... Words of the Mother - II Work as on Offering to the Divine Let us offer our work to the Divine; this is the sure means of progressing. Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine. Indolence and inaction end in tamas : that is a fall into unconsciousness; it is contrary to all progress and light. To overcome... overcome one's ego, to live only in the service of the Divine—that is the ideal and the shortest way towards acquiring the true consciousness. You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing the contact with the inner presence. When there is not enough work... Go and prepare yourself and the best preparation is to be useful to the Divine's work. May 1963 Should I try meditation? It is not necessary if your work is a constant offering to the Divine. 13 April 1965 How can I offer my work? Usually one works for one's own profit and satisfaction; instead of that, one should work to serve the Divine and express His will. ...
... developed or rather the rasa you speak of. One cannot be said to be in the full Yogic condition—for the purposes of this Yoga—if one cannot take up with willingness any work given to one as an offering to the Divine. At one time I was absolutely unfit for any physical work and cared only for the mental, but I trained myself in doing physical things with care and perfection so as to overcome this glaring... and developed by myself in the Arya. It is founded not on speculation and reasoning but on experience. It does not exclude meditation and it certainly does not exclude bhakti, for the self-offering to the Divine, the consecration of all oneself to the Divine which is the very essence of this karmayoga are essentially a movement of bhakti. Only it does exclude a life-fleeing exclusive meditation or ...
... has said more or less the same thing, though in a different language; the key word is 'sacerdocy': That was my very first basis in forming the Ashram, that the work done must be an offering to the Divine. Instead of letting oneself go in the current of one's nature, of one's mood, one must keep constantly in mind this kind of feeling that you are a representative of the Supreme Knowledge... assigned to him, or he may grouse that he has been burdened with a too difficult task. As for the former, all work ranks the same with the Divine; and as for latter, the work being always an offering to the Divine, the necessary support will surely come from the Divine. It is the Divine's work, and the Divine force does the work through him and also helps him with his sadhana. In the ultimate analysis ...
... (Words of the Mother) Page 75 While showing the relation between art and Yoga she says :- "Art is not very different from Yoga, if the artists consider their work an offering to the Divine and try to express by it their relation with the Divine. The discipline of art, has at its centre the same principle as the discipline of Yoga. In both the aim is to become more and more conscious;... follow his own natural bent. The only thing in common is the spiritual motive and the general attitude of making art an avenue to reach the Divine. These paintings were done in the spirit of offering to the Divine so that the artist may grow into the truth of himself and bring something of the Higher consciousness and Truth in the forms of art, some ray of the Divine Beauty. How far this has been achieved ...
... developed it for the integral spiritual life. It is founded not on speculation and reasoning but on experience. It does not exclude meditation and it certainly does not exclude bhakti, for the self-offering to the Divine, the consecration of all oneself to the Divine which is the essence of this Karmayoga are essentially a movement of bhakti. Only it does exclude a life-fleeing exclusive meditation or an emotional... many years. Work done with the right attitude is the easiest means for that—i.e. work done without desire or ego, rejecting all movements of desire, demand or ego when they come, done as an offering to the Divine Mother, with the remembrance of her and prayer to her to manifest her force and take up the action so that there too and not only in inner silence you can feel her presence and working. ...
... of thought, even of sensation, of feeling, which is normally of little importance, becomes different the moment you look at it asking yourself, "Did I think this as an offering to the Divine, did I feel this as an offering to the Divine?..." If you recall this every moment of your life, the attitude becomes quite different from what it was before. It becomes very wide; it is a chain of innumerable little ...
... else you may like. All this work which you have done, which has taken almost a year, all these efforts you have made, all the difficulties you have overcome, all this you have done as an offering to the divine Work, you see, with all your sincerity and goodwill, the best of your ability and a complete good-heartedness. Yes, you have put into it all that you could, you have succeeded to a certain... the effort in its deeper sense, as the offering that's made. We know, we have said this many a time, that all work is a prayer made with the body and that the true attitude in work is an offering to the Divine. Well, this was satisfied with the way the thing was done. For I was looking on, to see, as I said, if there were things which were not as they should have been. But in any case, to the eye ...
... which wants to cut a good figure and be appreciated by others. But if all your activity were an offering to the Divine, you would not care at all about the appreciation of others. 14 November 1961 Sweet Mother, You have often told us that our activities should be an offering to the Divine. What does this mean exactly , and how can it be done? For instance, when we play tennis or basketball ...
... to learn, to study well and to develop your mind, your intellectual faculty, and at the same time to develop your life as well; to not live in the old ways of life, to make your life an offering to the Divine, to do all your studies, all your actions, all your activities, not for yourself, not for your parents, but for the Divine. For which, I suppose, your Delhi Centre stands, and which that... 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 know very well what ...
... and a specious shield against the demand Page 148 made on us to root all desire out of our nature." (Ibid., pp. 209-10) To do every action as a consecrated offering to the Divine without any desire for any conceivable fruit from the action is the siddhi of this stage of the Karma-sadhana. 4. Renunciation of all attachment to any specific work It... 181-82) Thus, to consider all actions equally and renounce all attachment to any specific action but to do every single action of our daily life as a perfectly desireless consecrated offering to the Divine is the siddhi of this stage of Karma-yoga. 5. Actions initiated by spiritual inspiration All our normal actions are vitiated by the presence of some personal desire behind ...
... not with any tension. 29.3.1970 The anxiety for quickness and result seems to produce tension in my work. The best attitude for the work is to make of it an offering to the Divine, and for that, to do it as well as one can, leaving the result in the care of the Divine. Thus all tension disappears. Page 133 And when one knows how to make the offering... n of energy? A comfortable physical rest (sofa or easy chair), vital tranquillity, mental silence, and on the -part of the whole being a general attitude of passive offering to the Divine. 26.11.1970 In the night there was a tide of useless thoughts, but Your remembrance was there as a wave of protection. My will is to give you the peace of silence. ...
... to do that little carefully and scrupulously in the future. For the rest Page 751 you can go on with your music and your sadhana; but let all be done in a deeper spirit and as an offering to the Divine. 11 May 1933 There is no reason why one should not offer to work if there is work to do. Often there is work to be done and no one offers, so it is not done. Most of the Asram work is ...
... other person's goodwill? Yes, that's true, that may happen. Fundamentally, this is why we always come back to the same thing: one must do all one can, as well as possible, and do it as an offering to the Divine, and then, once all this is settled and organised, well, if there is really an aspiration in the being, and a being that is a being of light, it can counteract all bad influences. But once ...
... asked to give yourself up to the service of the Divine in any outward or physical sense, but to prepare yourself inwardly by taking all life and all work wherever you are as a sacrifice, an offering to the Divine. That, if you are sincere in your seeking, you can do anywhere. 27 February 1931 It is possible to give X a room, the Mother says, in one of the houses. But he speaks of residing here ...
... developed it for the integral spiritual life. It is founded not on speculation and reasoning but on experience. It does not exclude meditation and certainly does not exclude Bhakti, for the self-offering to the Divine, the consecration of all oneself to the Divine which is the essence of this Karma yoga are essentially a movement of Bhakti. Only it does exclude a life-fleeing exclusive meditation or an emotional ...
