... and with that comes a kind of universal love which is spiritual, free and pure, but which one is not moved to show to everybody by outward signs, but which has its effect. The personal relation can be only with some, not with all. Page 304 That was exactly what X tried to do—to express the love in connection with this or that person. But universal love is not personal—it has to be... there is some chance of a true meeting in the Divine. Otherwise, with the personal relation that forms there comes in either disappointment and alienation or else reactions that are not pure. Universal Love and Personal Relations One can talk to all, unless one has a reason for not doing so. The oneness with all is an internal realisation, but it does not necessarily impose the same dealing with... spoil and lose it. The dynamic Love cannot go out equally to all—that would create a chaotic disturbance because of the unpreparedness of the majority. It is only the static immutable universal Love that can apply equally to all—that which comes in a still wideness of the heart which corresponds with the still wideness of the mind in which there is the equanimity and infinite peace. ...
... UNIVERSAL LOVE Some say that X had universal love which he used to share with others. X is a man full of impulses of love and kindness which are spoilt by his excessive sensuousness and angers, but this is a very common combination. His nature has a great need of loving and being loved; it is quite natural that he should pull down the feeling of universal love and natural... descent; but he felt the universal love and tried to express it in action instead of holding it in himself - so inevitably the vital took hold of it, as he had not yet the purification and the peace. Is physical contact necessary to transmit universal love? There is no need of physical contact. As regards X's misuse of the universal love, is it not a common error... How to differentiate universal love from psychic love? Universal love is always universal - psychic love can individualise itself. 1 1 In another letter Sri Aurobindo wrote, "The psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender." Page 51 What is the connection between universal love and a special liking for some which X ...
... is something much vaster and deeper and full of light and Ananda. One is told that without a universal love there can be no real progress. But mostly one remains inwardly withdrawn and concentrated on the Mother. You are not able now to have the universal love— it is not in your nature. Wait till your nature is widened by the higher consciousness, then your disabilities... to an outsider is to go out from the Page 90 atmosphere of sadhana and give oneself to the outer world forces. One can have a psychic feeling of love for someone, a universal love for all creatures, but one has to give oneself only to the Divine. THE CENTRAL BEING AND THE PSYCHIC Would you please indicate the difference between the ...
... before one is oneself filled with the universal love for others? If that is the meaning, then one can certainly become Page 337 conscious of the Divine's Love before one has oneself the universal love—one can become conscious of it by contact with the Divine in oneself. Naturally the consciousness of it should lead to the development of a universal love for all. But if he means a love that... portion and the whole); it is not one of dissolving like a drop of water in the sea—for then no love or devotion is possible unless it is love of oneself, devotion to oneself. Universal Love and Psychic Love Universal love is always universal—psychic love can individualise itself. Cosmic love depends on the realisation of oneness of self with all. Psychic love or feeling for all can exist... divine, not tainted by the lower movements, then it is true that until there comes the peace, purity, freedom from ego, wideness, light of the universal consciousness which is the basis of the universal love, it is difficult to have a love that is free from all the defects, limitations, taints of ordinary human love. The more one has of the universality the more one tends to be freed from these things ...
... darkness of the Ignorance and it is that which it finds when individual human love is changed into the love of the Immanent Divine incarnate in the material universe. As with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and beneficence, love of mankind, love of creatures, the attraction of all the myriad forms and presences that surround... in love, love in Ananda,—the surpassing love, the self-wrapped ecstasy of transcendent delight in the Transcendent which awaits us at the end of the path of Devotion,—has for its wider result a universal love for all beings, the Ananda of all that is; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, spiritually embrace in all forms the All-Beautiful. A Page 160 universal delight in his endless... endless manifestation flows through us, taking in its surge every form and movement, but not bound or stationary in any and always reaching out to a greater and more perfect expression. This universal love is liberative and dynamic or transformation; for the discord of forms and appearances ceases to affect the heart that has felt the one Truth behind them all and understood their perfect significance. The ...
... suffering of Christ in Gethse-mane and the relation of pain and suffering. Do you wish to comment on this ? A : Yes, it is an expression of universal love. The willingness of being consecrated by accepting universal love. How far can the expression of universal love be attained in life ? If you want to see it exemplified, you see it in Christ. You can say, not only universal but Divine Love, for that... has to become universal and the mental consciousness has to be transformed by man opening to the Supraconscient in whom unity is the law, and each embraces all. Then the narrowness is lost in the universal love, the vital restricted being returns equal shock to the whole universal contact, and then it becomes capable of universal delight. Even the physical being has to know the One with the indivisible ...
... Values in Education' published in 1979 (Goyal, B.R., 1979) identified about eighty three values: Anti-untouchability, cooperation, courtesy, curiosity, justice, socialism, team work, tolerance, universal love, etc. Gokak (1982) classified and grouped these eighty-three values under the five basic human values: Satya (Truth), Dharma (Righteous Conduct), Santi(Peace), Prema (Love), and Ahirhsa(non-violence)... Universal, self Duty and dignity of other's culture existent truth loyalty individual Compassion to duty Consideration Universal love Simple living Meditation Awareness of Honesty Peace responsibility of Prudence citizenship Respect for ...
... out fully out of oneself to all, "a divine commerce, a large enjoyment of the mutual delight of life." 74 Finally, the soul-power of service attains to perfection when it manifests the universal love that lavishes itself without demand of return and one attains the abnegation that is ready to bear the yoke of the Divine Master and make the life a free servitude to Him; one is then able to arrive... supramental being or in the divine superman, these things unite, assist and enter into each other, become one. In the greatest souls, the perfection manifests harmony in which wisdom, heroism, universal love and highest skill of service are blended. There is in the temperament and personality a constant presence of impersonality, some kind of sovereignty but no egoistic haughtiness or self purification ...
... to love the other? Sri Aurobindo : If one has found the Divine in oneself then he adores Him and surrenders oneself to him. Such a man can love others – but that is a part of action of universal love. The spark in human love, even if it is degraded afterwards, tends to awaken the consciousness and evolve the being. Page 231 21st November, 1939 Disciple : If... turn to the Divine the friendship ceases in the old sense, but it taken up so that it does not become an obstacle to the progress of each other. There may be even individual love apart from universal love which one gets when one is conscious of the Divine. Page 232 ...
