... is one and everything is saved together or nothing is. Then others will come who will move on to a second clearing. 3 The Sunlit Path There are two paths, Sri Aurobindo used to say, the path of effort and the sunlit path. The path of effort is well known. It is the one that has presided over our entire mental life, because we try to reach for something we do not have... reservoir in us, a haven in the making, a set of batteries gradually being charged with another intensity, and which is like a beginning of being. Page 30 We begin to set out upon the sunlit path. We are no longer quite in the machine, although it may still snag us from time to time, but only to make us feel its crushing tension, its dark rotation in a nothing which connects with nothing... a clear look, so luminous, almost joyful, sparkling, wide and sunny, taking everything in at a glance, so triumphant and sure and crystalline – instant royalty. We are! It is! We are on the sunlit path, as if carried by that growing little vibration of being. We had no need of silence, of a well-insulated room, of keeping life's tentacles at a distance. On the contrary, the tighter they grasp ...
... Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 SUNLIT PATH After passing through a lot of attacks, falls, depressions, some part of my inmost being seems to have a fleeting glimpse of what is called the sunlit or golden path. Once on this road no hostile being can touch the inner being. Darkness or ignorance (unwillingness to change) is worked out in... environment of this pilgrim. Not that these anti-divine things do not attempt to approach him. They do pursue him a long way. But he only looks at them, smiles and journeys on. To keep up with the sunlit path requires a watchful eye and one-pointed concentration, which does not heed what lies on the side-tracks. His soul secretly companions him throughout with its peace, joy and love. Does such a path... golden path, but it is difficult for man with the pull of his lower nature to follow it. Difficult no doubt it is, but is it really impossible for the human being to tread the sunlit path? It is not impossible. But only one or two have been able to do it — which proves that it is not easy. Can't one do something for a smooth transformation of one's ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 3 II The Sunlit Path Sri Aurobindo speaks of the sunlit path in Yoga. It is the path of happy progress where dangers and difficulties, violent ups and downs are reduced to a minimum, if not altogether obviated. In ideal conditions it is as it were a smooth and fair-weather sailing, as much of course as it is humanly... a great fear. For, then, in all circumstances, you will have found a secret joy and cheer and strength that buoy you up and carry you through. Like the individual, nations too have their sunlit path and the path of the doldrum as well. So long as a nation keeps to the truth of its inner being, follows its natural line of development, remains faithful to its secret godhead, it will have chosen... present war has any meaning, as we all declare it has, then we must never lose sight of that meaning. And our true victory will come only in the process of the realisation of that meaning. That is the sunlit path we refer to here which the nations have to follow in their mutual dealings. It is the path of the evolutionary call to which we say we have responded and to which we must remain loyal and faithful ...
... Page 49 about our shortcomings and lapses. Did he not once write to me that he had all along wanted me to follow the sunlit path? But even such a beneficent counsel put me in a wry mood, and I wrote to him asking him whether "this beautiful sunlit path" could be open to such as we? Anyhow, I persevered in reminding him of his dark hints in the past that his Integral Yoga bristled with... in the future". To which I replied that it was because I was a born "wonderer" that I wondered whether there really was an easier way, "the sunlit path", in this world of dominant shadows. He answered in the affirmative and wrote: "The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith' and surrender or a face habitually... "turned towards the sun", feeling sometimes too deeply discouraged by the darkness that deepened before us as we trudged on. But although it was true that the more we tried to follow the easier sunlit path, the more we found it difficult to cleave to the right attitude, yet it would be untrue to say that the struggle brought us nothing but pain. It taught us invaluable lessons; unmasked little by little ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Sunlit Path SRI AUROBINDO speaks of the sunlit path in Yoga. It is the path of happy progress where dangers and difficulties, violent ups and downs are reduced to a minimum, if not altogether obviated. In ideal conditions it is as it were a smooth and fair – weather sailing, as much of course as it is humanly... from a great fear. For, then, in all circumstances, you will have found a secret joy and cheer and strength that buoy you up and carry you through. Like the individual, nations too have their sunlit path and the path of the doldrum as well. So long as a nation keeps to the truth of its inner being, follows its natural line of development, remains faithful to its secret godhead, it will have chosen... present war has any meaning, as we all declare it has, then we must never lose sight of that meaning. And our true victory will come only in the process of the realisation of that meaning. That is the sunlit path we refer to here which the nations have to follow in their mutual dealings. It is the path of the evolutionary call to which we say we have responded and to which we must remain loyal and faithful ...
