only itself to the Divine, it aspires and endeavours to give all its nature and all its instruments of expression also to Him, so that He may transform and illumine them, and use them as perfected means of His manifestation in the material life. When psychic love is united with the divine Love and the psychic will with the divine Will, there is no limit to the possibilities of divine manifestation. All ...
... term in which ānanda may be stated is Joy, Love, Beauty. To see divine beauty in the whole world, man, life, nature, to love that which we have seen and to have pure unalloyed bliss in that love and that beauty is the appointed road by which mankind as a race must climb to God. That is the reaching to vidyā through avidyā , to the One Pure and Divine through the manifold manifestation of Him, of... religion and it is in the service of spirituality that Art reaches its highest self-expression. Spirituality is a single word expressive of three lines of human aspiration towards divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength, and that will be the highest and most perfect Art which, while satisfying the physical requirements of the aesthetic sense, the laws of formal beauty, the emotional demand... the soul of man, in the stage when it is rising from emotion to intellect, looks, receives the suggestion and is uplifted towards a higher development, a diviner knowledge. So it is with the divine love and joy which pulsates throughout existence and is far superior to alloyed earthly pleasure. Catholic, perfect, unmixed with repulsion, radiating through all things, the common no less than the high ...
... Eternal will be consummated by the mind when we see constantly the Divine in itself and the Divine in ourselves, but also the Divine in all things and beings and happenings. It will be consummated by the heart when all emotion is summed up in the love of the Divine,—of the Divine in itself and for itself, but love too of the Divine in all its beings and powers and personalities and forms in the Universe... him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves,—all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal Joy which is the goal of the Spirit's... members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior. To him as to all seekers of the spirit there are offered for solution the oppositions of the reason, the ...
... red, yellow, blue. Red would here stand for the passionate intensity of "I loved her truly", yellow for the idealistic keenness of "I loved the true self of her", blue for the spiritual ecstasy of "I loved the divine truth in her" — and the basic original white for a pure infinite of mystery that is the truth of love and the love of truth. The word "white" has been used by other poets also as part... vision. One may interpret "white" in prime reference to either "I" or "her" or "truth". The first alternative would yield the idea: "I loved her truly." The second would give the notion: "I loved the true self of her." The third would frame the thought: "I loved the divine truth in her." By not tilting the expression in favour of any of the three concepts Keats fuses all of them and renders his vagueness... scythe as in thinking of the results of an earthly F.R.C.S.'s scalpel. Eliot himself is not incapable of a larger and intenser imagina-tion than the opening lines we have discussed of his poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, or that ironic summing up — in the same poem — of the entire triviality of modern life: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. The concluding phrase indicates ...
... change it first into higher mind and then into a still higher thing. Before divine Love and Ananda can be made to settle, there is much more that is to be done — first the psychic love must be there and other things besides. How would you distinguish the psychic love from the divine love? The psychic love is pure and full of self-giving without Page 89 egoistic... demands, but it is human and can err and suffer. The Divine Love is something much vaster and deeper and full of light and Ananda. One is told that without a universal love there can be no real progress. But mostly one remains inwardly withdrawn and concentrated on the Mother. You are not able now to have the universal love— it is not in your nature. Wait till your nature is... a luminous kind. Somebody told me that the void is a Divine Darkness. I don't believe much in this Divine Darkness. It is a Christian idea. For us the Divine is Peace, Purity, Wide-ness. Light, Ananda. A sadhaka need not give himself to an outsider, but can he express his psychic love to him? I would also like to know from you if the sadhaka might help him ...
... pours a bit of love, light, peace and power to prepare him so as to communicate with his soul. That is how I communicate with his soul. You understand, it is my gaze which sees, prepares the instrument, then consents to bless in order to pour the divine love. In a glance I do all this. Well, you know, my eyes reflect the Soul, bring forth all the qualities of the soul in its divine purity. They are... Take the trouble to find me. Follow the path that I have traced before you. Nothing is as important as this work. Nothing can be compared to this. Only the Divine. To find the Divine. This is life, this the aim, this the joy! To love the Divine so that He is always with you. Let it be Him who does all. He works with you. He strives with you. He guides you at every instant. Au revoir, my child. ... needs to be transformed to collaborate with the Divine. This gaze is the gaze of the Supreme, united by an interdependence, in a fusion, with the Consciousness which reflects the Beauty and Ananda of existence without deforming it. From this look emanates the joy of existence, the power of manifestation of the Eternal Truth, the divine Compassion, the love of perfect Union, the Benevolence without limit ...
... him cry halt! LOVE HUMAN AND LOVE DIVINE Satan proposes to lead man down into hell through a sure means, nothing more sure, according to him, viz., love for a woman and a woman's love in return. Nothing like that to make man earth-bound or hell-bound and force out of him the nostalgic cry, "Time must have a stop." A most simple, primal and primeval ]yric love wil1 most suit Satan's... decree and bring about a supernatural intervention. Human love can at a crucial moment – in extremis – call down the Divine Grace, which means God's love for man. And the soul meant for perdition and about to be seized and carried away by Satan finds itself suddenly free and lifted up and borne by Heaven's messengers. Human Jove is divine love itself in earthly form and figure and whatever its apparent... purpose. Hence the Margaret episode. Love=Passion=Lust=Hell; that is the inevitable equation sequence, and through which runs the magic thread of infatuation. And that charm is invincible. Satan did succeed and was within an ace, as they say, of the final and definitive triumph: but that was not to be, for he left out of account an incalculable element. Love, even human love has, at least can have, a wonderful ...
... distinguishes the truth from the falsehood, the divine from the undivine. 11 April 1933 Do love and faith have the same meaning? I feel that where there is faith in the Mother, love is also there. Without the faith, there is no love; without the love, there is no faith. Am I right? Not always. There are plenty of people who have some faith without love, though they may have a certain kind of mental... 1934 When I spoke of "loneliness", I meant that some part of the being feels that although the Mother loves me very much, I am unable to love her—as if there were no element of love in my nature. It can't be the psychic in that case. The psychic never feels that it cannot love the Divine. 4 December 1934 If the present intensity prolongs itself, I hope that within a few days you will... judge that I am in the full state of psychic love? By the absence of ego, by pure devotion, by submission and surrender to the Divine. 9 May 1933 When all is calm and quiet I feel a depth in my heart; a sweet feeling wells out constantly, equally for all. It goes up to the Mother continuously. There is a sense of sweet relation with the Divine. It softens all the being—it is calm, quiet, ...
... people just taking me off to the hospital? Surely, let me know at once , so that I can help. Love. 30 September 1966 Divine Mother, I am having some difficulty in my vital. Would you please help me. If you were to do some work?... Blessings. 25 May 1967 Divine Mother, What I want is to move all of my being into the future. Will you help me with those parts... physical being thirsts for Your love; do not delay, Mother. You know that the child will not listen to reason, he only wants to remain on his Mother's breast. You know very well that I am always with you and in you, in the physical consciousness as in the others. 10 July 1934 Yes, the outer nature must become calm and quiet and turn towards the Divine. 21 December 1936 Page... does not last long. It disappears into some flat state of existence. What do you think my real being wants? THE DIVINE. I also felt that you were not quite satisfied with me. Nothing of the kind. Each one has his difficulties and I am here to help him out of them. My love and blessings. 25 February 1942 A thought came to me that even when I do not get any direct suggestion ...
... the supreme Consciousness. 7.2.1969 Your Love, O Mother, does not diminish at all when I oppose You with all my obscurity. I have had clear experiences of it. It is so because it is not a personal love, but divine love which is constant, invariable, above every circumstance and always at the maximum of its activity. Divine love is limitless and unfluctuating. In fact, in each one... centre of the ill." Page 81 Is it so because the Divine is at the centre of all? Yes. And if we know how to go always to the deep centre of our difficulty, we find there the supreme remedy. 31.3.1969 As soon as some demand or expectation enters into love, does not love disappear? Divine love in its purity is sufficient to itself and is eternal. But as soon... manifests on the earth it is mixed with all the egoistic movements of the mind, vital and body. . . Thus it is veiled and deformed beyond all recognition. What men call love is a sad caricature of the essential love, the Divine love. 2.4.1969 Since some days when I go to sleep, often I sense the Presence of Sri Aurobindo and Mother at the head of the bed. For me it is an act of Grace ...
... the coming of a blush. But when he finished and the air was mute, She laughed with happy lips most like a flute Or voice of cuckoo in an Indian grove Waking the heart to vague delightful love. And with divine eyes gleaming where strange mirth A smiling mischief was, the living girth Of her delicious waist she suddenly Unbound and by the middle lifting high Betwixt them shook. Hissed the fierce... there And serve him as a slave. Alike 'tis heaven, Rule or obedience to the one heart given. So did not bright Zuleikha deem when she The temple was of his idolatry. Impatient of divine subjection, all Love's wealth was to her grace imperial Purple and diadems and earth's noblest gift But vantage her disdainful pride to lift. She was an Emir's daughter and her sire Clothed her in jewels... his home; but silent, calm, withdrawn, He watched the ways of men with godlike eyes Released from trammelling affinities. Yet was he young and many women strove Vainly to win his marble mind to love. One day when wind had fled to the cool north And the strong earth was blind with summer, forth Page 147 The Arabian rode from great Bagdad and turned Into the desert. All around him ...
... his being and his becoming, his soul and his nature. Divine in the equality of his imperturbable self-existence, one in it with all objects and creatures, he brings that boundless equality, that deep oneness down into his mind and heart and life and body and founds on it in an indivisible integrality the trinity of divine love, divine works and divine knowledge. This is the Gita's way of salvation. ... , immortal and divine. That mystery of the supreme Person is the secret of love and devotion. The spiritual person, puruṣa , the eternal soul in us offers itself and all it has and is to the eternal Divine, the supreme Person and Godhead of whom it is a portion, aṁśa . The completeness of knowledge finds itself in this self-offering, this uplifting of our personal nature by love and adoration to... the one Lord, at first separately as if they were two different ways of arriving at the Brahmic status, brahmabhūyāya ,—one taking the form of quietistic sannyāsa , the other a form of divine love and divine action,—the Gita proceeds now to unite the personal and the impersonal in the Purushottama and to define their relations. For the object of the Gita is to get rid of exclusions and separative ...
... to this the psychic element, bhakti, love, devotion to the Divine. Equality in Times of Trouble and Difficulty Equality is a very important part of this Yoga; it is necessary to keep equality under pain and suffering—and that means to endure firmly and calmly, not to be restless or troubled or depressed or despondent, to go on in a steady faith in the Divine Will. But equality does not include... and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted,—not glossed over or defended,—and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true consciousness. Complete samata takes long to establish and it is dependent on three things—the soul's self-giving to the Divine by an inner surrender, the descent of... despondent, but one has not to accept the failure as an indication of the Divine Will and give up the endeavour. You ought rather to find out the reason and meaning of the failure and go forward in faith towards victory. So with illness—you have not to be troubled, shaken or restless, but you have not to accept illness as the Divine Will, but rather look upon it as an imperfection of the body to be got ...
... The Yoga of Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VII The Ananda Brahman The way of devotion in the integral synthetic Yoga will take the form of a seeking after the Divine through love and delight and a seizing with joy on all the ways of his being. It will find its acme in a perfect union of love and a perfect enjoyment of all the ways of the soul's... become the joy of the Divine pouring itself through us in light and love and power on life and all that lives. Sought Page 595 by the adoration and love of the soul, it reveals itself as the Godhead, we see in it the face of God and know the bliss of our Lover. Tuning our whole being to it, we grow into a happy perfection of likeness to it, a human rendering of the divine nature. And when it... us, the lightnings of vision and the fire of the divine energy. The bliss existence may come to us through either one of these centres. When the lotus of the heart breaks open, we feel a divine joy, love and peace expanding in us like a flower of light which irradiates the whole being. They can then unite themselves with their secret source, the Divine in our hearts, and adore him as in a temple; they ...
... help loving an object so perfect as God and, by its love, is set a-stir to its mighty periodic rhythms. Of course there are difficulties in the Aristotelian position and the deity of St. Aquinas's system is not altogether conceived after the Greek thinker, but the inspiring and subtle idea that the spheres were driven by a love-urge for the Divine remained and shaped that verse of Dante's: The... by Dante's picture of heavenly bodies touched to activity by love, has created another in which he has fused the concept of gravitational attraction among them with that of powerful fellow-feeling such as would constitute and keep going a happy peaceful orderly society. Indeed a splendid burst are his lines: Page 95 Divine magnificent spirit of man that will face Invincible ever... which may be Englished: The love that moves the sun and the other stars. Christendom has been haunted for centuries by this grand Page 94 finale to its greatest poem and, as a rule, understood it to imply God's universal dynamic harmonising love by which the whole creation is kept going. Christ's insistence on God being love has made us believe that a poet like ...
... the Divine. This sounds very fine, it is very good—"God is a child playing," Sri Aurobindo has said. 1 It seems this has shocked many people. When we translated this into French and sent it to Europe, there were people who were shocked and said, "Well, He plays at our expense!" The world ought to be full of love and light. What light? What love? Page 290 The divine light... 1951 April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 7 April 1951 Mother reads a question put to her in 1929 by an English disciple: "If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils that abound upon earth?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 30 June ) Whence come the evils?... Who is going to answer me? A... of that lady; she makes God or the Divine a personality quite independent of his creation. She should have said, "Someone who, having the power of creation, has created a world like this, truly, he must be sadistic", and she would have been right, wouldn't she?.. The question is badly put, because the Divine spoken about here is not the true Divine, it is the Divine of religion—and of a certain kind ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... mental, emotive, sensational life as it is, its relations, its activities, its cherished forms and figures; it has to labour to disengage and increase the divine element in all this relative truth mixed with continual falsifying error, this love turned to the uses of the animal body or the satisfaction of the vital ego, this life of an average manhood shot with rare and pale glimpses of Godhead and... in it a flame of will insistent on perfection, on an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer existence. It sees the divine essence everywhere but rejects the mere mask and the disguising figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward ...
... aspiration of the psychic being is for the opening of the whole lower nature, mind, vital, body to the Divine, for the love and union with Divine, for its presence and power within the heart, for the transformation of the mind, life and body by the descent of the higher consciousness into this instrumental being and nature. Both aspirations are essential and indispensable for the fullness of this yoga... and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc. by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming. The eternal Being in its superior nature, Para Prakriti, is at once One and Many; but the eternal Multiplicity of the Divine when it stands behind the... Bhakta; it is a portion of the Divine, one in essence, but in the dynamics of the manifestation there is always even in identity a difference. The Jivatman, on the contrary, lives in the essence and can merge itself in identity with the Divine; but it too, the moment it presides over the dynamics of the manifestation, knows itself as one centre of the multiple Divine, not as the Parameshwara. It is ...