... and the old dichotomies seem irrelevant. But if there is nothing that isn't love, there's nothing that "may specially be called love" either! It only means that the rich hidden reservoir of universal love is yet to be canalised effectively and made to flow towards a thousand needed destinations "absolutely independent of circumstances and persons". Some residue of ignorance and some doubts and... Mirra hopes that Mitra, "who so perfectly symbolises" the Lord's truth of Love, will not fail to hear her prayer. Three days later, without her mind being aware of It, a rising flood of universal Love began to pour into her heart which overflowed under the pressure of the powers of love ... and the whole being began to love ... nothing and everything at the same time, what it knows and ...
... saint and the sage, the Beloved looks forth and cries to us, "This is I." "He who loves Me in all beings," — what greater word of power for the utmost intensities and profundities of divine and universal love, has been uttered by any philosophy or any religion? Resignation is the basis of a kind of religious equality, submission to the divine will, a patient bearing of the cross, a Page 208 ... of equality impracticably overriding all relations and of a weakening love without knowledge, while it keeps the one thing essential unimpaired. For the soul oneness with all, for the heart calm universal love, sympathy, compassion, but for the hands freedom to work out impersonally the good, not of this or that person only without regard to or to the detriment of the divine plan, but the purpose of ...
... experience discover in it the natural rule of our real and our highest being, quite possible if we can only get some abiding realisation of that secret oneness which is the foundation of the law of universal love. Then, not seeking this at all but only poetic delight or, if you are so inclined, the criticism of life, we listen to Creon's fierce reproach to Antigone that in her refusal to hate the national... underlying religious teaching and spiritual experience. The poet, his eyes fixed on life, shows us as if by accident the seed in our normal nature which can grow into the prodigious spiritual truth of universal love. He has to do it in his own way in the mould of poetic Page 235 beauty and delight, and if we judge by such instances, we shall say that so only he has to do it, to cast as if casually ...
... isolations, the conflicting generalities, the mutually opposing dualities of the lower consciousness. In the Overmind we have a first firm foundation of the experience of a universal beauty, a universal love, a universal delight. These things can come on the mental and vital plane even before those planes are directly touched or influenced by the spiritual consciousness; but they are there a temporary... Wherever the overmind spiritual man turns he sees a universal beauty touching and uplifting all things, expressing itself through them, moulding them into a field or objects of its divine aesthesis; a universal love goes out from him to all beings; he feels the Bliss which has created the worlds and upholds them and all that is expresses to him the universal delight, is made of it, is a manifestation of it ...
... another, you spontaneously love that other; for in yourself you must delight. If you see yourself in all creatures, you cannot but love all creatures. Universal love is the inevitable consequence of the realisation of the One in Many, and with Universal Love how shall any shred of hate, disgust, dislike, loathing coexist? They Page 137 dissolve in it like the night mists in the blaze of the ...
... Divine immanent in all things and leading the world. The universal love has to be founded on the heart's sight and psychical and emotional sense of the one Divine, the one Self in all existence. All four elements will then form a unity and even the Rudra power to do battle for the right and the good proceed on the basis of a power of universal love. This is the highest and the most characteristic perfection ...
... perfected, enlarged to its widest capacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture, the love of God, the love of man, the love of all things as ourselves and as beings and powers of the Divine; a large, universal love, not at all incapable of various relation, will replace the clamant, egoistic, self-regarding love of little joys and griefs and insistent demands afflicted with all the chequered pattern of angers... equality of the divine Tapas which will initiate a luminous action of the divine will in all the nature. It is an equality of the divine Ananda which will found the play of a divine universal delight, universal love and an illimitable aesthesis of universal beauty. The ideal equal peace and calm of the Infinite will be the wide ether of our perfected being, but the ideal, equal and perfect action of the Infinite ...
... isolations, the conflicting generalities, the mutually opposing dualities of the lower consciousness. In the Overmind we have a first firm foundation of the experience of a universal beauty, a universal love, a universal delight. These things can come on the mental and vital plane even before those planes are directly touched or influenced by the spiritual consciousness; but they are there a temporary... the Overmind spiritual man turns he sees a universal beauty touching and uplifting all things, expressing itself through them, moulding them into a field or objects of its divine aesthesis; a universal love goes out from him to all beings; he feels the Bliss which has created the worlds and upholds them and all that is expresses to him the universal delight, is made of it, is a manifestation of ...
... of psychic love when one is doing sadhana, — for that is most often a cloak and justification for yielding to a vital attraction or attachment. 3) What is universal love? Is it based upon the sense of oneness in all? Universal love is the spiritual, founded on the sense of the one and the Divine everywhere and the change of the personal into a wide universal consciousness, free from attachment ...
... Vedic rishis, for instance, there are no more fluctuations. The consciousness is a mass of stable light . There results an unbroken universal vision; one knows universal joy, universal beauty, universal love; for all the contradictions of the lower planes came from a deficiency of light, or narrowness of light, which lit up only a limited field; while in this even light the contradictions, which are... all beings, just as he perceives it within his own self. There are no more separate gaps, no more lapses of strangeness; everything is bathed continuously in a single substance. The seeker feels universal love, universal understanding, universal compassion for all those other "selves" who are likewise moving toward their own divinity or, rather, gradually becoming the light that they are. Therefore ...
... the dark pit of sense-obsession into the clear air of the spirit, must disembarrass itself of servile bondage to bodily, emotional & intellectual selfishness and assume the freedom & royalty of universal love and beneficence, must expand itself from the narrow, petty, inefficient ego till it becomes commensurate with the infinite, all-powerful, omnipresent Self of All; then is its aim of existence attained ...
... tranced in communion with the Eternal, lifted above the seekings of thought into identity with a supreme light, the rapture of the saint made one by love in the pure heart with the transcendent and universal Love, the will of the Karmayogin raised above egoistic desire and passion into the impersonality of the divine and universal will, these things on which India has set the highest value and which have ...
... being; his limited mental consciousness has to widen to the superconscient unity in which each embraces all; his narrow heart has to learn the infinite embrace and replace its lusts and discords by universal love and his restricted vital being to become equal to the whole shock of the universe upon it and capable of universal delight; his very physical being has to know itself as no separate entity but ...
... egoism, of I-ness and my-ness, nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ . !12.13-14! The bhakta of the Purushottama is one who has a universal heart and mind which has broken down all the narrow walls of the ego. A universal love dwells in his heart, a universal compassion flows from it like an encompassing sea. He will have friendship and pity for all beings and hate for no living thing: for he is patient, long-suffering ...
... is vividly rendered by compounding jewel with rhythm in the lines describing the Paradise of the Life-Gods: It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God And lay on the breast of universal love. 31 The brilliance of the thoughts that have free sway in this kingdom is polished further with the participal adjective "jewelled". All the three examples given here portray gold ...