... the point of these stories is in the moral and surely when Ramakrishna told it, he was not ignorant that there was a sunlit path of Yoga! He even seems to say that it is the quicker way as well as the better! You are quite mistaken in thinking that the possibility of the sunlit path is a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first books on Yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke of... years those who put an entire and sincere confidence in her are able to follow the sunlit path and even those who cannot, yet when they do put the trust find their path suddenly easy and, if it becomes difficult again, it is only when distrust, revolt, abhiman, or other darknesses come upon them. The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. But you will ask what of those who cannot? Well, it is ...
... the point of these stories is in the moral and surely when Ramakrishna told it, he was not ignorant that there was a sunlit path of Yoga! He even seems to say that it is the quicker way as well as the better! You are quite mistaken in thinking that the possibility of the sunlit path is a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first books on Yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke... years those who put an entire and sincere confidence in her are able to follow the sunlit path and even those who cannot, yet when they do put the trust, find their path suddenly easy and, if it becomes difficult again, it is only when distrust, revolt, abhiman or other darknesses come upon them. The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. Page 34 But you will ask what of those ...
... Difficulties of the Pathfinders The Mother with Letters on the Mother Difficulties and the Sunlit Path You are quite mistaken in thinking that the possibility of the sunlit path is a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first books of Yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke of the dark and the sunlit way and emphasised the superiority... years those who put an entire and sincere confidence in her are able to follow the sunlit path and even those who cannot, yet when they do put the trust find their path suddenly easy and, if it becomes difficult again, it is only when distrust, revolt, abhiman, or other darknesses come upon them. The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. November 1935 ...
... inner knowledge and Yogic experience. There is no contradiction between my former statements about the sunlit path and what I have said about the difficult and unpleasant passages which the Yoga has to pass through in its normal development in the way of human nature. The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more complete... Overcoming the Difficulties of Yoga Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter I The Right Attitude towards Difficulties The Sunlit Path and the Path of Darkness I don't believe much in this Divine Darkness. It is a Christian idea. For us the Divine is Peace, Purity, Wideness, Light, Ananda. I spoke of strange ideas in connection with what you said about ...
... a few. That is why we insist on the psychic transformation as the first necessity—for that does change the nature—and its chief instrument is bhakti, surrender etc. Page 617 The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e... gradually or, if one can, swiftly the light of the higher aspiration into this part of the being also, so that whatever the conditions of the environment, it may keep also the right poise. Then the sunlit path should be less impossible. Page 618 The extreme acuteness of your difficulties is due to the Yoga having come down against the bedrock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis ...
... mentality of the average man as against those who are spiritual giants like himself. That is why, I had whimpered, he always went on talking so glibly about rejecting all doubts or treading the pure sunlit path. As I went on, I gathered further momentum till I broke out into a passionate indictment: "You write calmly. Guru, that we have only to withdraw from all egoistic movements. I can but smile... writing, This was the most difficult of all feats, but the more difficullt I found it the less I liked to scotch the project; the more I was Page 193 coaxed by Gurudev to take 'the sunlit path of the psychic," the more I repeated to myself a famous Yoga-vashistha couplet which said: Rely on thine own strength and, grinding thy teeth Defy the heroic deeds the Tyrant, Fate. ...
