999:[an Integral conception of the Divine :::
But on that which as yet we know not how shall we concentrate? And yet we cannot know the Divine unless we have achieved this concentration of our being upon him. A concentration which culminates in a living realisation and the constant sense of the presence of the One in ourselves and in all of which we are aware, is what we mean in Yoga by knowledge and the effort after knowledge. It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophical reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable : it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose. Therefore the wise have always been unwilling to limit man's avenues towards God; they would not shut against his entry even the narrowest portal, the lowest and darkest postern, the humblest wicket-gate. Any name, any form, any symbol, any offering has been held to be sufficient if there is the consecration along with it; for the Divine knows himself in the heart of the seeker and accepts the sacrifice.
But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 82-83 [T1],#KEYS |
1000:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS |
1001:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #KEYS |
1002:SECTION 1. Books for Serious Study
Liber CCXX. (Liber AL vel Legis.) The Book of the Law. This book is the foundation of the New Æon, and thus of the whole of our work.
The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation.
Liber ABA (Book 4). A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. In four parts: (1) Mysticism (2) Magical (Elementary Theory) (3) Magick in Theory and Practice (this book) (4) The Law.
Liber II. The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the essence of the new Law in a very simple manner.
Liber DCCCXXXVIII. The Law of Liberty. A further explanation of The Book of the Law in reference to certain ethical problems.
Collected Works of A. Crowley. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.
The Yi King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XVI], Oxford University Press.) The "Classic of Changes"; give the initiated Chinese system of Magick.
The Tao Teh King. (S. B. E. Series [vol. XXXIX].) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism.
Tannhäuser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled.
The Upanishads. (S. B. E. Series [vols. I & XV.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism.
The Bhagavad-gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu "Christ", expounds a system of Attainment.
The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Frater O.M., 7°=48, is the most learned of all the Brethren of the Order; he has given eighteen years to the study of this masterpiece.
Raja-Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda. An excellent elementary study of Hindu mysticism. His Bhakti-Yoga is also good.
The Shiva Samhita. An account of various physical means of assisting the discipline of initiation. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to the Shiva Samhita.
The Aphorisms of Patanjali. A valuable collection of precepts pertaining to mystical attainment.
The Sword of Song. A study of Christian theology and ethics, with a statement and solution of the deepest philosophical problems. Also contains the best account extant of Buddhism, compared with modern science.
The Book of the Dead. A collection of Egyptian magical rituals.
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, by Eliphas Levi. The best general textbook of magical theory and practice for beginners. Written in an easy popular style.
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The best exoteric account of the Great Work, with careful instructions in procedure. This Book influenced and helped the Master Therion more than any other.
The Goetia. The most intelligible of all the mediæval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favourite Invocation of the Master Therion.
Erdmann's History of Philosophy. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind.
The Spiritual Guide of [Miguel de] Molinos. A simple manual of Christian Mysticism.
The Star in the West. (Captain Fuller). An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley.
The Dhammapada. (S. B. E. Series [vol. X], Oxford University Press). The best of the Buddhist classics.
The Questions of King Milinda. (S. B. E. Series [vols. XXXV & XXXVI].) Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated bydialogues.
Liber 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticæ Viæ Explicandæ, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicam Sanctissimorum Scientiæ Summæ. A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English language.
Varieties of Religious Experience (William James). Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment.
Kabbala Denudata, von Rosenroth: also The Kabbalah Unveiled, by S.L. Mathers. The text of the Qabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject.
Konx Om Pax [by Aleister Crowley]. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysticism and Magick.
The Pistis Sophia [translated by G.R.S. Mead or Violet McDermot]. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism.
The Oracles of Zoroaster [Chaldæan Oracles]. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical.
The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master.
The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy.
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium.
Scrutinium Chymicum [Atalanta Fugiens]¸ by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy.
Science and the Infinite, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years.
Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus [A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus &c. &c. &c.], by Richard Payne Knight [and Thomas Wright]. Invaluable to all students.
The Golden Bough, by J.G. Frazer. The textbook of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students.
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition.
Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable textbook of old systems of initiation.
Three Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of Subjective Idealism.
Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academic Scepticism.
First Principles by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism.
Prolegomena [to any future Metaphysics], by Immanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics.
The Canon [by William Stirling]. The best textbook of Applied Qabalah.
The Fourth Dimension, by [Charles] H. Hinton. The best essay on the subject.
The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Appendix I: Literature Recommended to Aspirants #KEYS |
1003:Depression, unless one has a strong will, suggests, "This is not worth while, one may have to wait a lifetime." As for enthusiasm, it expects to see the vital transformed overnight: "I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth, I am going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga, I am going to gain the divine consciousness without any difficulty." There are some other difficulties.... One needs a little time, much perseverance. So the vital, after a few hours - perhaps a few days, perhaps a few months - says to itself: "We haven't gone very far with our enthusiasm, has anything been really done? Doesn't this movement leave us just where we were, perhaps worse than we were, a little troubled, a little disturbed? Things are no longer what they were, they are not yet what they ought to be. It is very tiresome, what I am doing." And then, if one pushes a little more, here's this gentleman saying, "Ah, no! I have had enough of it, leave me alone. I don't want to move, I shall stay in my corner, I won't trouble you, but don't bother me!" And so one has not gone very much farther than before.
This is one of the big obstacles which must be carefully avoided. As soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm, you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, "Calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' wholeheartedly."
