TERMS STARTING WITH
the Lord,” and even to Mastema. According to
the Lord but a heavenly messenger sent by the
the Lord God Almighty.”
the Lord Himself. Elisha ben Abuya, one of the 4
the Lord” in The Zohar.
the Lord” (The Book of Tobit). I am indebted to Prof. Theodor H. Gaster of Columbia University for
the Lord (the last, in Genesis).
The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 338-339
TERMS ANYWHERE
acting for the Lord. The apparent contradiction
Admiral's Men, The: A company of Elizabethan actors directed by Henslowe, who were rivals to The Lord Chamberlain 's Men (later The King's Men). Shakespearewrote for both parties.
admiralty ::: n. --> The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Adonai: Hebrew word, meaning The Lord, used by Jews in speech and in writing instead of the name Jehovah, the mystic name of the God of Israel, which must not be pronounced.
ADORATION. ::: In Love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Lord, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.
Aebel-Zivo (Gnostic) Employed by the Nazarene Gnostics in the Codex Nazaraeus, equivalent to the Hebrew Metatron, Shaddai in one of its forms, the angel Gabriel, and the Legatus (ambassador) who is sent by the Lord of Celsitude as the first messenger of light. A manifestation of the divinity in man, a conscious union of the personal man with his inner god, as in the case of an avatara like Jesus, or an illuminated leader like Moses (IU 2:154).
"A Godhead is seated in the heart of every man and is the Lord of this mysterious action of Nature. And though this Spirit of the universe, this One who is all, seems to be turning us on the wheel of the world as if mounted on a machine by the force of Maya, shaping us in our ignorance as the potter shapes a pot, as the weaver a fabric, by some skilful mechanical principle, yet is this spirit our own greatest self and it is according to the real idea, the truth of ourselves, that which is growing in us and finding always new and more adequate forms in birth after birth, in our animal and human and divine life, in that which we were, that which we are, that which we shall be, — it is in accordance with this inner soul-truth that, as our opened eyes will discover, we are progressively shaped by this spirit within us in its all-wise omnipotence.” *Essays on the Gita
“A Godhead is seated in the heart of every man and is the Lord of this mysterious action of Nature. And though this Spirit of the universe, this One who is all, seems to be turning us on the wheel of the world as if mounted on a machine by the force of Maya, shaping us in our ignorance as the potter shapes a pot, as the weaver a fabric, by some skilful mechanical principle, yet is this spirit our own greatest self and it is according to the real idea, the truth of ourselves, that which is growing in us and finding always new and more adequate forms in birth after birth, in our animal and human and divine life, in that which we were, that which we are, that which we shall be,—it is in accordance with this inner soul-truth that, as our opened eyes will discover, we are progressively shaped by this spirit within us in its all-wise omnipotence.” Essays on the Gita
A hieroglyphic text found on stelae and other objects in the Serapeum at Sakkara states that Apis is called “the life of Osiris, the lord of heaven, Tem (with) his horns (in) his head,” he who gives “life, strength, health, to thy nostrils for ever.” Thus Serapis is represented in the form of a man with the head of a bull; the horns being crescent-shaped, encircling the solar disk; in his hands he bears the scepter with the flail and crook of Osiris.
Ahura (Avestan) [from the verbal root ahu conscious life; cf Sanskrit asura] The lord of life, the one life from whom all proceed; as daevas who were originally gods of the Aryans changed to demons among the Iranian branch of the Aryans, asura also changed to demons among the Indians. In the earlier Vedas, asura is especially used for Varuna, the ruler of the heavenly sphere. “The Mazdean Scriptures of the Zend Avesta, the Vendidad and others correct and expose the later cunning shuffling of the gods in the Hindu Pantheon, and restore through Ahura the Asuras to their legitimate place in Theogony . . .” (SD 2:60-1).
Ahura-Mazda (Avestan) Aura-Mazda (Old Persian) Auhr-Mazd (Pahlavi) Hormazd, Hormoz, Ormazd, Ormuzd (Persian) [from Avestan ahura lord of life from the verbal root ahu conscious life + mazda the creator of mind, remembering, bearing in mind from the verbal root man to think + da the creator, bestower; cf Pahlavi dehesh creation] The lord of life and creator of mind; the immutable light, the uncreated supreme deity of the Mazdean system. Porphyry writes that Pythagoras taught that the Iranian Magis consider Ahura-Mazda a being whose body is of light and his soul is of truth. He is referred to as the maker of the material world and father of the six Amesha-Spentas. In later Persian literature similar descriptions of the supreme creator have been given. Ferdowsi refers to him as the lord of jan (consciousness) and kherad (intellect).
ajña ::: "the Lord of Wisdom", brahman in the last of the three states symbolised by the letters of AUM, manifest behind virat. and hiran.yagarbha "in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite"; the Self (atman) supporting the deep sleep state (sus.upti) or causal (karan.a) consciousness, "a luminous status of Sleep-self, a massed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence". pr praj ajña-hiran ña-hiranya-virat
Akert (Egyptian) Ȧḳert. Name for the underworld, of which Osiris in his aspect of Un-nefer was the lord. Also the name of the god of the fifth hour of the day.
ale silver ::: --> A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
Alpha and Omega The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” says the Lord in Revelations. This means not only “I am all,” but also, for instance, the beginning and end of a divine-spiritual dragon or cosmic serpent, of which the alpha is the Logos or Second Person of the Trinity, and the omega is the wise men of earth. In another significance, the Logos of the solar system is the originator of a cosmic manvantara, and all the hierarchies of spiritually inferior beings flowing forth from this Logos undertake the work of building, preserving, and finally destroying the solar system when the manvantaric term is ended. Then the alpha or outflowing energy recombines with the omega or inflowing energy, recoalescing into their original oneness.
anandamaya isvara (Anandamaya Ishwara) ::: [the Lord whose substance is ananda], the Lord of existence and works and the Spirit of bliss.
anandamaya nati ::: ecstatic submission; the highest form of nati anandamaya which comes when one learns "to take delight in all things even as the Lord takes delight in them", becoming "capable of receiving all contacts with a blissful equality, because we feel in them the touch of the imperishable Love and Delight, the happiness absolute that hides . ever in the heart of things".
and enter before the glory of the Lord.”
and forbids them “to come before the Lord of
and ruler of the Lord’s Day. Sapiel is a guardian
and saw Akathriel Jah, the Lord of Hosts, seated
and talking and going about their business—the Lord’s business—the way men do. 30 Angels in
and the Son of Man, or the lord of spirits.
Angel of the Lord—a Biblical theophorism,
“angel of the Lord” in I Chronicles 21:16 who
Angel of the Lord is the adversary (i.e., ha-satan)
Angel of the Lord of Hosts—on high, the
“angel of the Lord,” who is the one designated in
Angel of Jehovah [Angel of the Lord]
**Angel of the Way *Sri Aurobindo: "Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti" says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me." Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one"s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover"s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
Angel of Yahweh—angel of the Lord, i.e.,
angels doing him honor. He is the lord of the
angels. He is equated with the “angel of the Lord,”
anisabhava (anishabhava) ::: the state or sense of not being the lord; powerlessness; subjection of the soul to the lower Nature; the opposite of isvarabhava.
Anthropomorphism ::: (Gre.) Term for the attribution of human behavior or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, natural phenomena or deity. With regard to deity, anthropomorphism became a point of theological discussion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.(E.g. "The Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God". [Isaiah 52.10]).
aquarian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an aquarium. ::: n. --> One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord&
Arbah Minim ::: (Heb. Four Species) Fruit and branches used to fulfill the commandment to “rejoice before the Lord” during the holiday of Sukkot (Festival of Tabernacles)..
“archangel of the power of the Lord” and chief tribune among the sons of God. 26 The third
artotyrite ::: n. --> One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord&
Assi Asisih—a messenger of the Lord’s sword
Asura-medha (Sanskrit) Asura-medhā [from asura lord + medhā intelligence] The lord who bestows intelligence; a name of the manasaputras. See also Ahura-Mazda
asura ::: [Ved.]: the Lord; used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the deva, but also for the gods, his manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans; [Later] : the strong or mighty one, Titan; a [hostile] being of the mentalised vital.
Asurendra (Sanskrit) Asurendra [from asura a class of deities + indra] The lord of the asuras; as Indra was popularly called the chief of the gods, so Asurendra is similarly the chief of the asuras.
asuryam ::: the god-power, the mastering force of the Lord, the divine "asura" in us. [Ved.]
Aswapati ::: Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, listed now as the Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
At a certain stage of initiation a voice speaks audibly to the candidate, as discussed in The Voice of the Silence. The Bath Qol (daughter of the voice) of the Qabbalah is a spiritual communication of somewhat the same kind; and Deity often communicates in a voice in the Old Testament. Voice is one way in which a divine presence manifests itself to a mind, as when, according to the Bible, the Lord manifested himself to Elijah in a still small voice.
Atmu, Atum (Egyptian) Ȧtmu, Ȧtum [from tem to make an end of, complete] Also Tem, Tum, Temu. A form of the sun god, represented as bringing the day to its close, thus associated with the evening sun — whether of our ordinary day, or of the ending of a manvantara. “I am the god Tem, the maker of the sky, the creator of things which are, who cometh forth from the earth, who made the seed of man to come into being, the Lord of things, who fashioned the gods, the Great Gods, who created himself, the Lord of Life, who made to flourish the Two Companies of the Gods. . . . My coming is like unto that god who eateth men, and who feedeth upon the gods” (Egyptian Book of the Dead, Budge 258-60).
Avalokitesvara(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word: avalokita, "perceived," "seen"; Isvara, "lord"; hence "the Lord who isperceived or cognized," i.e., the spiritual entity, whether in the kosmos or in the human being, whoseinfluence is perceived and felt; the higher self. This is a term commonly employed in Buddhism, andconcerning which a number of intricate and not easily understood teachings exist. The esoteric or occultinterpretation, however, sees in Avalokitesvara what Occidental philosophy calls the Third Logos, bothcelestial and human. In the solar system it is the Third Logos thereof; and in the human being it is thehigher self, a direct and active ray of the divine monad. Technically Avalokitesvara is thedhyani-bodhisattva of Amitabha-Buddha -- Amitabha-Buddha is the kosmic divine monad of which thedhyani-bodhisattva is the individualized spiritual ray, and of this latter again the manushya-buddha orhuman buddha is a ray or offspring.
Avalokitesvara (Sanskrit) Avalokiteśvara [from ava down, away from + the verbal root lok to look at, contemplate + īśvara lord] The lord who is perceived; the divinity or lord seen or contemplated in its inferior or “downward-seen” aspect. The essential meaning in theosophy is the Logos, whether considered in its kosmic aspect or in its function in an entity dwelling in such kosmos. “Simultaneously with the evolution of the Universal Mind, the concealed Wisdom of Adi-Buddha — the One Supreme and eternal — manifests itself as Avalokiteshwara (or manifested Iswara), which is the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Heavenly Man of the Hermetic philosopher, the Logos of the Platonists, and the Atman of the Vedantins” (SD 1:110).
Balthazar, Belshazzar Lord of riches, lord of prisoners; one of the three Magi, described as journeying to Judea to pay homage to the infant Jesus. The ancient Babylonian deity Bel or Ba‘al was associated with the moon — the lord of the high places; thus one interpretation of the legend indicates the three particular planets which were predominant at the birth of the Christ: Balthazar standing for the Moon, Kaspar for Mercury, and Melchior for Venus.
barony ::: n. --> The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
because of the chanting of the lords of shouting,
beheld “the vision of the face of the Lord”). However, according to Milton in Paradise Lost IV,
"Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Bel (Greek, Latin) [from Semitic ba‘al chief, lord] Lord, chief; one of the supreme gods of the Chaldeo- or Assyro-Babylonian pantheon: the second of the triad composed of Anu, Bel, and Ea. Assyriologists have assumed that Bel was simply the title of a deity, which they have designated as En-lil (the mighty lord). In the division of the universe into heaven, earth, and water, Bel was considered as the lord of the land, and his temple at Nippur was called E-kur (the mountain house), just as Ea’s was the watery house.
belord ::: v. t. --> To act the lord over.