... path chosen to attain it. There is always (it's probably inevitable) the stormy path of struggle, and then there is the sunlit path. After much study and observation, I have had a sort of 'spiritual ambition' (if it can be called that) to bring to the world a sunlit path, to eliminate the necessity for struggle and suffering: something that aspires to replace this present phase of universal evolution ...
... makes my present constipation in the same line a little ashamed. So I am letting myself go just a little. You ask me: "Should I do something specific to ensure and hasten my walking on the sunlit path? For that matter, is it at all in my hands even in a small measure?" All Yoga is a transaction between God in quest of man and man in search of God or, if you like a somewhat paradoxical... as it were, in all your peripheral parts and in the midst of that ring of soft illumination the Yogic you will break into a finer, an intenser flame. This will be the signal of your entering the sunlit path. You complain and regret that "Remember and Offer" is not as frequent an act as it should be. Perhaps you are making it too mental an affair. Of course to stop at times and talk to the Mother ...
... sincere people and estimable people were finding this sadhana growing more and more difficult and coming as a result to doubt the existence and reality of a “sunlitpath”. D.K.R.) The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition... if one can, swiftly, the light of the higher aspiration into this part of the being also, so that whatever the conditions of the environment, it may keep, it also, the right poise. Then the sunlit path would seem less impossible. * June 20, 1944 We have no objection to your doing this for a week, as you propose; I understand that it is not a retirement, but a cessation ...
... unspiritual. Page 194 There is no contradiction between my former statements about the sunlit path and what I have said about the difficult and unpleasant passages which the yoga has to pass through in its normal development in the way of human nature. The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more ...
... the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Sunlit Path THE modern, particularly the western mind captured by the rational or scientific spirit cannot but pursue the same line even in the domain of other and higher realities. The father and the great representative of the movement was Descartes, the very famous French thinker. To find the pure... western, the rational mind's way, the way of scientism; but there is also the very ancient eastern or the Indian way, the way of the bar-dexter, the right-hand path. Sri Aurobindo often spoke of the sunlit path – the Upanishadic surya yana – or the golden path – hiranmaya vartma. Here the very first thing needed – the first and the must – is Faith; here you start by faith and not doubt, doubt inevitably ...
... gradually or, if one can, swiftly the light of the higher aspiration into this part of the being also, so that whatever the conditions of the environment, it may keep also the right poise. Then the sunlit path should be less impossible. 16 June 1944 1945 I have no intention, I can assure you, of cutting off connection in the future. What restrictions there have been, were due to unavoidable causes ...
... The Sunlit Path Sincerity, Vigilance, Will-power Sincerity What is thefundamental virtue to be cultivated in order to prepare for the spiritual life? I have said this many times, but this is an opportunity to repeat it: it is sincerity . A sincerity which must become total and absolute, for sincerity alone is your protection on the spiritual path ...
... The Sunlit Path The Value of Education One Dreams of Miracles One dreams of miracles when one is young, one wants all wickedness to disappear, everything to be always luminous, beautiful, happy, one likes stories which end happily. This is what one should rely on. When the body feels its miseries, its limitations, one must establish this dream in it—of a strength ...
... The Sunlit Path Other Persons and Forces Others Are a Mirror There is a lesson to be drawn from this. When something in a person seems to you completely unacceptable or ridiculous—"What! He is like that, he behaves like that, he says things like that, he does things like that"—you should say to yourself, "Well, well, but perhaps I do the same thing without ...
... The Sunlit Path The Spirit and the Psychic Being Spiritual Experience You speak of spiritual experience. What is an experience and how can one have it? It is something which puts you in contact with a consciousness higher than the one you usually have. You have a certain feeling about yourself, you are not even aware of it, it is for you your ordinary ...
... The Sunlit Path Virtue, Purity, Freedom Laugh with the Lord Virtue has always spent its time eliminating whatever it found bad in life, and if all the virtues of the various countries of the world had been put together, very few things would remain in existence. Virtue claims to seek perfection, but perfection is a totality. So the two movements contradict ...
