Ascent and Integration (16-07-08) If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorism 280) Ascent and Integration … The spiritual man is the sign of this new evolution, this new and higher endeavour of Nature. But this evolution differs from the past process of the evolutionary Energy in two respects: it is conducted by a conscious effort of the human mind, and it is not confined to a conscious progression of the surface nature, but is accomp

If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul's brotherhood and the death of egoism. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a worldwide fiasco. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorism 322) To Walk through Life Armoured against all fear, peril and disaster To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together – the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and per

GET RID OF ABHIMANA (13-08-08) Vedanta says rather, Man, thou art of one nature & substance with God, one soul with thy fellow-men. Awake & progress then to thy utter divinity, live for God in thyself & in others. This gospel which was given only to the few, must now be offered to all mankind for its deliverance. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorism 201) GET RID OF ABHIMANA There are people who nurse a fairly secret spirit of vengeance and say, “I have been made to suffer, I shall make them suffer.” This indeed becomes nasty enough for people to notice that it should not exist-though it is not always easy to resist. It indicates something very petty i

WHO (03-12-08) Honour the garb of the ascetic, but look also at the wearer, lest hypocrisy occupy the holy places and inward saintliness become a legend. Sri Aurobindo. (Thoughts and Aphorisms 345)   ►WHO◄ In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, Whose is the hand that has painted the glow? When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether, Who was it roused them and bade them to blow? He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature, He is found in the brain where He builds up the thought: In the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven, In the luminous net of the stars He is caught. In the strength of a man, in the beauty of woman, In the laugh of a boy,

Aspiration (19-10-08) Aspiration “The mind is an instrument of action and formation and not an instrument of knowledge; at each moment it is creating forms. Thoughts are forms and have an individual life, independent of their author: sent out from him into the world, they move in it towards the realisation of their own purpose of existence. When you think of anyone, your thought takes a form and goes out to find him; and, if your thinking is associated with some will that is behind it, the thought-form that has gone out from you makes an attempt to realise itself.” The Mother CWM Vol. 3 Page 50 Do prayers and aspirations also take a form like thoughts?

Inconscience (01-06-08) Inconscience You say, “Love is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones....” If there is love in a stone, how can one see it ? Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love. I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was quite unconscious, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in general are the result of the effort of Love to bring consciousness into Matter. If one of you (I have my doubts, but still) went down into the Inconscient, what is called the pure Inconscient, you would realise what it is. A stone will seem t

THE HOLE MADE BY BOASTING (16-04-08) There is a means to attain physical immortality and death is by our choice, not by Nature's compulsion. But who would care to wear one coat for a hundred years or be confined in one narrow & changeless lodging unto a long eternity? Sri Aurobindo. (Thoughts and Aphorisms - 375) THE HOLE MADE BY BOASTING In their relation with human beings the hostile forces take a very wicked pleasure in testing them. For example, if you are not extremely strong and extremely sincere, and you tell yourself, “Oh, I am sure of my faith” – this for instance among many other things – immediately something happens which is going to try to s

Ascent and Integration (22-10-08) A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorism 71) Ascent and Integration The spiritual man is the sign of this new evolution, this new and higher endeavour of Nature. But this evolution differs from the past process of the evolutionary Energy in two respects: it is conducted by a conscious effort of the human mind, and it is not confined to a conscious progression of the surface nature, but is accompanied by an attempt to break the walls of the Ignorance and ex

Aspiration (17-08-08) Aspiration Mother , What is an “acute resistance”? Acute? Acute is used in a figurative sense. Acute describes something pointed, don’t you know? – and perhaps this means an aggressive, sharp resistance which sinks deep like a claw. I did not understand very well the answer to this question: “ Does the power of aspiration vary in different sadhaks according to their natures?” Ah! Yes. You see, I think the question has been put badly. I believe the one who asked the question wanted to say “the effect of aspiration” and he put “power”. That is, aspiration in everyone, no matter who it is, has the same power. But the effect of thi

Stepping Back (27-08-08) Men hunt after petty successes & trivial masteries from which they fall back into exhaustion & weakness; meanwhile all the infinite force of God in the universe waits vainly to place itself at their disposal. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorism 359) Stepping Back Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get upset. The whole trouble arises out of your not being accustomed to stepping back. You must always step back into yourself—learn to go deep within —step