... would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, "Remember and Offer." Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things. Often in the beginning of the action this can be done; but as one ...
... tell people in other words: whatever work you do―whether you go to an office, keep accounts, drive a car, anything―whatever the work you do, and naturally whomever you do it for, it must be an offering to the Divine. While doing it, you should keep the remembrance of the Divine and do it as an expression of your consecration to the Divine. This is what Sri Aurobindo says, nothing else. Sweet Mother ...
... nature of the work one does - any work, even the most humble, can lead to the Divine if it is done with the right attitude. The Mother Work as offering You must do the work as an offering to the Divine and take it as part of your Sadhana. In that spirit the nature of the work is of little importance and you can do any work without losing the contact with the inner presence. The Mother ...
... innumerable people who work only to earn money, but in this case their activity is altogether rotten, naturally. That was my very first basis in forming the Ashram: that the work done here be an offering to the Divine. Instead of letting oneself go in the stream of one's nature, of one's mood, one must constantly keep in mind this kind of feeling that one is a representative of the Supreme Knowledge ...
... would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, "Remember and Offer." Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things. Source ...
... works at all. Similarly the sacrifice of knowledge does not mean that you painfully and resolutely make yourself a fool for the sake of the Page 433 Lord. Sacrifice means an inner offering to the Divine and the real spiritual sacrifice is a very joyful thing. Otherwise, one is only trying to make oneself fit and has not yet begun the real yajna. It is because your mind is struggling with your ...
... of desire the guidance of the soul's inner insight, enter into the profound paths of the Spirit. Above all, the psychic being imposes on life the law of the sacrifice of all its works as an offering to the Divine and the Eternal. Life becomes a call to that which is beyond Life; its every smallest act enlarges with the sense of the Infinite. As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of ...
... foundation. Work in the midst of humanity and ostensibly for humanity need not always cease, but during the work the Yogic consciousness will go on and the work itself will be really done as an offering to the Divine and not either for oneself or for humanity which is after all a repetition of oneself on a huge scale. Your final question is the shortest but actually a tremendous "stumper". All the ...
... the editors. × Here is Mother's text : "Consciousness develops best through work done as offering to the Divine. Indolence and inaction lead to tamas : That is a fall into unconsciousness, it is contrary to all progress and light. "To overcome one's ego, to live only in the service of the Divine—that ...
... the Divine. That's what is remarkable in the physical, it's that when the physical has learned something, it never forgets. Once the cells have learned that, learned this self-giving, this offering to the Divine, and this NEED to offer themselves, it's learned, and it DOESN'T BUDGE ANYMORE. It's constant, twenty-four hours a day, ceaselessly, day after day, changelessly; even when something goes wrong ...
... Passion-flower ( passiflora incarnata ). × To pray with the body: to do one's work as an offering to the Divine. The Mother has written: "To work for the Divine is to pray with the body." Words of the Mother - II , CWM, Vol. 14, p. 299 . ...
... strongly between you and your spiritual life; your devotion and your faith have been seriously shaken by this. As a consequence, you became afraid and you did not find the same joy in your offering to the Divine Cause; and also, quite naturally, you fell back into your ordinary consciousness and your old life. You are quite right, nevertheless, not to let yourself be discouraged. Whatever the fall ...
... in a state of love for the Divine. What is most remarkable in the physical is that once it has learnt a thing it never forgets it. The cells, once they have learnt it, this self-giving, this offering to the Divine, this need of self-offering, have learnt it for good; it does not flicker any more. It is constant, twenty-four hours out of twenty-four, without stop and day after day, and there is no change ...
... with The Mother 29 March 1935 My Love, What is the meaning of "service"? The work that is done not for oneself but as a disinterested offering to the Divine. With love and blessings to my dear faithful Baby 29 March 1935 ...
... play of the lower forces is against that. Still it can dictate what higher play is to replace the lower movement and then there is the process of that replacement. You say rightly that the offering to the Divine shortens the whole thing and is more effective, but usually it cannot be done completely at once owing to the past habit and the two methods" 19 continue together until the complete surrender ...
... cessation of activities. It is he who has to choose the actions and try to do those actions in a perfect way but with a different attitude. All works should be performed as a consecrated offering to the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has made this point clear in a significant paragraph of his Synthesis of Yoga: "The work itself is at first determined by the best light we cancommand in our ignorance ...
... ed attitude. "Not 1 but you, O Divine; not for me but for you alone" — this should be the constant guiding principle of the life of a sadhaka. And here comes the necessity of self-offering to the Divine and its possible effect upon the opening of consciousness. This has been the universally validated axiom of spiritual life that the act of self-surrender to the Divine is the best and most ...
... If I complain, Sri Aurobindo says, 'Write, write, write'. But, merciful heavens! What do I profit by writing? Through music, I feel a sense of offering and can think of it as work done as an offering to the Divine." 8 years? Amateur Yogis! Those who know something about Yoga would count 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 years as nothing for the preliminary work of preparation and self-purification. That was X's bane—He ...
... are quarrels she must pacify and tempers she has to cool. Am I not right? Of course, all this seemingly surface business has to be tackled with the inner yogic consciousness. All has to be an offering to the Divine - and now there is the varied crowd of apparently ordinary things of life to be woven into the spiritual practice. I have always called my path the Integral Yoga and held that all life is Yoga ...
... attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the only way out.... All work has to be done as an offering to the Divine, and not in expectation of human appreciation and even in defiance of misunderstanding or criticism, one has to persevere on one's chosen path relying on the inner strength, the Divine presence ...
... artistic or creative work is pursued, not for the sake of egoistic satisfaction, nor even in a spirit of nisk ā ma karma (desireless service), but as the body's, heart's, mind's, soul's offering to the Divine. Hence the special importance of Karmayoga in the Ashram: accepting any assignment whatever from the Mother, and doing one's best and offering it as the expression of one's love and devotion ...
... hand-labour, clerical work, intellectual work, artistic work, and so on. The time had come to make a clean sweep of all this undesirable overgrowth of the past, and make all work equally an offering to the Divine. "The Mother was moulding our entire life for a God-oriented existence," says Sahana Devi, "a birth into a new consciousness, an inner life." 3 And the best way this could be done was to ...
... fulfill it in the highest and the most true way, the general condition of the world can become much better.... That was my very first basis in forming the Ashram: that the work done here be an offering to the Divine. Instead of letting oneself go in the stream of one's nature, of one's mood, one must constantly keep in mind this kind of feeling that one is a representative of the Supreme Knowledge ...
... the Mother's teaching on Yogic action draws to a close. We have seen that the primary and principal aim of Yogic action is union with the Divine. A disinterested doing of all action as an offering to the Divine, without allowing any desire or preference to enter into it, is the first step. In proportion as desirelessness, and self-offering progress, one advances in an increasing purity and freedom ...
... significance of the pranam in French to the Western teacher who normally did not do the pranam. The Mother said: “When pranam is done with true faith, then it becomes symbolic of a self-offering to the Divine present in the whole creation. It is the Divine who is its principal inspiration and it expresses one’s acceptance and surrender to that Divine present in the creation.” Not even one in ...