So we get started on the path. But the road is very long. Many things happen on the way. Suddenly one thinks one has overcome an obstacle; I say "thinks", because though one has overcome it, it is not totally overcome. I am going to take a very obvious instance, of a very simple observation. Someone has found that his vital is uncontrollable and uncontrolled, that it gets furious for nothing and about nothing. He starts working to teach it not to get carried away, not to flare up, to remain calm and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently. If one does this cheerfully, it goes quite quickly. (Note this well, it is very important: when you have to deal with your vital take care to remain cheerful, otherwise you will get into trouble.) One remains cheerful, that is, when one sees the fury rise, one begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and saying, "Ah! In spite of all my effort it is beginning all over again", one begins to laugh and says, "Well, well! One hasn't yet seen the end of it. Look now, aren't you ridiculous, you know quite well that you are being ridiculous! Is it worthwhile getting angry?" One gives it this lesson cheerfully. And really, after a while it doesn't get angry again, it is quiet - and one relaxes one's attention. One thinks the difficulty has been overcome, one thinks a result has at last been reached: "My vital does not trouble me any longer, it does not get angry now, everything is going fine." And the next day, one loses one's temper. It is then one must be careful, it is then one must not say, "Here we are, it's no use, I shall never achieve anything, all my efforts are futile; all this is an illusion, it is impossible." On the contrary, one must say, "I wasn't vigilant enough." One must wait long, very long, before one can say, "Ah! It is done and finished." Sometimes one must wait for years, many years....
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to give you patience and perseverance - for there is a moment when you do arrive. And note that the vital is a small part of your being - a very important part, we have said that it is the dynamism, the realising energy, it is very important; but it is only a small part. And the mind!... which goes wandering, which must be pulled back by all the strings to be kept quiet! You think this can be done overnight? And your body?... You have a weakness, a difficulty, sometimes a small chronic illness, nothing much, but still it is a nuisance, isn't it? You want to get rid of it. You make efforts, you concentrate; you work upon it, establish harmony, and you think it is finished, and then.... Take, for instance, people who have the habit of coughing; they can't control themselves or almost can't. It is not serious but it is bothersome, and there seems to be no reason why it should ever stop. Well, one tells oneself, "I am going to control this." One makes an effort - a yogic effort, not a material one - one brings down consciousness, force, and stops the cough. And one thinks, "The body has forgotten how to cough." And it is a great thing when the body has forgotten, truly one can say, "I am cured." But unfortunately it is not always true, for this goes down into the subconscient and, one day, when the balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years I have been free from this small thing and here it is beginning anew!" It is then that you must be careful. You must arm yourself with an endless patience and endurance. You do a thing once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times if necessary, but you do it till it gets done. And not done only here and there, but everywhere and everywhere at the same time. This is the great problem one sets oneself. That is why, to those who come to tell me very light-heartedly, "I want to do yoga", I reply, "Think it over, one may do the yoga for a number of years without noticing the least result. But if you want to do it, you must persist and persist with such a will that you should be ready to do it for ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes if necessary, in order to succeed." I do not say it will be like that, but the attitude must be like that. Nothing must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS |
1004:
Mother, when one imagines something, does it not exist?
When you imagine something, it means that you make a mental formation which may be close to the truth or far from the truth - it also depends upon the quality of your formation. You make a mental formation and there are people who have such a power of formation that they succeed in making what they imagine real. There are not many of these but there are some. They imagine something and their formation is so well made and so powerful that it succeeds in being realised. These are creators; there are not many of them but there are some.
If one thinks of someone who doesn't exist or who is dead?
Ah! What do you mean? What have you just said? Someone who doesn't exist or someone who is dead? These are two absolutely different things.
I mean someone who is dead.
Someone who is dead!
If this person has remained in the mental domain, you can find him immediately. Naturally if he is no longer in the mental domain, if he is in the psychic domain, to think of him is not enough. You must know how to go into the psychic domain to find him. But if he has remained in the mental domain and you think of him, you can find him immediately, and not only that, but you can have a mental contact with him and a kind of mental vision of his existence.
The mind has a capacity of vision of its own and it is not the same vision as with these eyes, but it is a vision, it is a perception in forms. But this is not imagination. It has nothing to do with imagination.
Imagination, for instance, is when you begin to picture to yourself an ideal being to whom you apply all your conceptions, and when you tell yourself, "Why, it should be like this, like that, its form should be like this, its thought like that, its character like that," when you see all the details and build up the being. Now, writers do this all the time because when they write a novel, they imagine. There are those who take things from life but there are those who are imaginative, creators; they create a character, a personage and then put him in their book later. This is to imagine. To imagine, for example, a whole concurrence of circumstances, a set of events, this is what I call telling a story to oneself. But it can be put down on paper, and then one becomes a novelist. There are very different kinds of writers. Some imagine everything, some gather all sorts of observations from life and construct their book with them. There are a hundred ways of writing a book. But indeed some writers imagine everything from beginning to end. It all comes out of their head and they construct even their whole story without any support in things physically observed. This truly is imagination. But as I say, if they are very powerful and have a considerable capacity for creation, it is possible that one day or other there will be a physical human being who realises their creation. This too is true.
What do you suppose imagination is, eh? Have you never imagined anything, you?
And what happens?
All that one imagines.
You mean that you imagine something and it happens like that, eh? Or it is in a dream...
What is the function, the use of the imagination?
If one knows how to use it, as I said, one can create for oneself his own inner and outer life; one can build his own existence with his imagination, if one knows how to use it and has a power. In fact it is an elementary way of creating, of forming things in the world. I have always felt that if one didn't have the capacity of imagination he would not make any progress. Your imagination always goes ahead of your life. When you think of yourself, usually you imagine what you want to be, don't you, and this goes ahead, then you follow, then it continues to go ahead and you follow. Imagination opens for you the path of realisation. People who are not imaginative - it is very difficult to make them move; they see just what is there before their nose, they feel just what they are moment by moment and they cannot go forward because they are clamped by the immediate thing. It depends a good deal on what one calls imagination. However...
Men of science must be having imagination!
A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. In fact, what is called imagination is a capacity to project oneself outside realised things and towards things realisable, and then to draw them by the projection. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the catastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's not yet realised, catching something there and drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and these things tend towards manifestation. It is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. It is one of the faculties one can develop in himself and render serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes.
Sweet Mother, can one imagine the Divine and have the contact?
