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Series Fourteen

Series Fourteen
Letters to a Sadhak
To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

We are at a moment of transition in the history of the earth.
It is merely a moment in eternal time, but this moment is long
compared to human life. Matter is changing in order to prepare
itself for the new manifestation, but the human body is not
plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of
incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and
becoming a problem for medical science.
The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at
work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes the
task easier.
18 November 1971

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Those who want to progress now have an exceptional chance,
because the transformation begins with the opening of the consciousness to the action of the new forces; thus individuals have
a unique and wonderful opportunity to open themselves to the
divine influence.
20 November 1971

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The purpose of individual existence is the joy of discovering the
Divine and uniting with Him. When one has understood this,
then one is ready to gain the strength to surmount all difficulties.
22 November 1971

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A victory won over the lower nature gives a deeper and more
lasting joy than any external success.
24 November 1971

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Sri Aurobindo has revealed to us a few of the marvels that the
future will bring to the earth and has encouraged us to prepare
ourselves for it.
27 November 1971

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Each one has his ego and all the egos are at odds with one
another. It is only when one gets rid of the ego that one becomes
a free being.
To be free, one must belong only to the Divine.
3 December 1971

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In the difficult hours of life, the imperative duty of each one is
to overcome his ego in a total and unconditional self-giving to
the Divine. Then the Divine will make you do what you have to
do.
4 December 1971

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Supreme Lord, Infinite Wisdom,
At this perilous hour when egoisms are at odds and asserting
themselves, the only safety lies in taking refuge in Thee!
Grant that nothing in us may be an obstacle to the fulfilment
of Thy Will.
Grant that we may become conscious and effective collaborators in the fulfilment of Thy Will.
5 December 1971

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Difficult hours come to the earth to compel men to overcome
their small personal egoism and turn exclusively to the Divine
for help and light. The wisdom of men is ignorant. Only the
Divine knows.
7 December 1971

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Our human consciousness has windows that open upon the
Infinite. But generally men keep these windows carefully closed.
We have to open them wide and allow the Infinite to enter us
freely in order to transform us.
Two conditions are necessary to open the windows:
(1) ardent aspiration;
(2) progressive abolition of the ego.
The divine help is assured to those who set to work sincerely.
8 December 1971

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The ego was necessary to form the individual being. Its destruction is therefore difficult. There is a much better, though more
difficult solution: to transform it and make it an instrument of
the Divine.
Egos that are converted and wholly consecrated to the
Divine become especially powerful and effective instruments.
The endeavour is difficult and demands an absolute and
steadfast sincerity, but for those who have a strong will, an
ardent aspiration and an unshakable sincerity, it is well worth
undertaking.
The method for each individual is worked out as the activity
proceeds, for each ego has its own character and needs a particular method. The only qualities indispensable for all are absolute
perseverance and sincerity. The least tendency to deceive oneself
makes success impossible.
9 December 1971

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For you, the best way to begin is to find your psychic being,
to concentrate on it by making it the witness of all your inner
movements and the judge of all that you should or should not
do, and to strive to submit your external nature to its decisions.
11 December 1971

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The psychic being is the individual sheath of the Divine Presence.
It is found deep within oneself, beyond all thoughts.
11 December 1971

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Communications from the psychic do not come in a mental
form. They are not ideas or reasonings. They have their own
character quite distinct from the mind, something like a feeling
that comprehends itself and acts.
By its very nature, the psychic is calm, quiet and luminous,
understanding and generous, wide and progressive. Its constant
effort is to understand and progress.
The mind describes and explains.
The psychic sees and understands.
13 December 1971

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The psychic is conscious of its progressive formation during successive lives upon earth, so it has the memory of the important
moments in its previous lives.
The more the psychic has taken part in these physical lives
on earth, the more numerous and precise its memories are.
14 December 1971

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Feeling alone in the midst of human beings is the sign that you
are beginning to feel the need to find in your own being contact
with the Divine Presence. So you must concentrate in silence and


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try to enter deep within to discover the Divine Presence in the
depths of your consciousness, beyond all mental activity.
16 December 1971