... 22 August 1969 There is only one love, the Divine Love, eternal, universal, equal for everyone and everything. It is man (the human being) who calls all kinds of feelings "love": all the desires, attractions, vital exchanges, sexual relations, attachments, even friendships, and many other things besides. But all that is not even the shadow of love nor even its deformation. These are... have been left to their own means. The Divine has sent down His Consciousness to give them light. All who are able to do so should profit by it. Blessings. 29 December 1969 Page 416 Sweet Mother, About what you told me yesterday: had the Divine not sent His Consciousness down upon earth? But the whole creation has had the Divine in it from the very beginning, hasn't it... received, especially when it is someone close to us? Say to the Supreme Lord: "Let Thy Will be done", and remain as peaceful as possible. If the departed one is a person one loves, one should concentrate one's love on him in peace and calm, for that is what can most help the one who has departed. Blessings. 16 January 1970 Sweet Mother, How should we watch a film? If we identify ...
... in deep equanimity. * IV: LOVE ONLY he who loves can recognise love. Those who are incapable of giving themselves in a sincere love, will never recognise love anywhere, and the more the love is divine, that is to say unselfish, the less they can recognise it. * Concentration upon oneself means decay and death — Concentration on the Divine alone brings life and growth and realisation... is not exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine influence alone. And then instead of bringing with oneself the divine atmosphere made of love, tolerance, understanding, patience, it is one’s ego that throws itself in response to another’s with stiffness and hurt feelings and the disharmony is aggravated. The ego never understands that the Divine has different workings in different... Consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. * Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. * Keep always this awareness of my constant loving presence and all will be all right. * The centre of the human being is the psychic which is the dwelling place of the immanent Divine. Unification means organisation and ...
... union with the Divine, purification, surrender, the substitution of the Divine Page 752 guidance for one's own ignorant self-guidance based on one's personal ideas and personal feelings is the aim of Karma Yoga, the surrender of one's own will to the Divine Will. If one feels human beings to be near and the Divine to be far and seeks the Divine through service of and love of human beings... etc. Love, bhakti, surrender, the psychic opening are the only short cut to the Divine—or can be; for if the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhimāna, despair, which will make it not a short cut but a long one, a zigzag, not a straight flight, a whirling round one's own ego instead of a running towards the Divine. 10... belongs to the old Yoga. Please remember that I have been declaring all along an integral Yoga in which knowledge, Bhakti, works—light of consciousness, Ananda and love, will and power in works—meditation, adoration, service of the Divine have all their place. Have I written seven volumes of the Arya all in vain? Meditation is not greater than Yoga of works nor works greater than Yoga by knowledge—both ...
... farther, and ask for Divine Love alone: These rare souls must reject all forms of love between human beings, for however beautiful and pure they may be, they cause a kind of short-circuit and cut off the direct connection with the Divine. ... ...it is a well-known fact that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone. Only one... Playground conversations of 1956: The best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try and pierce through its outer appearance and find the divine principle which is behind and which gives it existence. 18 Once the Love Divine becomes the grand base of the emotional life, one's relation with fellow human beings - be they friends, kinsmen, be they even Page 544 ... one who has known the ecstasy of the exchange of love with the Divine can know how insipid and dull and feeble any other exchange is in comparison.... This is the marvellous state we want to realise on earth; it is this which will have the power to transform the world and make it a habitation worthy of the Divine Presence. 17 The Mother was to return to this theme in one of her Playground ...
... that work and knowledge and power can only obey the Divine and give him service; Love alone can compel him because, of course Love is self-giving and the Divine gives himself in return. As for the second verse it does not give the idea at all. To have no contempt for the clod or the worm does not indicate that the non-despiser is the Divine,—such an idea would be absolutely meaningless and in... movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal Page 38 of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves... poems, "Who?" and "In the Moonlight" can be taken. I think it is these two you wanted to include in the book—I have not got your note by me at the moment. (3) The two Conversations, ¹ 9 (on Divine Love) and 14 (on Art and Yoga), can also be included in the book. (4) The Letter was not written by me; it is not well expressed and the ideas in it belong to an order of thought that I have ...
... Suvrata 418 Udar 279 Vasudha 266, 287 Vijayatunga 461 3. The Mother on creating one's own world 5 (cf 642) learning an art 6-7 love mundane and divine 7, 315-7, 378, 475-7, 544, 739, 791 (cf250) success in marriage 476 Divine omnipresence 8, 546, 568, 614, 636, 747, 772, 787 (cf 689) Paris Charity Bazar 12-3 sin and punishment 13 and Nature's upheavals 13 and Kali's... 451 ' as Maheshwari 296, 320 converses with disciples 297ff, 301 aphorisms and mahavakyas 298-9, 318 'inner relation' with disciples 305, 589, 692-4 rhapsody on Love 315ff, 471-7 'games' she fashioned 319ff her divine levity 319, 341 sortilege 324-8 mini slip-tests 328 rapport with flowers 320ff (cf 170-1, 195) 'flower-games' 320-4 cult of flowers 419-20 action through... India's salvation and mission 200, 216 the Power guiding her 458 significance of his birthday 232 the world of the Gods 232 founding his Ashram 240, 247-8, 251 (cf200, 204, 215-6) love mundane and divine 250 (cf475, 544-5) hostile forces and Ashram sadhaks 261, 275-6, 374-5 hardships in his life 262 sadhana and newspaper-reading 274 two necessities of 377 and suicide 377 cheerfulness ...
... something that is against the principle of Truth, e.g. against the principle of Love and Compassion or against that of obedience and surrender to the Divine, it is not Truth to keep that pledge—for it would be a pledge to follow falsehood and how can truth be rooted in allegiance to falsehood? That would be an Asuric, not a divine Truthfulness. As for the Mother, you will not find in her this blind adherence... that you can say "The Mother has said". 9 July 1933 It is good if you have freed yourself from this bondage [ a rigid insistence that one must always do what one has said one will do ]. Love of Truth is divine, but this kind of truth is a very mixed product accompanied as it is by hardness or a fierce anger. Truth does not insist on a blind adherence to the spoken word—as Page 359 for... to a greater Truth than men conceive. It is for this reason that the human mind cannot understand the divine action and its motives—he must first rise into a higher consciousness and be in spiritual contact or union with the Divine. But if anyone recognises that, he can no longer judge the divine action with his human mind and from a human point of view. The two things would be quite incompatible. ...
... "preparing", or of "churning Matter"... are a childishness. It is human restlessness. The vision was of a beauty so majestic, so calm, so smiling. Oh! it was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that "pardons"—it is not at all that, not at all! Each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. It was a very beautiful gift. Well, all these things... 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 through the psychic and the divine union... And it is quite evident that with the amplitude and totality of the vision, there comes something which is a compassion that understands—not that pity of the superior for the inferior: the true divine Compassion, which is the total comprehension that each one is what he must be. Page 29 ...
... enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its object is not to be a great Yogi or a Superman (although that may come) or to grab at the Divine for the sake of the ego's power... but these must not be our object. The Divine alone is our object. 37 Seize the million, the thousands, hundreds, and tens will be incidentally included in the catch. Possess the Divine and be possessed by the Divine; all else come as a matter of course, and no seeming hardship will really matter. "It is only divine Love", Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1934, "which can bear... "sweet as nectar" because of "the joy of realisation, 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 ...
... bosom for thousands of aeons and yet my heart is not soothed.... they all give a very beautiful, a very poignant experience of . love, but one does not know if it is love human or divine, if it is soul's love or mere bodily love. The famous Song of Solomon too is not on a different footing, when the poet cries: Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse;... formless glory turn to love And mould Thy love into a human face. 2 Auguries of Innocence". K. D. Sethna: "This Errant Life" in The Semt Splendour. Page 302 Something of the fullness of spiritual matter and manner overflows in these epic lines: His spirit mingles with eternity's heart And bears the silence of the Infinite. In a divine retreat from mortal... meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says, 0 love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak, Since mortal words are weak ? In life, in death, In being and in breath No other lord but thee can Radha seek. 1 there is nothing in the matter or manner which can indicate, to the uninitiated, any reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again, I have gazed upon beauty ...
... upon bosom for thousands of aeons and yet my heart is not soothed.. . . they all give a very beautiful, a very poignant experience of love, but one does not know if it is love human or divine, if it is soul's love or mere bodily love. The famous Song of Solomon too is not on a different footing, when the poet cries: Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; ... glory turn to love And mould Thy love into a human face.² ¹ "Auguries of Innocence". ² K. D. Sethna: "This Errant Life" in The Secret Splentiour. Page 74 Something of the fullness of spiritual matter and manner overflows in these epic lines: His spirit mingles with eternity's heart And bears the silence of the Infinite. In a divine retreat from... meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says, O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak, Since mortal words are weak? In life, in death, In being and in breath No other lord but thee can Radha seek.! there is nothing in the matter or manner which can indicate, to the uninitiated, any reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again, I have gazed upon beauty ...
... All-blissful. Page 497 533) Human love fails by its own ecstasy, human strength is exhausted by its own effort, human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half the globe of truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths & reconciles them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste... life cannot be an evil or a sorrowful illusion; rather all life becomes the rippling love and laughter of a divine Lover & Playfellow. 492) Canst thou see God as the bodiless Infinite & yet love Him as a man loves his mistress? Then has the highest truth of the Infinite been revealed to thee. Canst thou also clothe the Infinite in one secret embraceable body and see Him seated in each & all of these... 524) Pity is sometimes a good substitute for love; but it is always no more than a substitute. 525) Self-pity is always born of self-love; but pity for others is not always born of love for its object. It is sometimes a self-regarding shrinking from the sight of pain; sometimes the rich man's contemptuous dole to the pauper. Develop rather God's divine compassion than human pity. 526) Not pity ...
... the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves by... asserts itself at every step or else wherever it can; the tamasic ego on the contrary is always feeling, "I am weak, I am miserable, I have no capacity, I am not loved or chosen by the Divine, I am so bad and incapable—what can the Divine do for me?" or else, "I am specially chosen out for misfortune and suffering, all are preferred to me, all are progressing, I only am left behind, all abandons me... soul is a child of the Divine and must reach the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection of the Divine in me and that not I but the Divine Grace will bring about; if I keep to that, the Divine Grace itself will do all." The "I" has to take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divine, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can ...
... is this: if love must be returned for hatred in order that the world may change, would it not be even more natural that love should be returned for Love? If one considers the life and action and heart of men as they are, one would have every right to be surprised at all the hatred, contempt, or at best, the indifference which are returned for this immensity of Love which the divine Grace pours upon... upon the world, for this immensity of Love which acts upon the world at every second to lead it towards the divine delight and which finds so poor a response in the human heart. But people have compassion only for the wicked, the deficient, the misshapen, for the unsuccessful ones and the failures—truly it is an encouragement to wickedness and failure. If one thought a little more of this aspect... aspect of the problem, perhaps one would have less need to insist on the necessity of returning love for hatred, because if the human heart responded in all sincerity to the Love that is being poured into it with the spontaneous gratitude of a love which understands and appreciates, then things would change quickly in the world. 27 September 1957 Many are those who are not aware that one day we ...
... figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members. This is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love and attains... works and has need of the Divine as teacher, friend and master. The growing of the love of God must carry with it in him an expansion of the knowledge of God and of the action of the divine Will in his nature and living. The divine Lover reveals himself; he takes possession of the life. But still the essential relation will be that of love from which all things flow, love passionate, complete, seeking... into these four movements, the desire of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards him, the pain of love and the divine return of love, the delight of love possessed and the play of that delight, and the eternal enjoyment of the divine Lover which is the heart of celestial bliss. These are things that are at once too simple and too profound for methodising or for analysis ...
... consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother. One is then aware of two consciousnesses, the inner one and the outer which has to be changed into its counterpart and instrument — that also must become full of peace, light, union with the Divine. Letters on Yoga, p. 307 The outer consciousness is... construction of Nature. It is only when we have seen both our self and our nature as a whole, in the depths as well as on the surface, that we can acquire a true basis of knowledge. The Life Divine, p. 523 A superficial observation of our waking consciousness shows us that of a great part of our individual being and becoming we are quite ignorant; it is to us the Inconscient, just as... only that part of its secret endeavour and achievement which rises successfully to the surface of our life. To know our inner being is the first step towards a real self-knowledge. The Life Divine, pp. 555-57 There is an inner as well as an outer consciousness all through our being, upon all its levels. The ordinary man is aware only of his surface self and quite unaware of all that ...
... by sublimating them through the processes of remembrance, adoration, offering, submission and surrender, leads to those spiritual experiences in which one gets united by the power of divine love with the supreme divine consciousness and its delight in states of supernal ecstasy. The methods of the yoga of Devotion, when followed with regularity and constancy, confirm the repeated experiences and re... finds that that flow of action is a spontaneous flow of the divine will and that one's individuality, which is freed from ego, is only a channel of the divine will and divine action. One acts in the world thereafter, but not out of desire nor out of the sense of doership, but as a simple and effortless instrument through which the divine will is manifested and accomplished. These are the methods and... reality and by constant meditation thought is sought to be transcended in experience of the universality and transcendental consciousness of the spaceless and timeless. Yoga of Divine Works In the yoga of divine works (Karma yoga), 35 the methods and processes insist on the utilization of the activities which are centered on the production of results or fruits of action. The principal method ...
... to say that strife and destruction are the alpha and omega of existence, that harmony is not greater than war, love more the manifest divine than death or that we must not move towards the replacement of physical force by soul-force, of war by peace, of strife by union, of devouring by love, of egoism by universality, of death by immortal life. God is not only the Destroyer, but the Friend of creatures;... against all that attacks or resists in the struggle for life. Association itself has been a servant of war, egoism and the self-assertion of life against life. Love itself has been constantly a power of death. Especially the love of good and the love of God, as embraced by the human ego, have been responsible for Page 43 much strife, slaughter and destruction. Self-sacrifice is great and noble... has for every strong soul a tonic effect which saves us from the flabbiness and relaxation encouraged by a too mellifluous philosophic, religious or ethical sentimentalism, that which loves to look upon Nature as love and life and beauty and good, but turns away from her grim mask of death, adoring God as Shiva but refusing to adore him as Rudra; secondly, because unless we have the honesty and courage ...