Certainly if you succeed in imagining the Divine you have the contact, and you can have the contact with what you imagine, in any case. In fact it is absolutely impossible to imagine something which doesn't exist somewhere. You cannot imagine anything at all which doesn't exist somewhere. It is possible that it doesn't exist on the earth, it is possible that it's elsewhere, but it is impossible for you to imagine something which is not already contained in principle in the universe; otherwise it could not occur.
Then, Sweet Mother, this means that in the created universe nothing new is added?
In the created universe? Yes. The universe is progressive; we said that constantly things manifest, more and more. But for your imagination to be able to go and seek beyond the manifestation something which will be manifested, well, it may happen, in fact it does - I was going to tell you that it is in this way that some beings can cause considerable progress to be made in the world, because they have the capacity of imagining something that's not yet manifested. But there are not many. One must first be capable of going beyond the manifested universe to be able to imagine something which is not there. There are already many things which can be imagined.
What is our terrestrial world in the universe? A very small thing. Simply to have the capacity of imagining something which does not exist in the terrestrial manifestation is already very difficult, very difficult. For how many billions of years hasn't it existed, this little earth? And there have been no two identical things. That's much. It is very difficult to go out from the earth atmosphere with one's mind; one can, but it is very difficult. And then if one wants to go out, not only from the earth atmosphere but from the universal life!
To be able simply to enter into contact with the life of the earth in its totality from the formation of the earth until now, what can this mean? And then to go beyond this and enter into contact with universal life from its beginnings up to now... and then again to be able to bring something new into the universe, one must go still farther beyond.
Not easy!
That's all?
(To the child) Convinced?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, [T1],#KEYS |
1005:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS |
1006:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS |
1007:[The Gods and Their Worlds]
[...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.
This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.
There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.
One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.
Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.
But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.
When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.
Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!
I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.
Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!
These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.
In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.
If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.
If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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1008:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS |
1009:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS |
| 1010:The earth is full of adverse forces and of men who respond to these adverse forces; usually, the more one realises the Divine, the more enemies does he have around himself. ~ The Mother, #KEYS |
| 1011:Don’t let anything from outside approach and disturb you. What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine. ~ The Mother, #KEYS |
| 1012:She no longer cares for anything except to abandon herself to joy, nourished by the divine milk ...this holy madness... ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS |
| 1013:Only when men shall depend exclusively upon the Divine and upon nothing else will the incarnate god no longer need to die for them. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 1, 1951-1954, #KEYS |
1014:O soul, it is too early to rejoice!
Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power?
On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?
One was within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the secret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?
This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS |
| 1015:The greatest obstacle to the contact with the Divine is pride and the sense of one’s personal worth, one’s personal capacities, personal power — the person becomes very big, so big that there is no place for the Divine. ~ The Mother, #KEYS |
| 1016: The purpose of creation, is lila. The concept of lila escapes all the traditional difficulties in assigning purpose to the creator. Lila is a purpose-less purpose, a natural outflow, a spontaneous self-manifestation of the Divine. The concept of lila, again, emphasizes the role of delight in creation. The concept of Prakriti and Maya fail to explain the bliss aspect of Divine. If the world is manifestation of the Force of Satcitananda, the deployment of its existence and consciousness, its purpose can be nothing but delight. This is the meaning of delight. Lila, the play, the child’s joy, the poet’s joy, the actor’s joy, the mechanician’s joy of the soul of things eternally young, perpetually inexhaustible, creating and recreating Himself in Himself for the sheer bliss of that self-creation, of that self-representation, Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground ~ Sri Aurobindo, Philosophy of Social Development, pp-39-40 #KEYS |
| 1017:This eternal lila is the eternal truth, and, therefore, its this eternal lila - the playful love-making of Radha and Krishna, which the Vaishnava poets desired to enjoy. If we analyse the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva we shall find not even a single statement which shows the poet's desire to have union with Krishna as Radha had,- he only sings praises the lila of Radha and Krishna and hankers after a chance just to have peep into the divine lila, and this peep into the divine lila is the highest spiritual gain which poets could think of. ~ Gautam Dasgupta (1976:125-26), quoted by Wimal Dissanayake, in Narratives of Agency: Self-making in China, India, and Japan, p. 132 #KEYS |
| 1018:Lila (pronounced Leela) is the play of creation. To awakened consciousness, the entire universe. With all its joys and sorrows, pleasures and pains, appears as a divine game, sport, or drama. It is a play in which the one Consciousness performs all the roles. Alluding to this lila of the Divine Mother the physical universe is a “mansion of mirth.” ~ Sri Ramakrishna, in Selections from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (2005), p. 130 #KEYS |
1019:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS |
| 1020:Make the divine presence your destination. ~ Al-Ghazali #KEYS |
| 1021:First of all, each one has a soul, and secondly, we have the luminously strong sup port of the Mother. It is the nature of the Divine that even if you don't think of Him He thinks of you. It is true, very true; because you are part of the Divine. Only you have to concentrate consciously on that part, that portion; then gradually it will increase. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, To Read Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS |
1022:What is the true meaning of tapasya?
Tapasya is the discipline one imposes upon oneself to arrive at the discovery of the Divine.
Are tapasya and aspiration the same thing?
No, you cant do tapasya without aspiration. Aspiration is first, the will to attain something. Tapasya is the process there is indeed a process, a method. ~ The Mother, 1950-1951#KEYS |
1023:You say that you feel you have returned to your old life and that you have fallen from that state of spiritual consciousness in which you remained for some time. And you ask whether it comes from the fact that Sri Aurobindo and myself have withdrawn our protection and our help because you had been unable to fulfil your promise.
It is a mistake to think that anything at all has been withdrawn by us. Our help and our protection are with you as always, but it would be more correct to say that both your inability to feel our help and your inability to keep your promise are the simultaneous effects of the same cause.
Remember what I wrote to you when you went to Calcutta to fetch your family: do not let any influence come in between you and the Divine. You did not pay sufficient attention to this warning: you have allowed an influence to interfere strongly between you and your spiritual life; your devotion and your faith have been seriously shaken by this. As a consequence, you became afraid and you did not find the same joy in your offering to the Divine Cause; and also, quite naturally, you fell back into your ordinary consciousness and your old life.