... the imperfect earth. 59 But what Aswapati could not afford to disobey, Savitri can, because her soul is the last perfection of the aspiring Incarnation: Bearing the burden of universal love, A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls. 60 Therefore when she is invited — or rather tempted — for the last 54 Savitri, pp. 692-93. 55 Ibid., p. 693. 56 Ibid., p. 693 ...
... Savitri is granted her prayer by the Supreme and allowed to be the centre of His manifestation among the cosmic myriads: O lasso of my rapture's widening noose, Become my cord of universal love. 40 Thus the earth-bom heart of man is shown in the poem not only in its finiteness aching for the infinite but also in an apocalyptic fulfilment. And this fulfilment, though dense with ...
... Canto a different epiphany meets us. Till the approach of the hour of Satyavan's death, fated to strike one year after their marriage, Savitri had not tasted the bitter cup of grief. A soul of universal love and sun like purity, how could she know of the thousand torments that afflict this "Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race" of ... petty adventurers in an infinite world And ...
... who has the realisation from feeling and meeting the Divine behind the disguise. I have known even instances in which the perception of the Divine in all accompanied by an intense experience of universal love or a wide experience of an inner harmony had an extraordinary effect in making all around kind and helpful, even the most coarse and hard and cruel.17 Perhaps it is some such experience which is ...
... beings and a free giving out of oneself to all, a divine commerce, a large enjoyment of the mutual delight of life. And finally there comes to perfection the godhead, the soul-power of service, the universal love that lavishes itself without demand of return, the embrace that takes to itself the body of God in man and works for help and service, the abnegation that is ready to bear the yoke of the Master ...
... hatred, repulsion and could not embrace the world with an impartial love and joy. But the purified heart is rid of anger, rid of fear, rid of hatred, rid of every shrinking and repulsion: it has a universal love, it can receive with an untroubled sweetness and clarity the various delight which God gives it in the world. But it is not the lax slave of love and delight; it does not desire, does not attempt ...
... power of Delight is love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty. The God-lover is the universal lover and he embraces the All-blissful and All-beautiful. When universal love has seized on his heart, it is the decisive sign that the Divine has taken possession of him; and when he has the vision of the All-beautiful everywhere and can feel at all times the bliss of his ...
... egoism in love and not love Page 329 itself, desire is limitation and insecurity in a hunger for pleasure and satisfaction and not the seeking after the divine delight in things. A universal love we must have, calm and yet eternally intense beyond the brief vehemence of the most violent passion; a delight in things rooted in a delight in God that does not adhere to their forms but to that ...
... that embrace. Knowing Him too in all beings, perceiving the glory and beauty and joy of the Beloved everywhere, we transform our souls into a passion of universal delight and a wideness and joy of universal love. All this which, as we shall find, is the summit of the path of Devotion, becomes also an annexe and result of the path of Knowledge. Thus by the integral knowledge we unify all things in the ...
... everywhere where he manifests his being. All the beauty and joy of existence is seen as his joy and beauty; he is embraced by the spirit in all beings; the ecstasy of love enjoyed pours itself out in a universal love; all existence becomes a radiation of its delight and even in its very appearances is transformed into something other than its outward appearance. The world itself is experienced as a play of ...
... weakness. To give oneself to an outsider is to go out from the atmosphere of sadhana and give oneself to the outer world forces. One can have a psychic feeling of love for someone, a universal love for all creatures, but one has to give oneself only to the Divine. To want unwaveringly the welfare of another both in the head and the heart, is the best help one can give. It [ ...
... the cosmic. Even the occult opening establishes a connection with the cosmic mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical. The psychic realises the contact with all existence, the oneness of the Self, the universal love and other realisations which lead to the cosmic consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual light ...
... outside the Ashram To give oneself to an outsider is to go out from the atmosphere of sadhana and give oneself to the outer world forces. One can have a psychic feeling of love for someone, a universal love for all creatures, but one has to give oneself only to the Divine. 24 May 1934 Do you believe that people here are more sensitive than people outside? Some people think that the Asram is ...
... longer in some who are more specially fitted for its more lasting movement. But their sense in this of a personal experience all their own was an illusion. It was a wave from the everlasting sea of universal love. Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. And it is a Divine Force; for the distortions we see in its apparent workings belong to its ...
... detachment, of identity with the infinite and eternal Divine, which necessarily raises you above all contingencies. Parallel to this state there can be another which is the state of perfect, integral, universal love, which is the very essence of compassion and the most perfect expression of the Grace which wipes out the consequences of all error and all ignorance. These two states have always been considered ...
... joyful simplicity, without complexity, without problems, without all these questions; there was nothing, absolutely nothing of the kind! It was an outflowering of the joy of living, simply that, in universal love and harmony—flowers, minerals, animals: all were in harmony. It was only long afterwards—but this is a personal impression—long afterwards that things went wrong. Probably because some mental ...
... Savitri is granted her prayer by the Supreme and allowed to be the centre of His manifestation among the cosmic myriads: O lasso of my rapture's widening noose, Become my cord of universal love. Thus the earth-born heart of man is shown in the poem not only in its finiteness aching for the infinite but also in an apocalyptic fulfilment. And this fulfilment, though dense with the ...
... all its forms. It shouldn't be understood mentally, it should be understood like this ( gesture above the head ), because the words have a very vast meaning, as vast as possible, very universal. LOVE is self-giving without asking for anything in exchange. I repeat, it's not at all on this plane ( gesture below ), because it was... the exact definition of divine Love as it acts. ...
... escape into Nirvana but a dynamic living for earth's perfection. Savitri's ideal is allowed and enforced by the highest Wisdom: Olasso of my capture's widening noose, Become my cord of universal love - the same ideal that she had declared in her debate with death: A lonely freedom cannot satisfy A heart that has grown one with every heart: I am a deputy of the aspiring ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on particular types. Some persons, as I said, after being conscious of the Divine don't want any other relation with anyone else; at the same time they can keep a universal love for everybody. Others may keep a special relation with some, keeping it pure and trying to centralise everything towards the Divine. NIRODBARAN: It should be then predominantly psychic? SRI ...
... the soulless Machine. What we need today and tomorrow is increasing number of individuals, who by voluntary sense of co-operation, mutuality and harmony can embrace humanity and world through universal love that is guided by wisdom. The great task in higher education is to nurture a new type of humanity and a new society of integrated personalities, imbued with knowledge, heroism, vastness and skills ...