To address by the title of "lord".
Bethel Stone (Hebrew) Bēith-ēl The pillar of Jacob, which he set up as a memorial or massebah at Bethel and anointed with oil (Genesis 28:18, 22); a phallic stone similar to the Hindu linga. Blavatsky writes: “How could anyone worthy of the name of a philosopher, and knowing the real secret meaning of their ‘pillar of Jacob,’ their Bethel, oil-anointed phalli, and their ‘Brazen Serpent,’ worship such a gross symbol, and minister unto it, seeing in it their ‘Covenant’ — the Lord Himself!” (SD 2:473; BCW 12:101) See also BETYLOS
bhaga ::: enjoyment, enjoyer; Bhaga: the deva as the Lord of enjoyment, the divine Enjoyer in man.
Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit) Bhagavad-Gītā [from bhagavat illustrious, sacred, holy, lord (one of Krishna’s titles) + gītā song] The noble song, the Lord’s song; a portion of the Bhagavad-Gita Parvan, one subsection of the Bhishma Parvan, itself one of the principle sections of the Mahabharata. The Bhagavad-Gita consists of a dialogue in which Krishna and Arjuna have a discussion upon the highest spiritual philosophy. Krishna in this instance is the inner instructor or monitor, the higher self, advising the human self or Arjuna.
bhagavad gita. ::: Song of the Bhagavan or Song of the Lord; a 700-verse episode composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the hindu epic Mahabharata in which Sri Krishna, the 8th Avatar of Vishnu, expounds the doctrine of selfless action done as duty, not for profit or recognition, but in a spirit of dedication to the one supreme being
bhagavan (bhagavan; bhagawan) ::: God, the Divine, "the Lord of bhagavan Love and Delight".
Bhagavan (Bhagawan, Bhagwan) ::: God; the Lord of Love and Delight.
bhagavan. ::: the Lord; a commonly used name for Reality or Self; a title used for one like Sri Ramana who is recognised as having realised his identity with the Self
BHAGAVAN (Skt, the lord) Title of the planetary ruler, the head of the planetary government. (K 7.14.3)
Bhr.gu (Bhrigu) ::: the name of a Vedic r.s.i, progenitor of an ancient Bhrgu clan of sages who went by his name, also described as heavenly seers or symbolically as "burning powers of the Sun, the Lord of Knowledge"; along with the Āṅgirasas, they are identified in the Record of Yoga with the Judeo-Christian "seraphim", the highest order of angels. bhrsta bhr tavisi . s.t.a tavis
bhudeva. :::the Lord of the earth
bhutanam isvarah ::: the lord of beings. [Gita 4.6]
Bhutesa or Bhutesvara (Sanskrit) Bhūteśa, Bhūteśvara [from bhūta living being + īśa, īśvara lord] Lord of beings, lord of manifested entities and things; a name applied to each member of the Hindu Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva). Siva in exoteric mythology and popular superstition is supposed to possess the special status of lord of the bhutas or kama-lokic spooks, and is the special patron of ascetics, students of occultism, and of those training themselves in mystical knowledge; so that this superstitious characterization of Siva is an entirely exoteric distortion of a profound esoteric fact. The real meaning is that Siva, often figurated as the supreme initiator, is the lord of those who “have been,” but who now are become regenerates through initiation — the mystical idea here being of the preservation of self-conscious effort through darkness into light, from ignorance to wisdom, and from selfishness into the divine compassion of the cosmic heart. In view of the karmic past of such progressed entities, their former selves in this cosmic time period are the bhutas (have-beens) of what now they are. Bhutesa is also applied to Krishna in this sense.
blackmass ::: Black Mass The Black Mass was a way of lampooning the Catholic Mass, practiced occasionally by wealthy opponents of the Church in the 'Dark Ages'. 'Black Masses' used to be performed by priests to curse enemies, but this practice was condemned by the church. During the witch trials of the Spanish Inquisition, witches were accused of this practice, but it is considered highly unlikely that it was practiced by commoners. So, contrary to popular belief, it is not a standard practice in ancient or modern witchcraft. Similarly, traditional (as opposed to secular) Satanists have been accused of conducting rituals which are specifically aimed at attacking Christian beliefs and practices (particularly the Roman Catholic Church), rituals in which they recite the Lord's Prayer backwards, or desecrate and use the host and wine stolen from a cathedral! This is pure fiction which can be traced back to the Inquisition and to books written during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. Examples of traditional Satanism are extremely rare, and testimonies of 'alleged former Satanists' and Satanic Ritual abuse have long since been discredited. Cleromancy, when all the dominoes have been turned face-down and shuffled, the collection/set of randomised tiles is referred to as the "boneyard". The sitter draws tiles from the boneyard to form his/her spread.
Blessings ::: "My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be for this one or for that one or against this person or against that thing. It is for... or, well, I will put it in a mystic way: It is for the Will of the Lord to be done, with full force and power. So it is not necessary that there should always be a success. There might be a failure also, if such is the Will of the Lord. And the Will is for the progress, I mean the inner progress. So whatever will happen will be for the best."
Ref: CWM Vol. 13, Page: 60-61
bliss ::: “For from the divine Bliss, the original Delight of existence, the Lord of Immortality comes pouring the wine of that Bliss, the mystic Soma, into these jars of mentalised living matter; eternal and beautiful, he enters into these sheaths of substance for the integral transformation of the being and nature.” The Life Divine
Bochim to remind the Israelites of the Lord’s
bordlode ::: n. --> The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord&
Brahmanaspati ::: the lord of the divine word (brahman); the Creator (by the word).
Brahma “symbolizes personally the collective creators of the World and Men — the universe with all its numberless productions of things movable and (seemingly) immovable. He is collectively the Prajapatis, the Lords of Being; and the four bodies typify the four classes of creative powers or Dhyan Chohans . . .” (SD 2:60), these four bodies being ratri (night) associated with the creation of the asuras; ahan (day) associated with the gods; sandhya (evening twilight) associated with the pitris; and jyotsna (dawn or light) associated with the creation of men.
Brazen Serpent As related in the Bible, when the Jews in the wilderness complained to Moses, “the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died” (Num 21:6); wherefore “Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent has bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived” (21:9).
the Lord,” and even to Mastema. According to
the Lord but a heavenly messenger sent by the
the Lord God Almighty.”
the Lord Himself. Elisha ben Abuya, one of the 4
the Lord” in The Zohar.
the Lord” (The Book of Tobit). I am indebted to Prof. Theodor H. Gaster of Columbia University for
the Lord (the last, in Genesis).
“But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master—a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” The Life Divine
By immortality is meant the consciousness which is beyond birth and death, beyond the chain of cause and effect, beyond all bondage and limitation,free, blissful, self-existent in consciousbeing, the consciousness of the Lord, of the supreme Purusha, of Sachchidananda.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 17, Page: 59
Cain (Hebrew) Qayin In the Bible, the son of Adam and Eve, and a tiller of the ground. Becoming jealous of the offering which his brother Abel presents to the Lord, Cain, according to the legend, slays him (Genesis 4). This allegory signifies that “Jehovah-Cain, the male part of Adam the dual man, having separated himself from Eve, creates in her ‘Abel,’ the first natural woman, and sheds the Virgin blood” (SD 2:388). Cain and Abel represent the third root-race or the “Separating Hermaphrodite” (SD 2:134).
can (king of the air ruling on the Lord’s Day).
Captain of the Host of the Lord—in Joshua
castellany ::: n. --> The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
C.E. ::: (Common era)Term often preferred by Jews and Muslims to refer to the period after the year 0, since “A.D.” (Latin. " anno domini" or “year of the Lord”) refers to Jesus.
cept of the Lord’s Hosts. [Rf. Caird, Principalities
chalice ::: n. --> A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord&
charan-amrita. :::"nectar of the Lord's feet"; bliss of the Self; perfumed "holy water" sanctified by the feet of a deity or of a holy man
chateau ::: n. --> A castle or a fortress in France.
A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman&
Chenresi (Tibetan) spyan ras gzigs (chen-re-zi, or chen-re-si) [short for spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug (chen-re-zi-wang-chung) from spyan ras penetrating vision (cf Sanskrit avalokita) + gzigs forms (cf Sanskrit rūpa) + dbang phyug lord (cf Sanskrit īśvara)] The Lord who sees forms with his penetrating vision; translation of Sanskrit Avalokitesvara. Exoterically Chenresi is the greatest protector of Asia in general and Tibet in particular, mystically considered to have eleven heads and a thousand arms, each with an eye in the palm of the hand, these arms radiating from his body like a forest of rays: the thousand eyes representing him as on the outlook to discover distress and to succor the troubled. In this form his name is Chantong (he of the thousand eyes) and Jigtengonpo (protector and savior against evil). “Even the exoteric appearance of Dhyani Chenresi is suggestive of the esoteric teaching. He is evidently, like Daksha, the synthesis of all the preceding Races and the progenitor of all the human Races after the Third, the first complete one, and thus is represented as the culmination of the four primeval races in his eleven-faced form. It is a column built in four rows, each series having three faces or heads of different complexions: the three faces for each race being typical of its three fundamental physiological transformations. The first is white (moon-coloured); the second is yellow, the third, red-brown; the fourth, in which are only two faces — the third face being left a blank — (a reference to the untimely end of the Atlanteans) is brown-black. Padmapani (Daksha) is seated on the column, and forms the apex” (SD 2:178).
Chief angel of the Lord; deliverer of the
chiefrie ::: n. --> A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
commemorate ::: v. t. --> To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord&
communicant ::: n. --> One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord&
congregation ::: n. --> The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
A collection or mass of separate things.
An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
consubstantiation ::: n. --> An identity or union of substance.
The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord&
cope ::: n. --> A covering for the head.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
copyhold ::: n. --> A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord&
corvee ::: n. --> An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
coshering ::: n. --> A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant&
Council, angel of the Lord, a sefira in the Briatic
Dardiel—one of the 3 angels of the Lord’s Day,
darshana) ::: vision of the lilamaya isvara, by which the manifestation is seen as a "play of the Lord who is in His being all delight". lilamaya lil amaya Kr Krsna
district ::: a. --> Rigorous; stringent; harsh. ::: n. --> The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other
Divine Will ::: The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience. But this vision of what is to be and th
refore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 218
dominical ::: a. --> Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord&
dominus ::: n. --> Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
elder days ::: The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings.Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.[Jargon File]
elder days The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {ITS} and the {ARPANET}. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare {Iron Age}. See also {elvish} and {Great Worm}. [{Jargon File}]
elvish "character" 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells". Invented and described by J.R.R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional "elvish" languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items. By extension, the term might be used for any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 2. The typeface mundanely called "B"ocklin", an art-decoish {display font}. [Why?] [{Jargon File}] (1998-04-28)
epanadiplosis ::: n. --> A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
escheat ::: n. --> The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
Eucharist [from Greek eucharistia thanksgiving] Adopted in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, because of the thanksgiving offered over the sacred elements; also applied to the elements themselves. Thus the original meaning, a manifestation of the spirit or inner god in the soul of the neophyte or adept, became degraded into a mere ceremonial rite, itself based on the ceremony of the Bacchic participation of wine and bread — wine signifying the spirit and bread the manifested body of the spirit in matter. See also BREAD AND WINE
eucharistical ::: a. --> Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
Pertaining to the Lord&
eucharist ::: n. --> The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
The sacrament of the Lord&
expression “angel of the Lord” occurs.
faldage ::: n. --> A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
Ferho (Gnostic) Used by the Nazarene Gnostics in the Codex Nazaraeus for life per se, which in itself is unknown and formless, because being the productive cosmic vitality behind and within the worlds of form. “Before any creature came into existence, the Lord Ferho was” (Codex Narazaeus 1:45). He is described as the Supreme Lord of Splendor and of Light, manifested as the unrevealed cosmic life which exists in Ferho from eternity.
fiat ::: n. --> An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor&
"Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Flames Largely interchangeable with fire, both being borrowed from the Fire-philosophers in an attempt to render the ancient teachings. Often the same distinction is made as in ordinary usage: that flame is a portion of fire, or that fire is a more abstract and general term and flame a more concrete and particular. Thus, the intellectual and guiding cosmic spirits, as well as the astrally and physically creative builders, are spoken of as being a hierarchy of flames. The Lords of the Flame are the agnishvatta-pitris, or the intelligent architects cosmically; as the givers of mind to humanity they are alluded to as those whose fire is too pure for the production of physical mortal mankind. The Asiatic Qabbalists or Shemitic initiates meant by Holy Flame what is called the anima mundi or world-soul, and this is why adepts were called sons of the holy flame. Flame is also a projection of fire, as when a flame of the divine fire descends into matter, or flames of fire descend upon one inspired by the Holy Spirit or encircle the head of an initiate.
folkland ::: n. --> Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.”