... wheeling stars. We recall the incredible depth of what the Mother wrote to Huta on 18 January 1965: "Love to all in you that loves and to all in you that does not know that it loves." 10 Divine Love in its infinite purity and power cannot be mentioned in the same breath as mental and vital love. Caring nothing for their appointment diaries, it chooses to invade some mortals at the most unexpected... rarer love can also emerge from that 'evolutionary device'. The Taj Mahal stands as the monumental testimony of one such love. Willy-nilly, all of us are driven—divinely or diabolically, as the case may be—by Love in diminished or grotesque forms of its primeval manifestations on earth. The worm would not wriggle, nor reptilian ecstasies thrash the slime, were it not for the Love that sustains... to mankind is that of all-inclusive, all-overpowering and inexpressible Divine Love. An all-shattering and uncompromising Love that leaves no room for bargaining, for it dissolves everything in its path, and irresistibly carries forward universes, worlds and life to their divine Fulfilment. That has nothing to do with love as commonly spoken of in human parlance. We might recall here the Mother's ...
... body of the divine consciousness and the divine Ananda. The hlādikā śakti is the Shakti of the Divine Ananda and Love taking possession of the whole being down to the vital and physical. But it is the Ananda and love of the Divine—the spiritual, it cannot be turned to a human love and vital pleasure. It can have nothing to do with marriage. In your dream it was neither the divine nor the human... The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true form of the divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda in the physical has a different quality and movement and substance; self-existent in its essence, its manifestation is dependent only on an inner union with the Divine. You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken the gross lower vital pro... ojas , to turn the love towards the Divine are the true remedies for this difficulty. Seminal force not sexually spent can always be turned into ojas . When the psychic puts its influence on the vital, the first thing you must be careful to avoid is any least mixture of a wrong vital movement with the psychic movement. Lust is the perversion or degradation which prevents love from establishing ...
... recover the inner quietude, draw back from these movements and look at them calmly, reducing them to their true proportions. Your true nature is that in which you have peace and ananda and the love of the Divine. This other is only a fringe of the outer personality which in spite of these returns is destined to drop away as the true being extends and increases. To be miserable may remind you of... Yogic death with the mind concentrated with faith and absorption in the Divine. I am sure that Ramakrishna Page 750 also never meant such a thing as that anyone dying under any circumstances would have his last wish satisfied. There is no escape by that kind of exit. I do not know either how you can say that you love me and at the same time deliberately decide to deal such a blow to me as... to or in contact with the Divine Forces and the higher planes of consciousness. Find that part of your being and live in it; to be able to do so is the true foundation of the Yoga. By so standing back it will be easier also for you to find a quiet poise in yourself, behind the surface struggle, from which you can more effectively call in our help to deliver you. The Divine presence, calm, peace, purity ...
... the Mother because you love her in the human way, proceeds from wrong notions generated by a confusion in your vital mind misinterpreting things we may have said or written to you. I will try to set them right as clearly as possible. And first about human love in the sadhana. The soul's lurning through love to the Divine must be through a love that is essentially divine, but as the instrument... the inner union. It is this psychic love that is closest to the divine and it is therefore the right and best way of love and bhakti. But that does not mean that the other parts of the being, the vital and physical included, are not to be used as means of expression or that they are not to share in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and... expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement. There are in the vital itself two kinds of love,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon, generous, unbargaining, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the divine ...
... all that, and it is... what we habitually call divine Love (that is, essential Love, that which is expressed by Love and seems to be beyond the Manifestation and Nonmanifestation, which, naturally, becomes Love in the Manifestation). And That would be the ALL-POWERFUL expression. In other words, That is what would have the power to transform into divine consciousness and substance all the chaos we now... Creation to Noncreation (which do not follow each other, they are concomitant), if you go beyond, you encounter this "something" which, I don't know why, I call Love.... Probably because the vibration of true Love (what I call divine Love, which is at work in the world) bears the closest resemblance to That. It is something absolutely inexpressible, which belongs neither to "receiving" nor to "giving... Immobility. It's the supreme and supremely divine essence of rest. And both [Manifestation and Nonmanifestation] are together, and they come from That. I have a very strong feeling that it's only That, only with That that things can change, all the rest is inadequate. And if I remember right, Sri Aurobindo said that this manifestation (which he too calls Love) would take place AFTER the supramental ...
... "spreading" [the ideal], of "preparing" or churning Matter—childishness. It's human agitation. The vision had such majestic and calm and smiling beauty, oh!... It was full, really full of divine Love. And not a divine Love that "forgives"—that's not at all the point, not at all!—each thing in its own place, realizing its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. That's all. Page 306 That was a very... ( silence ) And it's quite clear that with the breadth and totality of the vision something comes which is a compassion that understands—not that pity of the superior for the inferior: the true divine Compassion, which is the total understanding that everyone is what he must be. There remain only distortions. There was also the explanation of distortions. It was a decisive vision that puts everything ...
... had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it. Nolini-da has written: What food had the Mother prepared that man refused to accept? It was nothing other than a divine life here on the bosom of the earth prepared with supreme love and divine ananda by this Light and this Power beyond, something that only gods can enjoy. To attain this divine life in our present state... roses. She had her own rose-garden in her house. She would come up the staircase, go past the Mother and go to the Mother’s inner room. And accompanying her would be this famous Goldy whom the Mother loved very much. In fact it was the Mother who had named him Goldy. It was indeed a most beautiful dog. His body was covered with shiny golden fur and that was probably why the Mother had named him so. Lakshmibai... and lift his front paws and hug the Mother. The Mother showered a lot of affection on Goldy and talked to him. Looking at Goldy one would imagine he understood everything. He was delighted to show his love for the Mother. Then he would go to Sri Aurobindo’s room and get His darshan as well! I am told that Sri Aurobindo would gently stroke his head for a while. I am sure you all know that Sri Aurobindo ...
... Ecstasy. 23 Stressing the divine nature of love, Savitri later tells Death that she has triumphed over him within: ...Love must soar beyond the very heavens And find its secret sense ineffable; It must change its human ways to ways divine, Yet keep its sovereignty of earthly bliss... Love must not cease to live upon the earth; For Love is the bright link twixt earth... Light will fulfil its work and establish on earth the life divine. In this poetic account employing "the technique of the overmind interpretation of life," Earth representing the masked Infinite contains within it the upward drive and the downward drag of the evolutionary movement that has created the cosmos. Love representing the Divine grace that sacrifices its perfection in order to save creation... on of thy days, It passes and the world is as before. A ravishing edge of sweetness and of pain, A thrill in its yearning makes it seem divine, A golden bridge across the roar of the years, A cord tying thee to eternity... Love cannot live by heavenly food alone, 21 De Rerum Natura, IV: 1078-88. Page 351 Only on sap of earth can it survive. ...
... divinisation of life, the expression through it of a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal. But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent... down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, Page 8 for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into... imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the descending ...
... Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realization,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda 1 which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone... Thus far, She has not found what is needed. Men remain obstinately men and do not want to or are unable to become supermen. All they can receive and express is a love at their own dimension: a human love—whereas the supreme bliss of divine Ananda eludes their perception. At times, finding the world unready to receive Her, She contemplates withdrawing. But how cruel a loss this would be! It is... let me read you this one. You asked, 'What is this Personality and when will She come?' Here is my answer ( Mother reads ): 'She has come, bringing with Her a splendor of power and love, an intensity of divine joy heretofore unknown to the Earth. The physical atmosphere has been completely changed by her descent, permeated with new and marvelous possibilities. But if She is ever to reside and ...
... urge to love the Divine and the Divine's family but also by the warmth that comes from the Divine's family as well as the Divine's own self. Last evening a close friend took me by surprise by saying that I am known for the love and peace constantly emanating from my presence. The remark set me looking into myself. Do I really deserve such a compliment? I have spoken of my own urge to love, but 1... same time be as if offered to the Divine. In a short while what seems enormously afar will start drawing close to you from all directions and enring you with what I can only term a mighty tenderness of touch. You will feel held in the embrace - at once infinite and intimate - of the Divine Mother. A profound peace which will also be vibrant with a deep quiet love will be your sense of your own true... resplendence and the Divine Mother's radiance. Please excuse this prolonged discourse on my own mysticism in relation to the passage of the hours in their daily cycle. I just got swept away by the theme of the afternoon's special effect on the mystic in me fused with the poet. (4.8.1993) Your latest letter has been received. Thanks for the deep love you have for me. I am sure ...
... work of Sri Aurobindo and the line I have quoted is a striking instance of it. That "flute" is surely a mysterious entity. To us Indians it is suggestive of Sri Krishna, the soul's magnet, the love-lord of a divine hide-and-seek. To the Westerner it will Page 71 be the touch of a baffling beauty - the elusive hint of some enchanting power of protection and direction in the midst of life's... revelation of what a phrase in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri calls the Divine Magician's freedom pacing in the same step with law and thus leaving for us also a breathing-space, as it were, of liberty - this clue is our intuition of "freewill". Without knowing the reason - namely, that the world emerges fresh and new all the while from the Divine's depth — we have continually the awareness that we are somehow... swift to mirth, The years had given them kindness. Dawn was theirs, And sunset, and the colours of the earth. These had seen movement, and heard music; known Slumber and waking; loved, gone proudly friended; Felt the quick stir of wonder; sat alone; Touched flowers and furs and cheeks. All this is ended. Here Brooke is at his level of normal felicity of phrase, ...
... the ideal. Love would remain, all forms of the pure truth of love in higher and higher steps till it realised its highest nature, widened into universal love, merged into the love of the Divine. The love of man and woman would also undergo that elevation and consummation; for all that can feel a touch of the ideal and the spiritual must follow the way of ascent till it reaches the divine Reality. The... Education (1949-1950) The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Divine Body A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the... merely human formula and establish something that could be called a divine life upon earth, a first sketch of supermanhood, of a supramental living in the circumstances of the earth-nature. But this could not be the complete and radical change needed; it would not be the total transformation, the fullness of a divine life in a divine body. There would be a body still human and indeed animal in its origin ...
... tremendous Love oozed out of Her, and when that Love crystallised and fell upon the darkness, the psychic element which entered into the darkness. And all the psychic beings are nothing but evolutionary developments of this original psychic element which is nothing but Love of the Divine Mother. And that is why the psychic being automatically turns to the Divine Mother in an experience of Love. This is... samudro arnavah. Why is it called the mantra that can wipe out the sins? Because if you know the origin of all this, what is all this darkness and how darkness can be removed by the power of the Divine Love and by the mystic Fire, if you know this, all sins can be wiped out. That is why it is called the mantra of wiping out the sins. It simply says: In the beginning there was tapas. (Tapas is nothing... the Gods saw in the Divine Mother, in Aditi (this is the Sanskrit name for Divine Mother) a special Light, something special, and they said: if that can be brought down, then it can bring back light into this darkness. That Light is the mystic Fire. That is the origin of Agni. His origin is in the Supreme Divine Mother. In one of her talks Mother has said that when the Supreme Divine Mother saw the darkness ...
... Eternal in Nature. This Ananda in the Jiva, a portion here of the Divine, takes the form of an ecstasy founded in the Godhead who is his source, in his supreme self, in the Master of his existence. An entire God-love and adoration extends to a love of the world and all its forms and powers and creatures; in Page 588 all the Divine is seen, is found, is adored, is served or is felt in oneness... this God-engrossed love; the heart spiritualised and lifted beyond the limitations of its lower nature will reveal to you most intimately the secrets of God's immeasurable being, bring into you the whole touch and influx and glory of his divine Power and open to you the mysteries of an eternal rapture. It is perfect love that is the key to a perfect knowledge. "This integral God-love demands too an... ocean of an infinite Ananda. It will bring the moving sense and the pure and divine passion of the presence of the Beloved into your works; there will be an insistent joy of labour for God in yourself and for God in all beings. Love is the crown of works and the crown of knowledge. "This love that is knowledge, this love that can be the deep heart of your action, will be your most effective force ...
... the ideal. Love would remain, all forms of the pure truth of love in higher and higher steps till it realised its highest nature, widened into universal love, merged into the love of the Divine. The love of man and woman would also undergo " that elevation and consummation; for all that can feel a touch of the ideal and the spiritual must follow the way of ascent till it reaches the divine Reality.... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal II. THE DIVINE BODY A DIVINE life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect physicality within which we are... merely human formula and establish something that could be called a divine life upon earth, a first sketch of supermanhood, of a supramental living in the circumstances of the earth-nature. But this could not be the complete and radical change needed, it would not be the total transformation, the fullness of a divine life in a divine body. There would be a body still human and indeed animal in its origin ...
... sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is it exclusively the Divine. "I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine." Try—try, just to see, try for half an hour, you will see how difficult it is! Source Unhappiness and Insincerity... unified. And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want what You want." But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His... one's being and put them before this psychic consciousness so that they fall into their true place in relation to this centre; finally, to organise all one's aspiration towards the Divine and one's progress towards the Divine. That is the positive side. At the same time the negative side consists in refusing methodically and with discernment all the influences which come from outside or from the ...
... People believe in the Divine on the strength of the happiness they get or the beauty they see around, but that would be to depend on conditions and, when those conditions on which they have reared their confidence are shaken or removed, what happens?... This poet is an absolutist: he makes his position independent of this or that reason. He will feel and love and declare the Divine Presence in joy and... of it. This word means "water-lilies". The Divine's luminous steps are pictured as kindling in the depths of the night the stars looking like water-lilies in a dark pool. The result — "a night of nenuphars" — is to be contrasted to "the night between the stars", the sheer darkness which too the poet visions as the heaven of the Divine. The verse, I love the night between the stars is a favourite... concretely to the world we live in: peace and security can be felt in every place, every country, because of the enfolding and sustaining love of the Spirit, a love as of a mother for her child: there is the mother-suggestion in the use of the term "motherland" for the Divine's beauty present secretly in all parts of the earth. The two closing lines of this stanza apply to the process of time what has been ...
... Death. Once this had occurred, the divine Consciousness turned towards the Supreme and said ( Mother laughs ): 'Well, here's what has happened. What's to be done?' Then from the Divine came an emanation of Love (in the first emanation it wasn't Love, it was Ananda, Bliss, the Delight of being which became Suffering), and from the Supreme came Love; and Love descended into this domain of Inconscience... state of Page 277 Inconscience, total unconsciousness, the ancient lore says that at once the divine Love descended straight from the Lord into Matter and began to awaken what was involved there. Other traditions speak of the Consciousness, the divine Consciousness, instead of Love. One even finds accounts full of imagery depicting a Being of prismatic light lying in deep sleep in the... aspiration to Consciousness and the beginning of evolution. I have had this experience. I have had the experience of being 'missioned,' so to speak, in a form of Love and Consciousness combined—divine Love in its supreme purity, divine Consciousness in its supreme purity—and emanated DIRECTLY, without passing through all the intermediate states, directly into the nethermost depths of the Inconscient ...