You are quite right, nevertheless, not to let yourself be discouraged. Whatever the fall, it is always possible not only to get up again but also to rise higher and to reach the goal. Only a strong aspiration and a constant will are needed.
You have to take a firm resolution to let nothing interfere with your ascent towards the Divine Realisation. And then the success is certain.
Be assured of our unfailing help and protection. 3 February 1931 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - I,#KEYS |
1024: By the Divine Consciousness we mean the spiritual consciousness to which the Divine alone exists, because all is the Divine and by which one passes beyond the Ignorance and the lower nature into unity with the Divine and the Divine Nature.
Here in the Ignorance we are not aware of the Divine and we obey the lower nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, LOY1,#KEYS |
| 1025:He [the Divine] wants that you first find yourself; that with your true being, your psychic being, you master and govern the lower being, and then you will quite naturally take your proper place in the great Divine Work. ~ The Mother, #KEYS |
| 1026:Drugs are able to bring humans into the neighborhood of divine experience and can thus carry us up from our personal fate and the everyday circumstances of our life into a higher form of reality. It is, however, necessary to understand precisely what is meant by the use of drugs. We do not mean the purely physical craving...That of which we speak is something much higher, namely the knowledge of the possibility of the soul to enter into a lighter being, and to catch a glimpse of deeper insights and more magnificent visions of the beauty, truth, and the divine than we are normally able to spy through the cracks in our prison cell. But there are not many drugs which have the power of stilling such craving. The entire catalog, at least to the extent that research has thus far written it, may include only opium, hashish, and in rarer cases alcohol, which has enlightening effects only upon very particular characters. ~ The Hashish Eater, (1857) pg. 181 #KEYS |
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4:The ordinary is the divine. ~ Cynthia Ozick
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6:Thou belongest to the divine world. ~ Baha-ullah
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11:What I know of the divine ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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14:Politics are the divine science, after all. ~ John Adams
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15:The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall. ~ Libba Bray
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19:The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain. ~ Kevin Myers
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20:Meditation is listening to the divine within ~ Edgar Cayce
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21:Suffering is part of the divine idea. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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22:With the Divine's help nothing is impossible. ~ The Mother
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24:Alone the Divine can give us a perfect safety. ~ The Mother
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25:It's the Divine Comedy, not the Divine Tragedy. ~ Cat Bauer
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26:The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo. ~ The Mother
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27:Labor is the divine law of our existence. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
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28:The obedience to the Divine Will must be total. ~ The Mother
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29:Theology is the science of the divine lie. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
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30:mortality is a living critique of the divine, ~ Walter Mosley
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31:Security is of the world, insecurity is of the divine. ~ Osho
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32:The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide. ~ The Mother
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33:Forgiveness is the divinest of victories. ~ Friedrich Schiller
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34:Open to the Divine Grace and thou shalt endure. ~ ~ The Mother
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37:...for everything has a trace of the divine in it. ~ Yann Martel
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38:He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image. ~ Rabbi Akiva
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39:Our best help is faith - The Divine is all merciful. ~ Anonymous
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40:Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany. ~ Huston Smith
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41:That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton. ~ William Wordsworth
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42:The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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43:The perfection of evil is to be ignorant of the Divine. ~ Hermes
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44:There's divinity within because we come from the divine, ~ Q Tip
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45:What was God doing before the divine creation? ~ Stephen Hawking
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46:I think that we all carry the divine within us. ~ Isabelle Adjani
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47:Let the Divine fill your thoughts with His Presence. ~ The Mother
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48:Each thought turned towards oneself veils the Divine. ~ The Mother
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49:Faith is giving the divine a chance to act. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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50:I belong to the divine source from which I originated. ~ T F Hodge
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51:Only one thing is important, it is to find the Divine ~ The Mother
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52:The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
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53:The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself. ~ Joseph Henry
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54:We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit— ~ Virginia Woolf
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55:Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine, ~ Carl Sagan
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56:Always joyfully accept what is given you by the Divine. ~ The Mother
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57:Awareness of the divine begins with wonder. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
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58:Let the Divine fill your thoughts with His Presence.
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59:Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. ~ Confucius
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60:The only thing worth living for is to serve the Divine. ~ The Mother
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61:The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind. ~ Takijiro Onishi
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62:We judge all things according to the divine truth. ~ Saint Augustine
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63:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother
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64:Let this be our one need in life, to realise the Divine. ~ The Mother
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65:Nothing is in safety except what is given to the Divine. ~ The Mother
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66:Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. ~ Sarah Vowell
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67:To love truly the Divine we must riseabove attachments. ~ The Mother
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68:To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. ~ The Mother(CWM 14)
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69:When action is initiated by the Divine Will, it is pure. ~ The Mother
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70:Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. ~ Franz Werfel
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71:Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation. ~ The Mother
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72:Always joyfully accept what is given to you by the Divine. ~ The Mother
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73:Meditation is the artwork of awakening the divine within you ~ Amit Ray
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74:The world is a mirror representing the divine life. ~ William A Dembski
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75:To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences. ~ The Mother
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76:You would attain to the divine perfection. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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77:I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite. ~ Joan Osborne
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78:In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line
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79:labor in the divine economy is a vocation or calling. ~ Daniel M Bell Jr
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80:Let the Divine’s peace always reign in your heart and mind. ~ The Mother
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81:The Divine never forsakes one who has surrendered. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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82:Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
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83:that those who have nothing are taken care of by the Divine. ~ Swami Rama
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84:The Divine never forsakes one who has surrendered. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
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85:To learn to obey is good; to obey only the Divine is better. ~ The Mother
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86:Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear. ~ The Mother
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87:Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine. ~ R Scott Bakker
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88:Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth. ~ Kabir
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89:We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine. ~ Martin Luther King Jr
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90:Be faithful to the Divine and you will enjoy a constant peace. ~ The Mother
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91:I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
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92:The soul cannot think the Divine but knows Him with certitude. ~ The Mother
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93:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain. ~ The Mother
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94:My soul intertwined with the divine…an angel I wish were mine. ~ Jamie Magee
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95:Respect man as a spiritual being in whom dwells the divine Spirit. ~ Tolstoy
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96:Temples cannot imprison within their walls the divine Substance. ~ Euripides
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97:The Divine Plan unfolds through following intuition. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
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98:With faith in the Divine Grace, all difficulties are solved.
