... have, as I explained to you last December, a certain habit of thought which comes from the education we have received, from the influence of the environment, and which is most often made up of social conventions and collective suggestions. This habit naturally makes us give a far better reception to all the thoughts which are similar, if not conformable, to those which already fill our minds, than to... probably remember, it is sometimes so difficult for us to learn to think for ourselves: we hesitate to change anything whatsoever in our customary way of thinking, which is most often made up of social conventions and collective suggestions. For our whole existence is based upon this habit. It takes a great courage and a great love of progress to consent to examine one's existence in the light of thoughts ...
... to be attained in order to live in Auroville. Quarrels are altogether contrary to the spirit of Auroville. Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine... who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville. 2) One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and Page 207 social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, to its desires and ambitions. The fulfilment of one's desires bars the way to the inner discovery which can only be achieved in the ...
... (long silence) September 17, 1969 AM X-354-3S5 I have written something for Auroville... Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery of the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine ...
... work. The scope for progress is infinite and one can be earnest in the smallest thing. This takes us naturally to liberation in action; for in one' s action one must be free from all social conventions, all moral Page 138 prejudices. This is not to say that one should lead a life of licence and unrule. On the contrary, you submit here to a rule which is much more severe than ...
... used to find everything that displayed human animality, the beast in man. And how you used to say, "Let us not be mammals..." SHE Yes, I have always enjoyed making fun of current ideas and social conventions. But in all fairness you must admit that I have never said anything against true love, the love that comes from a deep affinity and is marked by an identity of views and aspirations. I always ...
... but his moral being is as crude and undeveloped as the rest of him; it is conventional, unchastened, unintelligent, a mass of likes and dislikes, prejudices and current opinions, attachment to social conventions and respectabilities and an obscure dislike—rooted in the mind of sensations and not in the intelligence—of any open defiance or departure from the generally accepted standard of conduct. His ...
... have come "to escape moral conventions, etc., but not to give free rein to licentiousness...." Yes, that's right ( Mother writes ): 2) One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but that freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, its desires and ambitions. Is that all? It's enough for today! Page 225 If you want to connect this to the other paragraph ...
... is beginning to have a lot of effect in the U.S.A. and in Canada. So naturally, it gives you... tiring nights! ( silence ) But my impression is that this Consciousness has swept away all social conventions of good manners, good upbringing, so of course, all those who don't have very deep roots behave like ill-mannered children (!) ( silence ) In the body (in the cells, the body consciousness) ...
... September 17, 1969 I've written something for Auroville.... "The earth needs a place where people can live sheltered from all national rivalries, all social conventions, all contradictory moralities and antagonistic religions. A place where, freed from all those slaveries of the past, human beings will be able to wholly dedicate themselves to the discovery and ...
... And what is this more luminous law? 2 Perfect and spontaneous obedience to the divine order that must replace all law. 26 September 1970 Is it good to break all moral and social conventions as the new generation is doing? Don't these things have any value? What has value at one period no longer has any at another as human consciousness goes on progressing. But one must take ...
... wants us to do. But until then, it is better to impose on ourselves a higher law of action and conduct and to observe it scrupulously rather than to obey the law of other men or of moral and social conventions. 1 October 1969 When one lives in a community, does it not often become necessary to obey laws imposed by others instead of following the disciplines one would wish for oneself? ...
... ground—one must rise above, the divine Will and the divine Harmony must be there, it is that which we want; and then those who have revolted against the ordinary law of things and the ordinary social conventions: prove that you are in relation with a higher consciousness and a truer truth. It is time to do it ( gesture of a leap upward ). And from the point of view of organising power, it is a ...
... his moral being is as crude and undeveloped as the rest of him; it is conventional, unchastened, unintelligent, a mass of likes and dislikes, prejudices and current opinions, attachment to social conventions and respectabilities and an obscure dislike —rooted in the mind of sensations and not in the intelligence — of any open defiance or departure from the generally accepted standard of conduct ...