... the Mother said in effect: "No matter how liberated one may be by withdrawing from the play of one's nature, the ego will persist in the play unless one gives oneself in utter love to a Being other than oneself, to a Divine Person." This statement may be elaborated and set forth step by step as follows. Even when the Atman is realised in a universal poise free from the mental-vital-physical... wake of the realisation of the static Atman a silence imposed by it on all the parts and then the emergence of the Psychic Being. Only when the Psychic Being with its intense movement of love for the Personal Divine takes charge of one, the dynamic freedom from the ego occurs. Even if the Atman is not realised, the Psychic Being in full play in the mental-vital-physical nature can remove the twisting... opening made there, an intense love flowed out towards the person who had been considered an enemy. Here then was the Mother's unexpected answer to my appeal. This was the Mother's mode of dealing with the hatred I had felt to be pouring against me. The psychic being had come Page 156 forward to solve the problem. It spontaneously saw the Divine within everyone and strove to ...
... permanence. 4 August 1934 The Burden of Love It is only divine love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallio-like "Je m'en fiche"-ism (I do not care) would not carry me one step; it would certainly not be divine. It is quite another thing that enables me... don't make any attempt to be a scientist or painter or general. I have certain things to do and have done them, so long as the Page 53 Divine wanted; others have opened in me from above or within by Yoga. I have done as much of them as the Divine wanted. 19 September 1936 Genius for Lolling I intend to loll for a day or two after weeks of protracted hard work. How best to loll is... own way and his mental will cannot prevail over it. The difficulty is far more general than that. That however would not matter—it would be only a question of a little more or less time, if the divine action were admitted whole-heartedly by the sadhaks. But the conditions laid down by them and the conditions laid down from above seem radically to differ. From above the urge is to lift everything ...
... an individual aspect: he is a Person with whom human b.eings can enter into relations of love and service. The Divine incarnate as a human being, is a special manifestation of the Individual Divine. Even then, as an embodied earthly person, he may act in a way characteristic of any of the three aspects. The Divine descended upon earth, as viewed by Sri Aurobindo, does not come in his transscendental... pattern, a composite of the earthly human element supported and infused by a secret divine element? However, God, the individual Divine, does become man, one of them and one with them. Only, his labour thereby increases manifold, hard and heavy, although for that very reason full of a bright rich multiple promise. The Divine's self-hurilanisation has for it a double purpose: (I) to show man by example how... consciousness becomes dynamic and concrete and works out the desired change in th_ material plane. In the descent the Divine has to assume the lower potentials on the inferior levels and this involves an apparent veiling and lessening of his higher and divine degrees. In other words, the Divine in becoming human accepts and embraces in that embodiment all that humanity normally means, its weaknesses and frailties ...
... came in two or three line stanzas or quatrains. When I read your book of poetry I found the poems to be filed with great passion, feelings and emotions as if the poet was describing a love affair with the Divine. This is quite so, that is how it was. Tehmi in her room at Golconde Dec. 2000 Sri Aurobindo has made comments on your poetry and so has Amal Kiran. In closing I am going... your name. My muted thoughts evolve Swift wings of golden fire; Within your breath dissolve All darkness and desire. The heavens unfold above, Eternities of grace; Resplendent worlds of love, Mirrored within your face. Krishna’s Coming Around my heart I set gold trellis, And hung the roof with filligree, For Krishna of the myriad splendours Was coming with his pageantry;... pomp to me. Ah, everything and everywhere I decked with pearl and diamond lace, With exquisite and quiet care To fashion a chamber for his Grace. When all was ready, the fire bright. Love’s silent sacrificial flame, I sat within its rapturous light Awaiting him. And …yes, He came. Beyond the Word Beyond the wordiness of the word. Beyond its pomp and show, Where the crystal ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... mental, emotive, sensational life as it is, its relations, its activities, its cherished forms and figures; it has to labour to disengage and increase the divine element in all this relative truth mixed with a continual falsifying error, this love turned to the uses of the animal body or the satisfaction of the vital ego, this life of an average manhood shot with rare and pale glimpses of Godhead... 89 the real aim of life, the supreme victory, the ascent into spiritual existence. The Life Divine, p. 225-27 It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or progressing towards divinity and draws back from all that is a perversion or a denial of it, from all ...
... I would say that for us the Divine Grace is best figured as that inextinguishable splendour which has assumed the world-guiding countenance of Sri Aurobindo and that ever-overflowing love with which the Mother's face has taken up the travails of our groping world. The one to whom you, as you say, "have to surrender exclusively" is no other than the giver of "the Divine Grace" which, according to you... perpetual Present swallowing up all past and future. In our yoga's language I would not speak of any "standing". I would just say of myself: 'Tying, endlessly accepted, in the time-transcending love-lap of the Divine Mother." Page 265 ... the presence of the Incarnate Divine. Now for the other aspect of Grace - the one with which you are concerned. It can also be connected with the Mother's reply I have just quoted. The Ashram has been a creation of the Divine Personhood become human flesh and blood. The Grace which acts in response to our cry for help is the same Personhood, essentially divine yet with a human mystery within ...
... arisen from your heart and mind repeats a question that has been flung at the heavens century after century - a question all the more acute because we have had a living sense of the light and love with which the Divine has met us again and again. I have been asked by many from Orissa: "Why has the Mother's Grace not saved this Oriya child of hers? Why was he not protected by her from those dacoits... 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 is seen quite often... 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 death by murder may prove ...
... , can only be seized and seize us through an occult love and yearning which in the end makes one the Form and the Formless, and identifies Spirit and Matter. It is that which the spirit in Love is seeking here in the darkness of the Ignorance and it is that which it finds when individual human love is changed into the love of the Immanent Divine incarnate in the material universe." Sri Aurobindo... Presence, the divine Will and the Grace everywhere; and every event, every element, every circumstance, every form changes into a way, a detail through which one can draw more intimately and profoundly closer to the Divine. Discordances disappear, ugliness vanishes; there is now only the splendour of Page 222 the divine Presence in a Love shining in all things. It is obvious that from a practical... concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we Page 221 can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the passion of the pure and sublimated sense, and its attraction which is the call of the divine Flute-player, the mastering ...
... Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone... "Till now she has not obtained what was necessary. Men obstinately remain men and do not want to or cannot become supermen. They can only receive and express a love cut to their measure—a human love! And the marvellous joy of the divine Ananda escapes their perception. "So, at times, she thinks of withdrawing, finding that the world is not ready to receive her. And this would be a cruel loss.... going to read this one. You asked: "What personality is this and when will she come?" ( Silence ) And this is my reply: "She has come , bringing with her a splendour of power and love, an intensity of divine joy unknown to the earth so far. "The physical atmosphere was completely changed by it, saturated with new and marvellous possibilities. Page 291 "But for her to be able to ...
... churning Matter. .. are a childishness. It is human restlessness. The vision was of a beauty 50- majestic, so calm, so smiling, oh! . .. it was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that "pardons"-it is not at all that, not at all! Each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. It was a very beautiful gift. ... what it is, because it is that by the divine Will, not by the ego-we exist by the divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means-a means for many centuries-now it is worth nothing, its time has passed. Now. . .( Mot h er brings down her fist) , consciousness, it is the Divine; power, it is the Divine; action, it is the Divine; individuality, it is the Divine. And the body has ... seeing from above ). What I have told you is the Truth, it is the only remedy: To exist only for the Divine. To exist only through the Divine. To exist only in the service of the Divine. To exist only... by becoming the Divine. Page 64 There you are. There is no you, there is no one must wait, there is no it ...
... pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence it has leaned on earthly love, affection, Page... and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or Page 156 their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture. All true Truth of love and of the works of love the psychic being accepts in their place:... into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual and Supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and the life-force can be utterly delivered from the veils and prevarications of the Ignorance. It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or ...
... The pleasure attached to it is a degradation and not a true form of the divine Ananda. The true divine Ananda in the physical has a different quality and movement and substance; self-existent in its essence, its manifestation is dependent only on an inner union with the Divine. You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not awaken the gross lower vital pro... it withdraw again to the heights from which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which it Page 32 alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the psychic being, and cast away the lower vital error." 8 Sri Aurobindo ... presence of a sinister farce invented by goodness knows what divine masochist. If God exists, he must be a little less foolish than that, and we are entitled to think that this material evolution has a divine sense and that it is the field of a divine manifestation in Matter. Our spiritual discipline must therefore aim at gaining this divine man or perhaps that other, still unknown being who will emerge ...
... must nip them in the bud as soon as they appear. I must be a loyal child of the Divine Mother; I must develop in me the proper psychological disposition which will automatically incline me to become a joyous and faithful collaborator of the Mother's work in me. Do I not claim that I love the Divine? Then, does not this love demand that I eradicate from my consciousness every trace of these avoidable ... Tamas.' The goal the Integral Yoga has set before itself is, we know, the total divine transformation of man's whole being and consciousness and nature. But to achieve this task is supremely difficult. And the very first condition a sadhaka of this Path has to satisfy is that he should turn to the Divine with the entirety of his being. This 'entirety' is not just a glib term used as a cliché... negative personal efforts at rejection, the sadhaka has to turn immediately to the Divine and his Shakti and pray fervently and constantly that these weaknesses and impulses of his nature be vanquished and removed. Now this combined operation of a sincere effort at rejection on the sadhaka' s part and the Divine Mother's intervention as a response to his earnest prayer will, sooner or later, weaken ...
... Page 70 that of divine love, pure and simple, without any other demand or longing. The demand of the prayer is, in ultimate analysis, the demand for the closest union with the divine. As the Bhakti yoga rises higher, the one thing one asked for is the divine love:, the one thing feared is the loss of love, the one sorrow is a sorrow of separation of love; for all other things either do... or as results and not as objects or conditions of love. The .greatest boon of yogic prayer is eternity and intensity of the divine love. In the few examples which are taken below from Samaveda, various motives of prayers are discovered, but they express the intense need of the Rishis in their upward aspiration and effort to unite with the divine consciousness, and therefore they can be regarded... process of sacrifice or cultivation or surrender of our cognitive activities by means of intensities of clarities, symbolized in the Veda as ghrita or ghritasya dhdrāh. In the Vedic yoga of Divine Love or Divine Delight, the method is that of transmutation of sense activities effected by means of intensities of purification, symbolized in the Veda as the pressings of the soma-plant and straining its ...
... nature still has some doubt. Again and again, I hear Him saying: "O Nirod of little faith!" Faith alone - to have faith and to be faithful, or the other way: to love the Divine, and love Him alone. Or you can love others, young friends, but love Him at the same time. But, for some of us, He's the 'Hound of Heaven' - "All things 276 I shall deliver you from all sins, do not grieve. (18.66) ... and I said to myself, What? In this impersonal mood, when He'd be concerned, we thought, with sending Divine Force to General José Miaja in Spain or with bringing down the Supramental Light, He says He was seeing instead "how Nishikanto was getting on"?! Nishikanto or Nirod or anybody else He loved was never far off from Him. Always, constantly, He had so much compassion for Nishikanto. Now... look on them with the eyes of faith. I see the Divine Hand working even in such trivial matters, provided we rely on Him entirely. If we allow Him to do the work which He is ready to do, if we discover the secret of surrender to Him, then He takes care of the smallest details and arranges everything as needed. Even in this small instance, the Divine Hand is seen. And it is very important to me because ...
... stress and struggle. April 7, 1935 I want to love and love completely and lose myself in love. If one can think of losing oneself for mortal love, why not for the love of the Divine? ... Well, why not? But it must be done in the divine way, not in the mortal. Otherwise— Let me then say definitely that I love you and you love me a little. Then let us meet somewhere in this real matter... too; and who can be and remain otherwise unless and until one is divine oneself? Ummm! don't you think there are enough people in that condition already here without the Asram doctor adding himself to the collection? Unfortunately, experience seems to show that one must be divine oneself before one can bear the pressure of divine love. Come down, Sir,—for heaven's sake give us something and... and make life more substantial and concrete. I am really beginning to doubt if things like divine Love, Knowledge, etc. can be brought down in me! In the old days long before you came plenty of things were brought down—including the love. Hardly one could bear it and even then only in a small measure. Is it any better now, I wonder? it does not look like it. That is why I want the supermind first ...
... in the status and dynamic effects of experience of a bliss-consciousness intense and illimitable. And since love is the effective power and soul-symbol of bliss-oneness he will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love, a sublimation of human love at first, a divine love afterwards, at its summits a thing of beauty, sweetness and splendour now to us inconceivable. He will be... relations of pure love and ecstasy towards all creatures. The mental being may even realise the Self in all three planes together. Then he is all these things alternately, successively or at once. Or he may transform the lower forms into manifestations of the higher state; he may draw upward the childlikeness or the inert irresponsibility of the free physical mind or the free vital mind's divine madness and... seems to stand out from it as its operation, as the rhythmical working of its activities, as a divine Maya 4 or Wisdom-Formation of the Eternal. Gnosis is the divine Knowledge-Will of the divine Consciousness-Force; it is harmonic consciousness and action of Prakriti-Purusha full of the delight of the divine existence. In the Ananda the knowledge goes back from these willed harmonies into pure self ...
... understands fairly well the need of entire detachment from the non-divine and of absolute love for the Supreme and of perfect service to the Master. What is not often understood is the way of action in the midst of the world where the Supreme's manifestation has to take place, the way of dealing with the humans amongst whom the Divine has put us. There are two extremes into which we are likely... others. We tell ourselves: "The incarnate Divine is our concern: nobody else is of any importance and what helps us in Yoga is simply the way we love and serve the Master. It is of no moment whether we are just and generous and calm and helpful to others." Here a great truth is shaded off into a great falsehood. Even apart from the fact that the Divine who is incarnate is also hidden in all... can divide oneself into parts and be always fine and wide with the Guru without practising fineness and wideness twenty-four hours of the day. Of course, the Divine is our concern, but can we ever hope to love and serve the Divine wholly if in some part of our being, in some field of our activity we tolerate the crude and the mean? As long as the soul remains somehow in force during the ...
... gives you - the power to cure your illness even. In return, She wants that you should be nice, you should love God, you should love the Divine and try to do little by little everything for Her, for the Divine, for God, not for yourselves; not for your name, not for your fame, not for your reputation, not for your glory; this is what She expects from all of us. However, let me come back to the... something has gone wrong which you should not have done and should not do, not out of love for yourself but out of love for Mother and love for Sri Aurobindo. There are many other things, if you come to think of it, but one thing alone you can, even you children can understand - that She has such a great Power. Power of love, power of knowledge, power of peace, anything that you want from Her She gives... is still running so smoothly ? Not for fear of X, nor for fear of Y, but it is for the love of the Mother that you are so nice. Her love is everywhere, Her will is everywhere. That's what you are not conscious of at times, but sometimes, I suppose, you consciously feel it. She's doing so much for us. That love is the great power that is keeping us all united in this way. You are quarrelling and you ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... here, to lead the nature also towards its divine realisation. For the psychic being came into Nature from the Self, the Divine, and it can turn back from Nature to the silent Divine through the silence of the Self and a supreme spiritual immobility. Again, an eternal portion of the Divine, 3 this part is by the law of the Infinite inseparable from its Divine Whole, this part is indeed itself that Whole... fulfilment. Even it erects them into opposites and creates a whole range of these opposites, the Silence of the Divine and the divine Dynamis, the immobile Brahman aloof from existence, without qualities, and the active Brahman with qualities, Lord of existence, Being and Becoming, the Divine Person and an impersonal pure Existence; it can then cut itself away from the one and plunge itself into the other ...