... The Sunlit Path The Ego and Self-giving Get Out of the Ego ..the whole universe moves in accordance with [your] ego: you are at the centre, and the universe turns round you. If you look at yourself attentively, you will see it is like that. Your vision of the universe—that's you at the centre and the universe all around. So there is no place for anything else ...
... The Sunlit Path Receptivity and Aspiration The Universal Vital Force Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere, through everything, in all persons and all circumstances; ...
... The Sunlit Path Courage, Endurance, Effort Fear Is an Impurity fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the ...
... The Sunlit Path Faith and the Grace Keep Faith [We must have] faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are ignorant and also blind, because we do not see the consequences of things and what will happen later. But we must keep the faith that if it is like that, if we rely on the Divine, if ...
... The Sunlit Path Peace and Quiet The Illusion of Action Agitation, haste, restlessness lead nowhere. It is foam on the sea; it is a great fuss that stops with itself. Men have a feeling that if they are not all the time running about and bursting into fits of feverish activity, they are doing nothing. It is an illusion to think that all these so-called movements ...
... The Sunlit Path Concentration, Meditation, Work Concentrating the Attention whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything , the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with ...
... The Sunlit Path Controlling One's Thoughts Bad Thoughts Sri Aurobindo says that all that one thinks one is, one can, by the very fact of that thinking, become. This knowledge of the fact that all that one thinks one can be, is a very important key for the development of the being, and not only from the point of view of the possibilities of the being, but ...
... indispensable to progress and there are many people who get so habituated to the struggling attitude that they have all the time struggles and very little else. That is not desirable. There is a sunlit path as well as a gloomy one and it is the better of the two—a path in which one goes forward in absolute reliance on the Mother, fearing nothing, sorrowing over nothing. Aspiration is needed but there ...
... makes his mind and vital quiet. It is the other way of tension and strain and hard endeavour that is difficult and needs a great force of Tapasya. Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you—if secretly, he will yet show himself in good time,—do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey. All this has been pointed ...
... road to others—if they will only consent to take it. It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others, "Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you—if secretly, he will yet show himself in good time,—do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey." 5 May 1932 As for ...
... secret link with the work of Sri Aurobindo in whose Yoga the inner and outer self-surrender to the Divine Mother, the Parameshwara's Para-shakti, the Purushottama's Para-prakriti is the central "sunlit" path to the Supermind and the most dynamic channel for the descent of the all-transforming Supramental Light and Love. I feel it is no accident but a profoundly significant sign that the feast of the ...
... of this sort. And on top of it ( laughing ) it doesn't interest me! ( Mother gives Satprem soup packets ) Can't eat. ( Then Satprem reads the third chapter of Supermanhood: "The Sunlit Path." Afterwards, Mother remains looking at him for a long time, with a charming smile. ) You've entered a new world.... For those who can follow you, it will be good! Oh, it's quite new.... ( ...
... it may kindle interest for a more serious and recognitive appreciation. If there is a motive behind this selection, it is surely to highlight the unique literary pilgrim's progress on the sunlit path that has been made available to him, to bring in focus his endeavour in the aesthetics of the spirit given to us by Sri Aurobindo. — Editors Page 38 Abundance ...
... fastest to the Divine. All was gold and gold and gold, a torrent of golden light pouring down in an uninterrupted flow and bringing with it the consciousness that the path of the gods is a sunlit path in which difficulties lose all reality. Such is the path open before us if we choose to take it. Page 31 ...
... there a wall between me and this delegate of the Divine. Not that I never went astray. Various parts of my complex being demanded their satisfaction and my will could waver and my steps leave the "sunlit path". This is a strange phenomenon - the unregenerate parts clamouring on one side and on the other the little steady glow exposing their falsity - Page 172 A flame that is All, ...
