Surrender to the Divine Will  SURRENDER Surrender: the decision to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. This is done either through the mind or the emotion or the life-impulse or through all of them together. To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It and made a centre for Its play. If you are truly surrendered to the Divine, in the right manner and totally, then at every moment you will be what you ought to be, you will do what you ought to do, you will know what you ought to know. But for that you should have transcended all the limitations of the ego. True surren

Those who are sincere I can help and turn easily towards the Divine. But where there is insincerity I can do very little. And as I have told you already, we have only to be patient and wait for things to become better. But surely I do not see why you should get disturbed and in what way your disturbance would help things to be better. You know by experience that there is only one way of getting out of confusion and obscurity; it is to remain very quiet and peaceful, firm in equanimity and to let the storm pass away. Rise above these petty quarrels and difficulties and wake up once more in the light and the power of my love which never leaves you. All unpleas

PART THREE ELEMENTS OF YOGA Sincerity Sincerity is the key of the divine doors. Be sincere. Sincerity is the gate to Divinity. Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.  21 February 1930 * To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine  ― not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the aspiration to want the Divine for the Divine's sake, not

Openness and Receptivity  OPENNESS Openness is the will to receive and to utilise for progress the force and influence; the constant aspiration to remain in touch with the Consciousness; the faith that the force and consciousness are always with you, around you, inside you and that you have only to let nothing stand in the way of your receiving them. Opening is a release of the consciousness by which it begins to admit into itself the workings of the Divine Light and Power. Open to the consciousness which is working on and in you and keep always as quiet and peaceful as you can. I pray that I may serve you consciously and sincerely, with

Aspiration             What is exactly meant by a sincere aspiration? An aspiration which is not mixed with any interested and egoistic calculation. 12January 1934 * It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the Love answers spontaneously.  20 October 1934 * Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude. We must aspire with all our being for the manifestation to come soon and complete.                                                                                                                                                                      2 February 1935

BOOK X The Book of the Double Twilight   LIVRE X Le Livre du Double Crépuscule     Make rather thy thought a plain and faithful glass Reflecting Matter and mortality, And know thy soul a product of the flesh, A made-up self in the constructed world. Thy words are large murmurs in a mystic dream. For how in the soiled heart of man could dwell The inarticulate grandeur of thy dream-built God, Or who can see a face and form divine In the naked two-legged worm thou callest man ? O human face, put off mind-painted masks: The animal be, the worm that Nature m

BOOK X The Book of the Double Twilight   LIVRE X Le Livre du Double Crépuscule     A hand is lifted towards the Invisible's realm Beyond the superconscient's blinding line And plucks away the screens of the Unknown; A spirit within looks into the Eternal's eyes. It hears the Word to which our hearts were deaf, It sees through the blaze in which our thoughts grew blind; It drinks from the naked breasts of glorious Truth, It learns the secrets of eternity. Thus all was plunged into the riddling Night, Thus all is raised to meet a dazzling Sun. O D

Fragments   BOOK I Canto IV   When darkness deepens strangling the earth's breast And man's corporeal mind is the only lamp, As a thief's in the night shall be the covert tread Of one who steps unseen into his house. A voice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey, A power into mind's inner chamber steal, A charm and sweetness open life's closed doors And beauty conquer the resisting world, The truth-light capture Nature by surprise, A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss And earth grow unexpectedly divine. In Matter shall be lit the spirit's glow, In body an

Fragments   BOOK XI Canto I   "O Satyavan, O luminous Savitri, I sent you forth of old beneath the stars, A dual power of God in an ignorant world, In a hedged creation shut from limitless self, Bringing down God to the insentient globe, Lifting earth-beings to immortality. .................................................... "He is my soul that climbs from nescient Night Through life and mind and supernature's Vast To the supernal light of Timelessness And my eternity hid in moving Time And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space. ......................................................