... general power of Delight is love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty. The God-lover is the universal lover and he embraces the All-blissful All-beautiful. When universal love has seized on his heart, it is the decisive sign that the Divine has taken possession of him; and when he has the vision of the All-beautiful everywhere and can feel at all times the bliss of his ...
... delight; for attachment is egoism in love and not love itself, desire is limitation and insecurity in a hunger for pleasure and satisfaction and not the seeking after the divine delight in things. A universal love we must have, calm and yet eternally intense beyond the brief vehemence of the most violent Page 179 passion; a delight in things rooted in a delight in God that does not adhere ...
... half-blindness, we can come to tap those resources of knowledge which can provide us the required guidance for the building up of a world illumined by ever- progressive knowledge and inspired by universal love. These contentions and the conclusions to which they lead are so important that they deserve to be heard and noted with utmost seriousness, and they also deserve to be studied in full depth ...
... that embrace. Knowing Him too in all beings, perceiving the glory and beauty and joy of the Beloved everywhere, we transform our souls into a passion of universal delight and a wideness and joy of universal love." (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 20, SABCL, p.407) In the integrality of knowledge that is stabilised in the status of integral realisation, all things are unified in the One ...
... we must be attached.... And this does not mean that there is nothing at all that we shall love, nothing in which we shall take delight; for attachment is egoism in love and not love itself.... A universal love we must have, calm and yet eternally intense beyond the brief vehemence of the most violent passion; a delight in things rooted in a delight in Cod that does not adhere to their forms but to that ...
... degraded forms and feel the touch of the purity of the ideal. Love would remain, all forms of the pure truth of love in higher and higher steps till it realised its highest nature, widened into universal love, merged into the love of the Divine. The love of man and woman would also undergo " that elevation and consummation; for all that can feel a touch of the ideal and the spiritual must follow the ...
... limitations of ego in its operation here then only it can become love universal. The psychic being, the true individuality in the human being, is seeking this universal delight as the result of universal love. The true individuality in man is not seeking the fulfilment of the ego in terms of ego. What it is seeking is widening out into the new universality so as to contact the Delight— the Ananda—of ...
... exalted spiritual idealism, his absolute sincerity of purpose, his far- seeing, intuitive intelligence, and above all, the Olympic grandeur of his soul, which was a rare blend of a selfless, universal love, and indomitable will to conquer the freedom of India for the good of humanity, and an utter, self-effacing humility, which steered clear of all lime-light and was content Page 116 ...
... dense; peace cannot dwell securely in it, because it is turbid and restless; the soul's limpid joy cannot flow out of it, because it is choked with the fungus of pleasures and pains. Even when universal love floods within, little slimy swirls of hatred or anger or grief or jealousy may be detected on its outer fringes, perhaps more as lingering remnants of past habits than as any fresh movements; ...
... disappeared in spiritual light. Savitri heard the eternal Thought. She lived then as "A rapture and a being and a force "Bearing the eternity of every spirit Bearing the burden of universal love A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls." A voice was heard. Chose now an immense extinction in Eternity. Silently the woman's heart replied: Give me the boon to keep thy peace and thy ...
... unity with all is of the very stuff of the psychic life. A dynamic union with the psychic unites us with the Divine, and with the whole universe in the Divine. This union is the well-spring of universal love. "Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre, thus your will shall express the Divine’s Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love.”¹ ...
... Housing a multitudinous embrace To marry all in God's immense delight, Page 230 Bearing the eternity of every spirit, Bearing the burden of universal love, A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls. 85 In her condition of superlative receptiveness, "a crypt and sanctuary of brooding light/...the last recess of things beyond" now ...
... experiences with the mind but when they came to apply them to life they reduced them to a mental formula. For example, the mental experience of the Infinite or the application of the principle of universal Love. "We have, therefore, to grow conscious on all the planes of Page 199 our being, and to bring down the higher light, power and ananda to govern even the most external details ...
... the divine līlā of the Lord who is the all-beautiful, the all-loving, the all-blissful: The God-lover is the universal lover and he embraces the All-blissful and All-beautiful. When universal love has seized on his heart, it is the decisive sign that the Divine has taken possession of him; and when he has the vision of the All-beautiful everywhere and can feel at all times the bliss of his ...
... simplicity, without complexity, without problems, without all these questions. There was nothing of all that, absolutely nothing! It was the blossoming of a joy of life —nothing but that — in a universal love and harmony; flowers, minerals, animals, all got along together perfectly." Verily, as Sri Aurobindo addressed her, the young maiden was the Page 88 "Mystic Miracle, ...
... negation both of subjective self and objective things had still to found itself initially on a divine discipline of works and to admit as a substitute for bhakti the spiritualised emotionalism of a universal love and compassion, since so only could it become an effective way for mankind, a truly liberating religion. Even illusionist Mayavada with its ultralogical intolerance of action and the creations ...
... realisation? That would be an experience rather than a realisation. A realisation would be of the Mother's presence within, her force doing the work—or of the Peace or Silence everywhere, of universal Love, universal Beauty or Ananda etc. etc. Visions come under the head of experiences, unless they fix themselves and are accompanied by a realisation of which they are as it were the support—e.g. the ...
... spontaneous movement, not a consciousness that is conscious of itself, not at all. But it is a great Force which acts through all that, the great universal Consciousness and the great Force of universal love which makes all things blossom in beauty. That is what I have written there also ( Mother resumes reading "The Four Austerities" ): "Is it not love, under an erring and obscure form, that ...
... n from Page 180 feeling and meeting the Divine behind the disguise. I have known even instances in which the perception of the Divine in all accompanied by an intense experience of universal love or a wide experience of an inner harmony had an extraordinary effect in making all around kind and helpful, even the most coarse and hard and cruel. Perhaps it is some such experience which is ...
... the cosmic. Even the occult opening establishes a connection with the cosmic mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical. The psychic realises the contact with all-existence, the oneness of the Self, the universal love and other realisations which lead to the cosmic consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual ...
... if he cannot transform her, he must leave her. At the same time the spiritual man has not stood back altogether from the life of humanity; for the sense of unity with all beings, the stress of a universal love and compassion, the will to spend the energies for the good of all creatures, are central to the dynamic outflowering of the spirit: he has turned therefore to help, he has guided as did the ancient ...
... who has the realisation from feeling and meeting the Divine behind the disguise. I have known even instances in which the perception of the Divine in all accompanied by an intense experience of universal love or a wide experience of an inner harmony had an extraordinary effect in making all around kind and helpful, even the most coarse and hard and cruel. Perhaps it is some such experience which is ...