... referred some lines from Savitri to her and got her comments. Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun; But few are they who tread the sunlit path Only the pure in soul can walk in light. 1 What a joy it would be to possess the required purity! The Mother: When one is living among men with all their miseries, it is only the ...
... genuine permanent Person and looks out at people through the body even when the vital is in a ferment. Now if only that happy and radiant person had come up and accepted my insistence on the sunlit path instead of allowing a non-transferable vote to be given for Tapasya, perhaps you would not have found my Yoga so terrible. For the curious thing is that my Yoga does not approve of sorrow and ...
... filled with knowledge and devotion. In fact, this element stands out more prominently in him than the element of Hathyogic-Rajayogic sadhana which was perhaps only a preparatory means towards the Sunlit Path of Yoga. Page 78 ...
... wandering in a maze of Page 259 errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling. Our crooked road of blind groping and changing goal is turned into a sunlit path. Yoga and Science Yoga has been rightly looked upon as practical psychology, and yogic methods have something of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as ...
... at the end of which one can discover that deepest psychic being. Once we can reach that psychic being, we can get true guidance more and more readily, and we can walk on the path of life as on a sunlit path. As the process of the discovery of the psychic being is long, this process cannot be completed within a short span of one life or even several lives, although once the psychic being Page ...
... Yoga, Cent. Ed., pp. 1731-32. Paragraphing ours.) Sri Aurobindo assures us that there are some sadhakas who are never attacked or even touched by the hostile forces. They can follow the sunlit path with the aid of the higher Light and Power. All of us should seek to emulate their example. But for that to happen we have to develop a number of spiritul qualities in our character and adopt a certain ...
... without the slightest expectation of any fruit in return. If the sadhaka can do this in all earnestness, the Divine Mother herself will take charge of his life and sadhana and lead him along a sunlit path to the ultimate attainment of union with the Divine. The place of aspiration is so very important in the building up of a genuine spiritual life that once when a disciple complained to Sri ...
... courses through the nerves and tissues with such energy and impetus that it effectively blocks out the invading reaction of pain. It is a discipline that has its value even for a sadhak of the sunlit path. Page 26 ...
... Love. Page 14 But there is a remedy: Sincere and constant aspiration. 6.7.1967 Your Grace has calmed the vital, the clouds disappear. I pray that the future be a sunlit path. Panama and gratitude. Have confidence. The Light is with you and will never leave you. 9.7.1967 I have begun to see that both the personal effort of the sadhak and its result ...
... Divine Consciousness and Force. The Divine Man shall emerge with the joint endeavour, the joint Yogna (askesis) of Man and the Divine. This then is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called the "Sunlit path" of human life. So in brief this is what we must do now. We must try to: 1.Do our work as properly and as perfectly as we can. 2.Develop our mind, life and body, with proper culture ...
... it much nearer to what it is essentially supposed to be. 18 For joy is the truth of the Earth, only we have forgotten it: we are sad and suffer. She wanted to bring down her rain of joy, her "sunlit path," as She called it. Why suffer? You don't need to suffer; it's not necessary. 19 The supramental is, in fact, the joy of the world prior to the advent of the Mind; one's suffering consists ...
... pray with the body. All was gold and gold and gold, a torrent of golden light pouring down in an uninterrupted flow and bringing with it the consciousness that the path of the gods is a sunlit path in which difficulties lose all reality. Such is the path open before us if we choose to take it. The mountain path leads always in two directions, upward and downward - all depends on ...
... experience of others. It is because we have the complete experience that we can show a straighter and easier road to others - if they will only consent to take it. 38 And the easier road, the sunlit path, was to effect the psychic opening and from there to reach for the golden bridge to the Divine, and in everything to entrust the sadhana to the Mother. VIII The Mother and Sri Aurobindo ...