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There comes a moment when life becomes intolerable without
the Divine Presence. Therefore, give yourself entirely to the
Divine and you will emerge into the Light.
17 December 1971

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One moment of conscious communion with the Divine can
shatter all resistance, however powerful it may be.
18 December 1971

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In silence lies the greatest receptivity. And in an immobile silence
the vastest action is done.
Let us learn to be silent so that the Lord may make use of
us.
19 December 1971

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We shall have made a great leap towards realisation when we
have driven all defeatism out of our consciousness.
It is by perfecting our faith in the Divine Grace that we shall
be able to conquer the defeatism of the subconscient.
20 December 1971

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Total union and the perfect manifestation of the Divine are the
sole means of putting an end to the suffering and misery of the
physical world which are the cause of subconscient pessimism.
It is only in perfect union with the Divine that the consciousness
can emerge into the eternal delight. And this conscious union is
the true goal of earthly existence.
21 December 1971

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To know why we live: discovery of the Divine and conscious
union with Him.
The aspiration to concentrate solely on this realisation.
To know how to transform all circumstances into a means
of reaching this goal.
22 December 1971

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Prayer
O Lord, awaken in me the ardent desire to know You.
I aspire to consecrate my life to Your service.
24 December 1971

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The best thing we can do to express our gratitude is to overcome all egoism in ourselves and make a constant effort towards this transformation. Human egoism refuses to abdicate
on the grounds that others are not transformed. But that is
the stronghold of bad will, for each one’s duty is to transform
himself regardless of what others may do.
If men knew that this transformation, the abolition of egoism, is the only way to gain constant peace and delight, they
would consent to make the necessary effort. This, then, is the
conviction that must awaken in them.
Everyone should repeatedly be told: abolish your ego and
peace will reign in you.
The Divine help always responds to a sincere aspiration.
25 December 1971

*
Human beings could be classified under four principal categories
according to the attitude they take in life:
( 1 ) Those who live for themselves. They consider everything
in relation to themselves and act accordingly. The vast majority
of men are like this.


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(2) Those who give their love to another human being and
live for him. As for the result, everything naturally depends on
the person one chooses to love.
(3) Those who consecrate their life to the service of humanity through some activity done not for personal satisfaction
but truly to be useful to others without calculation and without
expecting any personal gain from their work.
(4) Those who give themselves entirely to the Divine and
live only for Him and through Him. This implies making the
effort required to find the Divine, to be conscious of His Will
and to work exclusively to serve Him.
In the first three categories, one is naturally subject to the
ordinary law of suffering, disappointment and sorrow.
It is only in the last category — if one has chosen it in all
sincerity and pursued it with an unfailing patience — that one
finds the certitude of total fulfilment and a constant luminous
peace.
26 December 1971

*
Do not live to be happy, live to serve the Divine, and the
happiness you enjoy will exceed all expectation.
28 December 1971

*
We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. It is preparing for the coming of the superman and because of this the old
way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the
path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once
tolerable, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to
receive what is going to come.
29 December 1971

*
The result of the creation is a detailed multiplication of consciousness.




When the vision of the whole and the vision of all the details
are united in a single active consciousness, the creation will have
attained its progressive perfection.
8 January 1972

*
In time and space no two human beings have the same consciousness, and the sum of all these consciousnesses is but a partial
and diminished manifestation of the Divine Consciousness.
That is why I said “progressive perfection”, because the
manifestation of the consciousness of detail is infinite and unending.
9 January 1972

*
The first condition is not to have one’s own personal interest as
a goal.
The first qualities needed are boldness, courage and perseverance.
And then to be conscious that one knows nothing compared
to what one ought to know, that one can do nothing compared
to what one ought to do, that one is nothing compared to what
one ought to be.
One must have an invariable will to acquire what is lacking
in one’s nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able
to do what one is not yet able to do.
One must constantly progress in the light and peace that
come from the absence of personal desires.
One could take as a programme:
“Always better. Forward!”
And to have only one goal: to know the Divine in order to
be able to manifest Him.
Persevere, and what you cannot do today you will be able
to do tomorrow.
11 January 1972