~ The Mother,
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99:One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision. ~ William Blake
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100:The divine is always abominable.
"Houses Under The Sea ~ Caitl n R Kiernan
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101:The life of a man is unfulfilled unless he has found the Divine. ~ The Mother
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102:The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ~ Michelangelo
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103:Trust in the Divine: very indispensable for the impulsive vital. ~ The Mother
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104:When we trust in the Divine’s Grace we get an unfailing courage. ~ The Mother
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105:To the Divine you are worth no more than what you have given Him. ~ The Mother
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106:Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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107:Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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108:A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God. ~ T B Joshua
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109:For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine. ~ Friedrich H lderlin
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110:He will see with the divine eyes the mysteries of the eternal art. ~ Baha-ullah
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111:Our will must always be a perfect expression of the Divine's will. ~ The Mother
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112:Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center ~ Richard J Foster
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113:06 June 2020 -Never seek satisfaction elsewhere than in the Divine. ~ The Mother
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114:It is and it is as no other being is. ~ Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names, 1, 1
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115:Our trust in the Divine must not depend upon outward circumstances. ~ The Mother
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116:Reconnect with the highest truth and ignite the divine sparks in you. ~ Amit Ray
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117:The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. ~ Euripides
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118:When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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119:Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him. ~ Benedict XVI
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120:My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
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121:Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. ~ Edmund Burke
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122:Sweetness itself becomes powerful when at the service of the Divine. ~ The Mother
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123:The "I" is the Divine Spark and cannot be extinguished. ~ William Walker Atkinson
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124:The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness. ~ Dante Alighieri
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125:A powerless spirit is no spirit ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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126:Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine. ~ The Mother
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127:Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. ~ Michael Jackson
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128:The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine. ~ Sue Thoele
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129:The Word of God is not divine, it is an attribute of The Divine. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim
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130:You’ll feel better once you trust the Divine to take care of you,” he ~ Joe Vitale
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131:Be grateful for all ordeals,they are the shortest way to the Divine. ~ ~ The Mother
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132:Have faith and unshaken confidence. The Divine Grace will do the rest. ~ The Mother
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133:The real self is pure spirit, a spark of the divine fire. ~ William Walker Atkinson
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134:The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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135:I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. ~ Plotinus
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136:[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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137:Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul. ~ Peter Kreeft
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138:The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration. ~ The Mother
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139:The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
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140:Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
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141:Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. ~ Pablo Casals
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142:Noumenon beyond phenomena. Thought of the divine incorporeity ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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143:Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
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144:The Divine’s Presence is for us an absolute, immutable, invariable fact. ~ The Mother
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145:We must be free of all selfishness to serve properly the Divine’s Cause. ~ The Mother
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146:Alone the Divine can give us a perfect safety.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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147:If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. ~ Julia Cameron
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148:Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work ~ The Mother
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149:Sometimes the attempt to strenghten contact with the divine is a journey. ~ Moshe Idel
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150:The adverse forces have no power when one loves the Divine. Be confident. ~ The Mother
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151:Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire. ~ Wayne Dyer
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152:And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form. ~ C S Lewis
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153:Disinterested work done for the Divine: the surest means of progressing. ~ ~ The Mother
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154:Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. ~ Agatha Christie
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155:“The adverse forces have no power when one loves the Divine. Be confident. ~ The Mother
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156:We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. ~ Tom Robbins
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157:I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. ~ Rumi
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158:the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ~ C S Lewis
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159:An integral and exclusive aspiration is sure to bring the Divine’s response. ~ The Mother
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160:The greatness of the Great is the greatness of the Divine in him.
~ Nolini Kanta Gupta,
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161:The psalms are the divinely ordained way to learn devotion to our God. ~ Timothy J Keller
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162:What we call ourself is only the ego - our true self is the Divine.
~ The Mother, [T4],
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163:Without the Divine life is a painful illusion, with the Divine all is bliss. ~ The Mother
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164:before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind ~ Johannes Kepler
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165:I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. ~ Rumi
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166:In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the right attitude. ~ The Mother
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167:The true work of art
is but a shadow of the divine perfection ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
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168:The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory. ~ John Calvin
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169:Truth of oneness creates its own order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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170:You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery ~ Rumi
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171:All our strength is with the Divine.With Him we can surmount all the obstacles ~ The Mother
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172:Be filled with the Divine's Happiness; it is the best way of making you happy. ~ The Mother
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173:Force is a self-expression of Existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Maya,
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174:I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. ~ Alice Walker
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175:If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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176:I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. ~ Virginia Woolf
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177:Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life. ~ Sathya Sai Baba
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178:Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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179:One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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180:The best way to express one’s gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy. ~ The Mother
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181:The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes ~ Epictetus
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182:All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount all the obstacles ~ The Mother
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183:Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine ~ Martin Luther
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184:If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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185:Life is meant for seeking the Divine. Life is realised when finding the Divine. ~ The Mother
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186:There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy. ~ Leonard Sweet
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187:What is my true destiny? The true destiny is to reach the Divine Consciousness. ~ The Mother
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188:All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount all the obstacles. ~ The Mother
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189:Each thought turned towards oneself veils the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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190:Harmony is the natural rule of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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191:I don't think that white collar gives you sole right of access to the divine. ~ Joanne Harris
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192:Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body’s best prayer to the Divine. ~ The Mother
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193:Love must be turned singly towards the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Desire,
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194:the dark night is nothing other than our ongoing relationship with the Divine. ~ Gerald G May
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195:The Divine help is much vaster t+B57han what any human being is able to receive. ~ The Mother
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196:The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. ~ Plato
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197:There is always one man who more than others represents the divine thought of the epoch. ~ id
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198:All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine. ~ The Mother
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199:Darkness is a great opportunity to discover the divine face of the light! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
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200:Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. ~ R C Sproul
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201:Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ. ~ Philipp Melanchthon
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202:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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203:in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives. ~ Marie Corelli
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204:In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah. ~ Rabih Alameddine
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205:Let us offer our will to the Divine Grace; it is the Grace that accomplishes all. ~ The Mother
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206:The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. ~ Martin Buber
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207:There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. ~ Rumi
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208:The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine ~ Mirra Alfassa
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209:When you start a quarrel it is as if you were declaring war on the Divine’s work. ~ The Mother
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210:When you start a quarrel, it is as if you were declaring war to the Divine's work ~ The Mother
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211:And all grows beautiful because Thou art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Divine Hearing,
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212:Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us. ~ John Calvin
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213:Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. ~ Herbert Spencer
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214:It is we who, in the eyes of Intelligence, are the essence of the divine regard. ~ Omar Khayyam
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215:Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence. ~ James Johnson
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216:We must see only through the Divine’s eyes and act only through the Divine’s will. ~ The Mother
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217:Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine. ~ Tom Robbins
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218:If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. ~ The Mother
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219:True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya. ~ The Mother
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220:Even the body has its intuitions. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Personality,
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221:Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
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222:It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. ~ Simone Weil
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223:Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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224:Never worry. Do with sincerity all you do and leave the results to the Divine's care ~ The Mother
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225:Sincerity is the key of the divine doors.