... 1933-08-05 I saw a beautiful lotus and inside it a coconut. The lotus was not quite open but one after another the petals were opening. It is the Consciousness opening, with the offering to the Divine within it. Sri Aurobindo ...
... August 1933 I saw a beautiful lotus and inside it a coconut. The lotus was not quite open but one after another the petals were opening. It is the Consciousness opening, with the offering to the Divine within it. 5.8.1933 Sri Aurobindo ...
... down, I feel how disgusting this life is. There is nothing in it that is not full of ego and falsehood. But to come out of it . . . where and how and when? Right now , by sincere self-offering to the Divine, by complete consecration of all one’s energies and work, and by renouncing one’s desires and preferences. 30 November 1966 ...
... on one's inner being. How much equarLimity , how much serenity are established in one's day-to-day living? - how much of disinterested action is one capable of as an outflow of one's self-offering to the Divine - how far can one spontaneously communicate Sri Aurobindo's Himalayan height of eternal guardianship or the Mother's ever-bright flow of many-featured grace like a golden Ganges carrying its ...
... days that have gone, getting rid of the quivering hopes for the nights that are ahead, we must gather all our thoughts and feelings and dreams in the living moment, make it an outward-inward offering to the Divine Mother. An offering to her, made with full absorption in the sense of her luminous beauty, will wipe off the script of karma and render us new-bom and,, if we let the offering keep out ...
... purchased to enable me to visit the villages on calls. The dispensary was opened with a prayer to the Mother to guide and help us to learn to do this work for the Divine and I decided to send some offering to the Divine Mother every month regularly. I gave two hours everyday in visiting one village in the surroundings and gave the rest of the time to my village. I earned a good name as an honest adviser ...
... enjoyment and in the strength of that ecstasy increase in man, exalt him to his highest possibilities, make him capable of the supreme experiences. Those who do not give the delight in them as an offering to the divine Powers, preferring to reserve themselves for the sense and the lower life, are adorers not of the gods, but of the Panis, lords of the sense-consciousness, traffickers in its limited activities ...
... to replace the lower movement and then there is the process of that replacement, the higher coming, the lower struggling to remain and push away the higher movement. You say rightly that the offering to the Divine shortens the whole thing and is more effective, but usually it cannot be done completely at once owing to the past habit and the two methods continue together until the complete surrender is ...
... has received the Divine Consciousness when even in the small movements of life there is an aspiration to the Divine, a reference as it were to the Divine Light for guidance or some feeling of offering to the Divine or guidance by the Divine. The lower vital commands the little details of emotion, impulse, sensation, action—it is these that, when converted, it offers to the Divine control for transformation ...
... developed or rather the rasa you speak of. One cannot be said to be in the full Yogic condition—for the purposes of this Yoga—if one cannot take up with willingness any work given to one as an offering to the Divine. At one time I was absolutely unfit for any physical work and cared only for the mental, but I trained myself in doing physical things with care and perfection so as to overcome this glaring ...
... innumerable people who work only to earn money, but in this case their activity is altogether rotten, naturally. That was my very first basis in forming the Ashram: that the work done here be an offering to the Divine. Instead of letting oneself go in the stream of one's nature, of one's mood, one must constantly keep in mind this kind of feeling that one is a representative of the Supreme Knowledge, ...
... consciously at their art Page 104 with the knowledge. In their creation they did not put forward their personality as the most important factor; they considered their work as an offering to the Divine, they tried to express by it their relation with the Divine. This was the avowed function of Art in the Middle Ages. The "primitive" painters, the builders of cathedrals in Mediaeval Europe ...
... the ordinary consciousness. You may be misled into utterly wrong channels when you are not in the right state of consciousness. But once you are poised in the psychic and have made your self-offering to the Divine, all that happens will happen for the best, for Page 123 everything, however disguised, will be a definite divine response to you. Indeed the very act of genuine self-giving ...
... had it; they worked consciously at their art with the knowledge. In their creation they did not put forward their personality as the most important factor; they considered their work as an offering to the Divine, they tried to express by it their relation with the Divine. This was the avowed function of Art in the Middle Ages. The "primitive" painters, the builders of cathedrals in Mediaeval ...
... rational explanation of the religious practice of consecrating one's food to God before taking it. When eating one aspires that this food may not be taken for the little human ego but as an offering to the divine consciousness within oneself. Page 333 In all yogas, all religions, this is encouraged. This is the origin of that practice, of contacting the consciousness behind, precisely to ...
... humbly but with a fire in the heart, something that burns like an offering. The Mother Work as offering Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine. The Mother Page 2 Work is yoga I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a ...
... oneself from one's ego. 24.2.1971 * In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the right attitude. 15.4.1971* Page 45 It is in work done as an offering to the Divine that the consciousness develops best. Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a fall into in-conscience and the very opposite of progress and light. To surmount one's ego ...
... have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be "Remember and Offer." Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things. Often in the beginning of the action this can be done; but as ...
... the ordinary consciousness. You may be misled into utterly wrong channels when you are not in the right state of consciousness. But once you are poised in the psychic and have made your self-offering to the Divine, all that happens will happen for the best, for everything, however disguised, will be a definite divine response to you. Indeed the very act of genuine self-giving is its own immediate ...
... pleasure. 21 July 1961 Sweet Mother, We have a minute of concentration before and after group every day. What should we try to do during this concentration? Before, make an offering to the Divine of what you are going to do, so that it may be done in a spirit of consecration. Page 354 Afterwards, ask the Divine to increase the will for progress in us, so that we may become ...
... only for oneself, and even then one has to be very sincere in order not to deceive oneself 4 November 1961 Sweet Mother, You have often told us that our activities must be an offering to the Divine. What does it mean exactly, and how to do it? For instance, when one plays tennis or basketball, how does one do that as an offering? Mental formations are not enough, naturally! It means ...
... advent of a more harmonious Future. 27 March 1971 In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the right attitude. 15 April 1971 It is in work done as an offering to the Divine that the consciousness develops best. Page 211 Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and light. To surmount ...
... 1966 Energy is in perpetual movement. It enters and leaves your physical being (mental, vital and material) and it is during your stay in what you call "you" that you must make of it an offering to the Divine and put it at His service. Then automatically you will do at each instant what the Divine wants you to do. 12 December 1967 Page 105 The whole life turned towards the ...
... be no sacrifice of works at all. Similarly the sacrifice of knowledge does not mean that you painfully and resolutely make yourself a fool for the sake of the Lord. Sacrifice means an inner offering to the Divine and the real spiritual sacrifice is a very joyful thing. Otherwise, one is only trying to make oneself fit and has not yet begun the real yajna. It is because your mind is struggling with your ...
... and the Mother, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram presents the spectacle of a bewildering network of activities in which individual sadhaks may participate as an effective means of consecrated self-offering to the Divine, leading to a progressive growth of their consciousness. Some of the activities in the Ashram are as follows: Page 11 "Teaching, printing, proof-reading, binding, typewriting ...