*


Series Fourteen – To a Sadhak

Mother, is it possible to develop in oneself the capacity
to heal?
In principle, everything is possible by uniting consciously with
the Divine Force.
But a method has to be found, and this depends on the case
and the individual.
The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives
energy rather than draws energy from others.
The second indispensable condition is to know how to draw
energy from above, from the inexhaustible impersonal source.
12 January 1972

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In this way the more one spends the more one receives, and
one becomes an inexhaustible channel rather than a vessel that
empties itself by giving.
It is through steadfast aspiration that one learns.
13 January 1972

*
Sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for
progress are essential for a happy and fruitful life. Above all, one
must be convinced that the possibility of progress is unlimited.
Progress is youth; one can be young at a hundred.
14 January 1972

*
When the body has learned the art of constantly progressing
towards an increasing perfection, we shall be well on the way to
overcoming the inevitability of death.
16 January 1972

*




If the growth of consciousness were considered as the principal
goal of life, many difficulties would find their solution.
The best way to avoid growing old is to make progress the
goal of our life.
18 January 1972

*
To learn constantly, not just intellectually but psychologically,
to progress in regard to character, to cultivate our qualities and
correct our defects, so that everything may be an opportunity to
cure ourselves of ignorance and incapacity — then life becomes
tremendously interesting and worth living.
27 January 1972

*
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation
of the supramental world. And not only did he announce this
manifestation but he also embodied in part the supramental
force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare
ourselves for this manifestation. The best thing we can do is to
study all he has told us, strive to follow his example and prepare
ourselves for the new manifestation.
This gives life its true meaning and will help us to overcome
all obstacles.
Let us live for the new creation and we shall grow stronger
and stronger while remaining young and progressive.
30 January 1972

*
The energies that human beings use for reproduction and that
occupy such a predominant place in their lives, should on the
contrary be sublimated and used for progress and higher development so as to prepare the coming of the new race. But first, the
vital and the physical have to be free of all desire — otherwise
one is courting disaster.
31 January 1972



Series Fourteen – To a Sadhak

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The first thing the physical consciousness must understand is
that all the difficulties we meet with in life come from the fact
that we do not rely exclusively on the Divine for the help we
need.
The Divine alone can liberate us from the mechanism of
universal Nature. And this liberation is indispensable for the
birth and development of the new race.
It is only by giving ourselves entirely to the Divine in perfect
trust and gratitude that the difficulties will be overcome.
1 February 1972

*
To want what the Divine wants, in all sincerity, is the essential
condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries
come from the fact that men are nearly always convinced that
they know better than the Divine what they need and what
life ought to give them. Most human beings want other human
beings to conform to their expectations and circumstances to
conform to their desires — therefore they suffer and are unhappy.
It is only when one gives oneself in all sincerity to the Divine
Will that one has the peace and calm joy which come from the
abolition of desires.
The psychic being knows this with certainty; so, by uniting
with one’s psychic, one can know it. But the first condition is
not to be subject to one’s desires and mistake them for the truth
of one’s being.
4 February 1972

*
The first necessity for each one is his own transformation, and
the best way to help the world is to realise the Divine oneself.
5 February 1972

*




In the depths of our being, in the silence of contemplation, a
luminous force floods our consciousness with a vast and luminous peace which prevails over all petty reactions and prepares
us for union with the Divine — the very purpose of individual
existence.
6 February 1972

*
Thus, the purpose and goal of life is not suffering and struggle
but an all-powerful and happy realisation.
All the rest is painful illusion.
7 February 1972

*
When humanity was first created, the ego was the unifying
element. It was around the ego that the different states of being
were grouped; but now that the birth of superhumanity is being
prepared, the ego has to disappear and give way to the psychic
being, which has slowly been formed by divine intervention in
order to manifest the Divine in the human being.
It is under the psychic influence that the Divine manifests in
man and thus prepares the coming of superhumanity.
The psychic is immortal and it is through the psychic that
immortality can be manifested on earth.
So the important thing now is to find one’s psychic, unite
with it and allow it to replace the ego, which will be compelled
either to get converted or disappear.
8 February 1972

*
The first thing one learns on the way is that the joy of giving is
far greater than the joy of taking.
Then gradually one learns that to forget oneself is the source
of immutable peace. Later on, in this self-forgetfulness, one finds
the Divine, and that is the source of an ever-increasing bliss.