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226:The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge. ~ George Eliot
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227:The volume of revelation is the impress of the divine will on man's spiritual nature. ~ Anonymous
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228:If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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229:... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
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230:It is in work done as an offering to the Divine that the consciousness develops best. ~ The Mother
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231:Let us do our best in all circumstances, leaving the result to the Divine’s decision. ~ The Mother
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232:Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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233:The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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234:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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235:The zero covers an immortal face.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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236:Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we ~ Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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237:Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. ~ Rumi
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238:Go and prepare yourself and the best preparation is to be useful to the Divine’s work. ~ The Mother
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239:Growing within card 22/6/2014To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments . ~ The Mother
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240:I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. ~ Plotinus, #last-words?,
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241:In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction. ~ Maimonides
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242:Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping & guiding you. ~ The Mother
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243:Progress: is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,
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244:The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Love and Wisdom, Par. 28
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245:The Divine is Supreme Peace. Be with the Divine and you will be in Peace. ~ The Mother(White Roses)
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246:The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.
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247:The spiritual fullness of the being is eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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248:While life remains, action is unavoidable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Work,
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249:But in the divine nature Persons three,
And in one person the divine and human. ~ Dante Alighieri
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250:Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others. ~ Robert V Taylor
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251:Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. ~ Rumi
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252:I looked in temples, churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
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253:In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction. ~ Maimonides,
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254:In each thing he will see the mystery of the transfiguration and the divine apparition. ~ Baha-ullah
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255:. . . in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
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256:Knowledge is incomplete without action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Action and the Divine Will,
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257:' . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .' [the Lord]
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258:Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present. ~ Eric Butterworth
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259:Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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260:It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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261:One can be free only by living in the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Occult Knowledge,
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262:The Holy Spirit is said to be the divine, eternal, mutual love of the Father and the Son. ~ John Owen
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263:The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body. ~ B K S Iyengar
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264:The true repose is that of a perfect surrender to the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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265:To love the Divine is to be loved by Him. 2 November 1932 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,
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266:All in the cosmos has a divine origin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Personality,
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267:Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. ~ Anne Lamott
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268:Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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269:Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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270:In the divine consciousness there is no ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Ego and Its Forms,
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271:The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T5], #index,
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272:The whole of our life should be a prayer offered to the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,
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273:Very few are those who can stand firm on the rock of their faith and trust in the Divine. ~ The Mother
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274:What is my true worth in this life?
To serve the Divine.
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275:You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection. ~ Wayne Dyer
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276:Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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277:A vast surrender was his only strength
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278:Faultless planning of work cannot be obtained except with the consciousness of the Divine. ~ The Mother
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279:Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers
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280:Gentile Tongue: "God Is Divine Person(s)". Semitic Tongue: God Is The Divine (period) ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim
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281:I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine. ~ Giancarlo Esposito
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282:Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the divine love . ~ The Mother
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283:What is liberty?
Liberty is to depend only on the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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284:Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope? ~ Pope John Paul II
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285:Calvin taught that all people have an innate sense of the divine (sensus divinitatis). ~ Nancy R Pearcey
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286:Love to every human being however degraded who bears the impress of the Divine image. ~ Michelle DeRusha
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287:We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. ~ Ursula K Le Guin
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288:Growing Within 28/5/14 The divine is always seated in your heart,consciously living in you . ~ The Mother
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289:if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real? ~ Nancy R Pearcey
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290:If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire. ~ Kabir
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291:I will always find myself a prisoner to the divine sublimity of the Eucharist itself." (201) ~ Pat Conroy
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292:Life’s whole
Tremendous theorem is Thou complete. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Divine Worker,
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293:Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! ~ Bryant McGill
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294:Sincerity in Yoga means to respond to the Divine alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Sincerity,
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295:Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love. ~ Priscilla Shirer
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296:The divine fact of existing shouldn’t be surrendered to the satanic fact of coexisting. ~ Fernando Pessoa
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297:The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
~ Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy,
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298:true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes. ~ Terry Pratchett
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299:We can construct nothing which goes beyond our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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300:Without faithfulness in one’s consecration to the Divine there can be no peace in the heart. ~ The Mother
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301:Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve. ~ Chico Xavier
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302:All evil is in travail of the eternal good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine and the Undivine,
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303:And when you near perfection, you’re touching the Divine. It touches the you of yous. ~ Daniel James Brown
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304:Continue to have full faith in the Divine's Grace,Will and Action and all will be all right. ~ The Mother
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305:God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. ~ Josiah Royce
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306:In all our conflicts and tribulations—we may behold the hand of the divine King. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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307:In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness. ~ Jack Kornfield
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308:It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help. ~ The Mother
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309:I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
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310:Nobody can say, 'there is no hope for me.' because the Divine Grace is there.