... but has faced us on the path; against many we have had to struggle hundreds of times . ... It is, in fact, to ensure an easier path to others hereafter that we have borne that bur- den . ... The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. But, you will ask, what of those who cannot? Well, it is for ¹ Ibid., p. 158. ² Ibid., p. 137. ³ Ibid., p. 167. Page 280 them ...
... htm BIRTHDAY MESSAGES TO KAMALA Kamala A Sketch by the Mother 1.2.36 Kamala In faith and confidence and joy on the quiet and sunlit path towards the home of Light and Ananda. SRI AUROBINDO (The original message is missing.) 11.2.38 My blessings on Kamala for the year of her life that begins today. SRI AUROBINDO ...
... or golden experiences, in the corridors of Thebes or the dungeons of the Palazzo Ducale , that same quest for a truer, larger, freer world, without borders, without religion, without police, a “sunlit path” for the Earth. I say you don't need to suffer. 1 And at the top of a small staircase leading up to a big white veranda, the One who said: “The world is preparing for a new evolution.” This ...
... things returned slowly to normal and the imbroglio ended. But woe is me! The respite was as short-lived as it was delectable. For, I had hardly begun to have a glimpse of what Gurudev called the "sunlit path" when a sudden thunder-storm burst and, once more, my horizon grew darker than ever. And it happened like this: In 1946, in East Bengal, thousands of Hindus were massacred, their women raped ...
... road to others — if they will only consent to take it. It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others: Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you — if secretly, he will show himself in good time — do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey." I do not know if any ...
... road to others—if they will only consent to take it. It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others, 'Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you—if secretly, he will yet show himself in good Page 197 time,—do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey ...
... owe To her, the maid of Brindavan, the Eternal Gopi whom they adore as Mira, the Queen, Who turned a mendicant in Gopal's Name. Aye, valiant friend! 'tis she who came to guide And show me the sunlit path of Love when I Was groping in the dark of pedantry, The so-called jnana, waylost in the daedal Page 111 Forest of cryptic words. Her Godrapt life, A canticle of all- ...
... Mother asks is a total whole-hearted putting of ourselves at the Lord's feet and receiving His grace and guidance rather than following all the time the way of strenuous personal effort. But "the sunlit path" indicative of the inmost soul's emergence and self-consecration is not reached at a bound and some labour of a daily gesture of love is required. Page 209 Your other question is ...
... does not want to exert himself to gain God but desires everything to be made easy, God to be almost brought to him on a platter. "Yoga without tears", in my sense, has nothing in common with the "Sunlit Path" to which you equate it but which is the path of the soul's spontaneous leap towards the Divine and its effortless increasing of its core of self-existent happiness to become the universal and t ...
... to day, it is bathed in bliss. So your wanting your words to "be simple and merry" in the hearing of Amal in Pondicherry is a mission given them to evoke in him a remembrance of his psyche. The sunlit path is the one on which the heart of man, surging out of its depths rather than floating on from its surfaces, can go dancing to the Divine instead of toiling towards the Transcendent. Perhaps we may ...
... through trackless virgin jungle. Their hallowed tracks remain for us to walk on. The only requirement is to first find the truth of our own beings - our psychic beings - and thereby tread the sunlit path. If we attempted our own unaided pilgrimages into the Night, we are more than likely to be reduced to imbecilic terror; to raving, ranting lunatics. It should come as no surprise that ...
... surrender,—the rest will come out of that, whatever is needed for the manifestation. If the ego is gone and the full surrender is there, then there should be no obstacles [ to following the sunlit path of sadhana ]. If however the rajas of the vital is only quiescent, then its quiescence may bring up the tamas in its place, and that would be the obstacle. Only calm in the vital is hardly ...
... dedicated works, are the four wheels of the chariot of Yoga. One who has them will progress safely on the path. 9 September 1947 For Kamala In faith and confidence and joy on the quiet and sunlit path towards the home of Light and Ananda. 11 February 1936 My blessings on Kamala for the year of her life that begins today. 11 February 1938 Page 840 My blessings on your birthday ...