... states and movements and the causes and influences that bring them about and conscious too of the Divine—the nearness, presence, power, peace, light, knowledge, love, Ananda of the Divine. Mental Knowledge and Knowledge from Above The knowledge of the mind and vital plane is no knowledge. Only from above can the true knowledge come. No, these contacts with the violent vital forces do not bring... proper thing is then to stand back from these thoughts, voices or suggestions, to reject them or else control them, to make the mind free and quiet and open only to the divine light, force, knowledge and the presence of the Divine. Your mistake has been to allow free play to these thoughts, voices and suggestions instead of rejecting, silencing and controlling them. It is what you must now do. Aspire... to be changed or their fixity disturbed. Knowledge and the Divine Consciousness Mental knowledge is of little use except sometimes as an introduction pointing towards the real knowledge which comes from a direct consciousness of things. All consciousness comes from the one consciousness—knowledge is one aspect of the divine consciousness. One must be conscious of all one's states ...
... efforts. Give yourself to the Divine absolutely, and the Divine Help will always be with you. 4 January 1972 When one loves the Divine truly and totally, then one also loves His creation and His creatures; and naturally, among His creatures, there may be some that one feels closer to and loves more specially. But then the love that one feels is not a selfish love of the ordinary human kind;... that will lead you to the Divine realisation. Page 367 But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. Blessings. 2 July 1971 The victory is the one that we must win over ourselves so that we belong to the Divine alone. Love. 29 September 1971 In the creation Mahakali manifests the divine love; but so powerful and sublime... kind; it is no longer a love that wants to hold and possess, but a love that gives itself without asking anything in return. To love for the joy of loving is the best condition for a peaceful and happy life; it amounts, in other words, to loving the Divine in all things. If this culminates in wanting only what the Divine wants, then there is perfect peace. 5 January 1972 The figure 100 in ...
... again and again that arguments, however weighty, can never do duty for Yogic joy and peace and love — the goods we came for, trusting that you would be able to deliver us if only we followed your lead. But then — and here is the crux of the problem — how can a human, being human, follow such an utterly divine lead as yours so disconcertingly alien to reason and far from feasible, besides? There is a saying... The word 'feeling' is often used for an emotion, and there can be psychic or spiritual emotions which are numbered among Yogic experiences, such as a wave of pure bhakti or the rising of love towards the divine. A feeling also means a perception of something felt — a perception in the vital or psychic or in the essential substance of the consciousness. I find, even often, a mental perception, when... not the Divine but the Devil that had got hold of me. Does not all that justify my phrase 'it seemed to come to me like an accident?' But my meaning is that the ways of the Divine are not like that of humans or in accord with our pat terns so that it is impossible to judge them or to lay down for him what he shall or shall not do, for the Divine knows better than we do. If we admit the Divine at all ...
... and each Page 301 the Master accepts as his. Each believes the Master loves him most and it is true that he loves each the most. This feeling is not an illusion or delusive self-hypnotism but quite real. The spontaneous dynamic law of the Suprerne Truth which he embodies is love – divine love. In all the inmates the delight of surrender is overflowing – the bliss of surrender... human needs the Divine fulfils and, after fulfilling, his grace overflows. Love and grace flow on undiminished. The look ! – the enrapturing and captivating eyes ! Who can ever forget? – pouring love and grace and ineffable divinity. If some transcendent Divinity is not here where else can he be ? He is usually an embodiment of Knowledge. But to-day he is different. He is all love. Here is the... much divinity is needed. The question is what to ask ? love or blessings ! or, should one pray for love and blessings both and in addition for the acceptance of unworthy persons like us ? Standing on the brink of Eternity when the soul saw his dreamy and loving eyes, then was it captured for ever. The inexplicable mystery of divine love was here a tangible experience ! who can explain a fact ...
... need not imagine that we shall ever lose patience or give you up — that will never happen. Our patience, you will find, is tireless because it is based upon unbounded sympathy and love. Human love may give up, but divine love is stable and does not falter. We know that the aspiration of your psychic being is sincere. It is because the sincere aspiration is there that we have no right to disbelieve in... means "I am not independent, but depend utterly on my devotees." And it was because the Love that flowered in him through Page 47 years of one-pointed concentration on the Divine as Krishna* had shed all its human dross that he could write to me in another intimate letter: "It is only the divine love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed... , the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action: departure, renunciation of the soul-truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine call. "It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare those who are with us but which they call on themselves by ...
... godlike, it would never become its divine Origin again. But when she emanated the gods, the Great Creatrix poured her divine Love into the dark Inconscient. It is this Love that is the driving force of the development of the world, of its evolution on the way back, or up, to its divinization. And as all forces are beings and all beings forces, this Love is a divine Being ever present at the core of... [^100]: The supreme attributes of the Divine are Sat (Existence or Truth), Chit (Consciousness that is Light) and Ananda (Bliss). A Sanskrit ‘name’ of the Divine is therefore Sat-Chit-Ananda, spelled in the English transliteration as Sachchidananda. However, an essential aspect of Chit is Tapas (Power that is Life), for everything the Divine is conscious of at the same time exists in... completely outside the physical – and the main characteristic of death is that it cuts all links with the material world – one is at their mercy. ‘If at that moment people who love the departed person concentrate their thought and love on him, he finds a refuge therein and this protects him fully against those entities.’ One who does not have such protection is ‘like a prey delivered to those forces, and ...
... sufficiently trained morally and spiritually to develop a social life based on mutual goodwill. At the same time, ancient Indian civilization maintained that harmony is greater than war, and love more the manifest divine than death. There was a constant stress on transcending the need for clash and warfare. Krishna himself undertook the mission of peace to Duryodhana. It was only when Duryodhana rejected... his life the divine Teacher, Krishna; and we might wonder if very many of us would be so fortunate at the critical moments of life. Yet whether or not we accept the concept of divine omnipresence, we will find, if we watch ourselves and our surroundings with the eyes of an earnest seeker, that there are sermons even in stones. In any case, the Gita assures us that Krishna, the divine Teacher, is always... action shall still remain. It is fundamentally this call that the divine Teacher gives to the human disciple. Page 65 Painting by Rolf, Auroville Page 66 Arjuna is the fighter in the chariot with the divine Krishna as his charioteer. In the Veda also we have this image of the human soul and the divine riding in- one chariot through a great battle to the goal of a ...
... to say that strife and destruction are the alpha and omega of existence, that harmony is not greater than war, love is more manifest divine than death or that we must not move towards the replacement of physical force by soul-force, of war by peace, of strife by union, of devouring by love, of egoism by universality, of death by immortal life. 7 Page 85 Sri Aurobindo regarded non-violence... Philosophy of Indian nationalism is also the philosophy of patriotism. In view of this philosophy, patriotism is not limited to the love of the land of the country, janmabhumi, but it is also love for the people of the land. This philosophy goes even further and inspires love of the values of the culture that have been nourished and promoted through a long history of five thousand years and more. And... philosophy of unreasoning spirit of violence and preference of desperate methods, that nationalism does not advocate lawlessness as contended by the moderate leaders. He argued that the nationalists did not love the philosophy of suffering for its own sake. In positive terms, Sri Aurobindo clarified that nationalism has deeper respect for the essence of law than anyone else, because the building up of the nation ...
... tell The One who pours Her endless Love Her divine Nectar from high above. O hark! O hark! my Shreya-didi, Hold on to Her till eternity, In your waking, in your sleep, Her always in your heart you keep. On life's journey Her Name repeat In joy and pain or sad defeat. Lay all you have, ugly or meet At the Divine Mother's glorious Feet. 15.9.94... our happiness is joint. The One we call Aditi in Heaven dwells, Is the Mother of gods twelve, everyone tells. As the Divine Mother adored by all, If Her you please, you'll never fall. When on this earth the Divine Mother came, Much loved and worshipped, Mira she became. She is the guardian of our life's responsibility, We serve Her always, each to his ability. ... coming down together onto the earth. The two birds are twin aspects of the Divine: the static and the dynamic, you could call it Purusha and Prakriti. The two birds are golden in colour, that is they are descending carrying the supramental light. There is the Mother's symbol in red on the birds' breast, a symbol of-the Mother's Love. There is water below, water that is creation, multiplicity. They are coming ...
... she tells the Mother how eager she is to place her whole being at the disposal of the Divine. Sacrificing one's deeper interests one can no doubt reap worldly success, but the wiser thing will be to sacrifice one's life to the Lord and become "God-dedicated and love-luminous". Huta is clear in her mind that divine peace and happiness cannot come from money, family, children, pleasure, prosperity. She... gracious woman - one had to open one's inner eye and see how divinely human - how truly divine - she was. Thus K.D. Sethna on her tennis: She seems but playing tennis - The whole world is in that game!... In scoring the play's progress, The result of minds that move, One word in constant usage Is the mystic syllable "Love". And the one high act repeated Over and over again... Writing on the Divine Mother and her Powers and Personalities in 1927, Sri Aurobindo had described Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, and then added that there were other great Powers of the Mother too, but they were difficult to bring down; and yet, however difficult, "her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love," had to be ...
... spreading out in all." ' - May 20 'From the height of that summit which is the identification with Thy divine infinite Love, Thou didst turn my eyes to this complex body which has to serve Thee as Thy instrument. And Thou didst tell me: "It is myself...." And indeed I saw Thy divine Love, clothed in intelligence, then in strength, constituting this body in its smallest cells....' - May 25... refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it.... Nothing remains of the past but a potent love which gives me the pure heart of a child and the lightness and freedom of thought of a god.' 1920 Feb Writes 'Myself and my Creed': 'I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race, but to the Divine.' - Mar Departs for Pondicherry. The British... Sri Aurobindo's last prose writings The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth serialised in the Bulletin. - Dec 1 Presentation of her drama Towards the Future. 'Only one love can satisfy... Divine Love, for that .alone never fails.' 1950 Oct 18- Draws an outline off the spiritual map of India on a wall in the Playground, from which is prepared a relief map in plaster. Thereafter ...
... meeting the Divine or getting the Divine Consciousness which enables one Page 38 to live in or with the Divine, then a flood of pseudos or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the grooves of one's own formations. There is the truth of the whole matter. Then why does Krishnaprem say that one should not hunt after experiences but only love and seek... There is [ when one receives forces without a basis of peace, light and love ] more a sense of having power than real power. There are some mixed and quite relative powers—sometimes a little effective, sometimes ineffective—which could be developed into something real if put under the control of the Divine, surrendered. But the ego comes in, exaggerates these small things and represents them... without peace, light or love—only they are forces of darkness. The man there [ in the correspondent's dream ] symbolises that ego-tendency in the human nature which makes a man, when some realisation comes, to think how great a realisation is this and how great a sadhak am I and to call others to see and admire—perhaps he thinks like the man in the dream, "I have seen the Divine, indeed I feel I am ...
... break it. In that event was concealed the union of the divine master of man and the celestial goddess who had also descended on the earth to lead the human story of struggle against evil, to secure imperishable victory of the Good, and to redeem the burden of human love so that the divine love and its glory can perennially aspire to live divinely beyond the ordinary ties and knots of human comedy and... y fearless and valorous, a human-divine tenderness that imparts restraint to exuberance, an over- flowing sweetness to the ingathered strength of virtue, and an indefatigable austerity that must end in triumph and celebration of victory. Sri Rama, the hero of the Ramayana is the human-divine light as fierce as the summer sun and also as tender as the rain of love, each drop of which, bears the healing... that tender love of Sri Rama for Sita and also the fierce love of Sita for Rama. Valmiki Ramayana should be read in the original if one wants to experience the profundities of human love, where utter renunciation vibrates in every tremor of emotion, in every pulsation of sentiment and every flash of thought. Sri Rama and Sita stand out in an unforgettable dialogue as a crowning glory of love that is human ...
... a song of love and adoration to the Mother Divine, a complete dedication to the Ideal of Sri Aurobindo. iv - v The Bride of the Eternal My heart is like a huge cathedral, a temple rising to the sky, Illumined with Love, filled with the perfume of Love, Softly resounding with the organ-choir music of Love. An invisible... gentle ones With a silent adoring Love which sees the Divine in all. The cathedral Temple needs constant expansion in all direction To house birds, animals, living beings on land, sea and air, For whom to reject: In the tiniest worm and flower and pebble Shines the Lord, the Great One who puts on the humblest robes. Love circulates unseen through all hearts, ... laughter, Like a maiden in love with Krishna, it ran among the trees and lakes, Pursued by a gentle flute, opening the sleeping buds of roses And closed lotus-hearts from their heavy trance of forgotten joy. One by one, new deathless flowers grew in number smiling, dancing In the sacred garden of the Temple, nourished by the Divine Love. The prolonged agony of night ...
... 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 the Divine Self-Perfection, Instruments of the Spirit and their purification, Psychology of ... personality Page 367 Soul-Powers and Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Love and Skill Integral Personality Fundamental Experiences of the Yogi Experiences of the Witness Self, Cosmic Consciousness, Silent Self, Nirvana, Personal Divine, Supramental Consciousness and Power Yoga in the Veda, Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, the Yoga... their Mastery for the perfection of the Body The Powers of the Supermind and their operation on the Physical for its transformation The Divine Body Intermediary Bodies as a preparation for the Divine Body Projection of the Divine Body (without the intervention of animal means) Yoga and Evolution: The Modern Theory of Evolution, Indian Theory of Evolution: ...
... "Creator of this game of ray and shade" who "...by the swift vibration of a nerve Links its mechanic throbs to light and love." This divine Presence behind the working of the lower vital force drives the course of evolution towards, first, the finite loves and lusts and, then, "The will to conquer and have, to seize and keep, To enlarge life's room and scope and pleasure's... t Force And an incommunicable Absolute." Unlike our gross earth the world of subtle matter at its height embodies something of the divine perfection of the Infinite. For, there the resistance of the expressive medium is non-existent. There "love and sweetness are the law of life". In fact, we awaken to "A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense where all is in ourselves, ourselves... this plunge of the Divine into the night of the Nescience that created the possibility of evolution from the Inconscient to the Conscient as if "She must reconstitute from fragments lost, Re-word from a document complete elsewhere Her doubtful title to her divine Name". The Nescience dared to do this because there is a great kinship between it and the Divine. There is an attempt ...
