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Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you.
It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always.
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense
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Many are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled. Continuous practice gives the necessary strength of mind to engage in meditation.
Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954
To see God is to be God. He alone is.
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
Only the Divine will matter, the Divine alone will be the one need of the whole being; ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1
If earnestly you say to the Divine, I want only Thee, the Divine will arrange the circumstances in
such a way that you are compelled to be sincere.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - II, Sincerity
Wherever you go, whatever you do, I am always with you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
It is not so much the act that matters, but the consciousness in which it is done. So all is well and do not torment yourself. My love is always with you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - II
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, [T5
It is by God's grace that you think of God! ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 29, [T5
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, [T5
Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names. ~ Ibn Arabi, [T5
When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
~ Ibn Arabi, [T5
The limbs of knowledge may be practised at all places and at all times. Of yoga and knowledge, one may follow
whichever is pleasing to one, or both, according to circumstances. The great teachers say that
forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release,10 so one should rest the mind in
one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be
controlled. The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs has been set forth
elaborately in the sacred texts; so only the substance of this teaching has been given here.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34
For it is in God alone, by the possession of the Divine only that all the discords of life can be resolved, and therefore the raising of men towards the Divine is in the end the one effective way of helping mankind. All the other activities and realisations of our self-experience have their use and power, but in the end these crowded side-tracks or these lonely paths must circle round to converge into the wideness of the integral way by which the liberated soul transcends all, embraces all and becomes the promise and the power of the fulfilment of all in their manifested being of the Divine.
The effective fullness of our concentration on the one thing needful to the exclusion of all else will be the measure of our self-consecration to the One who is alone desirable. But this exclusiveness will in the end exclude nothing except the falsehood of our way of seeing the world and our will's ignorance. For our concentration on the Eternal will be consummated by the mind when we see constantly the Divine in itself and the Divine in ourselves, but also the Divine in all things and beings and happenings. It will be consummated by the heart when all emotion is summed up in the love of the Divine, -- of the Divine in itself and for itself, but love too of the Divine in all its beings and powers and personalities and forms in the Universe' It will be consummated by the will when we feel and receive always the divine impulsion and accept that alone as our sole motive force; but this will mean that, having slain to the last rebellious straggler the wandering impulses of the egoistic nature, we have universalised ourselves and can accept with a constant happy acceptance the one divine working in all things. This is the first fundamental siddhi of the integral Yoga.
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