... The Sunlit Path Developing the Mind and Senses Do Many Different Things Sweet Mother, at school it is not possible to take many subjects. We have to specialize. Yes, yes! I have heard that, especially from your teachers. I don't agree. And I know it very well, this is being continuously repeated to me: if anything is to be done properly, one must specialize ...
... The Sunlit Path The Divine, the World and Man Rely on the Divine Alone There is one thing you must learn, never to rely on anyone or anything whatever except the Divine. For if you lean upon anyone for support, that support will break, you may be sure of that. From the minute you start doing yoga (I always speak of those who do yoga, I do not speak about ...
... The Sunlit Path Mundane Affairs The Materialism of Modern Times At that time, the time of the Buddha, to live a spiritual life was a joy, a beatitude, the happiest state, which freed you from all the troubles of the world, all the sufferings, all the cares, making you happy, satisfied, contented. It is the materialism of modern times that has turned spiritual ...
... The Sunlit Path The Call The Great Adventure ... we are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak—not in its essence but in its outer manifestation—not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow ...
... The Sunlit Path Effort, Patience, Progress Go Farther ...always man takes upon his shoulders an interminable burden. He does not want to drop anything of the past and he stoops more and more under the weight of a useless accumulation. You have a guide for a part of the way but when you have travelled this part leave the road and the guide and go farther ...
... The Sunlit Path Morality, Religion, Yoga Spirituality and Morality [There is a] great difference between spirituality and morality, two things that are constantly confused with each other. The spiritual life, the life of Yoga, has for its object to grow into the divine consciousness and for its result to purify, intensify, glorify and perfect what is ...
... The Sunlit Path Surrender, Self-offering, Humility Two Paths of Yoga There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasyā (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasyā is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger ...
... The Sunlit Path Words, Opinions, Judgments Your Mantra When you are playing and suddenly become aware that something is going wrong—you are making mistakes, are inattentive, sometimes opposing currents come across what you are doing—if you develop the habit, automatically at this moment, of calling as by a mantra, of repeating a word, that has an extraordinary ...
... The Sunlit Path The Divine Work The Three Victories ...the first victory is to create an individuality. And then later, the second victory is to give this individuality to the Divine. And the third victory is that the Divine changes your individuality into a divine being. There are three stages: the first is to become an individual; the second is to ...
... satisfied with what they are. 22 May 1968 Page 378 Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri : "Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun; But few are they who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light." 7 What a joy it would be to possess the required purity! When one is living among men with all their miseries, it is only the Grace that can ...
... uncomprehending human mind." ( Questions and Answers , 4.17.1957 ) And if you know how to read Sri Aurobindo and Mother, you will see that they have completely described this road of here and the sunlit path— On the Way to Supermanhood only puts an intentionally exclusive accent on the "here," because there is no time to lose, because everyone does not have the special capacities for making large-scale ...
... movements of error and desire. Error and desire are not the same thing. Error is of the mind, desire is of the vital. What still comes in the way of Mother taking me on her sunlit path? If the ego is gone and the full surrender is there, then there should be no obstacle. If however the rajas of the vital is only Page 99 quiescent, then its quiescence ...
... I am inside you, outside you, above and below. You can feel my Love with only a little warmth on your side. Remember, I never abandon you even when you go out of the happy sunlit path. Remember my Love always, I never scold or punish, that is not my way. I am pouring my love in your heart day and night. Remember, I am your Mother, Father, Counselor and Queen. ...
... Shakti. Any of these factors rightly introduced will modify the rigour of the law of determinism, alter the course of fate, and help the sadhaka to move towards his final Goal along a more sunlit path. Thus is validated the truth of the second half of the Mother's pithy statement: "Something better could have happpened." So the ideal attitude for the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga ...