Gaganesvara (Sanskrit) Gagaṇeśvara [from gagaṇa sky or the verbal root gam to go + īśvara lord] The lord of the sky, the lord of those who move; title of Garuda because of his dazzling splendor, for Garuda represents an occult aspect of the sun, most especially as the occult lord of migrating and peregrinating monads within the solar system. Garuda often is represented as a flying or wandering bird.
God Himself, or (again) the angel of the Lord, the
gods "the necessary static elements, ::: Space, the ordered movements of the worlds, the ascending levels, the highest goal"; in later Hinduism, the Preserver of the world, one of the "three Powers and Personalities . of the One Cosmic Godhead", of which the other two are Brahma, the Creator, and Śiva or Rudra2, the Destroyer; also regarded as the Lord himself (isvara) who incarnates in the avataras, and the one deva of whom all the gods are manifestations; in the Record of Yoga, usually a subordinate aspect of Kr.s.n.a, sometimes identified with Pradyumna as the personality of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahalaks.mi.Vis Visnu-Narayana
greencloth ::: n. --> A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign&
groom ::: n. --> A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain&
groundlings: Also known as ‘understanders’, groundlings are those who paid only a penny to watch Shakespeare’s plays. They were the majority of the audience and stood on the ground floor of the theatre, in the yard. Groundlings stood through the entire play, which could be up to four hours long. The upper class, however, paid two pennies to sit and enter the elevated area with seats, whilst nobles often paid three pennies to sit in the Lords' rooms.
Habudiel —in occultism, an angel of the Lord’s
hadit ::: Hadit Hadit, 'the great god, the lord of the sky', is depicted on the Stle of Revealing (also called Stle 666 after its exhibit number), which was discovered by Aleister Crowley and his wife Rose in the Boulaq Museum in Cairo, Egypt in 1904, in the form of the winged disk of the Sun. Hadit is the principal speaker in the second chapter of Crowley's Book of the Law, where he identifies himself as 'the point in the centre of the circle', representing an infinitesimal point in space, and the human soul hidden therein. Hadit, the complement of Nuit, is related to the winged kneph, or Iao, an Egyptian emblem used in Masonic rites.
hallelujah ::: n. & interj. --> Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
hall ::: n. --> A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord&
Hara-Gauri ::: the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, isvara and sakti, the right half male, the left half female.
hari. ::: "I pray to"; "praise to"; the Lord
Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tran- quillisc. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed ; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers the facul- ties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Suarajya. self-rule, must be sub- stituted for this subjection. Fits!, therefore, the powers of ordei must be helped to overcome the powers of disorder. The pre- liminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless move- ments that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of
Hawk Symbol associated in ancient Egypt with the sun; whenever there was an emphasis placed on solar worship the hawk was usually present, especially at Hieraconopolis (the hawk city) south of Thebes. The hawk was especially sacred to Horus, Ra, Osiris, and Seker. Horus and Ra (the latter particularly in his association with Menthu, the lord of Thebes) were often depicted as hawk-headed, both being solar deities.
he is called the angel of the Lord. [Cf. Gabriel.]
“He is the Second ‘Life’ of the second or manifested trinity ‘the heavenly life and light, and older than the architect of heaven and earth’ (Cod. Naz., Vol. I, p. 145). These trinities are as follows. The Supreme Lord of splendour and of light, luminous and refulgent, before which no other existed, is called Corona (the crown); Lord Ferho, the unrevealed life which existed in the former from eternity; and Lord Jordan — the spirit, the living water of grace (Ibid. II., pp. 45-51). He is the one through whom alone we can be saved. These three constitute the trinity in abscondito. The second trinity is composed of the three lives. The first is the similitude of Lord Ferho, through whom he has proceeded forth; and the second Ferho is the King of Light — Mano. The second life is Ish Amon (Pleroma), the vase of election, containing the visible thought of the Jordanus Maximus — the type (or its intelligible reflection), the prototype of the living water, who is the ‘spiritual Jordan.’ (Ibid. II., p. 211) The third life, which is produced by the other two, is Abatur (Ab, the Parent or Father). This is the mysterious and decrepit ‘Aged of the Aged,’ the Ancient ‘Senem sui obtegentem et grandaevum mundi.’ This latter third Life is the Father of the Demiurge Fetahil, the Creator of the world, whom the Ophites call Ilda-Baoth . . . though Fetahil is the only-begotten one, the reflection of the Father, Abatur, who begets him by looking into the ‘dark water.’ Sophia Achamoth also begets her Son Ilda-Baoth the Demiurge, by looking into the chaos of matter. But the Lord Mano, ‘the Lord of loftiness, the Lord of all genii,’ is higher than the Father, in this kabalistic Codex — one is purely spiritual, the other material. So, for instance, while Abatur’s ‘only-begotten’ one is the genius Fetahil, the Creator of the physical world, Lord Mano, the ‘Lord of Celsitude,’ who is the son of Him, who is ‘the Father of all who preach the Gospel,’ produces also an ‘only-begotten’ one, the Lord Lehdaio, ‘a just Lord.’ He is the Christos, the anointed, who pours out the ‘grace’ of the Invisible Jordan, the Spirit of the Highest Crown . . .” (TG 204-5).
heriot ::: n. --> Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
herrnhuter ::: n. --> One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord&
her spouse Joseph by the “angel of the Lord”; in Luke it is Gabriel who does the announcing—
"He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all, says the Gita; for it is Nature that works in him under the control of the Lord of Nature. Equally, even if he assumes a hundred times the body, he is free from any chain of birth or mechanical wheel of existence since he lives in the unborn and undying spirit and not in the life of the body.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all, says the Gita; for it is Nature that works in him under the control of the Lord of Nature. Equally, even if he assumes a hundred times the body, he is free from any chain of birth or mechanical wheel of existence since he lives in the unborn and undying spirit and not in the life of the body.” The Synthesis of Yoga
hidden name of the Lord, which Michael of
him to “enter before the glory of the Lord” ? That was the question. Vondel’s Lucifer, Hey wood’s
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth,
hornbook ::: n. --> The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord&
Horus: The Greek form of the name Hern-ra-ha, the Egyptian god who comprises the twin forms, Hoor-paar-kraat and Ra-hoor-khuit (q.v.). Heruis the Hero of all ancient myths involving a triumphant solardeity, a triumph that is, of the sun over the dragon of darkness, Typhon, Draco, Nuit, etc. This victory represents merely the aeonic change of types from the Motherhood to the later conception of deity typified by theFatherhood, both in mythology and in sociology. Horus is particularly the Winter Sun, and associated with the Northern hemisphere as Set, his twin, is the Lord of the South. In their constant conflict lies the mystery of Magick and the polarity of mutually antagonistic currents of energy.
hosanna ::: n. --> A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.
host of the Lord.” He is usually identified as
Hosts of the Lord—according to the Mekilta
howling (q.v.). The lords of shouting consist of
hustings ::: n. pl. --> A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
The platform on which candidates for Parliament
“If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance,—all Nature is its external proof,—we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” The Life Divine
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the Lord’s remembrancers, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
(indwelling). Also, the “bride of the Lord,”
isa vasyam ::: for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca ::: all this whatsoever ... is for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca jagatyam jagat ::: all this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. [Isa 1]
ishana. ::: the all-enjoyer; the Lord of everything; the Lord of space
Ishtar (Chaldean) Ancient Babylonian deity, eldest of heaven and earth, daughter of Anu (the lord of the heavens). Her worship was fervently pursued by the multitude both in Babylonia and Assyria, although she was known under various names in different localities — Anunit, Nina, Nanna, Innanna, Atar — even when represented as the consort of Marduk (Babylonia) and of Assur (Assyria). In popular conception, she was the bounteous nature goddess, queen of beauty and joyousness, equivalent to Aphrodite or Venus, however, rather than Ceres, although synthesizing certain attributes of both these goddesses. Her other aspect is as the grim, stern harvester, withdrawing the life-forces so that everything during this period shall have sleep and rest. This aspect was stressed by the warlike Assyrians, who represented her as armed with bow and arrows, and hence she becomes their chief goddess of battles; whereas the Babylonians stressed the mother and child idea. Her symbol was an eight-rayed star.
isvara (ananda ishwara) ::: anandaṁ brahma seen as an aspect of the Lord.
isvara (anandamaya ishwara) ::: "the all-blissful Lord", the isvara as the anandamaya purus.a, "the Lord of existence and works and Spirit of bliss". anandamaya Kr anandamaya Krsna
isvara brahma (ishwara brahma) ::: brahman as the Lord (isvara); the isvara omnipresent Reality "revealed as possessor, enjoyer of his own self- existence, creator of the universe and one with it . . . and yet superior to it".isvaradarsana (ishwaradarshana; ishwara-darshana; ishwara darisvaradarsana
isvarah sarvabhutanam hrddese ::: the Lord in the heart of all creatures. [Gita 18.61]
isvara (ishwara; iswara) ::: lord; the supreme Being (purus.ottama) isvara as the Lord, "the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler" who by his conscious Power (sakti) "manifests himself in Time and governs the universe", ruling his self-creation with "an all-consciousness in which he is aware of the truth of all things and aware of his own all-wisdom working them out according to the truth that is in them"; identified with Kr.s.n.a; the individual soul (purus.a or jiva) as the master of its own nature.
isvara (lilamaya ishwara) ::: the Lord of the cosmic lila, "the mighty Lord of Nature, who . . . enjoys with his universal delight this play of her figures of his own being"; the isvara as "our Playmate in the great world-game who has disguised himself throughout as friend and enemy, helper and opponent and, in all relations and in all workings that affect us, has led our steps towards our perfection and our release". lil lilamaya amaya isvaradarsana isvaradarsana (lilamaya ishwaradarshan; lilamaya ishwara
isvara-sakti (Ishwara-Shakti) ::: the dual principle of the Lord [isvara] and his executive Power [sakti].