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311:The Divine is the savour of all life and the reason of all activity,the goal of our thoughts. ~ The Mother
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312:The Divine’s love can generate in all peace and the satisfaction that comes from benevolence. ~ The Mother
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313:The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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314:We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us. ~ Michael Beckwith
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315:Accord and concord are the true normality of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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316:By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
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317:Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God. ~ John Wesley
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318:In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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319:Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you. ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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320:Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. —Swami Sri Yukteswar ~ Kimberly Snyder
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321:Not every madman is an agent of the divine,
Not all who pass are allowed to come through. ~ David Lehman
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322:Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere. ~ Ann Coulter
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323:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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324:The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. ~ Franz von Papen
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325:Yes, my child it is quite true that the Divine is the sole refuge-with Him is absolute safety. ~ The Mother
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326:Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. ~ The Mother
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327:Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace. ~ The Mother
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328:man carries the seed of the divine life in himself ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Faith and Shakti,
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329:Of course, all forms of creativity are a way of dipping one’s toes in the essence of the divine. ~ Erin Hart
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330:Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means ‘inspired’ or ‘filled with the divine. ~ Jon Gordon
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331:Let him destroy by deep meditation the qualities that are opposed to the divine nature. ~ Laws of Manu VI. 72
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332:Not diminishing the Way by the mind,
not trying to help the divine by means of the human. ~ Thomas Cleary
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333:The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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334:The Divine is the savour of all life & the reason of all activity, the goal of our thoughts. ~ The Mother
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335:The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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336:The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation. ~ Jean Pierre de Caussade
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337:The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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338:What seemed the source and end was a wide gate, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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339:Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine. ~ Edgar Cayce
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340:It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So ~ John Calvin
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341:Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
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342:The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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343:There is not a body, however small, which does not enclose a portion of the divine substance. ~ Giordano Bruno
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344:As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy. ~ Rajneesh
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345:Deep within each of us is a spark of the divine just waiting to be used to light up a dark space. ~ Fred Rogers
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346:Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine." ~ Jon Gordon
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347:If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious. ~ Judith Plaskow
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348:Keep life simple… turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy. ~ Ming Dao Deng
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349:Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the divine fires of wisdom. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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350:"The divine force is with you - feel its presence more and more and be careful never betray it." ~ ~ The Mother
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351:The divine force is with you -- feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. ~ The Mother
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352:The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it. ~ Andre Malraux
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353:The sins that we do against men come because each one does not respect the Divine Spirit in his like. ~ Tolstoy
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354:What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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355:When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer. ~ Mother Meera
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356:All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran. ~ Anjem Choudary
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357:Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
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358:Eternal Youth: It is a gift the Divine gives to us when we unite with Him. ~ The Mother. Flower: Hibiscus hirtus
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359:Holy theology arises from knees bend before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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360:Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.' ~ James Allen
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361:Let the sage unifying all his attentive regard see in the divine Spirit all things visible and invisible. ~ Manu
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362:Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey. ~ Rajneesh
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363:some think it’s in the wine, and others think it’s in the divine, but pleasantness is what everyone’s ~ Sadhguru
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364:The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. ~ Caspar David Friedrich
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365:The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory ~ Kallistos Ware
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366:Who am I?
The Divine under many disguises.
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367:Wrong could not come where all was light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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368:All that denies must be torn out and slain
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369:An eternal instant is the cause of the years. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],
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370:Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence. ~ David Steindl Rast
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371:Growing within 2/6/14 "Nothing is difficult for those who call sincerely the Divine. ~ The Mother " #sriaurobindo
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372:Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,
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373:His soul was freed and given to her alone.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],
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374:Let the Divine Presence be always with you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [T1],
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375:Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist. ~ Sarah Young
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376:The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Divine Grace and Guidance,
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377:The Divine's peace must dwell constantly in our hearts. With my Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother,
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378:The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man. ~ Ovid
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379:The triumph of the Divine is certain. If we keep the true trust, we shall never take the wrong path. ~ The Mother
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380:We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. ~ Harold MacMillan
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381:Have a sincere faith in the Divine and you will clearly know what you have to do. Blessings.