... The Growth of a Flame Birthday Messages to Kamala Bonne Fête a Kamala 11.2.36 Kamala In faith and confidence and joy on the quiet and sunlit path towards the home of Light and Ananda. Sri Aurobindo 11.2.38 Kamala My blessings on Kamala for the year of her life that begins today. Sri Aurobindo Let this year bring ...
... drip honey under all circumstances: we shall not fail then to become intensely aware of the light that is present even in the midst of suffocating darkness. Sri Aurobindo has termed this as the 'sunlit path' upon which the sadhaka will advance towards his Goal with sure and joyous steps, "in absolute reliance on the Mother, fearing nothing, sorrowing over nothing..." in "...a glad equanimity even in ...
... world, liberation from wandering in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling. Our crooked road of blind groping and changing goal is turned into a sunlit path. Page 79 Religion and Yoga In many respects Yoga may appear to be identical with religion, and yet the distinction is very vast. If Yoga is a quest, religion, too, is a quest; if ...
... for the most part. But when the experience is of importance for the progress it can be written. If one wants to cut down one's troubles to a minimum, one should try to follow the sunlit path, which means "give all and ask nothing". Yes, all that is quite true. The body has such a peace that there is not the slightest stir in it when I soar high above. If ...
... courses through the nerves and tissues with such energy and impetus that it effectively blocks out the invading reaction of pain. It is a discipline that has its value even for the sadhak of the sunlit path. Page 230 ...
... Divine Consciousness and Force. The Divine Man shall emerge with the joint endeavour, the joint yagna (askesis) of Man and the Divine. This then is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called the "Sunlit Path" of human life. So in brief this is what we must do now. We must try to: 1. Do our work as properly and as perfectly as we can. 2. Develop our mind, life and body, with proper ...
... round With a bound It must come What may! Today is the Birthday of Praveen dear, We have come to greet him from Far and near; May he progress well On the Sunlit Path, May he get his full In the Golden Light bath. All good things must Come on his way. Our dear Praveen-bhai, Hero of the Day! 3.4.2000 * Gopal from the ...
... because these promote your devotion – bhakti – and help you take up the right attitude? I have told you – and you have known this too – how much easier it becomes to tread the psychic path, the sunlit path, when one's attitude is right, since it becomes then ever so much easier for the psychic being to come to the front. And I have told you also, so many times, that the more your psychic being comes ...
... beings, made use of their nature's aptitudes, battled with their incapacities and resistances, helping with Her divine force each according to their nature's needs in order to urge us to walk the sunlit path of the New Life. My sadhana, dance, music, teaching and cultural programmes became the occasions for the Mother to work on me and gave rise also to the exchanges I had with Her. It is in these fields ...
... Herself has opened before us. This day I call out to Her, from my inmost being, in all consciousness: "O Divine Mother, come and take your seat at the altar of my heart. Lead me by Your hand on that sunlit path we can dream of only because You have put us on it. Hard as that path might be and in spite of the innumerable lives it might take to come out victorious in this adventure, I pray to you simply to ...
... another, the aim was to take the listeners to the inner countries of the Integral Yoga, rather like Virgil guiding Dante through the triple worlds in The Divine Comedy. It is seldom a sheerly sunlit path or the primrose path of easy success, for the invisible adverse forces are always around; but Grace too is near at hand. On 3 April there is a reference to the old religions and humanity's current ...
... OF SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Pondicherry) Poems on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (1954) Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram (7th Deluxe ed. 1985) The Sunlit Path (4th imp. 1992) The Mother on Herself (2d ed. 1989) India and her Destiny (2d ed. 1989) Health and Healing in Yoga (5th imp. 1991) The Mother: Paintings and Drawings ...
... Divine by making men satisfied with what they are. 22.5.1968 Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri: "Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun; But few are they who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. What a fortune it would be to possess the required purity! When one is living among men with all their miseries, it is only the ...
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