... to concentrate all her will, gather all her energies and capacities and focus them on this sole purpose. All other preoccupations had to be discarded. For His sake she must be ready to ignore social conventions and brave the reprobation of the world. Her body had to forget all needs or enjoyments, her mind reject all thoughts, her heart abandon all attachments. Only the need for Shiva, the thought of ...
... intellectual work. The scope for progress is infinite and one can be earnest in the smallest thing. This takes us naturally to liberation in action; for in one's action one must be free from all social conventions, all moral prejudices. This is not to say that one should lead a life of licence and unrule. On the contrary, you submit here to a rule which is much more severe than all social rules, for it ...
... society; but man is a universal as well as a social unit and the societies he creates are a Procrustean bed which he moulds and remoulds without ever finding his measure. He supports himself on social conventions, laws & equities, but cannot limit himself by his supports. "Desire is sinful; observe duty and the Shastra, discourage & punish enjoyment," is the Puritan's law of self-repression; but duty ...
... Auroville Here are two more messages dated 20.9.1969 from the Mother: Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions. A place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the ...
... that world and receives from it all kinds of impressions and impulsions over which they have no controlling power. And often too they are very free in their minds and do not believe in the petty social conventions and moralities that govern the life of ordinary people. They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them. As there is nothing ...
... it all kinds of impressions and impulsions over which they have no controlling power. And often too Page 103 they are very free in their minds and do not believe in the petty social conventions and moralities that govern the life of ordinary people. They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them. As there is nothing ...
... The Mother on Auroville The Vision and The Soul Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness ...
... free and vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who should become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville. 2.One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new enslavement to the ego, to its desires and ambitions. The fulfilment of one's desires bars the way to the inner discovery which can only be achieved in ...
... experience in Alipore jail. But what is interesting in this Aphorism is the contrast he points out between the material prison where only his body was confined, while his spirit, unfettered by social conventions and prejudice, free from all preconceived ideas and all doctrinaire limitations, had a direct and conscious contact with the Divine and a first revelation of the integral Yoga; and, on the other ...
... l work. The scope for progress is infinite and can be applied to the smallest thing. This leads us quite naturally to liberation in action. For, in one's action, one must be free from all social conventions, all Page 53 moral prejudices. However, this does not mean that one should lead a life of licence and dissoluteness. On the contrary, one imposes on oneself a rule that is far stricter ...
... it with only one "1" on purpose. So, we shall see about number two. From the point of view of behaviour, of more-down-to-earth things, for example: We want to be free from all moral and social conventions. But that is where we have to be very careful! One must not liberate oneself from these things by sinking below them into licence and the blind satisfaction of desires; one must liberate oneself ...
... all moral conventions, etc., but that- it wasn't to give free reign to license... " Yes, that's it. (Mother writes:) 2. One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, to its desires and ambitions. Is that all? That's enough for today! If you want to connect that with the other paragraph ...
... fizzled out—we must rise above, we must have the Divine Will and the Divine Harmony, that is what we want; and as for those who are rebelling against the ordinary order of things and the ordinary social conventions: well, prove that you are in touch with a higher consciousness and a truer truth. It's the time to make a ...( gesture of a leap upward ). As for the power of organization, it's... an extremely ...
... pantheist and tran-scendentalist: he held that the truest springs of action lay in the divine infinity hidden behind phenomena. Besides, he was a pugnacious individualist vis à vis average social conventions and the rating of common human collectivities as paramount. Ruskin also was surcharged with a conviction of the Infinite and the Eternal—art to him was most valuable when through natural objects ...
... conventions, etc., but that it wasn't to give free reign to license... Yes, that's it. (Mother writes:) Page 39 2. One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, its desires and ambitions. Is that all? That's enough for today! If you want to connect that with the other paragraph, can ...
... India it was Bengal that was most affected by this servile tendency to aping European manners, European habits and European ways of life. Religious restraints, moral scruples and time-honoured social conventions were thrown to the winds. Those who received the new Western education and imbibed the materialistic and rationalistic spirit of the West, revelled in assaulting the outworn ramparts of Hindu ...