... usly with the activity of the Birth. ( Verses 9-14 ) All parts of the lower being must consent to this realisation; to perceive with the intellect is not enough. The heart must consent in a universal love and delight, the sense-mind in a sensation of God and self everywhere, the life in the comprehension of all aims and energies in the world as part of its own being. Page 37 The ...
... degraded forms and feel the touch of the purity of the ideal. Love would remain, all forms of the pure truth of love in higher and higher steps till it realised its highest nature, widened into universal love, merged into the love of the Divine. The love of man and woman would also undergo that elevation and consummation; for all that can feel a touch of the ideal and the spiritual must follow the way ...
... rudra power of severity and indignation (in the deepest sense of the word) against what should not be—the warrior force of Mahakali in combating the Asura. Yes, certainly. Infinite peace, universal love can remove anger—if they are complete and stable. Anger Comes from Outside The fact that the anger comes with such force is itself enough to show that it is not in you that it is, but that ...
... image; delightful things or persons in the fact imaged. The idea is that of Ananda enjoying the delight of love & beauty of all beautiful things & people with the full ecstatic force of the strong universal love & delight, आदिन्वसि, there is the idea in दि of breaking up to enjoy, ravaging with the soul's kisses of love so as to enjoy every detail of the enjoyable. धूमकेतुना. Ketu is perception or ...
... purification of the soul Page 221 by which the limited human self must become fit to raise itself out of the dark pit of bodily, mental and emotional selfishness into the clear heaven of universal love and benevolence and enlarge itself until it came into conscious contact, entered into and became one with the Supreme and Sempiternal Self. Some hold the aim of morality to be a placing of oneself ...
... if he cannot transform her, he must leave her. At the same time the spiritual man has not stood back altogether from the life of humanity; for the sense of unity with all beings, the stress of a universal love and compassion, the will to spend the energies for the good of all creatures, 4 are central to the Page 916 dynamic outflowering of the spirit: he has turned therefore to help, he ...
... given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine—not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration ...
... and each acts according to his nature, his svabhāva , and its present formulations. When there is the positive equal Ananda, this deepens to a sympathetic understanding and in the end an equal universal love. None of these things need prevent various relations or different formulations of the inner attitude according to the need of life as determined by the spiritual will, or firm furtherings of this ...
... of experience of a bliss-consciousness intense and illimitable. And since love is the effective power and soul-symbol of bliss-oneness he will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love, a sublimation of human love at first, a divine love afterwards, at its summits a thing of beauty, sweetness and splendour now to us inconceivable. He will be one in bliss-consciousness with all ...
... oneself and others, since all are seen and felt as the one self and only what the supreme Truth and Good decided would be done. There would be in the action a pervasive feeling of a self-existent universal love, sympathy, oneness, but the feeling would penetrate, colour and move in the act, not solely dominate or determine it: it would not stand for itself in opposition to the larger truth of things or ...
... the higher existence. Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of ...
... statements should take Teilhard alongside Sri Aurobindo, and here and there we do find him talking of "another mankind" that "must inevitably emerge" 23 and establish on earth a sovereignty of universal love. De Lubac 24 is puzzled and wonders whether "even in such rare passages" Teilhard, "without making it quite clear", was not speaking of the end of the world, a supernatural terminus. But these ...
... and the air, a shaking of the human soul to vague inner recesses, a sinking of it to subtle agonies and a soaring of it to secret ecstasies, a sense of the unity of all creation in a strange universal love, a complex spiritual symbolism woven into primitive gestures. We are no longer in the Mediaeval mind, but only in a mediaevalised version of the new Celtic intensity. Mediaeval-ism was one of ...
... for its base Maheshwari; it is strongly coloured with Mahaluxmi. This combination was finally expressed in a strong and long-permanent personality, perfect in equality, intense in bliss, full of universal love madhurya , but deficient in virya and shakti , ῥαθυμος. The advent of the Chandi bhava, effected in accordance with lipi and other prediction on the 2d, stabilised and completed in rudra force ...
... captive grows: This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats. || 154.40 || For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! || 154.41 || O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose, Become my cord of universal love. || 154.42 || These lines went on echoing and re-echoing in my heart. I fell in love with Savitri, the incarnation of the Supreme Mother. I was so fascinated that I felt the Divine Mother ...
... Savitri is granted her prayer by the Supreme and allowed to be the centre of His manifestation among the cosmic myriads: O lasso of my rapture's widening noose, Become my cord of universal love. [p. 702] Page 76 Thus the earth-born heart of man is shown in the poem not only in its finiteness aching for the Infinite but also in an apocalyptic fulfilment. And this ...
... happiness upon which the special tones of the aesthetic consciousness come out or from which they arise... In the overmind we have a first firm foundation of experience of a universal beauty, a universal love, a universal delight... This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight... draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga, and the touch or the mass of the Ananda." 49 There ...
... chief characteristics of Sri Aurobindo's poetry. Listen: Page 321 To marry all in God's immense delight, Bearing the eternity of every spirit, Bearing the burden of universal love, A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls. 1 There is a sweep, a fulfilling vision, a height of spiritual experience. There is a spontaneous winging beyond the normal mode of existence ...
... seizes me, my captive grows: This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats. For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! O lasso of my rapture's widening noose. Become my cord of universal love. The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight Of creation's oneness sweet and fathomless, Compelled to embrace my myriad unities And all my endless forms and divine souls. O ...
... oneself from all beings and a free giving out of oneself to all, which can tie described as a divine commerce. And, finally, there must come about the perfection of the soul^-power of service, the universal love that lavishes itself without demand of return, the embrace that takes to itself the body of God in man and works for help and service, the abnegation that is ready to bear the yoke of the ideal ...
... they come to pronounce the real meaning of Matter, precisely when they come to answer questions as to whether it is ultimately acceptable to God. Even the most catholic teachings which preach universal love for men and creatures and plants and all creation, have declared that Matter is not a fit robe for the Spirit; that it is, after all, to be discarded. They have, therefore, asked their adherents ...
... half-blindness, we can come to tap those resources of knowledge which can provide us the required guidance for the building up of a world illumined by ever-progressive knowledge and inspired by universal love. These contentions and the conclusions to which they lead are so important that they deserve to be heard and noted with utmost seriousness, and they also deserve to be studied in full depth ...
... solution that the moralists presented to the problem of the conflict between the individual and the society was that the individual shall cherish no desires and claims that are not consistent with universal love, universal truth and universal justice, and that the collectivity shall hold all things cheap, even its safety and its most pressing interests, in comparison with truth, justice, humanity and ...