... Give yourself to the Divine absolutely, and the Divine Help will always be with you. 4 January 1972 * * * When one loves the Divine truly and completely, then one also loves His creation and His creatures; and naturally, among His creatures, there may be some that one feels closer to and loves more specially. But then the love that one feels is not a selfish love of the ordinary human kind;... you. Have confidence and everything will be all right. With all my love and blessings. * * * 5 July 1971 The victory is the one that we must win over ourselves so that we belong to the Divine alone. Love. 18.10.71 In the creation Mahakali manifests the divine love; but so powerful and sublime is this love that most men are afraid of it. * * * We are on earth in order... kind; it is no longer a love that wants to hold and possess, but a love that gives itself without asking anything in return. To love for the joy of loving is the best condition for a peaceful and happy life; it amounts, in other words, to loving the Divine in all things. If this culminates in wanting only what the Divine wants, then there is perfect peace. 5 January 1972 * * * The figure ...
... exist and evolve towards our divine Nature. Her Love is our life. It is at once our Source and Goal. We love each other in Her Love. It cements our hearts and makes us one. My dear friend, let us cling on to Her with all the passionate, flaming intensity of our whole being, our deepest, boundless, self-denying love, without expecting anything, without withholding anything, without insisting on anything... spontaneous love for the Mother and the glad self abandon in surrender to Her which I perceived in you. It was, indeed, the spontaniety of a child's love for his Mother. I had not, till then, seen any foreign visitor evincing this depth and spontaniety of love for the Mother. It is easy to admire and revere, even to adore and love Sri Aurobindo. I have seen innumerable cases of it—His divine greatness... and loves only the Divine and the Divine Mother. It lies in the arms of the Mother, and whatever is its destiny, it is the Mother who fulfils it. The Mother carries it to its ultimate perfection and manifests the Divine through it in the material world. She is the sole redeemer and the supreme Force of transformation. Sri Aurobindo says "The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Divine—or, it ...
... the status of consciousness or knowledge. Similarly, the capital importance that is laid down in the Gita for the path of Bhakti or Divine Love can have no place, if each individual Purusha is independent of all the other Purushas or any Supreme Purusha to whom divine love can be offered and continued to be offered in the state of liberation. The Gita, on the other hand, admits the reality of the individual... consciousness, whether in a state of silence of the mind as in the process of Jnana yoga, or in the mind which is greatly quieted by overwhelming love of the Divine, as in the Bhakti yoga, or as else in the mind which is turned into an unobstructed channel of the Divine Page 101 Will, as in the Karma yoga, the Infinite, who is the object with which the unity is experienced or effected, there... of the oneness of all beings in the divine Soul. 21 RV, VII.60.5. 22 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp. 489-90. 23 Ma Upanishad, 9, 10, 11. 24 Ibid., 6,7, 8. As in the Veda, so in the Upanishads, there is a clear distinction between kavi, the seer, and manīsī the thinker. The word 'seer' indicates the divine supramental Knowledge which by direct ...
... satisfying the spiritual being or in advancing the growth of spirituality in the race: Spirituality is a single word expressive of three lines of human aspiration towards divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength, and that will be the highest and most perfect Art which, while satisfying the physical requirements of the aesthetic sense, the laws of formal beauty, the emotional... the mighty Mother had made Her take him in Her arms, shield him from defeat and despair, and brought him safely through the ordeal. Patriotism was but a form of love, and suffering itself was a means to the awakening of the love Divine. Sri Aurobindo was "free", the bureaucracy had been humbled, and his friends were elated. But as for Sri Aurobindo himself, he had no cause for exultation,... If it is the love of my country which led me into danger, it is also the love of my countrymen which has brought me safe through it. Love was the one sovereign reality. Love of the country, love of the India the Mother, love that had bled at the sight of the Mother in bondage, this love had led him to dare danger and difficulty; and his countrymen's love - the infinite love of his numberless ...
... condition for approaching the divine Truth ( Rtam ) and its divine Law ( Satya Dharma ). The goal of the Vedic yoga is to arrive at the divine truth by possessing it in consciousness and knowledge and to act faultlessly and harmoniously in accordance with the divine Law. The knowledge of the Truth and the Will which is guided by the truth and inspired by harmony and love manifests constantly, and when... two emperors or samrats, come to their cry with the brilliant clouds full of the creative waters. There is then the manifestation of the divine truth-knowledge, Maya, and they "bring down on the seeker the heavenly rain of joy and love and harmony. The divine knowledge is described as the Sun Page 23 and Light. It is imaged as the weapon of Mitra and Varuna ranging abroad to destroy the... of Bhaga is unattainable except by intense aspiration, tapasya and purity that are demanded by Aryaman. The divine delight is the delight of immortality, and Soma, the divine drink or elixir, which has been the subject matter of the ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda, describes the lord of the divine drink as attainable only when the human body, the human life-force and the human mind are thoroughly purified ...
... the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature.'22 This would also mean a complete synthesis of divine knowledge, divine love and divine action, leading to an integral perfection of all the members, parts and planes of being the divine supermind in the divine body, a temporal sign of the spirit's victory here over Death and Matter. It is impossible to describe or even to... original experience. At an early stage the aspect of an illusionary world gave place to one in which illusion10 is only a small surface phenomenon with an immense Divine Reality behind it and a supreme Divine Reality above it and an intense Divine Reality in the heart of everything that had seemed at first only a cinematic shape or shadow. And this was no reimprisonment in the senses, no diminution or fall... this Truth opening the way to a development of divine consciousness here to be the final sense of the earth evolution. If greater men than myself have not had this vision and this ideal before them, that is no reason why I should not follow my Truth-sense and Truth vision. ... It is a question between the Divine and myself whether it is the Divine Will or not, whether I am sent to bring that down ...
... a veritable passion-flower. It has always thorns around it. Earth gives this love, and in its sequel doom, death. -10- The central idea here is of the divine sacrifice. The earliest mention of sacrifice in our tradition occurs in the Veda which speaks of the cosmic Person, the thousand-headed Purusha, sacrificing himself so that this creation might come into existence. The Bhagavad-Gita... antagonists around her: the Earth signifying Matter, the rule of Matter; Doom, death is the other — material existence is irresistibly dominated by death as things stand. In between there is Love which is divine at its source and which alone can resolve this conflict between Earth and Death. These are the ancient disputants. They have been at conflict between Earth and Death. These are the ancient... of love and doom she gave. Savitri is verily the Daughter of Infinity. In exchange for her boon of power and delight, earth gives to her the passion-flower of love and doom. Passion-flower is the flower resembling the crown of thorns placed on the head of Christ. As you know, his love for God expressed in pain and tears is called the passion-play. The love on earth, the human love is a ...
... Delight. The Lord Himself welcomed you and the Mother with Her Smile of Grace You dwell now for ever in Their Eternal Love and Divine Embrace. You prostrated yourself at Their Lotus Feet with a joyous surrender Then went to sleep in Her Divine Lap awaiting the Golden Calendar. One day They will return in Their body of Glory and change this earth of ours You... of it must have made it harder for you all to bear. I trust the protecting, healing umbrella of Ma-Sri Aurobindo s love under which you are shall give you the required poise and fortitude. Our heartfelt condolence, prayers at this time. In the Divine Mother's love, Page 133 ... and his work and respect towards the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo Page 125 shall always be remembered. We offer our heart-felt tribute to this great son of the Mother. Please accept our deepest condolence. 22 August 2001 My dear Noren Babaji, My mind goes back to all those happy times of childhood, where receiving love and gifts from you, Abhay Babaji and ...
... reign of enlightened will, love or divine being, his kingdom of God, in that other world where they are unalloyed and eternal. The philosophic mystic rejects all as a mental illusion and aspires to self-extinction in some Nirvana or else an immersion in the Page 502 featureless Absolute; if the soul or mind of the illusion-driven individual has dreamed of a divine realisation in this ephemeral... the ideal divine Truth and all the circumstances of that opposition are founded upon the being's ignorance of himself and of the Self of all, outcome of an original cosmic Ignorance whose result is self-limitation and the founding of life on division in being, division in consciousness, division in will and force, division in delight, division and limitation in knowledge, power, love with, as consequence... limitation into the self-conscious infinity of the divine creation. For we can conceive, and since we can, the Divine can still more conceive—and since there is the conception, there must somewhere be the execution, the creation actual or intended,—a universal harmony into which these contrary elements do not enter. The Vedic seers were conscious of such a divine self-manifestation and looked on it as the ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... dominant egoistic immense Man who would trample under his feet of Power a submissive and meek humanity. But the divine superman reconciles and harmonises in him the absolute of Power with the absolute of Love and Knowledge. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: 'When the full heart of Love is tranquillised by knowledge into a calm ecstasy and vibrates with strength, when the strong hands of Power labour... Works, Love and Knowledge uses some part of the mental being, will, heart or intellect as a starting-point and seeks by its purification, development and Page 26 perfection by conversion, the liberating Truth, Beatitude and Infinity. Its method is a direct commerce, a direct contact, a direct concentration of the human individual or Purusha in the individual body with the Divine, the Purusha ...
... intervention of a power of the Divine. It is She who acts as an "ambassadress" between Eternity and Time. She embodies herself forth in the form of Divine Love, or rather, of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it, however, perverted it may be in its actual expression. The highest ideal of love conceived by man is, really... ion of this "infinity's centre". Love is that embodiment of the Eternal in Time which carries with it the stamp of immortality. Eternity drew close disguised as Love And laid its hands upon the body of Time. 12 In the language of the Master: "Death is a shadow of love." This love "wider than the universe" is really the Divine Love. Love and Death seem to embody two co... heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Ruru recovers Priyamvada from the dark nether regions of Death by the power of the charm of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love are affirmed. It is in Savitri that Love divine comes as the embodiment of the Supreme Grace to deliver the soul of man out of the clutches of Death. Savitri ...
... She embodies herself forth in the form of Divine Love, or rather, of a being carrying the saving power of the Divine Love within herself. All true human love has this divine element in it, however, perverted it may be in its actual expression. The highest ideal of love conceived by man is really speaking a manifestation of this "infinity's centre". Love is that embodiment of the Eternal in Time which... "Eternity drew close disguised as Love And laid its hands upon the body of Time". Sāvitrī, Book II, Canto 9. Page 43 In the language of the Master—"death is a shadow of love". This love "wider than the universe" is really the Divine Love. Love and Death seem to embody two contradictory principles, one affirming the divine Eternity and the immortality, the other... of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love is affirmed. It is in Sāvitrī that Love divine comes as the embodiment of the Supreme Grace to deliver the soul of man out of the clutches of Death. Sāvitrī raises the whole problem to its cosmic proportions and brings hi the necessary divine elements whose intervention alone can lead to ...
... Life in our divine scope as the Lila 2 Page 57 of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all... Eternal in Nature. This Ananda in the Java, a portion here of the Divine, takes the form of an ecstasy founded in the Page 94 Godhead who is his source, in his supreme self, in the Master of his existence. An entire God-love and adoration extends to a love of the world and all its forms and powers and creatures; in all the Divine is seen, is found, is adored, is served or is felt in oneness... God-engrossed love; the heart spiritualised and lifted beyond the limitations of its lower nature will reveal to you most intimately the secrets of God's immeasurable being, bring into you the whole touch and influx and glory of his divine Power and open to you the mysteries of an eternal rapture. It is perfect love that is the key to a perfect knowledge. "This integral God-love demands too an ...
... resemblance between Amma’s and Mother’s faces. It is "a well-known fact," Mother writes in connection with the austerity of love ("of all austerities the most difficult" she calls it), that "one grows into the likeness of what one loves. Therefore, if you want to be like the Divine, love Him alone." That Amma had travelled far on that road, was proved to me when, in the same period, my old Gujarati teacher... is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment; there is a thirst for Love that no human relation can appease; there is a Peace that one finds nowhere, not even in death. It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that flow from the Divine Grace. * Such was Mother’s trust in Appa’s judgment that she permitted him... for Kowma. She meditated in the Meditation Hall in front of Mother’s life-size Darshan photograph, the one in which Mother wore the saree with flowers of Divine’s love Amma had embroidered — infusing in every stitch who knows how much love and surrender in each flower. Soon thereafter, Amma turned into an infant: Sleeping almost the whole day with total abandon in the Mother’s lap: "...You ...
... trance of peace or an ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for... universal Force of the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or permitting the use of its powers by beings in the cosmos, is the one Energy that alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possible. For this force is the Divine itself in the body of its power; all is that, power of act, power of thought and knowledge, power of mastery and enjoyment, power of love. Conscious always... calm and peace, not merely with a passive or active submission in our works or through the mystery of union with a universal Knowledge and Power filling and guiding us, but with an ecstasy of divine Love and divine Delight that shoots up beyond silent Witness and active World-Power to some positive divination of a greater beatific secret. For it is not so much knowledge leading to some ineffable Absolute ...
... s, ritam the key of ananda. 139) Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love & joy and a divine knowledge. 140) If thou keepest this limited human ego & thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force and the instrument... seal from thy eyelids. 120) If when thou sittest alone, still & voiceless on the mountaintop, thou canst perceive the revolutions thou art conducting, then hast thou the divine vision and art freed from appearances. 121) The love of inaction is folly and the scorn of inaction is folly; there is no inaction. The stone lying inert upon the sands which is kicked away in an idle moment, has been producing... in his superior virtue. Page 428 52) When I hear of a righteous wrath, I wonder at man's capacity for self-deception. 53) This is a miracle that men can love God, yet fail to love humanity. With whom are they in love then? 54) The quarrels of religious sects are like the disputing of pots, which shall be alone allowed to hold the immortalising nectar. Let them dispute, but the thing ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother have mastered, if not all the details, all the essence of the traditional yogas. ‘Will, knowledge and love are the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the Divine. Their integrality, the union of man with God in all the three, must therefore … be the foundation of an integral Yoga.’ 14 ... that is the embodiment of an eternal, divine soul. It is the evolution of this divine soul which causes and supports the material evolution from the deepest Inertia back to its divine Origin. As before man there has been a whole gradation of evolutionary steps, so after him there will be still more steps, for at present he does not come close to incarnating the divine potential contained in his soul. The... not the embodiment of a higher being within the mental range, but of a divine being in the literal sense of the word. Their own yoga, work or development — whatever one wants to call it — therefore consisted of the following: (i) the complete identification with their divine nature; (ii) the realization in themselves of their divine consciousness in a dynamic way (a yoga beyond the existing yogas), to ...