isvara (sarvavastushu ishwara) ::: the Lord in all things.. u isvara sarves sarvesam am etesam etes a balaṁ pravrttir pravr.ttir mahattvam (sarvesham etesham .. ṁ tejo balam
Iswara ::: The Spirit in the cosmos is the lord, the Ishwara of all Nature, but the individual soul is likewise a representative, a delegate Ishwara, the underlord at least if not the overlord of his nature,—the recipient, agent and overseer, let us say, of his own form and use of the universal energy of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 380
it is the Lord who provoked David to number
It is here, when this foundation has been secured, that the practice of Asana and Pranayama come in and can then bear their perfect fruits. By itself the control of the mind and moral being only puts our normal consciousness into the right preliminary condition; it cannot bring about that evolution or manifestation of the higher psychic being which is necessary for the greater aims of Yoga. In order to bring about this manifestation the present nodus of the vital and physical body with the mental being has to be loosened and the way made clear for the ascent through the greater psychic being to the union with the superconscient Purusha. This can be done by Pranayama. Asana is used by the Rajayoga only in its easiest and most natural position, that naturally taken by the body when seated and gathered together, but with the back and head strictly erect and in a straight line, so that there may be no deflection of the spinal cord. The object of the latter rule is obviously connected with the theory of the six chakras and the circulation of the vital energy between the muladhara and the brahmarandhra. The Rajayogic Pranayama purifies and clears the nervous system; it enables us to circulate the vital energy equally through the body and direct it also where we will according to need, and thus maintain a perfect health and soundness of the body and the vital being; it gives us control of all the five habitual operations of the vital energy in the system and at the same time breaks down the habitual divisions by which only the ordinary mechanical processes of the vitality are possible to the normal life. It opens entirely the six centres of the psycho-physical system and brings into the waking consciousness the power of the awakened Shakti and the light of the unveiled Purusha on each of the ascending planes. Coupled with the use of the mantra it brings the divine energy into the body and prepares for and facilitates that concentration in Samadhi which is the crown of the Rajayogic method. Rajayogic concentration is divided into four stages; it commences with the drawing both of the mind and senses from outward things, proceeds to the holding of the one object of concentration to the exclusion of all other ideas and mental activities, then to the prolonged absorption of the mind in this object, finally, to the complete ingoing of the consciousness by which it is lost to all outward mental activity in the oneness of Samadhi. The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from the outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Th
refore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind, accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be fixed in the sole knowledge or adoration of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea the mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which it sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are, however, others which are equally of a Rajayogic character, since they use the mental and psychical being as key. Some of them are directed rather to the quiescence of the mind than to its immediate absorption, as the discipline by which the mind is simply watched and allowed to exhaust its habit of vagrant thought in a purposeless running from which it feels all sanction, purpose and interest withdrawn, and that, more strenuous and rapidly effective, by which all outward-going thought is excluded and the mind forced to sink into itself where in its absolute quietude it can only
reflect the pure Being or pass away into its superconscient existence. The method differs, the object and the result are the same. Here, it might be supposed, the whole action and aim of Rajayoga must end. For its action is the stilling of the waves of consciousness, its manifold activities, cittavrtti, first, through a habitual replacing of the turbid rajasic activities by the quiet and luminous sattwic, then, by the stilling of all activities; and its object is to enter into silent communion of soul and unity with the Divine. As a matter of fact we find that the system of Rajayoga includes other objects,—such as the practice and use of occult powers,—some of which seem to be unconnected with and even inconsistent with its main purpose. These powers or siddhis are indeed frequently condemned as dangers and distractions which draw away the Yogin from his sole legitimate aim of divine union. On the way, th
refore, it would naturally seem as if they ought to be avoided; and once the goal is reached, it would seem that they are then frivolous and superfluous. But Rajayoga is a psychic science and it includes the attainment of all the higher states of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the Highest. Moreover, the Yogin, while in the body, is not always mentally inactive and sunk in Samadhi, and an account of the powers and states which are possible to him on the higher planes of his being is necessary to the completeness of the science. These powers and experiences belong, first, to the vital and mental planes above this physical in which we live, and are natural to the soul in the subtle body; as the dependence on the physical body decreases, these abnormal activities become possible and even manifest themselves without being sought for. They can be acquired and fixed by processes which the science gives, and their use then becomes subject to the will; or they can be allowed to develop of themselves and used only when they come, or when the Divine within moves us to use them; or else, even though thus naturally developing and acting, they may be rejected in a single-minded devotion to the one supreme goal of the Yoga. Secondly, there are fuller, greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the Divine in his spiritual and supramentally ideative being. These cannot be acquired at all securely or integrally by personal effort, but can only come from above, or else can become natural to the man if and when he ascends beyond mind and lives in the spiritual being, power, consciousness and ideation. They then become, not abnormal and laboriously acquired siddhis, but simply the very nature and method of his action, if he still continues to be active in the world-existence.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 539-40-41-42
“It is this essential indeterminability of the Absolute that translates itself into our consciousness through the fundamental negating positives of our spiritual experience, the immobile immutable Self, the Nirguna Brahman, the Eternal without qualities, the pure featureless One Existence, the Impersonal, the Silence void of activities, the Non-being, the Ineffable and the Unknowable. On the other side it is the essence and source of all determinations, and this dynamic essentiality manifests to us through the fundamental affirming positives in which the Absolute equally meets us; for it is the Self that becomes all things, the Saguna Brahman, the Eternal with infinite qualities, the One who is the Many, the infinite Person who is the source and foundation of all persons and personalities, the Lord of creation, the Word, the Master of all works and action; it is that which being known all is known: these affirmatives correspond to those negatives. For it is not possible in a supramental cognition to split asunder the two sides of the One Existence,—even to speak of them as sides is excessive, for they are in each other, their co-existence or one-existence is eternal and their powers sustaining each other found the self-manifestation of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
It was not the visible orb which was worshiped as the solar divinity, but the spiritual power or being within or above the physical sun, which was but its reflection. The lord of the solar system sends its septenary forces and substances to all parts of the solar kingdom, thus binding it into a single organic individual.
Iukabar Zivo (Gnostic) Also Iavar Ziva, Iu-Kabar Zivo, Javar-Zivo, Kebar Zivo, Cabar Zio. Known also as Nebat-Iavar-bar-Iufin-Ifafin (Lord of the Aeons) in the Nazarene system. The Codex Nazaraeus tells of the efforts at creation of the Lords of the Aeons. In order to counteract the creation of the seven badly disposed principles, the greatest lord, Mano, calls on Iukabar Zivo, the mighty Lord of Splendor, to create in his turn. He does so by emanating seven other lives: these are the cardinal beings or Virtues, the seven primordial archangels, “who shine in their own form and light ‘from on high’ and thus re-establish the balance between good and evil, light and darkness” (SD 1:196). These seven holy lives are the seven primal dhyani-chohans, while Iukabar Zivo is called the third life, the creative or Third Logos. He is also identical with Christ (Christos) as the true vine.
janardana. ::: the Lord of the universe; another name of Vishnu, or God; He who inflicts suffering on evil men; He to whom all devotees pray for worldly success and liberation
japa. ::: incantation; a spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of the Lord's name or a mantra as a means to a continual recollection of His presence; uttering the names of the gods or sacred mantras, like OM, either mentally or spoken softly as a method of spiritual practice
jected the Lord” ( Enoch II). [Rf Testament of Levi
Jewish legendary lore, Purah is the lord of
Jhumur: “These are the forces that shield, that protect, sun-eyed always representing the supreme, the highest. These forces, these emanations, like the immutable lords, because each of these beings, the Lords, the guardians, the Angels of the Way, all of these are typal beings. They have been put there by the Divine in his plan in order to lead the evolving soul on its way. Here the guardians are protecting, shielding this spirit of the earth. At different stages of the journey you come across different powers.”
Jhumur: “The snake on which the Lord is sleeping. Mother and Sri Aurobindo often use the snake as a symbol of the evolutionary force in matter.
Jonah, Jonas (Hebrew) Yōnāh Dove; a Hebrew prophet, son of Amitai, about whom the Bible story relates that he heard the voice of the Lord commanding him to go to Nineveh and cry out against the city because of its wickedness. But instead of following the command, Jonah set off upon a vessel bound to Jaffa, was subsequently cast overboard and swallowing by a “big fish,” in which he remains three days. This is reminiscent of the three days allotted to the initiation experience, and also of the fact that fish is a mystery-term imbodying the idea of either an advanced adept whose consciousness swims in the ether of space or, as in this place, an emblem of the initiation chamber. Further, primitive Christians often spoke of Jesus as the big fish and of themselves as little fishes (pisciculi).
(Kadriel) and “the mouth of the Lord.”
Kames, Henry Home: (1696-1782) He was a well known Scotch lawyer of his day who later became one of the lords of justiciary and sat as a judge in the court of session. He became entangled in a free will controversy after the publication of his "Principles of Morality and Natural Religion." His "Elements of Criticism" is a widely known classic in the field of aesthetics. -- L.E-D.
Karma Yoga ::: Aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 39-40
KARMA YOGA. ::: It alms at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Wilt. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an inter- ested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renuncia- tion it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre^ of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To that our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoislic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the
karma yoga. ::: the yoga of action chosen primarily by those of an outgoing nature; the yoga of selfless devotion of all inner and outer activities as a sacrifice to the Lord; selfless service to God without any intention for gain or reward; one of the four paths of yoga
kirtan&
known as “the angel of the Lord.” As the scribe
Kolob. In Mormon writings, a planet nearest the throne of God: “[Abraham] saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; . . . and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest. . . . And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord’s time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.” (The Pearl of Great Price, The Book of Abraham 3:2-3, 9)
Kothnoth ‘Or (Hebrew) Kothnōth ‘Ōr [from kuthoneth undergarment, tunic, close coat + ‘ōr skin, whether human or animal] Also Chitonuth-our. Coats of skin; used in Genesis (3:21): “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin, and clothed them,” referring to the third root-race when truly astral humanity became physicalized or carnalized, thus receiving a body of flesh or coat of skin.
"Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.” Letters on Yoga
“Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.” Letters on Yoga
Krsna (Krishna, Srikrishna) ::: a godhead, the Lord of ananda, Love and bhakti, [considered to be one of the ten incarnations of Visnu], as an incarnation he manifests the union of wisdom (jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by ananda, Love and bhakti. ::: Krsnah [nominative]
Kr.s.n.a-purus.a (Krishna-purusha) ::: Kr.s.n.a as the conscious being who Krsna-purusa is the lord of Nature.
Kshetrajna (Sanskrit) Kṣetrajña [from kṣetra field (body) + jña knower] The knower in or of the field; imbodied spirit, the conscious ego in its highest manifestations. Regarded as the sphere of action, or compounded constitution, of the knower or conscious entity; hence the spiritual ego, the human soul’s spiritual parent, buddhi-manas. Kshetrajna often refers to the combination of atma-buddhi-manas called the reincarnating ego, or the Lord, in us. As imbodied ego, it is the cognizing and recognizing element in the human constitution.
landlord ::: n. --> The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
Lehdaio (Gnostic) In the Nazarene and Bardesanian systems, the Son or formative Logos. Lord Mano, the chief of the middle triad or the Second Logos, is represented as the Lord of Celsitude, who produces Lehdaio, the Just Lord. Thus in the triads of logoi, Mano, Spiritus (equivalent to the Holy Ghost), and Lehdaio form the second trinity, analogous to the Christian Father, Mother, Son (IU 2:227).
Light, the Logos, Metatron, the angel of the Lord, and as St. Peter (for Michael, also, like the
lilamaya ::: playful; enjoying the cosmic game; pertaining to the lila; lilamaya (sagun.a brahman) perceived as pouring out the delight of existence .... (ananda) into the play of the world; ("the Lilamaya") short for lilamaya isvara or lilamaya purus.a, the Lord or Soul of bliss who "can play with the manifestation without being imbued with the Ignorance".
lila ::: play, game; the world as a game of the Lord or isvara, "a play of lila the divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this world of an inferior Nature"; life (especially in the objective world or field of karma, as distinguished from yoga) "experienced as a play of the divine Delight".
liveryman ::: n. --> One who wears a livery, as a servant.
A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.
One who keeps a livery stable.
Lord and acting for the Lord. See Raphael’s
Lord: A term often used in astrology synonymously with Ruler. A more precise terminology would be to refer to the Ruler of a Sign and the Lord of a House.
