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The True Attitude ~
Remember and Offer
It is quite possible for you to do
Sadhana at home and in the midst of your work - many do so. What is
necessary in the beginning is to remember the Mother as much as
possible, to concentrate on her in the heart for a time every day,
if possible thinking of her as the Divine Mother, to aspire to feel
her there within you, offer her your works and pray that from within
she may guide and sustain you. This is a preliminary stage which
often takes long, but if one goes through it with sincerity and
steadfastness, the mentality begins little by little to change and a
new consciousness opens in the Sadhak which begins
How to work
When you feel tired, don't overstrain yourself but rest - doing only
your ordinary work; restlessly doing something or other all the time
is not the way to cure it. To be quiet without and within is what is
needed when there is this sense of fatigue. There is always a
strength near you which you can call in and will remove these
things, but you must learn to be quiet in order to receive it.
Sri
Aurobindo
(Ref: Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 23, P: 701)
Orderly harmony and organisation in physical things is a necessary
part of efficiency and perfection and makes the instrument fit for
whatever work is given to it.
Perfection
The ordinary life
consists in work for personal aim and satisfaction of desire under some
mental or moral control, touched sometimes by a mental ideal. The Gita's
yoga consists in the offering of one's work as a sacrifice to the
Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti
for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of
unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the
bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and
the transformation of the nature.
Sri Aurobindo
(Ref: Sri Aurobindo Birth
Centenary Library, Vol 23, P: 669)
Not only liberation but
perf
Working With Others
From the point of view of sadhana - you must not allow yourself to be in the least disturbed by these things. What you have to do, what is right to be done, should be done in perfect calmness with the support of the Divine Force. All that is necessary for a
successful result, can be done - including the securing of the support of those who are able to help you. But if this outer support is not forthcoming, you have not to be disturbed but to proceed calmly on your way. If there is any difficulty or unsuccess anywhere not due to your own fault, you have not to be troubled. Strength, unmoved calm, quiet straight and right deali
Work
- Importance & Nature
What is the use of only
knowing? I say to thee, Act and be, for therefore God sent thee into
this human body.
Sri Aurobindo
(Ref: Sri Aurobindo Birth
Centenary Library, Vol. 17, P: 123)
Of course
the idea of bigness and smallness is quite foreign to the spiritual
truth.... Spiritually there is nothing big or small. Such ideas are
like those of the literary people who think writing a poem is a high
work and making shoes or cooking the dinner is a small and low one.
But all is equal in the eyes of the Spirit - and it is only the
spirit within with which it is done that matters. It is the same
Desire & Self
Offering
It is a common
error to suppose that action is impossible or at least meaningless
without desire. If desire ceases, we are told, action also must
cease. But this, like other too simply comprehensive
generalisations, is more attractive to the cutting and defining mind
than true. The major part of the work done in the universe is
accomplished without any interference of desire; it proceeds by the
calm necessity and spontaneous law of Nature. Even man constantly
does work of various kinds by a spontaneous impulse, intuition,
instinct or acts in obedience to a natural necessity and law of
forces without either mental pl
How to know
what is to be done
(To be constantly governed by the Divine) A constant aspiration for that
is the first thing - next a sort of stillness within and a drawing back
from the outward action into the stillness and a sort of listening expectancy,
not for a sound but for the spiritual feeling or direction of the consciousness
that comes through the psychic.
Sri Aurobindo
(Ref: Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol 23, P: 693-694)
If you want the consciousness for true actions very much and aspire for
it, it may come in one of several way
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