Series Fourteen – To a Sadhak

Sri Aurobindo told me one day that if men knew this and
were convinced of it, they would all want to do yoga.
9 February 1972

*
Human consciousness is so corrupted that men prefer the miseries of the ego and its ignorance to the luminous joy that comes
from a sincere surrender to the Divine. So great is their blindness
that they refuse even to try the experiment and would rather be
subject to the miseries of their ego than make the effort needed
to get rid of them.
So completely blind are they that they would not hesitate
to make the Divine a slave of their ego, if such a thing were
possible, in order to avoid giving themselves to the Divine.
10 February 1972

*
Supreme Lord, teach us to be silent, that in the silence we may
receive Your force and understand Your will.
11 February 1972

*
We want to be true servitors of the Divine.
“Supreme Lord, Perfect Consciousness, You alone know
truly what we are, what we can do, what progress we must make
to be capable and worthy of serving You as we would. Make us
conscious of our possibilities, but also of our difficulties so that
we may overcome them in order to serve You faithfully.”
The supreme happiness is to be true servitors of the Divine.
14 February 1972

*
For those who want always to progress, there are three major
ways of progressing:
(1) To widen the field of one’s consciousness.




(2) To understand ever better and more completely what
one knows.
(3) To find the Divine and surrender more and more to his
Will.
In other words, this means:
(1) To constantly enrich the possibilities of the instrument.
(2) To ceaselessly perfect the functioning of this instrument.
(3) To make this instrument increasingly receptive and obedient to the Divine.
To learn to understand and do more and more things. To
purify oneself of all that prevents one from being totally surrendered to the Divine. To make one’s consciousness more and
more receptive to the Divine Influence.
One could say: to widen oneself more and more, to deepen
oneself more and more, to surrender oneself more and more
completely.
15 February 1972

*
What is commonly called faithfulness is a scrupulous compliance
with the promises one has made. But the only true and binding
faithfulness is faithfulness to the Divine — and that is the faithfulness we all ought to acquire through sincere and sustained
effort.
When the whole being, in all its parts and all its activities,
can say to the Divine in all sincerity:
“Whatever You will, whatever You will”,
then one is well on the way to the true faithfulness.
17 February 1972

*
Life on earth is essentially a field for progress. But how brief life
is for all the progress that has to be made!


Series Fourteen – To a Sadhak

To waste one’s time seeking the satisfaction of one’s petty
desires is sheer folly. True happiness is possible only when one
has found the Divine.
19 February 1972

*
Supreme Lord, Perfection that we must become, Perfection that
we must manifest.
This body lives by You alone and goes on repeating to You:
“Whatever You will, whatever You will”
until the day when it shall automatically know what You
will because its consciousness will be totally united with Yours.
23 February 1972

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Grant that I may become conscious of Your Presence.
9 March 1972

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Lord, we implore You, grant that nothing in us may reject Your
Presence and that we may become what You want us to be; grant
that all in us may conform to Your Will.
12 March 1972

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Lord, give us the silence of Your contemplation, the silence rich
with Your effective Presence.
13 March 1972

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Grant that our silence may be filled with Your Presence and that
we may be fully conscious of it.
Grant that we may know that You are our life, our consciousness and our being, and that without You everything is
merely illusion.
14 March 1972

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Grant that we may identify ourselves with Your Eternal Consciousness so that we may know truly what Immortality is.
16 March 1972

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To prepare for immortality, the consciousness of the body must
first identify itself with the Eternal Consciousness.
17 March 1972

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A fifteen-year-old girl asked: “What is Truth?”
I answered: “The Will of the Supreme Lord.”
It is a subject for contemplative meditation.
18 March 1972

*
This truth that man has vainly sought to know will be the
birthright of the new race, the race of tomorrow, the superman.
To live according to Truth will be his birthright.
Let us do our best to prepare the coming of the New Being. The mind must fall silent and be replaced by the TruthConsciousness — the consciousness of details harmonised with
the consciousness of the whole.
19 March 1972



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