Lord of the Lotus (Sanskrit Kumuda-pati) Title applied to various productive intelligent powers in nature, and on the macrocosmic scale to the generative lords of the universe, the lotus being the symbol of the manifested universe, the matrix of nature, so that the Lord of the Lotus is the activating productive power in it.
lords and ladies ::: --> The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
Lord ::: The Spirit in the cosmos is the lord, the Ishwara of all Nature, but the individual soul is likewise a representative, a delegate Ishwara, the underlord at least if not the overlord of his nature,—the recipient, agent and overseer, let us say, of his own form and use of the universal energy of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 380
mage ::: Sri Aurobindo: " . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .” [the Lord] The Life Divine
Mage ::: “… the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, …” [the Lord] The Life Divine
make propitiation to the Lord for the sins of
makes the Lord speak of “my mother the Holy
Man ::: Man is in his essence a spark of the central kosmic spiritual fire. Man being an inseparable part of theuniverse of which he is the child -- the organism of graded consciousness and substance which thehuman constitution contains or rather is -- is a copy of the graded organism of consciousnesses andsubstances of the universe in its various planes of being, inner and outer, especially inner as being by farthe more important and larger, because causal.Human beings are one class of "young gods" incarnated in bodies of flesh at the present stage of theirown particular evolutionary journey. The human stage of evolution is about halfway between theundeveloped life-atom and the fully developed kosmic spirit or god.From another point of view, man is a sheaf or bundle of forces or energies. Force and matter, or spiritand substance being fundamentally one, hence, man is de facto a sheaf or bundle of matters of variousand differing grades of ethereality, or of substantiality; and so are all other entities and thingseverywhere.Man's nature, and the nature of the universe likewise, of which man is a reflection or microcosm or "littleworld," is composite of seven stages or grades or degrees of ethereality or of substantiality; or,kosmically speaking, of three generally inclusive degrees: gods, monads, and atoms. And so far as man isconcerned, we may take the New Testament division of the Christians, which gives the same triformconception of man, that he is composed of spirit, soul, body -- remembering, however, that all these threewords are generalizing terms.Man stands at the midway point of the evolutionary ladder of life: below him are the hosts of beings lessthan he is; above him are other hosts greater than he is only because older in experience, riper in wisdom,stronger in spiritual and in intellectual fiber and power. And these beings are such as they are because ofthe evolutionary unfoldment of the inherent faculties and powers immanent in the individuality of theinner god -- the ever-living, inner, individualized spirit.Man, then, like everything else -- entity or what is called "thing" -- is, to use the modern terminology ofphilosophical scientists, an "event," that is to say, the expression of a central consciousness-center ormonad passing through one or another particular phase of its long, long pilgrimage over and throughinfinity, and through eternity. This, therefore, is the reason why the theosophist often speaks of themonadic consciousness-center as the pilgrim of eternity.Man can be considered as a being composed of three essential upadhis or bases: first, the monadic ordivine-spiritual; second, that which is supplied by the Lords of Light, the so-called manasa-dhyanis,meaning the intellectual and intuitive side of man, the element-principle that makes man Man; and thethird upadhi we may call the vital-astral-physical.These three bases spring from three different lines of evolution, from three different and separatehierarchies of being. This is the reason why man is composite. He is not one sole and unmixed entity; heis a composite entity, a "thing" built up of various elements, and hence his principles are to a certainextent separable. Any one of these three bases can be temporarily separated from the two others withoutbringing about the death of the man physically. But the elements that go to form any one of these basescannot be separated without bringing about physical dissolution or inner dissolution.These three lines of evolution, these three aspects or qualities of man, come from three differenthierarchies or states, often spoken of as three different planes of being. The lowest comes from thevital-astral-physical earth, ultimately from the moon, our cosmogonic mother. The middle, the manasicor intellectualintuitional, from the sun. The monadic from the monad of monads, the supreme flower oracme, or rather the supreme seed of the universal hierarchy which forms our kosmical universe oruniversal kosmos.
mansion ::: n. --> A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
maranatha ::: n. --> "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
marcher ::: n. --> The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Mary is the angel sent by God to receive the Lord,
Masters, The Three Ancient Grand In Freemasonry, a title applied to King Solomon, Hiram King of Tyre, and Hiram Abif, who are regarded by Masons as having been the Three Grand Masters of the Craft at the time of the building of Solomon’s Temple: Solomon as architect upon whom his father King David laid the charge to build “an house for the Lord,” and to whom he had given the plans, “the pattern of all that he had by the spirit” (1 Chron 28:12); King Hiram, who supplied the materials, in addition to those which had been collected by David; and Hiram as builder and artificer.
merchet ::: n. --> In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant&
Metatron, Uriel, or the Lord Himself. According
metecorn ::: n. --> A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.
Mitra ::: the Lord of love and harmony [Ved.]; the name also means "friend" and is the ordinary Sanskrit word for friend.
Mitra ::: "the Friend of all beings", a Vedic god, one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; he is the lord of the luminous harmony by which "the manifold workings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly wedded union".
Muluk-taoos, Muluk-taus (Arabic, Yezidi) The lord peacock; symbol of the principal deity worshiped by the Yezidis, who is regarded as accomplishing the work of creation under the command of the supreme Deity. Although looked upon as a fallen angel and the source of all evil, he is not named the Devil, but is the emblem of intellectual pride on the one hand, and of hundred-eyed cosmic intelligence or intellect on the other: referring to the equivalent Persian legend of the creation of the peacock by the Evil One. The hundred-eyed peacock, however, may also stand for initiation, wisdom, the bird of the gods and goddesses connected with secret learning (SD 2:514; TG 218).
Namas (Sanskrit) Namas [from nam to bow, make reverence; cf Pali namo] A reverence, consisting of an inclination of the body; both in act and in writing a reverential salutation. “The first word of a daily invocation among Buddhists, meaning ‘I humbly trust, or adore, or acknowledge’ the Lord, as: ‘Namo tasso Bhagavato Arahato’ etc., addressed to Lord Buddha. The priests are called ‘Masters of Namah’ [Namas] — both Buddhist and Taoist, because this word is used in liturgy and prayers, in the invocation of the Triratna, and with a slight change in the occult incantations to the Bodhisattvas and Nirmanakayas” (TG 224).
Nannak or Nannar (Chaldean) A name of the moon deity Sin, son of Mulil or Mul-lil, especially at Nippur, the principal seat of what was termed Chaldean magic. The Akkadians called him the Lord of Ghosts. In Chaldean or Assyrian mythology, the derivation of Nannak (the moon) from the sun is characteristic; whereas in the earlier mythology the moon is stated to be far older than the sun.
Odin: One of the Norse triad of deities (the other two were Thor and Freyr); the god of war, the lord of the Valhalla (Hall of the Chosen Dead). Later revered also as the creator of the world and king of all gods.
of all the treasures of the Lord.”
of the Lord,” is called Aravoth (Hebrew term for
of the Lord.” Maimonides in Moreh Nebuchim
of the Lord,” the term may be equated with, or
of praise to the Lord,” which must have helped considerably in turning the tide of battle.
of Rabbi Ishmael, the Hosts of the Lord are the
of the power of the Lord and the chief tribune
on the Lord’s Day and invoked from the west.
one has yet, to the knowledge of this investigator, identified the specific “angel of the Lord”
“one of the seven angels who stand and enter before the glory of the Lord.” No declaration
Paramavadhi (Sanskrit) Paramāvadhi [from parama highest + avadhi a termination, limit] Highest ranges; a place or loka of purely spiritual character where, according to Visishtadvaita Vedantists, bliss is enjoyed by those who reach moksha or freedom in spirit and complete liberation from the manifested worlds. This place “is not material but made . . . ‘of Suddhasatwa, the essence of which the body of Iswara,’ the lord, ‘is made’ ” (TG 249).
Parapurusha ::: ...something approaching our universe-existence, inexpressible indeed, but still here expressed.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 12, Page: 107 ::: Para Purusha or Purushottama is the Self containing and enjoying both the stillness and the movement, but conditioned and limited by neither of them. It is the Lord, Brahman, the All, the Indefinable and Unknowable.
Ref: CWSA Vol. Vol. 17, Page: 32
parliament ::: n. --> A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when
Pasupati (Pashupati) ::: the name of Siva as the Lord of wildlife; the lord of the animal (in man).
paternoster ::: n. --> The Lord&
Pity: A more or less condescending feeling for other living beings in their suffering or lowly condition, condoned by those who hold to the inevitability of class differences, but condemned by those who believe in melioration or the establishment of more equitable relations and therefore substitute sympathy (q.v.). Synonymous with "having mercy" or "to spare" in the Old Testament (the Lord is "of many bowels"), Christians also are exhorted to be pitiful (e.g., 1. Pet. 3.8). Spinoza yet equates it with commiseration, but since this involves pain in addition to some good if alleviating action follows, it is to be overcome in a life dictated by reason. Except for moral theories which do not recognize feeling for other creatures as a fundamental urge pushing into action, such as utilitarianism in some of its aspects and Hinduism which adheres to the doctrine of karma (q.v.), however far apart the two are, pity may be regarded a prime ethical impulse but, due to its coldness and the possibility of calculation entering, is no longer countenanced as an essentially ethical principle in modern moral thinking. -- K.F.L.
prabhu ::: the Lord; [Ved.]: becoming, coming into existence in front of the consciousness, at a particular point as a particular object of experience.
pradakshina. ::: walking around a sacred place, object or person in a clockwise direction, signifying that the Lord is the Centre and Source of life
Prajapati ::: "the Lord of creatures", the divine purus.a of whom all beings are the manifestations; the deva presiding over janaloka; one of "the three primal Purushas of the earth life", who appears after Agni Tvas.t.a and Matarisvan in the form of the four Manus (also called "the four Prajapatis"); any of certain mental beings connected with the terrestrial creation, one of whom is Manu Prajapati.
prajna-purusa ::: the Supreme Intelligence who is the Lord and dwells in the sleep-state holding all things in a seed of dense consciousness.
prajna ::: the Self situated in deep sleep [susupti], the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge (prajna).
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
prince Salamiel, had rejected the Lord.” 9 When Paul was caught up in the 3rd Heaven, he en-
procession ::: n. --> The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor&
pseudepigraphon; see Angel of the Lord.]
Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
purusa (Purusha) ::: Person; Conscious Being; Conscious--Soul; Soul; essential being supporting the play of prakrti; a Consciousness--or a Conscient--behind, that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for Nature's works.
Python (Greek) The serpent slain by Apollo, who was therefore also called Pythius. At one time the world was covered with temples to the sun and dragon: the Ophites adopted it from Egypt, whither it had come from India. It is seen in the story of Bel and the Dragon, of St. George or St. Michael and the Dragon, of Osiris and Typhon, Krishna and Kaliya, and the Lord God and the Serpent of Eden. The cosmic dragon represents the shadow side of the logos, and the opposition between these two is the so-called war in heaven. The dual nature of the serpent is seen in Rahu and Ketu, the Dragon’s head and tail; and Typhon or Apophis, slain by Horus is also called Set, who is in one of his permutations Hermes, god of wisdom, and whose name likewise is that of the Biblical Seth and Satan. In initiations the inner enlightened individual had to confront his lower passions, now personified into a veritable astral monster, and to be either its victor or its victim; when victorious he became the spiritual serpent in its other sense of the dragon of wisdom. This double meaning has its correspondence in the fact that snakes shed their skin and reemerge purified, just as the neophyte through training and initiation sheds the Old Person and reemerges from the tests as the New Person.
Qodesh (Hebrew) Qodesh Also Kedosh, Kedesh. Holiness, sanctity; a holy place, sanctuary; that which is holy or consecrated. The feminine plural, Qedeshoth, and masculine plural, Qedeshim, in Biblical times referred to the women and men of degenerate times who were attached to certain temples as temple servants, the women here being equivalent to the nachnis (nautch-girls of the Hindu pagodas) or temple prostitutes. The men were “Galli, the mutilated priests of the lascivious rites of Venus Astarte, who lived ‘by the house of the Lord’ ” (TG 169).
recorder ::: n. --> One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor&
released from prison), the angel of the Lord is not
Ruler: An astrological term, at times loosely-applied, principally concerned with a schematic arrangement of the Signs, whereby certain planets are deemed to have special potency or congeniality in a certain sign or signs. The entire subject of rulership is involved in much controversy, particularly since the modern discovery of additional planets for which there is no place in the ancient scheme of rulerships. It is recommended, in general, to speak of the Lord of a House and the Ruler of a Sign. The Lord of a House is deemed to be the Ruler of the Sign that occupies the cusp. The Lord of the Nativity, or as often termed the Ruler of the Horoscope, is variously the most strongly placed planet in the map, especially that planet which is in the First House and close to the ascending degree. Lacking a planet so placed, the Ruler of the ascending sign is the Lord of the Nativity.
sac ::: n. --> See Sacs.
The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
See 2d Sack.