... disgust too for human animality, and announced triumphantly: "Let us not be mammals." And yet.... That was true enough. She answers: "I have always enjoyed making fun of current ideas and social conventions"; but she hadn't condemned true "love that comes from a deep affinity and is marked by an identity of views and aspirations". Also She had dreamt of "a great love that would be shared, free ...
... irresistible attraction towards the object of this perception, and a corresponding recoil from what is contrary to it in the nature. So long as purification proceeds by mental construction or social conventions, it is an arduous affair, and not unoften rather painful. The whole consciousness of the individual broods over the impurities, wrestles with them, strives to grub them up, only to find that ...
... Ago Myself and My Creed I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race, but to the Divine. I obey no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His Will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service ...
... we tried to be polite with them also. The Mother has written: “I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race, but to the Divine. “I obey no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. “To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His “Will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service ...
... disfavourable attitude. There are two Hinduisms; one which takes its stand on the kitchen and seeks its Paradise by cleaning the body; another which seeks God, not through the cooking pot and the social convention, but in the soul. The latter is also Hinduism and it is a good deal older and more enduring than the other; it is the Hinduism of Bhishma and Srikrishna, of Shankara and Chaitanya, the Hinduism ...
... forbids me. 1912 Page 37 Myself and My Creed I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race, but to the Divine. I obey no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life, self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His Will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service can ...
... and for ever to a bounded part of the world." He, however, distinguished the outer social structure of Hinduism from its soul. "There are two Hinduisms: one which takes its stand on the kitchen and seeks its Paradise by cleaning the body; another which seeks God, not through the cooking pot and the social convention, but in the soul." Time and again Sri Aurobindo gave a call to break the present mould... always inherent in India, of the shifting, mutable and multiform thing we call Hinduism." But what is Hinduism? Sri Aurobindo replies: "One thing at least is certain about Hinduism, religious or social, that its whole outlook is God ward, its whole search and business is the discovery of God and our fulfilment in God. But God is everywhere and universal. Where did Hinduism seek Him ? Ancient or ... ce — crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral-temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. The outer social structure which it built for its approach is another matter." Finally, he cast an overall glance. "I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine ...
... The Declaration of a True Slave of God I belong to no nation, no civilization, no society, no race but to the Divine. I give obedience to no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but to the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service... pottage" (I understand the "birthright" as the possibility or capacity to be the first to reach the Divine Realisation). 4 May 1932 I feel inclined to reply: I live so far from all these conventions that I had not even thought of that. 16 May 1932 Today at Pranam, for the first time I could enter D's heart and an emanation of mine settled there. 14 June 1932 We live only because ...
... Declaration of a True Slave of God 1928-09-21 I belong to no nation, no civilisation, no society, no race but to the Divine. I give obedience to no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but to the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His will, with complete joy; and nothing in His service... understand the “birthright” as the possibility or capacity to be the first to reach the Divine Realisation). 4.5.32 1932-05-16 I feel inclined to reply: I live so far from all these conventions that I had not even thought of that. 16.5.32 1932-06-14 Today at Pranam, for the first time I could enter D.'s heart and an emanation of mine settled there. 14.6.32 1934-03-02 ...
... living so far.’ He also quotes Purani, who wrote: ‘This [Mirra’s moving in] had created a sense of dissatisfaction in the minds of most of the inmates. Man is so much governed by his social, religious and cultural conventions that he finds it difficult to throw them out. Besides, men imbued with strong nationalism would find it difficult to accept one who apparently is a foreigner as an inmate of the house... to write on 20 February, when still in Japan, the following statement: ‘I belong to no nation, no civilization, no society, no race, but to the Divine. I obey no master, no ruler, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His will, with complete joy; and nothing in his service can... tapasya …’ 9 And in his answer to Munje he said: ‘I am no longer first and foremost a politician, but have definitely commenced another kind of work with a spiritual basis, a work of spiritual, social, cultural and economic reconstruction of an almost revolutionary kind, and am even making or at least supervising a sort of practical or laboratory experiment in that sense which needs all the attention ...
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