... spiritual history of humankind, it can be said that the spiritual man has not stood back altogether from the life of humanity. On the contrary, the sense of unity with all beings, the stress of a universal love and compassion, the will to spend the energies for the good of all creatures, are central to the dynamic out-flowering of the spirit.12 Spiritual leaders, seers, prophets and saints have ...
... all that is true and all that can foster solidarity and unity. Character may be considered to have four dimensions, dimension of wisdom, dimension of heroic will, dimension of compassion and universal love, and dimension of competence, chiselled skill and untiring labour. A well-developed character is integrated character; it is able to sharpen in-born capacities and potentialities towards their ...
... of clear discrimination ;(iv) any mood of depression or discouragement will vanish altogether; (v ) the heart will be buoyed up with a sublime and unwavering faith and hope; (vi ) a feeling of universal love and generosity towards all will flood the consciousness of the seeker, and all rancour hatred and irritability will disappear from there; and finally (vii) a new attitude will develop vis-à-vis ...
... tranced in communion with the Eternal, lifted above the seekings of thought into identity with a supreme Light, the rapture of the saint made one by love in the pure heart with the transcendent and universal Love, the will of the Karmayogin raised above egoistic desire and passion into the impersonality of the divine and universal Will, these things on which India has set the highest value and which have ...
... work and mission. And this does not mean that there is nothing at all that we shall love, nothing in which we shall take delight; for attachment is egoism in love and not love itself. A universal love we must have, calm and yet eternally intense beyond the brief vehemence of the most violent passion. Self-will in thought and action has to be quite renounced. This self-will means an egoism ...
... But flowers are not, so to say, conscious at all, theirs is a spontaneous movement. It is a mighty Force that is at work through all this, the great universal Consciousness, the great force of universal Love that makes all things flower in beauty. It is said the tiger's need to devour is one of the first expressions of love in the world. What is likely to prove that this is not quite false ...
... at mental experiences but when they came to apply them to life they reduced it to a mental formula. For example, the mental experience of the Infinite or the application of the principle of universal Love. We have therefore, to grow conscious on all the planes of our being, and to bring down the higher light, power and ananda to govern even the most external details of life. We must detach ...
... flowers I are not, so to say, conscious at all, theirs is a spontaneous movement. It is a mighty Force that is at work through all this, the great universal Consciousness, the great force of universal Love that makes all things flower in beauty. It is said the tiger's need to devour is one of the first expressions of love in the world. What is likely to prove that this is not quite false is that ...
... inspiration is called for. "The poet," says Sri Aurobindo, "his eyes frf6»d on life, shows us as if by accident the seed in our normal nature which can grow into the prodigious spiritual truth of universal love." 19 The Sun of Poetic Truth is a phosphorescent splendour, beauty and delight in an ecstasy of wedded bliss, but t is not knowledge, nor teaching, nor doctrine. And the "life" on which the Sun ...
... says the Mother, "is one of the great universal forces;" it is also a "supremely conscious Power". Love at first sight - people say, but what is it except "a wave from the everlasting sea of universal love"? At the dawn of first love, as when a Romeo sights a Juliet, "for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful". Nevertheless, ordinary human love is usually ...
... instruments' toil to know; Knowledge was Nature's pastime like the rest. ... There reigned a breath of high immune content, A fortunate gait of days in tranquil air, A flood of universal love and peace. 27 Page 530 The Mother's class in the Playground X Thus , while some in the outside world were speculating as to whether the Ashram would long survive ...
... absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality." "In the Overmind we have the first firm foundation of the experience of universal beauty, a universal love, a universal delight." "Overmind, has . .. greater aesthesis and when it sees objects, it sees in them what the mind cannot see."4 _____________________________________ ³ Life Divine ...
... citta or assail from the environmental nature; and when they occupy and begin their play in the human heart, they change it from a cauldron of conflicting emotions into a perennial fount of universal love and joy. The essential function of the emotions is a rhythmic expression of the love and delight the being feels in its contacts with Reality, inner and outer. Their business is not to dictate ...
... you will find out that that was just the thing necessary for you to make the required progress. It is a Will, a supreme Good Will that arranges everything around you. ”¹ It is an all-seeing universal Love that orders and directs our life, and not a blind chance or an inscrutable conspiracy of accidents. In our spiritual life it is not unoften that we observe with a growing wonder and gratitude ...
... life-shunning tendency and neutralises its unmanning influence on society. In the second case, action is done, first, as a means of self- purification and, next, as a means of expressing the universal love and peace and purity which grow in the inner being as a result of spiritual progress. This is the ideal most widely accepted in all progressive forms of spiritual culture—God within and His service ...
... and warns, and lifts and consoles us when we "fall upon the thorns of life and bleed"—that we turn to the gracious words of the Mother. These words, or rather sparks shot from the brazier of universal Love, at once kindle the fire of our soul and set aglow our normal consciousness, so that it may cut off its moorings and launch upon the Infinite. In this essay we shall dwell upon some of the ...
... am the Mother ” from the Mother’s own lips. These words uttered with so much tenderness often return to me and oh, how unbelievably enchanting She looked at that moment! Bearing the burden of universal love, A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls. ( Savitri ) ...
... with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality".— Life Divine. "In the Overmind we have the first firm foundation of the experience of universal beauty, a universal love, a universal delight". "Overmind, has...greater aesthesis and when it sees objects, it sees in them what the mind cannot see".— Letters Vol III. "As yet there is no Overmind language ...
... daylight. Here life was subject to divine command, assured of its own bliss, without fear or grief "And unalarmed by the breath of fleeting Time". It was at ease here and secure in its joy and universal love. There was ceaseless radiance all round and even the elements Page 205 that touched the senses were full of delight. This world was like "the World -Magician's glass" embodying ...
... signed the notice of the play "Katha Upanishad" on 26.2.72 at the Aspiration Cultural Centre. * * * There was a request from an American Hippy, William Phillips, "Your vibrations of Universal love and light have reached my life at this time, and I'm looking forward to visit you in your physical form if you so desire. Thank you." He was allowed to come for Pranam in group. * ...
... 281 The universal Mother's love was hers. {T} Universal mother Imagery Diagram for the Tenth Thematic Unit The merging of World and Spirit imagery reaches a fitting climax in the final line (281) of the unit: The universal Mother's love was hers, {T} fitting because it is in the universal Mother that Nature... in the "universal Mother's love". [281-305] The universal Mother's love was hers. {T} This transitional line, which opens the next thematic unit, identifies Savitri with the "universal Mother". She carries the world and all living beings in herself; all Nature is her own. She has accepted life's terrestrial robe in order to do the Immortal's work. The image of the universal Mother is... Savitri's ordeal; to confront human fate—pain, death, and suffering. [281] The universal Mother's love was hers. {I} XI [281] The universal Mother's love was hers. The universal Mother; her embodiment in earth nature and gradual awakening. {T} [305] Only a vague ...