A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
sacrament ::: n. --> The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord&
sakti (Shakti) ::: Energy, Force, Strength, Will, Power; the self-existent, self-cognitive, self-effective Power of the Lord which expresses itself in the workings of prakrti. ::: saktih [nominative]
sakti (shakti) ::: force, power; capacity; the supreme Power, the "Consakti scious Force which forms and moves the worlds", the goddess (devi) who is "the self-existent, self-cognitive Power of the Lord" (isvara, deva, purus.a), expressing herself in the workings of prakr.ti; any of the various aspects of this Power, particularly Mahesvari, Mahakali,Mahalaks.mi or Mahasarasvati, each corresponding to an aspect of the fourfold isvara and manifesting in an element of devibhava or daivi prakr.ti; the soul-power which reveals itself in each element of the fourfold personality (brahmasakti, ks.atrasakti, vaisyasakti and sūdrasakti); "the right condition of the powers of the intelligence, heart, vital mind and body", the second member of the sakti catus.t.aya; the sakti catus.t.aya as a whole; spiritual force acting through the siddhis of power. sakti catustaya sakti
saktyam bhagavati ca (iti sraddha) ::: (faith) in the Lord and his sakti.
Saltus, Edgar. The Lords of the Ghostland. New York:
Samadhi (Skt.): Lit. Together with (sam) the Lord (adhi). There are various degrees of
sarangati dharma. ::: self-surrender; surrendering all actions to the Divine with the thought, "I perform all actions for the sake of the Lord only"
sarvabhūtes.u (ishwaradarshana sarvabhuteshu) ::: vision of the Lord in all existences.
sarvalokamahesvaram suhrdam sarvabhutanam ::: the Lord of all worlds (who is) the friend of all creatures. [Gita 5.29]
Sarvesa (Sanskrit) Sarveśa [from sarva all + īśa lord, ruler] The lord of all; the supreme spirit, the hierarch of the universe, which can be connected either with Brahman considered as the First Logos, or with Brahma considered as the Third Logos.
Sastra-devatas (Sanskrit) Śastra-devatās [from śastra weapon + devatā celestial being, god] The gods of divine weapons; in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the lords or conscious agents behind the mystical powers exercised by the great-souled heroes, rather than the weapons themselves. They are likewise in ancient Hindu conception the self-conscious, conscious, and quasi-conscious powers behind the forces of nature, especially those forces which can wreak injury or damage in the phenomenal world, such as earthquakes, tidal waves, storms of all kinds, and lightning.
satya sankalpa. ::: true intentions; good intentions; whatever he desires is fulfilled by the Lord's Grace &
Saul (Hebrew) Shā’ūl A Biblical king; of particular interest is his anointing and initiation by Samuel, who said: “the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man” (I Sam 10:6). After his initiation he was able to prophesy, but after he became king, the spirit of prophecy left him. Although Saul prohibited divination or necromancy by means of those who had familiar spirits, he himself commanded the wise woman of Endor to bring before him the spirit of Samuel.
Schebtaiel (Sabbathi)—in the cabala, the lord
seigneurial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
Vested with large powers; independent.
seignior ::: n. --> A lord; the lord of a manor.
A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.
Sepher (Hebrew) Sēfer Writing, something that is written, a book. In the plural (sĕfārīm), books or writings, the Jewish holy scriptures. In the Sepher Yetsirah, an early Qabbalistic treatise and one of the most important in the Qabbalah, the first verse states that the Lord and King of the universe formed “the universe in thirty-two secret paths of wisdom by means of three Sepharim: [1] Sephar, [2] and Sippur, [3] and Sepher, i.e. through [1] Numbering; [2] Numberer; and [3] Number.” The verbal root from which this word is taken originally meant to make marks — not only to write but also to number or count. Hence the play upon the three words, described as the three Sepharim, has reference to the activities of the Sephiroth in unfolding both intrinsic mathematical and numerical quantities and attributes by means of the spiritual beings forming the Sephiroth and eventuating in the “number” carpentry or structure of the cosmos.
sergeant ::: n. --> Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned
Seven (Solar) Rays Sunlight contains the characteristic potency of every one of the seven solar logoi. It is possible for the adept to sound seven notes, each of which will be in more or less perfect synchrony with the vibrational rate of the respective solar ray or power issuing from its own solar logos. Such ancient magic is not only an act of reverential unity with the lord and giver of life for the solar system, but puts one in synchrony of a spiritual and intellectual as well as psychical type with the spiritual and other powers resident in and issuing from the sun (cf ML 73). Mystic words of seven vowels refer in a general fashion to the same ancient wisdom-magic. See also OEAOHOO
shana; ishwaradarshan) ::: the vision of the Lord (isvara) who "knows, lives in, identifies himself with all and yet is not subjugated by the reactions or limited in his knowledge, power and Ananda by the limitations of the mind and life and physical being in the universe", a form of darsana related to brahmadarsana or regarded as part of it. isvaradarsana sarvabhutesu isvaradarsana
Shang-ti: Chinese for The Lord of Heaven.
Shema ::: (Heb. hear) Title of the fundamental, monotheistic statement of Judaism, found in Deut. 6:4 (“Hear, O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is One”; shema Yisrael YHWH elohenu YHWH ehad). This statement avers the unity of God, and is recited daily in the liturgy (along with Deut. 6:5-9, 11.13-21; Num. 15.37- 41 and other passages), and customarily before sleep at night. This proclamation also climaxes special liturgies (like Yom Kippur), and is central to the confession before death and the ritual of martyrdom. The Shema is inscribed on the mezuzah and the tefillin. In public services, it is recited in unison.
"Shiva is the Lord of Tapas.” *Letters on Yoga
“Shiva is the Lord of Tapas.” Letters on Yoga
showbread ::: n. --> Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
Showbread, Shewbread The bread placed by the ancient Jews every Sabbath before Jehovah on the table made of shittim wood, which was set in the holy place on the north side of the altar of incense. The bread itself was made of fine flour and baked into twelve cakes, as commanded by Moses: “two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row” (Lev 24:4-8). The bread remained on the golden table throughout the week, and was then removed to the sanctuary and eaten by the priests alone.
since Creation, has been to extol the Lord. Among
Sin (Chaldean) The moon; also the Babylonian and Assyrian moon deity called Enzu (the lord of wisdom) and Nannar (the illuminer). The wisdom is that of the lower manas, the reflection of the higher, and this wisdom can all too often become the dark wisdom of evildoing and sorcery. Temples to Sin were erected in all the principal cities of the two empires, named E-gish-shir-gal (house of the great light). The worship of the moon deity predominated at Ur and Harran, and he was portrayed as an old man with flowing beard, having the crescent as his symbol and 30 as his number. Sin was known as father of the gods, creator of all things; and some of the ancient nations held that the moon was parent of the sun, and that the moon in its turn was once eons ago a sun itself.
Śiva (Shiva) ::: "the auspicious", a name of the god who is at once "the Siva Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace"; especially the contemplative aspect of this deity, in contrast to his "terrible" aspect which is called Rudra2 and sometimes regarded as a distinct god; the divine personality representing absolute Existence (sat) with infinite Force (tapas) inherent in it, whose immobility is translated in the lower hemisphere of existence (aparardha) by inertia, figured in the image of Śiva"s body lying under the feet of the dancing Kali; (also called Mahesvara and identified with Mahavira) the aspect of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahesvari; a name of the Lord and supreme Being (isvara, purus.ottama). siva siv a K Kali
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. s.n.a-Narayan.a (Krishna-Narayana; Krishna Narayana) ::: Kr.s.n.a, the supreme Being (para purus.a), seen revealing himself as Narayan.a,"the God in man who is also the Lord in the universe"; a bhava of brahmadarsana in which Kr.s.n.a is perceived as "the Purushottama, the supreme Divinity who becomes manifest within us as Narayana,Lord of all our being and action seated secret in our hearts for ever", regarded as superior to a vision of the universal Narayan.a not accompanied by a sense of the transcendental personality of Kr.s.n.a.
soc ::: n. --> The lord&
socome ::: n. --> A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord&
"Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods" is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharvaitthâpadamasyarakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâtidevânâmjanimâniadbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
soma ::: the plant which yielded the mystic wine for the Vedic sacrifice; the wine itself, which represents the intoxication of the ananda, the divine delight of being; Soma: the Lord of this wine of delight and immortality, the representative deity of the beatitude.
Son of Man Frequently used in Ezekiel, applied to Ezekiel himself as a seer, by the voice of the Lord addressing him. Also used in the New Testament by Jesus, applied to himself. Of Qabbalistic origin, it refers not only to the cosmic Heavenly Man (’Adam Qadmon), but also to an initiated human being, because of springing forth like a fine evolutionary flower from the human stem.
so termed (i.e., angel of the Lord) by Gregory
*Sri Aurobindo: "For from the divine Bliss, the original Delight of existence, the Lord of Immortality comes pouring the wine of that Bliss, the mystic Soma, into these jars of mentalised living matter; eternal and beautiful, he enters into these sheaths of substance for the integral transformation of the being and nature.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: “Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti’ says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me.’ Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one’s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover’s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” *The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: “Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” The Secret of the Veda
Sri Krishna is the Lord of the Divine Love and Ananda. His flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda.
Sripada (Sanskrit) Śrīpāda [from śrī holy one + pāda foot] The Lord’s foot; the supposed impression of the Buddha’s foot; also the name of several men.
started conversing with “the Lord of righteous¬
stuti. ::: singing the praises of the Lord with a great feeling of devotion
svar (swar) ::: "the luminous world", the world of luminous intelligence of which Indra is the lord, comprising the planes at the summit of the mental consciousness; the mental world (manoloka), the highest plane of the triloka; its lower principle of manas, sensational mind, and higher principle of buddhi, intelligence, are manifested in the two realms of svarga and candraloka, respectively.
T'ai i: The Great Unit, the Prime Force before the appearance of Heaven and Earth. Also called ta i. (Ancient Confucianism). Ultimate Oneness, which involves both Being (yu) and Non-Being (wu) (as in Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.), or "which pervades Heaven and Earth, indeterminate but simple, existing but uncreated," (As in Huai-nan Tzu, d. 122 B.C.). The Lord of Heaven (Huai-nan Tzu).
tantra ::: 1. a yogic system which is in its nature synthetical and starts from a great central principle of Nature, a great dynamic force of Nature: in the Vedic methods of yoga [i.e. the trimarga] the lord of the yoga is the purusa, the Conscious Soul, but in tantra it is rather prakrti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the Will-in-Power executive in the universe; it was by learning and applying the secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its tantra, that the tantrika yogin pursued the aims of his discipline-mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude; the method of tantrika discipline is to raise Nature in man into manifest power of spirit. ::: 2. [a text of the tantrika system].
tant to the Lord of Life at Creation.” Pthahil
Temple of Solomon The building of this temple, according to the Bible, was first projected by King David, but on command of the Lord was not carried out by him because he had “shed much blood.” David, however, assembled materials and workmen. To aid him in building the Temple, his son Solomon appealed to Hiram or Huram, King of Tyre, to send him a skillful artisan, and King Hiram sent Hiram Abif to Solomon, also workmen and additional supplies of timber.
term angel of the Lord, or angel of God, or angel
Tetragrammaton [from Greek tetra four + gramma letter] Used by Qabbalists to designate the four Hebrew characters Hebrew characters — variously rendered in Roman letters YHVH, IHVH, JHVH, etc. — forming the word Jehovah (Yehovah). Present-day scholars regard this rendition of the four letters as erroneous, and some suggest that the proper reading should be Yahveh or Yahweh — depending on another manner of applying the vowel-points to the consonants. The Jews themselves, however, never pronounced the name when reading their sacred scriptures, but utter ’Adonai (the Lord) in its place. Nevertheless, the Qabbalists (more particularly medieval and modern authors) have attached special importance and significance to this four-lettered word, particularly to the Hebrew equivalent for Tetragrammaton, Shem-ham-Mephorash, sometimes called the mirific name.