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382:Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. ~ Muhammad Iqbal
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383:That which is the Real Self of Man is the Divine Spark sent forth from the Sacred Flame. ~ William Walker Atkinson
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384:To live only for the Divine: this means to have overcome all the difficulties of the individual life. ~ The Mother
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385:When you let go of your ego and the ego’s desires, you allow something better to guide you: the Divine ~ Anonymous
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386:Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love. ~ Doreen Virtue
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387:Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine. ~ Mariska Hargitay
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388:Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father. ~ Ernest Angley
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389:Receptivity is the capacity of admitting and retaining the Divine Workings.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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390:The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
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391:The Divine may very well lean down towards you, but to understand Him rightly you must come up to Him. ~ The Mother
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392:The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. ~ William Ames
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393:To be and to become more and more what the Divine wants us to be should be our greatest preoccupation. ~ The Mother
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394:To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! ~ Pythagoras
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395:We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton
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396:You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are! ~ Eckhart Tolle
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397:Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor. ~ James MacDonald
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398:Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit. ~ Paul Carus
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399:If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. ~ Joshua Mohr
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400:Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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401:Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. ~ Joseph Plaskett
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402:By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. ~ Rajneesh
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403:From the moment that I ousted the Other from my life, the Divine Energy began to perform its miracles. ~ Paulo Coelho
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404:Growing Within Card 27/5/14 The Divine is in things also and that is why they must be treated with care. ~ The Mother
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405:Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T3],
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406:Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet. ~ Deepak Chopra
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407:That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T0], #index,
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408:What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. ~ A W Tozer
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409:All spiritual life is in its principle a growth into divine living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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410:As for true love, it is the Divine Force that allows consciousnesses to unite themselves with the Divine. ~ The Mother
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411:The Divine alone is the support that never fails.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You [14],
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412:The Divine is the unborn Eternal who has no origin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Supreme Word of the Gita,
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413:The readings described prayer as talking to God and meditation as listening to the divine within. A ~ Kevin J Todeschi
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414:There is only one reality, there is only one life, there is only one consciousness: the Divine. ~ The Mother, mcw, 11,
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415:What we are, we know not; what we know, we cannot effect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Action and the Divine Will,
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416:yoga: union with the Divine - by extension: the path which leads to this union
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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417:You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how
important you are. ~ Eckhart Tolle
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418:Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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419:All consciousness comes from the one Consciousness-Knowledge is one aspect of the Divine Consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo
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420:@ Be simply sincere in your obedience to the Divine --this will take you far on the way to transformation. ~ The Mother
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421:He who seeks the Divine must consecrate himself to God and to God only.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T5],
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422:I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine. ~ Doreen Virtue
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423:In closing, Washington referred to the character of Jesus, “the Divine author of our blessed religion.”32 ~ Ron Chernow
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424:Integral opening of the being towards the Divine: the first step of the ascent.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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425:The pure intellectual direction travels away from life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Personality,
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426:The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light ~ Saint John of the Cross
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427:To be & to become more & more what the Divine wants us to be should be our greatest preoccupation. ~ The Mother
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428:All pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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429:As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul. ~ Therese of Lisieux
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430:Have faith in the Divine, and go deep inside yourself. My help is always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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431:He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine. ~ Thomas Hardy
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432:He who seeks the Divine must consecrate himself to God and -- to God only. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 1.02,
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433:If you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedinglycareful about your company and your environment ~ The Mother
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434:Power can abase as well as elevate; nothing is more liable to misuse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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435:The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life. ~ Alberto Villoldo
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436:Yet one’s joy will be greater than another’s on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness ~ Peter Kreeft
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437:All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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438:Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. ~ John Calvin
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439:Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Faith and the Divine Grace, Faith,
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440:Having the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me. ~ John Assaraf
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441:Lack of faith in the divine within makes us seek solace outside, in property (kshetra, maya). Because ~ Devdutt Pattanaik
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442:The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. ~ George Eliot
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443:When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ~ Shauna Niequist
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444:You cannot see or touch the divine with your gross senses. The divine is within you, not somewhere else ~ Morihei Ueshiba
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445:All is one in self, but all is variation in the phenomenon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Divine Truth and Way,
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446:Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Emotionalist:
A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. ~ Idries Shah
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447:If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
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448:I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report. ~ Charles A Dana
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449:To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Aim of the Integral Yoga,
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450:What I know of the divine
science and holy scripture,
I learnt in the woods and fields. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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451:What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within! ~ Aldous Huxley
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452:When one works for the Divine,it is much better to do perfectly what one does than to aim at a very big work. ~ The Mother
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453:When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. ~ Stephen Levine
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454:With trust in the Divines Grace all obstacles can be surmounted. with my blessings
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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455:You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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456:.... every time one is unhappy, well, it is one more suffering added to thecollective suffering of the Divine. ~ The Mother
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457:Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Love and the Triple Path,
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458:Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [T5],
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459:The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge. ~ Ashwin Sanghi
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460:What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions? ~ Stephen Hawking
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461:Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. ~ Walt Whitman
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462:Awaken to your own internal power, to your own connection to the Divine, and act on what you are inspired to do ~ Joe Vitale
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463:It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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464:Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant. ~ Mooji
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465:The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine presence becomes imperative and indispensable . ~ The Mother
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466:To be alone with the Divine is the highest of all privileged states for the sadhak.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,
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467:To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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468:You are one of a kind. You are irreplaceable. A masterpiece, a Mini-Me of the Divine sufficient unto yourself. ~ Mike Dooley
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469:By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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470:Do not do your own will, but the Divine’s will.Do not either do other people’s will, for you will be torn apart. ~ The Mother
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471:.... every time one is unhappy, well, it is one more suffering added to thecollective suffering of the Divine. ~ ~ The Mother
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472:Gratitude: A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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473:I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit. ~ Peter Garrett
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474:Sraddha: the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,
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475:Sure it is that They have many faces. All the shapes the Divine shows us are true; and none are all the Truth. ~ S M Stirling
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476:we who seek to indwell the Bible’s Story are indwelling the omniscient perspective of the divine’s narration. ~ Scot McKnight
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477:What is my true destiny?
The true destiny is to reach the Divine Consciousness.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
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478:All ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine and the Undivine,
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479:As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux
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480:Do not do your own will, but the Divine’s will. Do not either do other people’s will, for you will be torn apart. ~ The Mother
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481:For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts. ~ Seneca the Younger
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482:The Bat Phone to the Universe," some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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483:The Divine Force can always do more than the personal effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Divine Force in Work,
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484:The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness. ~ Thomas Keating
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485:There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others. ~ Frank Sheed
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486:Truth is followed as the path to the divine beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer,
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487:What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine. ~ Timothy B Tyson
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488:An entry into the gnostic consciousness would be an entry into the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
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489:Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart. ~ Guru Nanak
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490:Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person. ~ John Owen
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491:No human law is the absolute expression of the divine justice, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Heraclitus - VI,
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492:Perfect attachment to the Divine replaces all vital attractions and passions
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, 128, [T5],
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493:The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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494:There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
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495:The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering? ~ Jaggi Vasudev
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496:Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. ~ Count of St Germain
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497:Do not do your own will, but the Divine’s will. Do not either do other people’s will, for you will be torn apart. ~ ~ The Mother
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498:There is no greater bliss than that of being like a new born child in front of the Divine.
With my blessings ~ The Mother,
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499:The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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500:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life [7],
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