... all, and it is done without remuneration. Sadhaks and sadhikas here strive for perfection in their work not in hopes of material advancement, but in order to make their labour a more worthy offering to the Divine. But as years have rolled by, especially after the physical withdrawal of the Mother, and with the arrival of a new generation of entrants, the real purpose of work in the Ashram has ...
... it deviates from the right path. (ix)Now about the attitude that has to be maintained. The sadhaka should do all that he has to do only for the joy of doing the right thing as an offering to the Divine. No other motive should be allowed to intrude there. As the Mother advises: "You must not be anxious about the results; simply do a thing because you have seen that it is that which must ...
... with the Divine where he is to be found, whether in hell or heaven or on the earth, and who want to offer themselves absolutely, undeservedly and to offer every drop of blood of the body as an offering to the Divine Lover, — those seekers are of the highest category in the path of Bhakti yoga. As Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, all devotees are dear to the Divine, but devotees who also possess ...
... rule of desire the guidance of the soul's inner sight, enter into the profound paths of the Spirit. Above all, the psychic being imposes on life the law of the sacrifice of all its works as an offering to the Divine and Eternal. Life becomes a call to that which is beyond Life; its every smallest act enlarges with the sense of the Infinite."" As the second condition grows into greater and greater ...
... It played a great part in firing the soul of modern India and rousing the nation to a renewed sense of the greatness of active life. Its gospel of selfless, disinterested work, done as an offering to the Divine without any desire for its fruit, can be said to be the most powerful factor in the renaissance of the nation and in the shaping of the progressive mind in modern India. And it is the one ...
... gives an illustration of how the inner identity is more effective in its work than outer sympathy. It also shows that grace does not work in human Page 221 ways and that man's offering to the Divine is not valued in the human way. It is very difficult to recognize the Divine when it has taken up a human consciousness. Indian Mythology is full of such stories. Q: You spoke ...
... been made, and as a consequence one's ego learns to lose itself in the Divine, all ambitions and programmes and strategies for social service would become, not service of humanity, but an offering to the Divine. We are reminded of Mother Teresa who has said that in her epic ministrations to the sick, the miserable, the destitute and the dying at Calcutta and elsewhere, she is not engaging in social ...
... hand, and the heady drive of desires on the other. If all desires are renounced, including even the desire for the fruit of one's actions, and all actions are done as a conscious and living offering to the Divine, the knots of the ego are gradually loosened, and the consciousness of the Karmayogi rises into the limpid skies of Spirit, beyond the habitual insistences of the passing moments. Dwelling ...
... the Mother: Sweet Mother, We have a minute of concentration before and after group every day. What should we try to do during this concentration? The Mother said, “Before, make an offering to the Divine of what you are going to do, so that it may be done in a spirit of consecration. Afterwards, ask the Divine to increase the will for progress in us, so that we may become instruments that ...
... 21 July 1961 * * * Sweet Mother, We have a minute of concentration before and after group every day. What should we try to do during this concentration? Before, make an offering to the Divine of what you are going to do, so that it may be done in a spirit of consecration. Afterwards, ask the Divine to increase the will for progress in us, so that we may become instruments that ...
... Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Priest and Sacrificial Flame [The Rishi invokes the Divine Flame in all its usual attributes as the sacrificer, the luminous seer who has the vision of the luminous world, the bringer of the gods, the carrier of the offering, the envoy, conqueror, increaser of the divine workings in man, the knower of the Births, the leader of the march of the sacrifice with its... उक्थ्यः ॥६॥ 6) O Flame, thou burnest high and increasest the divine laws and art the conqueror of a thousandfold riches; thou art the messenger of the gods who hast the word. न्यग्निं जातवेदसं होत्रवाहं यविष्ठ्यम् । दधाता देवमृत्विजम् ॥७॥ 7) Set within you the Flame who knows the births, bearer of the offering, youngest vigour, divine sacrificer in the seasons of the Truth. प्र यज्ञ ... thee in thy light and thy vastness in the march of our sacrifice who carriest the offerings on their journey. Page 463 अग्ने विश्वेभिरा गहि देवेभिर्हव्यदातये । होतारं त्वा वृणीमहे ॥४॥ 4) Come, O Will, with all the godheads for the giving of the oblation; thee we accept as the priest of the offering. यजमानाय सुन्वत आग्ने सुवीर्यं वह । देवैरा सत्सि बर्हिषि ॥५॥ 5) For the ...
... Vision of Auroville Foundation Ceremony 1979-02-21 Our brother Narad had arranged on 21st February 1979, The Mother's birthday, a flower-show at his place in Auroville as a loving offering to our Divine Mother from his dedicated family. For me to go to his garden would have been a joy even on any other day, to see brother Narad with his plants as if he were near the Mother. The plants speak... future! This vision reminds me of what the Mother once told me—that the flowers of Divine Love, which She used to give to Kamala for preparing Blessing Packets, were charged by Her. Now She gave me the experience of how She would do it. I saw the whole Meditation Hall of Matrimandir charged with the supreme Divine Love. When I went to Matrimandir on 7th December 1978, I wanted to go down, but could... saw all with an inner significance. I saw the Mother just above each youth participating in the Foundation Ceremony, with Her beatific, sweet, supreme smile. She radiated bright golden light and Her Divine Love. This reminded me of Krishna's Ras Lila. Each participant was on a lion, holding his country's flag in one hand and the earth of his land in the other, marching towards the Foundation Urn. The ...
... Offering Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine. Page 98 The only offering that truly enriches is the one made to the Divine. Offering: the placing of your entire being, with all its movements true and false, good and bad, right and wrong, before the Divine for transformation. Offer sincerely to the Divine your obscurities... and you will be able to receive the light. The offering of our being we make to the Divine must be integral and effective. 24 August 1954 Integral offering: the surest road to realisation. Unconditional integral offering: the joy of offering oneself without asking for anything in return. ...
... of flowers is a valuable help in finding and uniting with the psychic. Blessings. Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine. By communing with flowers we can see that the vegetal kingdom already has its own way of aspiring for the Divine. Blessings. Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them; it is a subtle and fragrant language. Blessings ...
... bearer of offering whose mouth receives the offerings. Page 119 कविमग्निमुप स्तुहि सत्यधर्माणमध्वरे । देवममीवचातनम् ॥७॥ 7) To the divine Flame, the seer, him whose law of being is the Truth, the shining one, the destroyer of all evils, approach and chant the hymn of praise. यस्त्वामग्ने हविष्पतिर्दूतं देव सपर्यति । तस्य स्म प्राविता भव ॥८॥ 8) O Flame, O divine messenger... the offerings who waits on thee, of him become the protector. यो अग्निं देवदीतये हविष्माँ आविवासति । तस्मै पावक मृळय ॥९॥ 9) He who with the offerings approaches the divine force, for the Birth of the Gods, O Purifier, on him have grace. स नः पावक दीदिवोऽग्ने देवाँ इहा वह । उप यज्ञं हविश्च नः ॥१०॥ 10) O shining Flame, thou who purifiest, hither bear the Gods to our offerings and... इमं स्तोमं जुषस्व नः ॥१२॥ 12) O Fire, with thy lustres white, and all thy divine hymns that summon the Gods, come and accept this hymn that we affirm. Page 120 SUKTA 13 सुसमिद्धो न आ वह देवाँ अग्ने हविष्मते । होतः पावक यक्षि च ॥१॥ 1) O Fire! perfectly kindled, bear the gods to him who has the offerings, O Thou who purifiest! Thou summoner! sacrifice to the gods. मधुमन्तं ...