... is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its object is not to be a great yogi or a Superman (although that may come) or to grab at the Divine for the sake of the ego's power, pride or pleasure... whole of Life in our divine scope as the Lila² of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes... yoga is to open the consciousness to the Divine and to live in the inner consciousness more and more while acting from it on the external life, to bring the inmost psychic into the front and by the power of the psychic to purify and change the being so that it may become ready for transformation and be in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love. Secondly, to develop the yogic consciousness ...
... puzzlement too: love, love is the supreme truth, - "the first and highest manifestation" of the Divine's eternal Truth, - and Mirra has reached a stage when all seems bathed in love, and the old dichotomies seem irrelevant. But if there is nothing that isn't love, there's nothing that "may specially be called love" either! It only means that the rich hidden reservoir of universal love is yet to be... thou not myself crystallised for my work?" Mirra has only to love the Divine "in all things, everywhere and in all beings" 33 . She will become the finished beautiful crystal, in her the Mother of Sorrows will be turned into the Mother of Light and the Madonna of Love, and be ready for the work of realising on the earth the Life Divine. On the other hand, as Sri Aurobindo had warned her in... but it still loves in its human way, even if with "strength, constancy and purity", while the Divine wants it to love in a boundless unfolding of His sovereign power. And so Mirra asks, "Who will open these closed flood-gates ?" 34 With the birth of the New Year (1917), there is again a change of mood. Mirra is conscious of the generous gifts showered on her by the Divine. These boons ...
... tastes sweet today - for those who have a taste. 24 As for the promiscuously misused word 'love', the Mother had written on 6 September 1969: There is only one love, the Divine Love, eternal, universal, equal for everyone and everything. It is man (the human being) who calls all kinds of feelings "love": all the desires, attractions, vital exchanges, sexual relations, attachments, even friendships... other things besides. But all that is not even the shadow of love nor even its deformation. These are all mental and vital, sentimental or sexual activities, and nothing more. 25 By 'love' the Mother meant, not this, not these distortions and debasements and irrelevances, but the Sacred Flame, the secret Fount, the divine harmony at the heart of existence. VIII In the Sweet... .. A tremendous Love Force is pouring down into the room. ...here and there all over the planet, quietly, carefully, with an infinite wisdom, the Force is coming down. The "sun-eyed children of a marvellous Dawn" are awakening from their two billion year sleep of parturition. 23 But the year 1971 was to be a Sweet Year, the year of "ananda", the year when the Mother Divine as Ananda - Anandamayi ...
... powerful way of "getting" the Divine. So it is the best policy also. The phrase, however, means that the object of the Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be turned in our nature into the nature of the Divine and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its object is not to be a great... clothing. Not good for asthma. What the deuce is bare clothing? I have heard only of a bare body etc. Your Aeschylean expressions are sometimes very puzzling. About "The Life Divine" class, I would have loved to read with Z, but his Purushalike bearing scares one. You know he refused even to take up and only by Mother's order he did it. Take up what? You have already asked him for the L... have no longer any meaning—as so many saints have said, sacrifice ego, anger, lust etc. to Kali, not goats or cocks. One can massacre men and nations for the Divine, but what about this then for the Divine's sake? How does the Divine benefit by it? Very hungry, I suppose would like a nice goat-chop? I wonder if you know that some Sharma has gone on hunger-strike to stop the sacrifices at ...
... Death. Once this had occurred, the divine Consciousness turned towards the Supreme and said (Mother laughs): 'Well, here's what has happened. What's to be done?' Then from the Divine came an emanation of Love (in the first emanation it wasn't Love, it was Ananda, Bliss, the Delight of being which became Suffering), and from the Supreme came Love; and Love descended into this domain of Inconscience... 1906, gives us the profundity of her experience. Speaking of this vision, she said: I have had the experience of being 'missioned', so to speak, in a form of Love and Consciousness combined—divine Love in its supreme purity, divine Consciousness in its supreme purity—and emanated DIRECTLY, without passing through all the intermediate states, directly into the nethermost depths of the Inconscient... ignorance, the Love that vanquishes all pride. And no ______________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 35-6. Page 44 error can persist in front of Thee.¹ February 22, 1914 (...) Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am, or rather my consciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal ...
... everything appears to you to be this divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture. So, divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being? No. find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because this will yet again be a vital... perception of what divine love can be... It is not enough that one morning you wake up saying "Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love", it is not like that. If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with divine Love" — you are... extent to which one can develop a personal relation with the Divine, a relation of Bhakti, love, reliance, self-giving, rejection of the insistences of the separating and self-asserting mental, vital and physical ego. A mystic slow transfiguration works. All our earth starts from mud and ends in sky, And Love that was once an animal's desire, Then a sweet madness ...
... Truth and Right and Beauty, towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the Page 53 being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme... supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss, the divine heights and largenesses, and opens us to the touch of spiritual sympathy, universality, oneness." 1 The coming forward of the psychic person marks a momentous stage in the development of personality. It then begins to govern overtly and entirely our outer nature of mind, life and body, and then this can be cast into soul image of... of the Purusha with his and the world's Nature Power." 1 The full richness of personality is the splendid, opulent and marvellous integration of the four fold personality. The full heart of Love is tranquillised by knowledge into a clam ecstasy and vibrates with strength; the strong hands of Power labour for the world in a radiant fullness of joy and light; the luminous brain of Knowledge accepts ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... Bliss, the divine heights and largeness, and opens us to the touch of spiritual sympathy, universality, oneness. " 4 ____________________________________ 4 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, Vol. 18 (Centenary Edition), p. 226 Page 160 The coming forward of the psychic person marks a momentous stage in the development of personality. It then begins to govern overtly and entirely... the Purusha with his and the world's Nature-Power. " 3 The full richness of personality is the splendid, opulent and marvellous integration of the fourfold personality. The full heart of Love is tranquillised by knowledge into a clam ecstasy and vibrates with strength; the strong hands of Power labour for the world in a radiant fullness of joy and light; the luminous brain of Knowledge ...
... ng in its embodiment of the Truth-Consciousness. In the triumph of Love over Death this divine miracle shall be accomplished. Savitri in her revelation reaches a high point to even proclaim that The great stars bum with my unceasing fire And life and death are both its fuel made. Life only was my blind attempt to love: 15 Ibid., p. 635. Page 106 Earth saw... rich-golden plenitude of Light and Love and Joy of the most auspicious immortality. Seekers of the riches, the Rishis "meditate the all-achieving laud of 21 Ibid., p. 21. 22 See The Secret of the Veda, SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 40: the giver of sacrifice in the Vedic knowledge is the soul or the personality as the doer of works. Page 111 the divine" and call the triumphing Fire... universal energy into which the action is poured is the Divine; the consecrated energy of the giving is the Divine; whatever is offered is only some form of the Divine; the giver of the offering is the Divine himself in man; the action, the work, the sacrifice is itself the Divine in movement, in activity; the goal to be reached by sacrifice is the Divine." 40 38 The Gita, 111:10-15. These renderings ...
... easily he described—but is it really necessary? This is not what heals. Healing comes not from the head but from the heart. To understand is good, but to will is better. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love is the great remedy. I am weeping without knowing why. Weep if you like, but do not worry. After the rain the sun shines more bright. I am rolling in my bed in... is in me, Thy Peace is in me, Thy Peace is in me. Sleep, child, sleep, with sweet Mother in your heart! Awake, child, awake, with sweet Mother in your heart! 21 July 1932 "O Love, Divine Love, in a fecund silence I bow to Thee" 6 ... I open myself to Thee and I would obey Thee with an absolute faithfulness. 28 July 1932 Page 20 True greatness , true s... that far from diminishing, your hold upon the workmen can but increase by it. 26 September 1932 It is better simply to be sincere than to be clever. 31 October 1932 To love the Divine is to be loved by Him. 2 November 1932 Because of the sudden rain we wanted to close the windows and found, with some discomfort, that not a single one is closing properly . Unless you are a ...
... Immutable, akśara, which is above the three gunas, but also the method of rising above the lower nature in which the operations of the higher nature are manifested in the form of divine knowledge, divine love, and divine works founded on the spiritual universality. It is this which is emphasized in the twelfth chapter when it speaks of those who are not only dear, but also exceedingly dear to the Supreme... That integral method also enables the jiva to become itself the pure channel or instrument of the Purushottama for His activities. To rise into the higher nature and to the Eternal through divine knowledge, love and works founded in a spiritual universality and perfect self-surrender is the key method of arriving at the complete spiritual liberation; that liberation unites s ā yujya mukti, s ā... experience and therefore vivid certainty of the command that had issued from the Supreme Divine Consciousness that was visioned by him in unmistakable light of the Divine Himself in His universal Action. There is, he perceived, a divine law of action, a divine dharma of universality proceeding from the divine transcendence, which constantly works in a state of universal harmony and for the promotion ...
... letter [ in italics above ], which you can quote) is a vital demand of the ego for emotional self-satisfaction; it is Maya. It is not true love, for true love seeks for union and self giving and that is the love one must bring to the Divine. This vital (so-called) love brings only suffering and disappointment; it does not bring happiness; it never gets satisfied and, even if it is granted something that... the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves by... with us even with these moods than be separated from you; compared with our love for you, the trouble they give us is mere dust in the balance. Read this letter, talk with the Mother and act according to your true self; never mind the rest. 7 March 1930 It is certainly the force hostile to the Yoga and the divine realisation upon earth that is acting upon you at the present moment. It is the ...
... from the contemplation of the eternal tortures in which those they had lived with and perhaps loved, were agonizing. Divine love, divine pity, the nature of the Buddha, that was the message which India sent to Europe through the lips of Jesus, and this is how the European mind interpreted divine love & divine pity! The fires of Hell aptly and piously anticipated on earth by the fires of Smithfield, the... whom the mighty type is Buddha, the one unapproachable ideal of Divine Love in man, he who turned from perfect divine bliss as he had turned from perfect human bliss that not he alone but all creatures might be saved. To see your Self in all creatures and all creatures in your Self—that is the unshakeable foundation of all religion, love, patriotism, philanthropy, humanity, of everything which rises... reason perfect love, by which I do not mean the mere sensual impulse of man towards woman, is a great and ennobling thing, for by its means two separated conditions of the Universal Consciousness come together and become one. Still nobler and more ennobling is the love of the patriot who lives & dies for his country, for in this way he Page 107 becomes one with millions of divine units and still ...
... me of this discouragement and this revolt, please. Will You not save me from them? With all my will I want to save you, but you must allow me to do so. To revolt is to reject the Divine Love and only the Divine Love has the power to save. 28 December 1932 Dear Mother, Am I not Your child? Yes, I know that I am a naughty child, but what can I do? Naughty or not, in any case I am Yours... identification with the Divine Consciousness that one can attain and preserve the true unchanging happiness. Keep your confidence and your faith, my little smile, and everything will be all right. With all my love. 1 August 1932 Dear Mother, This subject was given for composition in our French class— Develop this thought: Consecration to the Divine is the secret of existence;... leads only to ruin. And do not belittle the Divine's love, because without it nothing is worth living for. I know that you are too sensible and sensitive to ignore this truth. Always lovingly. 6 September 1936 Bonne Fête! To [my little smile] whose precious help prevents my feet from being hurt by the stones on the way. With my love and blessings that her aspiration may be realised ...
... eternal divine Love. Being this Love, I feel myself living in the centre of all things upon the Page 127 whole earth and, at the same time, it seems to me that I am immense, infinite arms stretching out and enveloping with a boundless tenderness all beings clasped, gathered up, nestled upon my breast, vaster than the universe." A boundless love. A love that intensifies... intensifies the impulses that are swift and straight and frank. A love that strengthens. Divine Love. Years before, Mother had related to us an ancient Chaldean legend. "Long ago, very long ago, in the arid country which is now Arabia, a divine being had incarnated upon earth to awaken there the supreme love. As one would expect, the Incarnation was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted... bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous, clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood. . . ." Mother named the pomegranate flower, which blossoms even in the desert: DIVINE LOVE. Page 130 15 Deer, Squirrels & Gnomes "I did not know what meditation was ..." said Mother. Although nobody had spoken to Mirra of meditation ...
... Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the Earth-spirit. There are among them presences indispensable for the supramental realization – most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone... of the three supreme attributes of the Divine, and therefore one of the aspects or personalities of the Great Mother. Someone in the audience asked what that Personality was and when it would manifest. The Mother had expected the question and she had her answer ready. ‘She has come, bringing with her a splendour of power and love, an intensity of divine joy unknown to the Earth up to then. The... not obtained what was necessary. Human beings obstinately remain human beings and do not want to or cannot become superhumans. They can only receive and express a love cut to their measure: a human love. And the marvellous joy of the divine Ananda escapes their perception. ‘So, at times she thinks of withdrawing, finding that the world is not ready to receive her. This would be a cruel loss. It is ...
... intervention of the Universal Mother, poured out his Love into the Night of the Manifestation in order that that Night should no longer remain an eternal, coagulated darkness, but that it might evolve back towards its Origin. That Divine Love is the essence of the psyche. If that Love is divine, then the psyche must be divine, exist in the Divine, have come forth from Him and carry Him most intimately... counterbalance the horrific amount of suffering during the return journey.) The psyche, the soul, is simple as a manifesting part of the Divine but complex as a concept. It exists eternally in the Divine (as jivatman ), is present in all parts of creation in the Love that has been poured out into the creation (as antaratman ), and regains, individualized, in the human being the potential to build up... as its sheaths or coatings in the material manifestation in order to climb the World Stair from the lowest Inconscience, into which it was sent as pure Love, up to the highest Ananda , which is its origin. Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Life Divine : ‘The material Energy that aggregates, forms and disaggregates,’ as for instance in the perpetual transformations of the elementary particles, ‘is the ...
... acquaintance with what our old scriptures have called ‘the eternal eater of the secret honey of existence.’… I would just say of myself: ‘lying, endlessly accepted, in the time-transcending love-lap of the Divine Mother.’ “ On reading this account from Amal-da we, the younger pilgrims on the Path, can only gape in wonder. 14. K.D.S. as an Expositor and a Counsellor Sethna is a great... the Divine has been his constant trait since the day in the far past when, at the tender age of twenty-three, he came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother after having spurned the pull of "career" and the lure of fame in the academic world. The touch of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother unsealed in his heart "an abundant fount of faith", to quote his own words. His unflinching devotion and unreserved love for... (1) “Your [Dr. Dinkar’s] next query is: ‘The nescience is nearest the Divine in the tail-in-the-mouth snake-analogy; why couldn’t it go in reverse gear instead of ‘evolving’ and causing all this bother?’ If the divine car could have been put in reverse gear it would have been only the positive Divine dealing with the negative Divine, and perhaps there wouldn’t be much fun in that. All the fun seems to ...