... very helpful; for it is a subject which is beyond mental analysis and the constructions of the mind about it are apt to be either very partially true or else erroneous. There is a universal Divine Love which is equal for all. There is also a psychic connection which is individual; it is the same essentially for all, but it admits of a special relation with each which is not the same for all but different... Yesterday we discussed the Divine Love in relation to the sadhaks. My points were these: 1) It is said that the psychic being of each sadhak has a special relation to the Divine; this must mean that the psychic gets from the Divine the response that is proper to it. But does it mean that one sadhak gets more love and another sadhak gets less? 2) If the Divine loves one person more and another person... childish reasoning. Many of those who feel the Mother's presence and love always with them hardly see her except once in six months or once in a year—apart from the Pranam and meditation. On the other hand one near her physically or seeing her often may not feel such a thing at all; he may complain of the absence of the Mother's help and love altogether or as compared to what she gives to others. If the ...
... The third stage, the loftiest stage of spiritual evolution, goes beyond all symbols and middle significances in order to arrive at the absolute and universal divine love, the beauty of All-beautiful, noblest dharma of unity with all beings, universal compassion and benevolence, the upsurge of the psychical being into the spiritual ecstasy. It is here that Hinduism provided various systems of Yoga... move and have their being. The Spirit, universal Nature, (whether called Maya, Prakriti or Shakti) and the soul in living beings, Page 39 Jiva, are the three truths which are universally admitted by all the religious sects and conflicting religious philosophies of Hinduism; they differ only in respect of relations between these three. Universal also is the admission that the discovery... and experience of the Infinite Reality in thousand different ways. Like all great religions, Indian religion nourished in the mind a belief in a highest consciousness or state of existence, universal and transcendent of the universe, and it laid also upon the individual life the Page 37 need of self-preparation for development and experience. But the way in which this ancient religion ...
... in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy. European thought, following the line of Heraclitus' thinking, has fixed itself on reason and on force and made them the principles towards whose perfection our being has to aspire. Force is the first aspect of the world, war, the clash of energies; the second aspect, reason, emerges out of the appearance of Page 252 ... is at first hidden and reveals itself as a certain justice, a certain harmony, a certain determining intelligence and reason in things; the third aspect is a deeper secret behind these two, universal delight, love, beauty which taking up the other two can establish something higher than justice, better than harmony, truer than reason,—unity and bliss, the ecstasy of our fulfilled existence. Of this last... vision of the universal reason and the universal force; he seems to have summed up the principle of things in these two first terms, the aspect of consciousness, the aspect of power, a supreme intelligence and a supreme energy. The eye of Indian thought saw a third aspect of the Self and of Brahman; besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in ...
... point. There is a universal divine love that is given equally to all—but also there is a special relation with each man—it is not a question of more or less, though it may appear so. But even that less or more cannot be judged by human standards. The man who gets a blow may, if he has a certain relation, feel it as a divine caress; he may even say, erecting his own standard, "She loves me more than others... back to the Mother. 16 May 1937 (2) I want to love and love completely and lose myself in love. If one can think of losing oneself for mortal love, why not for the love of the Divine? Well, why not? But it must be done in the divine way, not in the mortal. Otherwise— Let me then say definitely that I love you and you love me a little and let us meet somewhere in this matter. You... must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don't reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that Page 441 behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you restless ...
... living within, all lives she bore; Aloof, she carried in herself the world: Her dread was one with the great cosmic dread, Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights; The universal Mother's love was hers. Against the evil at life's afflicted roots, Her own calamity its private sign, Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword. A solitary mind, a world-wide heart,... glimmered across the floor. A happy wonder in her fathomless gaze, Changed by the halo of her love she came; Her eyes rich with a shining mist of joy As one who comes from a heavenly embassy Discharging the proud mission of her heart, One carrying the sanction of the gods To her love and its luminous eternity She stood before her mighty father's throne And, eager for beauty... sense of those vast possibilities. She goes in search of her partner. When Narad sees her on her return after the choice he finds in her the exuberance of beauty, and delight due to the fulfilment of Love. But his description of Savitri is one of the most wonderful feats of poetic inspiration giving voice to Overmental sight. It is one of the most impassioned and yet impersonal descriptions. The ...
... on the cosmic mights" Page 402 278-9; "Her life shared the cosmic load" 305. But, especially, Capricorn is called the sign of the universal Mother, who is right away introduced in the early lines: "The Universal Mother's love was hers." 280 After establishing Savitri on these cosmic heights the Canto moves far away, back, back to the state creation was in before even... Savitri -l- The rhythms of Savitri are the footsteps heard in the corridors of the soul. The themes of Savitri are each one's deepest secret, one's most private dealings with the Universal and the Transcendent. One has no right to interfere, to come in between, to put words and thoughts where insights and visions are the transforming agents. One needs an excuse to write on... they are sown. The dialects of the Cosmic Language are many. Numbers speak of the underlying order, stars and planets reflect the larger harmonies, inspired books like Savitri express the Universal and are our grammar books for the Language of the Gods. No wonder the dialects intersect in many ways, shift over into and interpret each other. The first Canto clearly uses as a general pattern ...
... seeking of a highest knowledge can be added a worship through altruistic works or a preparation through acts of love, of benevolence, of service to mankind or to those around us. It is indeed by the religio-ethical sense that the law of universal goodwill or universal compassion or of love and service to the neighbour, the Vedantic, the Buddhistic, the Christian ideal, was created; only by a sort of... downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering... the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or Page 156 ...
... point. There is a universal divine love that is given equally to all—but also there is a special relation with each man—it is not a question of more or less, though it may appear so. But even that less or more cannot be judged by human standards. The man who gets a blow may, if he has a certain relation, feel it as a divine caress; he may even say, erecting his own standard, "She loves me more than others... June 8, 1935 We had a discussion on Divine Love yesterday at D's place, Can we say the Divine may love one more than another? The expression would then be a little misleading because it will bring in human comparisons. Not only a "little", but very misleading. I would like to ask something about it. It is said that the Divine loves all equally; yet it is a fact that some are dearer... criterion. What is it that determines this—I really don't know. Of course you don't—nor does anybody. Is love a creation of the reason? or dealt out by this or that scale? Or does the Divine calculate "This fellow has so much of this or that quality! I will give him just so much more love than to that other?" This question is not only of theoretical interest to us, but also of practical importance ...