... love and zeal, but casts away the anxiety for results and is neither eager for victory nor afraid of defeat;—when he devotes all his works to God and lays every thought, word and deed as an offering on the divine altar;—when he gets rid of fear and hatred, repulsion and disgust and attachment, and works like the forces of Nature, unhasting, unresting, inevitably, perfectly;—when he rises above the thought... ordinary life of men in the strength of the Yoga and under the law of the Vedanta. It is by such a union of the inner life and the outer that mankind will eventually be lifted up and become mighty and divine. It is a delusion to suppose that Vedanta contains no inspiration to life, no rule of conduct, and is purely metaphysical and quietistic. On the contrary, the highest morality of which humanity is... their best, turn away from their dharma and bastard confusion reign. The ideal Yogin is no withdrawn and pent-up force, but ever engaged in doing good to all creatures, either by the flood of the divine energy that he pours on the world or by himself standing in the front of humanity, its leader in the march and the battle, but unbound by his works and superior to his personality. Moreover the ...
... coins at least to the child who was so eager to offer. The father did so immediately and said he was sorry. I told him that whoever may do the actual offering, the Divine knows very well who has earned that money and so he need not be particular about offering it himself. He admitted that it was true, and added that it was ignorance on his part. On a similar occasion, another father said he was extremely... room. When they approach the Darshan room, some parents put money in the hands of their children for offering to Sri Aurobindo. Some make the children offer it all and themselves do not give anything; some offer money after their children have done so. Some husbands make their wives do the offering, while some husbands do it themselves and give nothing to their wives to offer. And of course there are... Pranam, money falls out from their pockets—some quietly put it back in their pockets, some offer the whole amount, some keep a part and offer the rest. Now some children, when they see their parents offering money, look up expectantly at the parents but they are disappointed. Once it happened that there was a family of three: the child was about five years old. All stood with folded hands, with eyes ...
... Light, for the divine, for the Will whom mortals by their expressions of his godhead as the Friend 1 put in their front. स हि द्युभिर्जनानां होता दक्षस्य बाह्वोः । वि हव्यमग्निरानुषग्भगो न वारमृण्वति ॥२॥ 2) The Will is the priest of offering of the peoples; by the illuminations of the discerning mind he bears abroad in both his arms the continuous order 2 of their offerings and as the... Atris Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Sixteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn to the Bringer of All Desirable Good [The Rishi affirms the Divine Will in man as the offering and representative priest who brings light and strength and inspired knowledge and every desirable good; for he is the aspirer by works in whom is the puissance of all the gods and the... The Divine Will becomes the Enjoyer Bhaga, brother power of Mitra, who enjoys all delight of existence but by Mitra's power of pure discernment and according to the light, truth and harmony of the divine living. × The gods; the Divine Force contains and sustains all the other divine powers in their ...
... suffering of the Divine. It is from a state of deep compassion that the Divine acts in Matter and this deep compassion is translated in Matter precisely by this psychic sorrow which is spoken about here. 1 We read that this evening. That is as though something were reversed, it is the same thing but reversed in this way ( Mother joins her hands and then opens them as in an offering ). Well, the... the Divine's state of compassion is translated in the psychic consciousness by a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is the expression of the identification through sympathy with universal sorrow. In the Prayers and Meditations I have said this (in one of the later ones), I have described at length an experience in which way I say, "I wept... the sweetest tears of my life", 2 because it ...
... thee. Page 292 न्यग्निं जातवेदसं होत्रवाहं यविष्ठयम् । दधाता देवमृत्विजम् ॥७॥ 7) Set within you the Fire that knows all things born, the Fire ever young, the Carrier of the offerings, the divine Priest who does sacrifice in its season. प्र यज्ञ एत्वानुषगद्या देवव्यचस्तमः । स्तृणीत बर्हिरासदे ॥८॥ 8) Let our sacrifice uninterruptedly march on most strong today to reveal the... thee whose eyes behold the world of the Sun. Bring the gods for the advent. वीतिहोत्रं त्वा कवे द्युमन्तं समिधीमहि । अग्ने बृहन्तमध्वरे ॥३॥ 3) The Pilgrim of the Way who voyages with our offerings, O Seer, we set thee ablaze in thy light and thy vastness. अग्ने विश्वेभिरा गहि देवेभिर्हव्यदातये । होतारं त्वा वृणीमहे ॥४॥ 4) O Fire, come with all the gods for the gift of the oblation... Mystic Fire Vasuyus SUKTA 25 अच्छा वो अग्निमवसे देवं गासि स नो वसुः । रासत् पुत्र ऋषूणामृतावा पर्षति द्विषः ॥१॥ 1) Bring to you by your anthem the divine Fire that he may guard you; he comes to us a Prince of the Treasures. He is a son of the Sages, let him lavish his riches; the Truth is in him and he bears men across beyond the powers that are hostile ...
... 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. For the man who has this knowledge and lives and... acts in it, there can be no binding works, no personal and egoistically appropriated action; there is only the divine Purusha acting by the divine Prakriti in His own being, offering everything into the fire of His self-conscious cosmic energy, while the knowledge and the possession of His divine existence and consciousness by the soul unified with Him is the goal of all this God-directed movement and... The former conceive of the Divine in various forms and powers and seek him by various means, ordinances, dharmas , laws or, as we might say, settled rites of action, self-discipline, consecrated works; for the latter, those who already know, the simple fact of sacrifice, of offering whatever work to the Divine itself, of casting all their activities into the unified divine consciousness and energy, ...
... 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. Says Sri Krishna: "Brahman is the giving, Brahman is the food-offering, by Brahman... knowledge finds itself in the self-offering, this uplifting of our personal nature by love and adoration; the sacrifice of works receives by it its consummation and perfect sanction. It is, then, through these things that the soul of man fulfils itself, most Page 46 completely in this other and dynamic secret, this other great and intimate aspect of the divine nature and possesses by that ... fires of control, others offer the objects of sense and all the actions of the sense and all the actions of the vital force into the fire of the Yoga of self- control kindled by knowledge".69 The offering of the striver after perfection may be material and physical, dravya yajna; or it may be the austerity of his self-discipline and energy of his soul directed to some high aim, tapoyajna, or it ...
... Swar [where mind capable of intuition, inspiration and revelation is bathed in the splendours of the Truth (ritam)]. In the concluding verse, Soma is described as the offering, havih, the divine food, as the vast, mahi, and as the divine home sadma daivyam. Soma is then addressed as a victorious king, sun like in force and glory, sahasra bhrishtih, endowed with thousand burning brilliances. His... the sacrifice to flood the offering with a mind pouring ghrita, ghritapusha manasa. The yogic meaning refers to the "mind pouring the light", which is a labour of the clarity of the enlightened or illumined mind. Sometimes the Veda speaks plainly of offering intellect (dhishana) as purified ghrita, to the gods, ghritam na putam dhishanam, as in RV III.2.1. Offering of ghrita means, therefore... the conquest of Swar which need special attention. The first is the instrumentality of the sacrifice, the second is the discovery and chant of the Word, the third is the offering of the ghrita, and the fourth is the offering and drinking of the soma-wine. Page 5 (b) We may note that the Vedic sacrifice is symbolic in character, even though it may have also ritualistic significance ...