... best—but Mahalakshmi's love, Mahasaraswati's care, Maheswari's embracing and enveloping light. Do not think of Divine Love as something cold or impersonal or distantly high—it is something as warm and close and tender as any feeling can possibly be. It does not abolish whatever is pure and sweet in human love, but intensifies and sublimates it to its highest. It is this love that the Divine has to give and... turning to the Divine alone in a passion of love or surrender and if they feel that they can find that Divine in or through the Mother, what is there in that spontaneous movement that is grim and stern and cruel? Are there not people who have left all other ties for the love of a man or a woman and been glorified for it; and why should it be so harsh and bad if it is for the Divine and such a movement... thought that I would try to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they ...
... aestheticised, intellect suffused and governed with the sense of beauty." 85 Sensual love ( kāma ) is the great driving force of Kalidasa's poetry: the beauty of nature is an expression of love, even the great divine ascetic Shiva abandons asceticism (tapas) and submits to the influence of Kama, the god of sensual love. However, there is no rejection of dharma , for Kalidasa recognises it as the essence... "the power of a woman's silent love." "We cannot regret his choice. There have been plenty of poets who could have given us imaginative and passionate pictures of Love struggling with Death, but there has been only one who could give us Savitri." 73 Sri Aurobindo has taken this theme for his psycho-spiritual epic. The central idea of the struggle between Love and Death is also central to... paśyanta uttaram/ 167 devaṃ devatrā sūryam aganma jyotir uttamam// Beholding a higher Light beyond this darkness we have followed it and reached the highest Light of all, Surya divine in the divine Being. The above verse is at once the definition of the seer and an example of the Vedic Mantra. In the vision of the Overmind aesthesis, we have seen, there is the same reaching to ...
... know at present”, she said, and if the Supermind in its full power appeared suddenly on the earth “everybody would disappear.” 20 – “Sri Aurobindo has said … that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, manifested too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to stand it!” 21 The Family of the Aspiration “You are on the... of ‘preparing’ or ‘churning Matter’ are childishness. They are human restlessness. The vision was of a beauty so majestic and so calm, so smiling, oh! It was full, truly full of the divine Love. And not a divine Love that ‘pardons’, it is not like that at all: each thing in its place, realising its inner rhythm as perfectly as possible.” 41 The more the Mother’s body became supramentalised,... must do your utmost, you must conquer all pettiness and limitations. Above all you must say to your ego: ‘Your time is past.’ We want a race without ego, that has a divine Consciousness in place of the ego. That is what we want: the divine Consciousness that will allow the race to develop and the supramental being to be born.” 6 Like every kind of birth in our universe the birth of a new era in ...
... disciple knows him as his own, and each the Master accepts as his. Each believes the Master loves him most and it is true that he loves each the most. This feeling is not an illusion or delusive self-hypnotism, but quite real. The spontaneous dynamic law of the Supreme Truth which he embodies, is love – divine Love. "In all the inmates, the delight of Surrender is overflowing – the bliss of surrender... All human needs the Divine fulfils and, after fulfilling, his grace overflows. Love and grace flow on undiminished. The look! enrapturing and captivating eyes! Who can ever forget Pouring love and grace and ineffable divinity? If the transcendent Divinity is not here, where else can it be? "He is usually an embodiment of knowledge. But to-day he is different. He is all love. Here is the Great Poet... do so much, divinity is needed. "The question is what to ask, love or blessings! Or should one pray for love and blessings both and in addition for the acceptance of unworthy ones like us. Standing on the brink of Eternity the soul saw his dreamy and loving eyes, then was it captured for ever. The inexplicable mystery of divine love was here a tangible experience! Who can explain a fact? A fact is ...
... Whatever power thou art who mov'st the world, To Eric unrevealed. Some sign I ask. ASLAUG ( singing, outside ) Love is the hoop of the gods Hearts to combine. Page 533 Iron is broken, the sword Sleeps in the grave of its lord. Love is divine. Love is the hoop of the gods Hearts to combine. ERIC Is that your answer? Freya, mother of heaven, Thou wast forgotten... mine indeed? ASLAUG What have I done? What have I spoken? I love! ( after a silence, feeling in her bosom ) But what was there concealed within my breast? ERIC ( observing her action ) I take not a divided realm, a crown Page 564 That's shared. Thou hadst a purpose in thy heart I know not, but divine. Thou lov'st at length; But I have knowledge of the human heart, ... net By which the fugitive can be snared. It is Too unsubstantial for my iron mind. ASLAUG ( singing, outside ) When Love desires Love, Then Love is born. Nor golden gifts compel, Nor even beauty's spell Escapes his scorn. When Love desires Love, Then Love is born. ERIC ( calling ) Who sings outside? Harald! who sings outside? HARALD ( entering ) Two dancing-girls ...
... towards Love and Harmony and all that is a divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature. It is the psychic personality in us that flowers as the saint, the sage, the seer; when it reaches its full strength, it turns the being towards the Knowledge of Self and the Divine, towards the supreme Truth, the supreme Good, the supreme Beauty, Love and Bliss... triple Path of Works, Love and Knowledge uses some parts of the mental being, will, heart or intellect, as a starting-point and seeks by its purification, development and perfection, the liberating Truth, Beatitude, and Infinity. Its method is a direct commerce, a direct contact, a direct concentration of the human individual or Purusha in the individual body with the Divine, the Purusha who dwells... while each system aims at a specific object or a poise or aspect of Reality of the Divine, the Object of the integral yoga would be the realisation of the Integral Divine. An integral concentration on the Integral Divine through the whole of our being for a complete perfection by a union with and manifestation of the Divine—this would be the natural formula of the Integral Yoga. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: ...
... and force I have; one strength's behind I have not... 53 As if in answer to his question he hears the song: Love is the hoop of the gods Hearts to combine. Iron is broken, the sword Sleeps in the grave of its lord; Love is divine. 54 Odin and Thor, certainly; yet without the grace of Freya, Mother of Heaven, the rewards of the stern gods will come... Eric and Aslaug exchange rings in token of their honourable love, and Aslaug has he satisfaction that she has saved Swegn and saved Norway, and has shown how the world could be saved from death by love. Leaving Aslaug and Hertha, Eric starts on his final campaign against Swegn - this time, however, "with mercy and from love". Swegn rejects the terms of peace offered by Eric, and in the swift... them. Politics of empire and romantic love play at cards as it were, and love proves the victor. In Eric, Aslaug comes with hatred in her heart to the Court at Yara and thinks that by killing the King she would win for her brother, Swegn, a game of politics that he couldn't win on the battlefield. Actually she succumbs to Eric's godlike beauty, and the flood of love wholly extinguishes the fires of hatred ...
... we should now say, the divine Will-force, or whatever other power and personality of the godhead, reveals itself eventually as the divine Love. Therefore we must suppose that to these symbolists Mitra was essentially the Lord of Love, a divine friend, a kindly helper of men and immortals. The Veda speaks of him as the most beloved of the gods. The Vedic seers looked at Love from above, from its source... working of Mitra, son of Infinity, and dwell in his grace." It is when Agni becomes Mitra, when the divine Will realises the divine Love that, in the Vedic image, the Lord and his Spouse agree in their mansion. The well-accorded happiness of the Truth is Mitra's law of working; for it is upon Truth and divine Knowledge that this harmony and perfect temperament are founded; they are formed, secured and... source and root and saw it and received it in their humanity as an outflowing of the divine Delight. The Taittiriya Upanishad expounding this spiritual and cosmic bliss of the godhead, Vedantic Ananda, Vedic Mayas, says of it, "Love is its head." But the word it chooses for Love, priyam , means properly the delightfulness of the objects of the soul's inner pleasure and satisfaction. The Vedic singers ...
... help her. Why is it easier to love a human being than to love the Divine? I don't see that it is easier. It depends on the person. The difference is that what men call "love" for another human being is not love at all, but a frightful mixture of sentimentality, weakness, ignorance and sensuality. It is obvious that such a feeling cannot be directed towards the Divine. 17 June 1936 Page 133... keep it open only to the Divine! 23 September 1934 For several days I have been feeling that Z has an attraction for me. Since You wrote, "Rather than avoiding this person or that... ", I thought I could talk to her and thus gradually come to the true attitude. Mother... love. If it is divine love that you mean, one can obtain it only by renouncing human love, which is a travesty and... photograph. 7 October 1937 I ask Your forgiveness for having kept up a certain familiarity with Y, although You told me not to do so. O Mother, I want Your love! Without love how can I live? To obtain the divine love, all other love must be abandoned. 28 December 1937 A head cold has been trying to get into me for a long time already. Would You explain to me why I haven't been able ...
... the Divine or get- ting the Divine consciousness which enables one to live in or with the Divine, then a flood of pseudos or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the grooves of one's own formations. There is the truth of the whole matter. Then why does Krishnaprem say that one should not hunt after experiences, but only love and seek the Divine? It... ideas about the Divine, ideas about what he should be, how he should act, how he should not act—they can only come in the way. Only the Divine Himself matters. When your consciousness embraces the Divine, then you can know what the Divine is, not before. Krishna is Krishna, one does not care what he did or did not do, only to see Him, meet Him, feel the Light, the Presence, the Love, the Ananda is what... together make what we call the higher spiritual or Divine Consciousness. The psychic opening through the heart puts us primarily into connection with the individual Divine, the Divine in his inner relation with us; it is especially the source of love and bhakti. . This upward opening puts us into direct relation with whole Devine and can create in us the divine consciousness and a new birth or births of ...
... follows. The unmanifest Divine plunges as Love into the depths of Inconscience, into the Horror of Inconscience. That is the first Avatar, "the permanent Avatar" whose presence alone will make the Inconscience luminous, make it a means for his own widening manifestation. But in the meanwhile silently he suffers the great Affliction in a divine manner. To redeem that Love, the Divine incarnates here in mortality... e which again moves in an altogether different dimension that should also take care of love's unfailing triumph over death. But love can conquer death only when it acquires power in the measure that can weigh up to the demands of the task. Narad clearly foresees the magnitude of the problem and, divinely inspired, rushes in righteous urgency to do something marvellous. He must, in the ironfisted... over almighty Death, the dire Antagonist, and wins a unique victory. Thus is established the unfolding sovereignty of Love in which transformed Death participates with his noble benignities. Indeed that is how in a mysterious creative act of delight all is done by the Divine himself. Such is the significance, the excellence of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri which is in fact the Word of ...
... (Regarding love) How can one direct this human love towards the ideal love, the true love? There is only one true love—it is the Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the bhakta for his God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the bhakta, if he is... is sincere, begins to become like the Divine whom he adores, and thus his love becomes purer and purer. To adore the Divine in the one whom one loves has often been suggested as a solution, but unless one's heart and thought are very pure , it can lead to deplorable abasements. It would seem that in your situation, the best solution would be to use your mutual attachment to unite your efforts in... one part of the being aspires and wants the Divine, the other part is so tamasic and heavy! How can it be awakened? What blows does it need? It is not that this part is against the Divine—it does not even seem to be interested in Him (which is perhaps worse). That is indeed an indication of complete inertia. Sri Aurobindo has written: "If you cannot love God, at least find a way to fight Page ...
... once static and dynamic. And the pinnacle of Karmayoga is reached when one raises one's cognitive, conative and affective capacities and potentialities in a great synthesis where the divine love, divine knowledge and divine action flow through the liberated individual in a plenary and ecstatic and triumphant symphony. You will think that I am getting poetic; but the joy of my discovery compels me to dance... till evening in the temple repeating continuously one refrain "Radhe Govinda, Radhe Govinda". Mira was twelve and I was nine at that time; on the previous day a saint had given a discourse on the divine love of Radha and exhorted us to repeat that mantra in order to open the doors of our heart to Radha's consciousness. Fortunately, our father and mother were away to Jamnagar, a neighbouring town, to... "What did she say?" I asked. "She said : 'Be prepared now for a long period of viraha, separation.' She then laughed and, pressing me to her bosom, she whispered into my ears: 'The path of divine love begins with a brief union and a long session of suffering of separation, since Krishna hides Himself and does not uncover Himself until you uncover yourself totally before Him!' Mira blushed ...
... did so many others before. Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold love, but the love of which the Mother speaks in that passage is something very pure, fixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all- embracing and self-existent like the light of the sun. There is also a divine love that is personal, but it is not like... approach I can never establish any harmony within me which is "independent of persons and circumstances". The difficulty is of course that Divine Love appears to me too impersonal and cold that is lacking in warmth though rich in a cold harmony. Perhaps Divine Love is not like that: I don't know—but what I know is that human affections etc. are all rather tiresome at best and stifling at worst—and... cannot be given to the Divine until one has experience of the Divine. For what is more common in the Vaishnava attitude than the joy of Bhakti for its own sake ? "Give me bhakti", it cries, "whatever else you may keep from me. Even if it is long before I can meet you, even if you delay to manifest yourself, let my bhakti, my seeking for you, my cry, my love, my adoration be always there." How constantly ...
... endeavours single-mindedly to do so." "What is the Divine like?" "Like? That's hard to describe, but if one finds Him, all Page 6 man's sufferings will disappear. Men will love one another, since God is Love." "Then why did you tell us to love the Mother? Is she the Divine?" "Yes, she is. That's just why you call her the Divine Mother." "Why was she born in France? And how did... entirely and with such ease." "Why should that be difficult to understand? When a woman loves a person truly, is there anything that she cannot do for him? Doesn't she lose herself entirely in him? Only to love and serve him and make him happy becomes the aim of her existence. In the same way, when we love the Divine, we offer ourselves wholly at His feet, just as the infant unquestioningly gives itself... which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment; there is a thirst for Love that no human relation can appease; there is a Peace that one finds nowhere, not even in death. It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, Page 61 the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that flow from the Divine Grace.' "The Knowledge that Buddha, Shankara, Chaitanya or Vivekananda mastered ...
... whom I loved like no one else in the world, was not an ordinary being (neither is your son Satprem, for the same reason), but those uncommon beings also have uncommon difficulties, which cannot be resolved but through uncommon means. François, like your son Satprem, had been born to incarnate something of the divine Love and to create something through the force of this Love. But divine Love has... sentimental love of humans — it loves everything and everywhere, but it shuts itself in nowhere. It is a universal force. François’s difficulty has been summed up in a few words by a sentence of Colette’s, who did not know how right she was: “His poor heart was not commensurate with his love.” Great was his love indeed, because it came from a divine source, but he tried to shut this Love in a family... Satprem November 15, 1976 (Message from Sujata) A new life based on Something Else. May it be a new life from now on. Page 180 Look, here are two petals of divine love given by Them. May this love pervade everything with its powerful sweetness. November 18, 1976 My mother’s arrival (her last visit to India). Brincourt writes to me about the Trilogy: a quarter of the ...
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