... of spiritual knowledge when it emerges from veil and compromise and goes beyond all symbols and middle significances, the absolute and universal Page 222 divine love, the beauty of the All-beautiful, the noblest dharma of unity with all beings, universal compassion and benevolence calm and sweet in the perfect purity of the spirit, the upsurge of the psychical being into the spiritual unity... power of the human nature. The intelligence was called to a supreme knowledge, the dynamic active and creative powers pointed to openness and unity with an infinite and universal Will, the heart and sense put in contact with a divine love and joy and beauty. But this highest meaning was also put everywhere indicatively or in symbols behind the whole system of living, even in its details, so that its impression... the Permanent, the Real, and it sees man as a soul and power of this being of God in Nature. The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards God, towards the universal, the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness, by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking ...
... divinity she had in her the divine love for all, a universal sympathy that went out constantly to help all men. She gave herself freely to men in an act of inner sympathy so "that heaven might native grow on mortal soil". This sympathy and this love were on her part an inner act and did not take a very dominant outer form. With innate sense of her own Divinity, love and sympathy for all men she found... was here that "Love came to her hiding the shadow. Death". The God of Love found the inner make of Savitri's consciousness so pure and so sincere that "in her he met a vastness like his own", "and moved in her as in his natural home". Her nature was not narrow like that of other human beings whose love is egoistic and selfish. "A wide self-giving was her native act", she had a universal "kindly care"... Goddess almost suggests the continuity of the work begun by the Goddess Dawn and the Imperishable ambassadress,—Omnipotent power of the Divine. The poet while describing Savitri says "The universal Mother's love was hers". Even though Savitri was akin to the eternity from which she came and a stranger to the fields of human life she was human enough to feel desire not as ordinary people do, ...
... to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the... are burned away and the others discard their insuffi-ciencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than... Reality. Beauty is not an Ultimate. Along with Love, it is an expression of Delight. Does Page 147 not Sri Aurobindo say in The Synthesis of Yoga, "the general power of Delight is Love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty." 1 Divine Bliss is the fundamental which can give rise to Beauty as well as to Love in their highest modes. Ancient Indian sp ...
... downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance. It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, Page 8 for the embrace of the Wo... the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions... towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence it has leaned on earthly love, Page 7 affection ...
... integral truth and in all his aspects, to surrender all oneself to the transcendent Soul of nature and existence, to possess and be possessed by the divine consciousness, to be one with the One in universality of love and delight and will and knowledge, one in him with all beings, to do works as an adoration and a sacrifice on the divine foundation of a world in which all is God and in the divine status of... his upward surrender of his whole existence, his unreserved and perfect self-giving to the transcendent and universal Divinity from whom he comes and in whom he lives. This stress of feeling is in entire consonance with the high and enduring place that the Gita assigns to bhakti, to the love of God, to the adoration of the Highest, as the inmost spirit and motive of the supreme action and the crown... activity will be there, will be its essential, fundamental, universal stuff, mould and character. And in that mould of infinity the Divine made manifest Page 560 will overtly dwell, no longer concealed by his Yogamaya, and whenever and as he wills build in us whatever shapes of the Infinite, translucent forms of knowledge, thought, love, spiritual joy, power and action according to his self ...
... to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Ignorance." In the last phrase we have the rationale of the Love-Rose's arising from Nature's abyss: it is Divine Love, the... s are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than... of Yoga 1 , "the general power of Delight is love and the special mould which the joy of love takes is the vision of beauty." He also says: 2 "Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may get the rapt peace of its infinity, the absorbed silence of the Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. Love leads us from the suffering of division into the ...
... properly mobilised and in excellent trim. Was it not significant that it was during 1962 that Meditations on Savitri, comprising "The Symbol Dawn", had made its triumphant appearance? The universal Mother's love was hers. Against the evil at life's afflicted roots, ... Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword. A solitary mind, a world-wide heart, To the lone Immortal's unshared... vicissitudes in the sadhana. The Mother's replies, long or short, were pregnant with meaning and instinct with the nuances of universality. To sadhaks who knew French, the Mother preferred to write in French, and to others in English; and always it was the Mother Divine essaying Truth, Love, Power, Ananda and new Life. VIII Ever since the Playground classes were given up in December 1958, one of... From the reclining body of a god. ... On life's thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth's pondering forehead curve. ... Her passion-flower of love and doom she gave. All came back to her: Earth and Love and Doom, ... 9 Page 703 The mantric vibrations impinge on the doors of consciousness, there is a call or summons, and there is some response from the innermost ...
... cosmic mights; The universal Mother's love was hers. There is an uncertainty, there is a fear in the cosmos, the dread of disintegration, decay, death. Savitri's dread reflects this pervading dread in the universe. Similarly, her strength bases itself on the cosmic strength. Her force is one with the cosmic force. All this is possible, because she embodies love which is the sure basis... basis of identity and oneness. This love is the all-embracing love of the universal Mother. Against the evil at life's afflicted roots, Her own calamity its private sign, Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword. She is not overcome by the evil that is staring at her in a personal way. She faces it as an individual sign of the Evil that has struck generally at the roots of... of love and doom she gave. Savitri is verily the Daughter of Infinity. In exchange for her boon of power and delight, earth gives to her the passion-flower of love and doom. Passion-flower is the flower resembling the crown of thorns placed on the head of Christ. As you know, his love for God expressed in pain and tears is called the passion-play. The love on earth, the human love is a ...
... Jnanadas - they are five notes out of which Sri Aurobindo makes, in his 'transcreations', one song, one orchestrated symphony on the theme of Love Divine in the more familiar images of universal human love. IV Between human and divine love, there are various other Powers that too command human affections and adorations: the country, for instance, the country as Motherland (or fatherland)... have left all for thy sake? Of other thought, of other love we recked not, Labouring thy love to wake. Thy love's the only thought our minds reject not. 21 In Jnanadas, too, there is a deep philosophical base, but once again what irresistibly makes an assault on our emotions is the powerful rendering of the emotion of love, intelligible enough in human terms, yet also affiliated... the unique quality of this poetry: The desire of the soul for God is there [in Bengali Vaishnava poetry] thrown into symbolic figure in the lyrical love cycle of Radha and Krishna, the Nature soul in man seeking for the Divine Soul through love, seized and mastered by his beauty, attracted by his magical flute, abandoning human cares and duties for this one overpowering passion and in the cadence ...
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