... food. Take it in the right quantity (neither too much nor too little), without greed or repulsion, as the means given you by the Mother for the maintenance of the body, in the right spirit, offering it to the Divine in you..."² To be preoccupied with food—its quality or quantity —is the wrong way to solve the problem of greed. Many yogis waste much of their time and care upon it on account of their... positive degradation and deformation of the divine Ananda, and those who seek to realise and express the latter in life must renounce all craving for the former. Sex enjoyment is absolutely incompatible with spiritual life. "...It is when one mixes up sex and spirituality that there is the greatest havoc. Even the attempt to sublimate it by turning it towards the Divine as in the Vaishnava madhura bhāva ... carries in it a serious danger, as the results of a wrong turn or use in this method so often show. At any rate in this Yoga (the Integral Yoga) which seeks not only the essential experience of the Divine but a transformation of the whole being and nature, I have found it an absolute necessity of the sadhana to aim at a complete mastery over the sex- force; otherwise the vital consciousness remains ...
... be: 'When in the divine dispensation something happens to me ever in the future, that will be the right time for me to be occupied with that. Why nurture even from now all sorts of negative foreboding thoughts. Instead, my attitude should be to accept with gratitude all the pleasant things the Divine is offering me in his loving-kindness even at this very moment. Whatever the Divine wants me to be at... at the present moment of my life, I shall sincerely try to be that; whatever I consider to be my spiritual duty at this moment, I shall do that with perfect sincerity solely as an offering to my divine Beloved. And there ends my task and occupation. No need to have any anxious brooding as regards the uncertainty of my future, nor is there any justification for the shedding of vain tears over my ... the Divine's dealings and immediately fall back upon it each time he feels like straying away from the right path: "The ways of the Divine are not like those of the human mind or according to our patterns and it is impossible to judge them or Page 6 to lay down for Him what He shall or shall not do, for the Divine knows better than we can know. If we admit the Divine at all ...
... to the Divine. Years of work are needed. You must not only…( silence )… become conscious of yourself, conscious in all details, but you must organise what you call “yourself” around the psychic centre, the divine centre of your being, so that it would make a single, coherent, fully conscious being. And as this divine centre is itself already consecrated ( Mother makes a gesture of offering ) entirely... entirely to the Divine, if everything is organised harmoniously around it, everything is consecrated to the Divine. And so, when the Divine thinks it proper, when the time has come, when the work of individualisation is complete, then the Divine gives you permission to let your ego merge in Him, to live henceforward only for the Divine. But it is the Divine who takes this decision. You must first have... conformity with his plan and nothing can leave an imprint on him unless he agrees to receive the imprint. Then one begins to become an individuality! When one is an individuality, one can make an offering of it. For, unless one possesses something, one cannot give it. First, one must be, and then afterwards one can give oneself. So long as one does not exist, one can give nothing . And for the ...
... 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 stunted. And why should it not be so? If... point-blank: "Do you love the Divine?", our prompt answer will be: "Surely we do." If now a second question is addressed to us seeking some clarification: "How do you know that you really love the Divine?", our reply will perhaps be: "Well, we intensely like any discussion about the Divine and spiritual life; we sit in meditation at regular intervals; praying to the Divine is a normal feature of our... bounty of divine Grace in a free and uninterrupted 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 ...
... By service of the Divine the Mother means the constant and conscious offering of each movement of one's nature- physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual—to the Divine and to none and nothing but the Divine. All actions of life are accepted and turned towards the Divine except those which are tainted with desire or clearly detrimental to spiritual growth. This wholesale offering of all work is the... instant. ”² The secret of success in this uphill work of physical transformation is, according to the Mother, "Living Thee (the Divine) alone in the act whatever it may be, ever and always Thee.” Divine union through integral self-offering, and transformation and divine fulfilment through integral dynamic union, is the formula of the life of service as conceived and taught by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo... for its success on two indispensable factors : self-offering of the individual through every action of life done as an oblation to the Divine, and the bringing down of the Light-Force of the Vijnanamaya Purusha into the physical being. The Vijnanashakti or supramental Force descends and suffuses the physical being and awakens and activates the divine consciousness that is submerged in it. Purification ...
... men. By service of the Divine the Mother means the constant and conscious offering of each movement of one's nature—physical, vital, psychic, mental and spiritual—to the Divine and to none and nothing but the Divine. All actions of life are accepted 1 Prayers and Meditations of the Mother —August 17, 1913 Page 33 and turned towards the Divine except those which are tainted... " 1 The secret of success in this uphill work of physical transformation is, according to the Mother, "Living Thee (the Divine) alone in the act whatever it may be, ever and always Thee." Divine union through integral self-offering, and transformation and divine fulfillment through integral dynamic union, is the formula of the life of service as conceived and taught by the Mother and Sri... its success on two indispensable factors: self-offering of the individual through every action of life done as an oblation to the Divine, and the bringing down of the Light-Force of the Vijnanamaya Purusha into the physical being. The Vijnanashakti or supramental Force descends and suffuses the physical being and awakens and activates the divine consciousness that is submerged in it. Purification ...
... the honey, the delight that is the food of the soul. Sukṛttama madhuno bhakṣam āśata . Soma manifests here as the offering, the divine food, the wine of delight and immortality, haviḥ , and as the Deva, lord of that divine offering ( haviṣmaḥ ), above as the vast and divine seat, the superconscient bliss and truth, bṛhat , from which the wine descends to us. As the wine of delight he flows about... adhi tiṣṭhanti cetasā . So far the Rishi has spoken of Soma in his impersonal manifestation, as the Ananda or delight of divine existence in the human being's conscious experience. He now turns, as is the habit of the Vedic Rishis, from the divine manifestation to the divine Person and at once Soma appears as the supreme Personality, the high and universal Deva. Arūrucad uṣasaḥ pṛśnir agriyaḥ ;... ess. हविर्हविष्मो महि सद्म दैव्यं नभो वसानः परि यास्यध्वरम् । राजा पवित्ररथो वाजमारुहः सहस्त्रभृष्टिर्जयसि श्रवो बृहत् ॥५॥ 5) O Thou in whom is the food, thou art that divine food, thou art the vast, the divine home; wearing heaven as a robe thou encompassest the march of the sacrifice. King with the sieve of thy purifying for thy chariot thou ascendest to the plenitude; with thy thousand ...