that is, acting as the angel of the Lord. In Judges II,
The Angel of the Lord, Balaam’s Ass, and Balaam (Numbers 22), by Rembrandt. 66
The Angel of the Lord, Balaam’s Ass, and
the angel of the Lord comes up from Gilgal to
the “angel of the Lord,” has been laid to the prowess of Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, or Remiel. No
“the Angel of the Covenant must be the Lord
“The different worlds which successively emanated from the En Soph and from each other, and which sustain the relationship to the Deity of first, second, third, and fourth generations, are, with the exception of the first (i.e., the World of Emanations), inhabited by spiritual beings of various grades. . . . the first world, or the Archetypal Man, in whose image everything is formed, is occupied by no one else. The angel Metatron, occupies the second or the Briatic World ([‘olam beri’ah]), which is the first habitable world; he alone constitutes the world of pure spirits. He is the garment of [Shaddai], i.e., the visible manifestation of the Deity; his name is numerically equivalent to that of the Lord. (Sohar, iii, 321 a.) He governs the visible world, preserves the unity, harmony, and the revolutions of all the spheres, planets and heavenly bodies, and is the Captain of the myriads of the angelic hosts who people the second habitable or the Jetziratic World ([‘olam yetsirah]), and who are divided into ten ranks, answering to the ten Sephiroth. Each of these angels is set over a different part of the universe. One has the control of one sphere, another of another heavenly body; one angel has charge of the sun, another of the moon, another of the earth, another of the sea, another of the fire, another of the wind, another of the light, another of the seasons, &c., &c.; and these angels derive their names from the heavenly bodies they respectively guard. Hence one is called Venus ([Nogah]), one Mars ([Ma’adim]), one the substance of Heaven ([‘etsem hash-shamayim]), one the angel of light ([’Uri’el]), and another the angel of fire ([Nuri’el]). (Comp. Sohar, i, 42, &c.)” (Ginsberg, Kabbalah pp. 108-110)
::: "The essential cause and condition of universal existence is the Lord, Ishwara or Purusha, manifesting and occupying individual and universal forms.” *The Life Divine
“The essential cause and condition of universal existence is the Lord, Ishwara or Purusha, manifesting and occupying individual and universal forms.” The Life Divine
"The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavid vedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvair vedair aham eva vedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
“The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavid vedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvair vedair aham eva vedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
“The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavidvedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvairvedairahamevavedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
The idea conveyed is the unity of all who accept the doctrine of the Lord, i.e., Buddhists. More mystically applied by Buddhist initiates to signify likewise the unity or universal brotherhood of all human beings at any time or place, who through knowledge or natural intuition follow the law of the Buddhas, the law of right and compassion.
"The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
The Ineffable: *Sri Aurobindo: "It is this essential indeterminability of the Absolute that translates itself into our consciousness through the fundamental negating positives of our spiritual experience, the immobile immutable Self, the Nirguna Brahman, the Eternal without qualities, the pure featureless One Existence, the Impersonal, the Silence void of activities, the Non-being, the Ineffable and the Unknowable. On the other side it is the essence and source of all determinations, and this dynamic essentiality manifests to us through the fundamental affirming positives in which the Absolute equally meets us; for it is the Self that becomes all things, the Saguna Brahman, the Eternal with infinite qualities, the One who is the Many, the infinite Person who is the source and foundation of all persons and personalities, the Lord of creation, the Word, the Master of all works and action; it is that which being known all is known: these affirmatives correspond to those negatives. For it is not possible in a supramental cognition to split asunder the two sides of the One Existence, — even to speak of them as sides is excessive, for they are in each other, their co-existence or one-existence is eternal and their powers sustaining each other found the self-manifestation of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
The Latin Jupiter was equivalent to the Greek Zeus, so that the following citation refers to both deities: “The four-fold Jupiter, as the four-faced Brahma — the aerial, the fulgurant, the terrestrial, and the marine god — the lord and master of the four elements, may stand as a representative for the great cosmic gods of every nation. While passing power over the fire to Hephaistos-Vulcan, over the sea, to Poseidon-Neptune, and over the Earth, to Pluto-Aidoneus — the aerial Jove was all these; for AEther, from the first, had pre-eminence over, and was the synthesis of, all the elements” (SD 1:464).
The leader of the journey, the captain of the march, the first and most ancient priest of our sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or the demand or preference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Sbakti, Shraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments. The Self that is quiescent, at rest, vacant of things and happenings is n support and background to existence, a silent channel or a hypostasis of something Supreme ::: it is not itself the one entirely real existence, not itself the Supreme. The Eternal, the Supreme is the Lord and the all-originating Spirit. Superior to all activi- ties and not bound by any of them, it is the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it ; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not ot something alien to Self, some power other than this Spirit.
The leader of the journey, the captain of the march, the first and most ancient priest of our sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or the demand or
reference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Shakti, Sraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments. The Self that is quiescent, at rest, vacant of things and happenings is a support and background to existence, a silent channel or a hypostasis of something Supreme: it is not itself the one entirely real existence, not itself the Supreme. The Eternal, the Supreme is the Lord and the all-originating Spirit. Superior to all activities and not bound by any of them, it is the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not of something alien to Self, some power other than the Spirit. In these activities is expressed the conscious Will or Shakti of the Spirit moved to manifest its being in infinite ways, a Will or Power not ignorant but at one with its own self-knowledge and its knowledge of all that it is put out to express. And of this Power a secret spiritual will and soul-faith in us, the dominant hidden force of our nature, is the individual instrument, more nearly in communication with the Supreme, a surer guide and enlightener, could we once get at it and hold it, because profounder and more intimately near to the Identical and Absolute than the surface activities of our thought powers. To know that will in ourselves and in the universe and follow it to its divine finalities, whatever these may be, must surely be the highest way and truest culmination for knowledge as for works, for the seeker in life and for the seeker in Yoga.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 289-90
::: "The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine*
“The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine
The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 338-339
The Mother: "OM is the signature of the Lord.” *Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: “OM is the signature of the Lord.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body – they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don"t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body—they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don’t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from ic outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Therefore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be feed io the sole knowledge or adora- tion of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea (he mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which h sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are,
"The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge," says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita*
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâdrtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyadastîtivâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heartof man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
…there are three, the Kshara, the Akshara, the Uttama. Kshara, the mobile, the mutable is Nature, svabhava, it is the various becoming of the soul; the Purusha here is the multiplicity of the divine Being; it is the Purusha multiple not apart from, but in Prakriti. Akshara, the immobile, the immutable, is the silent and inactive self, it is the unity of the divine Being, Witness of Nature, but not involved in its movement; it is the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works. The Uttama is the Lord, the supreme Brahman, the supreme Self, who possesses both the immutable unity and the mobile multiplicity.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 19, Page: 79
“There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, styled King’s Remembrancer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and Remembrancer of First-Fruits. In England, the latter two offices have become extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (Queen Anne’s Bounty Act 1838), and that of Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer on being merged in the office of King’s Remembrancer in 1833. By the Queen’s Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen’s remembrancer was required to be a master of the court of exchequer. The Judicature Act 1873 attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By section 8 of that Act, the king’s remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the senior master. The king’s remembrancer department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married women acknowledgments department. The king’s remembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions relics of the former importance of the office such as the nomination of sheriffs, the swearing-in of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Trial of the Pyx and the acknowledgments of homage for crown lands.
The same idea underlies the Jewish Sabbath (Shabbath, a period of rest), the Lord’s day, and Jehovah in one of its meanings is Saturn, the genius of the Hebrew nation. It was from Saturn that came the teachings revealed to Qutamy in Nabathean Agriculture. Among the many equivalents of Saturn are Chium, Seth, Cain, Ildabaoth among the Egyptian Gnostics, Agruerus, Sydyk (Melchisedec), and Satan — the girdle about the loins of Satan is the rings of the planet Saturn. In the Biblical list of Gnostic emanations, Saturn corresponds to Thrones.
the term “angel of the Lord” fmds a “counterpart
“The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The universe is certainly or has been up to now in appearance a rough and wasteful game with the dice of chance loaded in favour of the Powers of darkness, the Lords of obscurity, falsehood, death and suffering. But we have to take it as it is and find out — if we reject the way out of the old sages — the way to conquer. Spiritual experience shows that there is behind it all a wide terrain of equality, peace, calm, freedom, and it is only by getting into it that we can have the eye that sees and hope to gain the power that conquers.” Letters on Yoga
“The universe is certainly or has been up to now in appearance a rough and wasteful game with the dice of chance loaded in favour of the Powers of darkness, the Lords of obscurity, falsehood, death and suffering. But we have to take it as it is and find out—if we reject the way out of the old sages—the way to conquer. Spiritual experience shows that there is behind it all a wide terrain of equality, peace, calm, freedom, and it is only by getting into it that we can have the eye that sees and hope to gain the power that conquers.” Letters on Yoga
the will of the Lord, his voice penetrates through
thirdings ::: n. pl. --> The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant&
"This integral knowledge is the knowledge of the Divine present in the individual; it is the entire experience of the Lord secret in the heart of man, revealed now as the supreme Self of his existence, the Sun of all his illumined consciousness, the Master and Power of all his works, the divine Fountain of all his soul"s love and delight, the Lover and Beloved of his worship and adoration. It is the knowledge too of the Divine extended in the universe, of the Eternal from whom all proceeds and in whom all lives and has its being, of the Self and Spirit of the cosmos, of Vasudeva who has become all this that is, of the Lord of cosmic existence who reigns over the works of Nature. It is the knowledge of the divine Purusha luminous in his transcendent eternity, the form of whose being escapes from the thought of the mind but not from its silence; it is the entire living experience of him as absolute Self, supreme Brahman, supreme Soul, supreme Godhead: for that seemingly incommunicable Absolute is at the same time and even in that highest status the originating Spirit of the cosmic action and Lord of all these existences.” Essays on the Gita*
“This integral knowledge is the knowledge of the Divine present in the individual; it is the entire experience of the Lord secret in the heart of man, revealed now as the supreme Self of his existence, the Sun of all his illumined consciousness, the Master and Power of all his works, the divine Fountain of all his soul’s love and delight, the Lover and Beloved of his worship and adoration. It is the knowledge too of the Divine extended in the universe, of the Eternal from whom all proceeds and in whom all lives and has its being, of the Self and Spirit of the cosmos, of Vasudeva who has become all this that is, of the Lord of cosmic existence who reigns over the works of Nature. It is the knowledge of the divine Purusha luminous in his transcendent eternity, the form of whose being escapes from the thought of the mind but not from its silence; it is the entire living experience of him as absolute Self, supreme Brahman, supreme Soul, supreme Godhead: for that seemingly incommunicable Absolute is at the same time and even in that highest status the originating Spirit of the cosmic action and Lord of all these existences.” Essays on the Gita
“This is the Logos (the first), or Vajradhara, the Supreme Buddha (also called Dorjechang). As the Lord of all Mysteries he cannot manifest, but sends into the world of manifestation his heart — the ‘diamond heart,’ Vajrasattva (Dorjesempa)” (SD 1:571). Adi-buddha is the individualized monadic focus of adi-buddhi, primordial cosmic wisdom or intelligence, synonymous with mahabuddhi or mahat (universal mind). Otherwise expressed, adi-buddha is the supreme being heading the hierarchy of compassion and our solar universe; the fountain of light running through all subordinate hierarchies and thus the supreme lord and initiator of the wisdom side of our universe.
"This Self is fourfold, — the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence and enjoys things subtle, is its second part; the Self of Sleep, unified, a massed intelligence, blissful and enjoying bliss, is the third part… the lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhood, is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. (5) The Life Divine*
“This Self is fourfold,—the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence and enjoys things subtle, is its second part; the Self of Sleep, unified, a massed intelligence, blissful and enjoying bliss, is the third part… the lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhood, is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. (5) The Life Divine
thousands of angels; the Lord is among them, as in
Thunderbolt Now usually, a discharge of lightning, but it implies a missile. The thunderbolts of Jove are well known, and the Lord God thunders from heaven, considered in both cases a sign of wrath. Jupiter Tonans (Jupiter, the thunderer) was one aspect of the Roman Lord of Heaven; Indra, in India, was wielder of the thunderbolt. Atmospheric thunder is a manifestation of electricity, heat, light, and sound; and must have its correspondences on higher cosmic planes. A deeper knowledge of nature would unfold to us the connection between outward events and those inner events of which the former are the manifestation. The arts of ancient augurs and diviners were based on such knowledge, but in the accounts about this we may certainly find much which is mere superstition.
