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Old Age
Why
this joy, this gladness, when the world is forever
burning? O you who are
enveloped in shadows, why
do you not seek the light?
See
then this poor decorated form, this mass of cor-
ruptible elements, of
infirmities and vain desires in
which nothing is lasting or stable.
This
fragile body is but a nest of misery, of decrepi-
tude and corruption; for life
ends in death.
What
pleasure is there in contemplating these white
bones strewn like gourds in
autumn?
In
this fortress made of bone and covered with flesh
and blood, only pride and
jealousy, dissolution and
death are established.
Even
the
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Evil
Hasten
towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts,
for to do good without
enthusiasm is to have a mind
which delights in evil.
If one
does an evil action, he should not persist in it,
he should not delight in it.
For full of suffering is the
accumulation of evil.
If
one does a good action, he should persist in it and
take delight in it. Full of
happiness is the accumula-
tion of good.
As
long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evil-
doer may experience
contentment. But when it ripens,
the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.
As
long as his good action has not yet ripened, one
who does good ma
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Endurance
– the Vital's Hunger for Praise –
Signs of
the Converted Vital
Let endurance
be your watchword: teach the life-force in you your vital being – not to
complain but to put up with all the conditions necessary for great achievement.
The body is a very enduring servant, it bears the stress of circumstance tamely
like a beast of burden. It is the vital being that is always grumbling and
uneasy. The slavery and torture to which it subjects the physical is almost
incalculable. How it twists and deforms the poor body to its own fads and
fancies, irrationally demanding that everything should be shaped according to
its whimsicality! But th
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28 April 1929
It has been said that in
order to progress in Yoga one
must offer up everything to the Divine, even
every
little thing that one has or does in life. What is pre
cisely the meaning
of that?
Yoga means
union with the Divine, and the union is effected through offering is – founded
on the offering of yourself to the Divine. In the beginning you start by making
this offering in a general way, as though once for all; you say, “I am the
servant of the Divine; my life is given absolutely to the Divine; all my
efforts are for the realisation of the Divine Life.” But that is only the first
step; for this is not sufficient. When the resolution has bee
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Supermind and Overmind
Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation.
Above the
mind there are several levels of conscious being, among which the really divine
world is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind, the world of the Truth.
But in between is what he has distinguished as the Overmind, the world of the
cosmic Gods. Now it is this Overmind that has up to the present governed our
world: it is the highest that man has been able to attain in illumined
consciousness. It has been taken for the Supreme Divine and all those who have
reached it have never for a moment doubted that they have touched the true
Spirit. For, its splendours are so great t
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The Ego
If a
man holds himself dear, let him guard himself
closely. The sage should watch
through one of the
three vigils of his existence (youth, maturity, or old
age).
One
should begin by establishing oneself in the right
path; then, one will be able
to advise others. Thus the
sage is above all reproach.
If
one puts into practice what he teaches to others,
being master of himself, he
can very well guide others;
for in truth it is difficult to master oneself.
In
truth, one is one's own master, for what other mas-
ter can there be? By
mastering oneself, one acquires
a mastery which is dif
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The World
Do
not follow the way of evil. Do not cultivate indo-
lence of mind. Do not choose
wrong views. Do not
be of those who linger in the world.
Arise.
Cast off negligence. Follow the teaching of
wisdom. The sage knows happiness in
this world and
the other.
Follow
the teaching of wisdom and not that of evil.
The sage knows happiness in this
world and the other.
One
who looks upon the world as a bubble or a
mirage, Yama the King of Death cannot
find him.
Come,
look upon the world as the brightly-coloured
chariot of a Raja, which attracts
the foolish, but
where, in truth, there is noth
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19 May 1929
What
is the nature of the power that thought posses
ses? How and to what extent am I
the creator of my
world?
According to the Buddhist teachings, every human being lives and
moves in a world of his own, quite independent of the world in which another
lives; it is only when a certain harmony is created between these different
worlds that they interpenetrate and men can meet and understand one another.
This is true of the mind; for everybody moves in a mental world of his own,
created by his own thoughts. And it is so true that always, when something has
been said, each understands it in a different way; for what he catches is not
the thing that has
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Niraya
(Hell)
One
who speaks untruth goes to Hell like one who,
when he has done a thing, says:
“I did not do it.”
Both, after death, will share the same fate, for these
are
men of evil.
Though
they wear the yellow robe, those who are dis-
solute and evil-natured, their evil
actions will cause
them to be reborn in Hell.
It
would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball than
to live on alms while
leading a dissolute life.
Four
punishments await the unscrupulous man who
covets the wife of another: shame,
troubled sleep, con-
demnation and Hell.
So he
acquires an evil reputation and an evi
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The Adept
No
sorrow exists for one who has completed his jour-
ney, who has let fall all
cares, who is free in all his
parts, who has cast off all bonds.
Those
who are heedful strive always and, like swans
leaving their lakes, leave one
home after another.
Those
who amass nothing, who eat moderately, who
have perceived the emptiness of all
things and who
have attained unconditioned liberation, their path is
as
difficult to trace as that of a bird in the air.
One
for whom all desires have passed away and who
has perceived the emptiness of
all things, who cares
little for food, who has attained unconditioned
libera-