... "aroma" of self-offering wafts towards the Divine Mother present everywhere yet wearing the face and form of the human-looking Mother we have known in the Ashram as our Guru and this "aroma" emanates from a small centre which is myself deep within, a centre held in the arms, as it were, of the same human-divine being - at once infinite and finite - towards whom and into whom the self-offering flows. I think... our defects and depravities. What is required is an offering of the whole composite self to the Divine and an appeal to help the positives prevail over the negatives and ultimately dissolve them. Sri Aurobindo has said that the Mother never makes much of a sadhak's shortcomings: her concentration is always on his good points, his openings to the Divine Light and Love: no matter how often he may fall.... everything in this world fails a man except the Divine if he turns entirely to the Divine. I had wondered whether there was any reference here to outer circumstances and events taking a favourable shape by one's adherence to the Divine by means of faith or prayer. Of course external things could change to some extent, but the non-failure of the Divine in this sense struck me as too superficial ...
... 110 Divine..." But as the state you aim at cannot be achieved in a short time, the important question is: "What do you do meanwhile?" The real job of the idealist and the aspirant is to offer at the Divine's feet all the impurities, all the imperfections, all the discords in him. What is crucial and central is the act of offering and, as a result, the receiving of the Divine's guidance from... greater Consciousness. And how have you done this alchemic reception of the hurtful dross? The answer is simple: whatever happens to you, you have offered to the Divine with ah intense faith and devotion. Accepting your offering, the Divine has made the "Purusha no bigger than the thumb of a man", which is the Upanishad's vision of the evolving soul in us, grow in bliss and beauty within you and come closer... where it would be natural, is not "the Divine" but "the deity" or the "the Godhead". She supposes that Sri Aurobindo used the expression "the Divine"- out of deference to the Mother's wishes, "because he wrote "The Hour of God' and 'God shall grow up while wise men talk and sleep' and 'A step and all is sky and God.' He did not write 'The Hour of the Divine' -thanks be to God!" Page 107 ...
... Sastriar notes: "There was a new twinkle - significant - at pranam from the Mother; so joyous." On one of his birthdays, after meditation, the Mother gives him the flowers Vital Offering, Transformation Surrender and Divine Solicitude, and plays a tune on the organ which Sastriar recognises as the raga Mohana! One may wonder what the Mother does exactly during the meditation, the pranam or the ... this asking about progress - feel the Divine everywhere and in everything - first feel it within yourself. .. that you are an integral part of the Divine - strengthen your consecration to the Divine and perfect it and there will be no need for concerning yourself about progress, Establish equanimity and don't feel insulted, for who can insult the Divine?" January 28, 1936 Interview with... such extraneous relationships would be to interfere with the Divine-oriented sadhana and deflect it along undesirable or irrelevant channels. "The whole principle of this Yoga," said Sri Aurobindo, "is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother-Power all the transcendent light, force, wideness, peace ...
... and greatness of the Divine with a million tongues ... the Creator never ceases to scatter His floral bounty in forests and gardens 3 In the Ashram, the offering of flowers to the Mother at the time of Pranam - and to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at the time of the Darshans - was a Page 320 symbolic act testifying to the spiritual kinship between the Divine and the devotees. In... writes perceptively: Amongst all the offerings. made to the Divine, .the flower is the most subtle, and also the most mysterious; for, In Its simplicity, It carries the vibrations of the ākāśā, the ethereal element itself, - that is, all that is most abstract, pure and perfect. It is, above everything else, the all-powerful creative mantra. 5 The offering of flowers to the Mother, the receiving... harmony . This will make possible the manifestation of the supramental beauty in the physical . (14.11.1929) Let an integral offering of your being be the form of your purified worship. (10.12.1929) Let gold be turned to the service of the Divine; so it will get purified and take its true place in Krishna's play in the material. (26.4.1930) 12 There was, indeed, no end to ...
... Janaka and others who had attained perfection. Divine Birth, Divine Work, and the Secret of the Divine Incarnation The path of sacrifice is all-inclusive. It is the path of Page 82 offering, and the offering is multisided, and it develops into all-sided offering. The Gita's phrase of this total offering is sarvabhāvena, — offering in every mode of being, in every state of being... the law of sacrifice, there is to every pure offering a pure divine Page 81 response, the response of the highest will of Purushottama operative in the highest planes of Para Prakriti. This divine response is the divine birth that descends into the movements of upward will of the offering. It is by the junction of the two that the divine will is injected into the aspiring individual;... And the union of the jiva with the Purushottama to which this all-inclusive offering leads is three-fold; (i) the integral knowledge of the Purushottama, in all states of being of the Purushottama, — the immobile and the mobile and the supreme; (ii) the most intimate power of the will of the divine that culminates in Divine Action, divyam karma; and (iii) the most momentous influx of the supreme Lord ...
... sacrifice, brings into it the other gods and gives its fruit, —unless we take the two padas as unconnected in sense. The Hotri is the priest of invocation and also the priest who gives the offering. This divine Power of the sacrificial thought and Page 735 action brings in the powers of the other gods into the sacrifice and conducts the sacrificial action. Is this spoken of the inner or... of the divine Will in the sacrificial thought and action overcomes every other hostile force or, more simply and generally, it dominates all surrounding powers and makes the sacrifice master of a movement which nothing can resist, degrade or violate. 2) अधा होता न्यसीदो यजीयान्. अधा (Then, or now) न्यसीदो (thou tookest thy seat) यजीयान् होता as the priest of invocation and offering very... verse in order to restore the sequence of the idea. It is when he has made around him an invulnerable force to secure the sacrifice and its progress that the divine Flame takes up, as now, his seat as the priest of the invocation and offering and in that fulfilled strength he is very mighty for the works of sacrifice. He sits in the seat of knowledge as the supreme thinker—the Seer Will, may we not ...
... food. Take it in the right quantity (neither too much nor too little), without greed or repulsion, as the means given you by the Mother for the maintenance of the body, in the right spirit, offering it to the Divine in you; then it need not create tamas . It is much better to eat the meal in silence or at any rate in quietness. Attachment to Food It is the attachment to food, the greed and... diet or to give up all means of action such as money and service. The Yogin has to become niḥsva in this sense that he feels that nothing belongs to him but all to the Divine and he must be ready at any time to give up all to the Divine. But there is no meaning in throwing away everything in order to be externally niḥsva without any imperative cause. Page 421 Greed for Food The first ...
... the food-offering, by Brahman it is offered into the Brahman-fire, Brahman is that which is to be attained by samadhi in Brahman-action. 39 While commenting on this verse Sri Aurobindo writes: "The 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... 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 by Sri Aurobindo given in his Essays on the Gita are compiled by Anilbaran Roy in The Message of the Gita, pp. 51-52. 39 Ibid., p. 79. 40 Essays... eventuality. In it is going to be decided the fate of her mission and with it the uncertain fate itself of the evolutionary travail upon the earth. But who is the house-lord and who his mate, they making offerings to the well-kindled sacrificial fire? What is that fire in which are lit the fires of the cosmic powers that govern the worldly rounds leading them on the spiritual path, that on which they must progress ...
... to the Divine. Years of work are needed. You must not only...( silence )... become conscious of yourself, conscious in all details, but you must organise what you call "yourself" around the psychic centre, the divine centre of your being, so that it would make a single, coherent, fully conscious being. And as this divine centre is itself already consecrated ( Mother makes a gesture of offering ) entirely... entirely to the Divine, if everything is organised harmoniously around it, everything is consecrated to the Divine. And so, when the Divine thinks it proper, when the time has come, when the work of individualisation is complete, then the Divine gives you permission to let your ego merge in Him, to live henceforward only for the Divine. But it is the Divine who takes this decision. You must first have... opposed to the divine life. But the whole universe, in all its manifestation, is the Divine Himself, and so belongs entirely to Him; and it is on this ground that he says that the money-forces belong to the Divine. One must reconquer them and give them to Him. They have been under the influence of the Asuric forces: one must win them back in order to put them at the disposal of the Divine so that He may ...
... realising the fact. A further step is that, while holding relations and friends vividly within, there is a movement of offering them to the Divine. Such a movement ensures a sense of security for them and lessens the worry which one's affection for them brings about. Again, as the Divine is known to be everywhere and therefore always with one, one acquires the feeling that they are safely linked to... human condition which feels a perfection somewhere to be attained Page 288 but keeps fumbling for it unceasingly. In Sri Aurobindo it discovers the sight and the light - the hidden divine truth behind the evolving human is caught in its fullness and in a concentrated form in that tranquil countenance in which the entire broken history of mankind becomes a single shining whole of a knowledge... becomes of the vital and mental beings after the dissolution of the vital and mental sheaths? A: The outer form only dissolves, unless that too is made conscious and is organised round the divine centre. But the true mental, the true vital and even the true subtle-physical persist: it is that which keeps all the impressions received in earthly life and builds the chain of Karma. Now ...
... the Grace of the Divine is the sole requisite, and surrender ensures it. The detached soul watches the desires as they rise in the being, and rejects them, at the same time offering them to the divine Force for the destruction of their dark forms and the conversion of their energies into the fire of the Will. An unreserved surrender makes for an unveiled action of the divine Omnipotence in man... "No" to all its solicitations, and turn integrally to the Divine to know and realise His Will and nothing but His Will, at every step and moment of our life, that desire is finally conquered and the divine Will installed as the undisputed sovereign of our nature. It is then only that we can be said to have free will, for it is the divine Will alone that is free and sovereign. Detachment, equality... Desire—a Distorted Splinter of the Divine Will It is said in the Upanishads that in the beginning there was the One without a second. That One desired to be many. This, then, is the first birth of desire; but it is better to call it Will than desire, for, desire, in its ordinary acceptation, means a longing for something which we lack. The Divine lacked no- thing; He willed to reproduce ...
... ’s Radiant Equanimity K.D.S.’s humble and unreserved acceptance of all that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo decide for him in their inscrutable wisdom, and his spontaneous attitude of offering everything to the Divine, have helped him maintain an unvarying poise of equanimity before all the vicissitudes of life. Not that he has not faced many dark events in his career: he has had full share of all the... composite self to the Mother?... How does one present the consciousness from slipping off to one's old weak humdrum self?' In self-offering, there seem to me to be two attitudes. In one we are a composite bundle, a whole of consciousness holding numerous movements and offering them as all being ourselves. In the other we take separately our defects and put each at the Mother's feet while dissociating it... (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 ...
... significant part in the sādhanā itself. The ritual of the offering of flowers to the Mother is a potent symbolic act testifying to the reality of the spiritual kinship between the Divine and the sadhaks. Once a French visitor, profoundly responding to this ministry of flowers, remarked: Amongst all the offerings made to the Divine, the flower is the most subtle, and also the most mysterious;... creative mantra. 52 The offering of a flower, the receipt of a flower, could mean much, for flowers are verily the Divine's symbolic emanations of beauty and goodness and truth. Flowers in the Ashram have names of their own - not the names they are known by in the outside world, but Yogic names ('Psychological Perfection', 'Supreme descended on Earth', 'Divine Solicitude', 'Sincerity', 'Spiritual... of free India, and as the birthday of the avatar of the Supramental Age. On his seventy-seventh birthday, as on earlier birthdays, there were offerings, salutations, celebrations. Disciples - Romen, Norman Dowsett, Dilip, Nishikanto - made song-offerings. Thus Nishikanto: India's sacrificial fire In your high self has found its shrine... In this dim land you came to pave ...
... next verse of the same Hymn we read about Soma: "O Thou in whom is the food, thou art the divine food..." 4 On this phrase and its sequel Sri Aurobindo 5 writes: "Soma manifests here as the offering, the divine food, the wine of delight and immortality, havi, and as the Deva, lord of that divine offering (havismah)....hz flows about and enters into this great march of the sacrifice which is... Introduction and Notes by S. Majumdar (Calcutta, 1924), p. 385. Page 84 dha, or funeral ceremonies, and for twelve days after the cremation he sat on the bank of the Sarasvati offering water to all comers. The place was therefore called Prithūdaka or Prithu's pool, from daka or udaka water; and the city which he afterwards built on the spot was called by the same name. The... our purpose. For the Rigveda (VII.42.1) speaks of the Aiigirasas as being not only with "the divine Word, the cry of Heaven ... and of its lightnings thundering out from the Word", but also with "the divine waters ... that are set flowing by that heavenly lightning ... and with the outflowing of the divine waters the outpressing of the immortalising Soma....." 1 These waters "are usually designated ...
... sacrifice, as an offering to the Supreme Divine who is seated by means of His sacrifice in the heart of energies of Nature. It is not the tinders, it is not the clarified butter, which are the fuels of this sacrifice. It is works of knowledge, works of devotion, works of life-force, which are fuels of this sacrifice. That is why the Gita speaks of offering of all activities to the Divine as the fundamental... the law of Karma Yoga and arrive at a point where there remains no outer law, but only one inner law, the law of sacrifice of the Supreme Divine into the activities of Nature and the law of sacrifice of activities of Nature offering themselves to the Supreme Divine. "This and much more I learned from Brahmadevji about the law of sacrifice, which also contributed to the development of equilibrium... and offerings of fuels, clarified butter and other materials?" "No", replied Vishuddha. "The sacrifice that you described is the ritualistic sacrifice; and even the ritualistists believe that that sacrifice is symbolic in character. In the Veda, the original sacrifice is described as the sacrifice of the Purusha into the activities of Nature. In this original sacrifice, the Divine stands ...
... Persian kings had received some form of divine worship (L. Taylor, Journ. Hellenic Studies, 1927, pp. 153ff.). From the Greeks he certainly received such honours.... The offering of divine honours to the king which was begun under Alexander became stereotyped in the institutions of the succeeding Hellenistic kingdoms. The successors themselves received divine honours. Such worship might be organized... former is a sign of the acknowledged nominal suzerainty. We at once recall the phrase in Samudragupta's inscription about the offering of princesses to him by independent rulers to prove their respectful alliance with him. It is as if Antiochus I, among others, sent such an offering to Samudragupta through his ambassador -repeating what his father Seleucus had done in dealing with Sandrocottus, Chandragupta... those about whom, judging by the language employed, Majumdar 1 is led to say: "it may be taken for granted that they sought to win the favour of the great emperor by personal attendance in his court, offering daughters in marriage, and asking permission for the use of imperial coins or soliciting imperial charters confirming them in the enjoyment of their territories." Not only in general but indeed ...
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