Ti chih tse: 'The pattern of the Lord' by which is meant the political and social regulations instituted by the supreme ruler or emperor on high. (Taoism). -- H.H.
times, as in Job 4:18, the Lord “put no trust” in
Tipherethiel. The lords of the various hierarchic orders came into being in similar fashion,
Ti: The Confucian anthropomorphic Lord or Supreme Lord (Shang Ti), almost interchangeable with Heaven (T'ien) except that Ti refers to the Lord as the directing and governing power whereas Heaven refers to the Lord in the sense of omnipresence and all-inclusiveness. The world-honored deities (such as those of the four directions and the Five Elements). Mythological sovereigns whose virtues approximate those of Heaven and Earth.
Ti: This Chinese term has three meanings: (a) The Confucian anthropomorphic Lord or Supreme Lord (Shang To), almost interchangeable with Heaven (T’ien) except that Ti refers to the Lord as the directing and governing power whereas Heaven refers to the Lord in the sense of omnipresence and all-inclusiveness. (b) The world-honored deities (such as those of the four directions and the Five Elements). (c) Mythological sovereigns whose virtues approximate those of Heaven and Earth.
tolsester ::: n. --> A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale.
to pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the
town ::: adv. & prep. --> Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated
trailokyanatha. ::: the Lord of of the three worlds
trisacramentarian ::: n. --> One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord&
Tsela‘ (Hebrew) Tsēlā‘ A rib, side; a quarter of the heavens; a part or division. Used in reference to the Biblical allegory of the formation of Eve or woman from a rib, side, or portion of Adam (Genesis 2:21-3), who was the first man only in the sense of first humanity or mankind. The Biblical allegory refers to the teaching that the third root-race was androgynous or hermaphrodite — that the individuals of humanity were dual-sexed — so that when the sexes separated into the distinct male and female portions of mankind, as mankind is at present, the Jewish writers described this biological and historical physiological event as the separation of woman from man. One could equally say that man was separated from woman, or that man was made from a rib or side of woman. The ridiculous supposition that the female part of mankind was born from the male part of mankind because the first woman was separated from the first man by the Lord God taking one of the ribs of the latter and forming a woman out of it, arose from the error of understanding the Hebrew word Adam as signifying one individual human being of the present male type.
Un-nefer (Egyptian) Un-nefer [from un to make manifest + nefer beauty] The name of Osiris (Asar in Egyptian) in his aspect of the Lord of Amenti (the underworld); also used in late dynastic times in place of Asar.
up to the ankles, Hemah had to disgorge him at the timely intervention of the Lord. Moses then
uttama ::: highest; the supreme Being (purus.ottama), "the supreme Brahman, the supreme Self, who possesses both the immutable unity and the mobile multiplicity", the Lord (isvara) who "by a large .... mobility and action of His nature, His energy, His will and power . . . manifests Himself in the world and by a greater stillness and immobility of His being . . . is aloof from it". uttama uttamam
uttama purusa ::: the Highest purusa, the Lord. [same as purusottama]
Vajradhara (Sanskrit) Vajradhara Diamond-holder; the First Logos, supreme buddha, or adi-buddha, equivalent to the Tibetan dorjechang. “As the Lord of all Mysteries he cannot manifest, but sends into the world of manifestation his heart — the ‘diamond heart,’ Vajrasattva (Dorjesempa)” (SD 1:571). Vajra here expresses the indestructibility and spiritually adamantine quality of this “One unknown, without beginning or end” — unknown to the average worldly person, but recognized by full initiates as the source of their divine inspiration and intuitions.
Varun.a ::: "the Lord of Wideness", a Vedic god who "brings to us Varuna the infinite oceanic space of the divine soul and its ethereal, elemental purity", one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; in post-Vedic mythology, the god of the sea.
Vasus ::: the shining Ones, the Lords of the riches; [a group of (usually eight) gods].
verge ::: n. --> A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king&
vibhu ::: 1. [Ved.]: becoming or coming into existence pervasively. ::: 2. all-pervading Master, the Lord. ::: 3. [ =Vibhva].
vijnanesvara (Vijnaneshwara) ::: [the Lord of the vijnana].
villanage ::: n. --> The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
Baseness; infamy; villainy.
virat. ::: "the Shining and Mighty One", brahman manifest in the first virat . of the three states symbolised by the letters of AUM; the Self (atman) supporting the waking state (jagrat) or sthūla consciousness; the Lord (isvara) pervading the external universe as the Cosmic Soul. virat vir at. purusa
Vishnu ::: “Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” The Secret of the Veda
Vis.n.u (Vishnu) ::: a Vedic god, "the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Visnu Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight", who supplies for the action of the other
weh” or “angel of the Lord” was by way of
weregild ::: n. --> The price of a man&
“What Narada really is, cannot be explained in print; . . . But it may be remarked, that if there is in the Hindu Pantheon a deity which resembles Jehovah, in tempting by ‘suggestion’ of thoughts and ‘hardening’ of the hearts of those whom he would make his tools and victims, it is Narada. Only with the latter it is no desire to obtain a pretext for ‘plaguing,’ and thus showing that ‘I am the Lord God.’ Nor is it through any ambitious or selfish motive; but, verily, to serve and guide universal progress and evolution.
where named. In Job he presents himself before the Lord in the company of other unnamed
“which go forth from standing before the Lord
Will, Divine ::: The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience. But this vision of what is to be and th
refore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 218
wine for use in a Eucharistic (referring to the Christian sacrament of the Lord"s Supper, the Communion) service.
wings). It was an angel of the Lord, say the rabbis,
with these words: “Bless ye the Lord who is to be
woolsack ::: n. --> A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
would suggest that it is the Lord Himself who is
yama. ::: the Lord of death
Zagreus has three distinct meanings: 1) the mighty hunter (the pilgrim-soul, hunting for the truth, its aeonic pilgrimage back to divinity); 2) he that takes many captives (the Lord of the Dead); and 3) the restorer or regenerator (King of the Reborn or initiates). Zagreus (later Bacchus or Iacchos) is the divine Son, the third of the Orphic Trinity, the other two being Zeus the Demiurge or divine All-father, and Demeter-Kore, the earth goddess in her twofold aspect as the divine Mother and the mortal maid.
Zimimar (Zimmar)—“the lordly monarch of
Zwingliism: The theological thought of Huldreich Zwingli (1481-1531), early Protestant Reformer of Zurich, Switzerland. His theology was theocentric: God's activity is all-pervading and widely revealed. He was a student of the Greek N.T. and of humanistic subjects, a friend of Erasmus. (See Reformation). He followed Augustine's doctrine of man's original sin and sinfulness with some modifications. He anticipated Calvin's doctrine of election (see Calvinism) as an act of the Divine good and rational will, and he held the feudalistic theory of the atonement of substitution framed by Anselm. The sacraments were not mystical conveyors of divine grace to him, they were rather outward signs of an inward spiritual grace. In the famous Marburg Colloquy, he broke with Luther and his followers on the interpretation of the Lord's Supper. -- V.F.
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26 Charles Haddon Spurgeon
21 Charles Spurgeon
19 Sarah Young
19 Pope Francis
12 The Mother
12 Joseph Smith Jr
10 Swami Vivekananda
10 Rick Riordan
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7 Isaiah
1:Endure and you will conquer, The Lord is with you. ~ Mother Mirra, #KEYS
2:Without them no one will see the Lord. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, (580-662), #KEYS
3:One who has seen the Lord is a changed being. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
4:A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:1, #KEYS
5:The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Exodus, 14:14, #KEYS
6:Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
7:It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 118:8, #KEYS
8:For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 10:13, #KEYS
9:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
10:Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 26:4, #KEYS
11:But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, 6:17, #KEYS
12:Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 55:6, #KEYS
13:The power of the Lord is in His hands. He scatters His enemies as a cloud." ~ Saint John Bosco prophecies, #KEYS
14:Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Chronicles, 16:11, #KEYS
15:The Lord was completely one with the Father and never acted independently of him. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
16:He who holds on to the Lord, even when afflicted by sufferings, will certainly attain to Him. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
17:If you can carry the whole yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you cannot, do what you can. ~ Didache, #KEYS
18:Love the Lord full-heartedly and all will be well.
In Love eternal. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
19:Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. ~ Amos 3:7 KJV, #KEYS
20:I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come--the Almighty." ~ Revelation 1:8, #KEYS
21:The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Lamentations, 3:25, #KEYS
22:Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 37:3, #KEYS
23:Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Kings, 8:12, #KEYS
24:'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. ~ Revelation 1:8, #KEYS
25:e ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. ~ Isaiah. LII. 11, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 100), #KEYS
27:The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 18:10, #KEYS
28:The Lord takes the human body for the sake of those pure souls who love God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
29:Be not self-seeking; try to be desire-less, and take your refuge in the Lord, who is the doer of all good. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
30:Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 31:24,#KEYS
31:Why analyze and see the evil? Move toward the Lord! Through His grace you will be freed from all passions. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
32:Cry unto the Lord with a longing and yearning heart, and then you shall see Him ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
33:' . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .' [the Lord]
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
34:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 29:2,#KEYS
35:But his desire is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 1:2, [T2],#KEYS
36:He kept moving forward, because the Lord was waiting. He kept going, because his brothers and sisters were waiting. ~ Pope Francis, #KEYS
37:Let all have intense love of the Lord. This intense love is the one thing needful. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
38:If you have true faith and longing, you will get everything by the Grace of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
39:Be but trustees and guardians of your children, whose real father is the Lord Himself. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
40:For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, 5:8, #KEYS
41:Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 55:22,#KEYS
42:But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 7:7, #KEYS
43:Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
44:At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Kings, 3:5, #KEYS
45:I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 45:7,#KEYS
46:Know that you are a God and consequently the Lord of the senses. Why should you allow the senses to lord over you? ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
47:A mutual giving and receiving is the law of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
48:Follow the instruction of holy men who have come to know the Lord after many a hard penance. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
49:By the Lord's grace the spirit must be quickened. Spiritual awakening is followed by Samadhi. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
50:Every being is Narayana, the Lord Himself. The whole universe is Narayana the supreme spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
51:It is faith in the name of the Lord that works wonders, for faith is life and doubt is death. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
52:The sage is never alone...he bears in himself the Lord of all things. ~ Angelius Silesius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
53:To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ~ proverbs XXL 3, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
54:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
55:It is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the LORD God" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Ps. 72:28). , #KEYS
56:The Lord gives wisdom (sophia), from his face come knowledge (gnosis) and understanding (sunesis)
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2.6, [T5],#KEYS
57:Many are His names and endless are the Lord's manifestations. As the devotee looks upon Him, so does He manifest Himself to Him. ~ Swami Virajananda #KEYS
58:If you must be crazy, let it not be with the things of the world; be crazy with the love of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
59:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
60:Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 7:8, #KEYS
61:The heart rejoices at the feet of the Lord, who is the Self eternally shining within as 'I-I'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
62:Every breath of ours should be associated with the Lord, in our mind. God is behind you. always remember Him in everything you do. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
63:Call with Bhakti upon the hallowed name of the Lord and the mountain of your sins shall go out of sight. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
64:As the drowning man pants hard for breath, so must ones heart yearn for the Lord before one can find Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
65:The Lord is there, not only in that self, but in Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Fullness of Spiritual Action, #KEYS
66:The glorification he meant was his death upon the cross for which the Lord prayed to the Father before undergoing his passion. ~ Saint Anastasius of Antioch, #KEYS
67:If anyone does not salute such representations as standing for the Lord and his saints, let him be anathema. ~ Seventh Ecumenical Council, Second Nicaea, 787, #KEYS
68:God's own Scriptures have summed it up exactly: Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
69:Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Matthew, 22:37, #KEYS
70:Many dwell upon the glory of God's works. Many are charmed with the garden, but few seek the Lord of the garden. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
71:Those who refuse to be humble cannot be saved. They cannot say with the prophet: 'See, God comes to my aid; the Lord is the helper of my soul.' ~ Venerable Bede, #KEYS
72:When I think of the lotus feet of the Lord, I forget myself so completely that unconsciously my cloth falls off. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
73:The sage is never alone... he bears in himself the Lord of all things. My Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 21 September,#KEYS
74:The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 27:1,#KEYS
75:The Lord's Prayer should be said to fight, not only venial sins, but also mortal sins ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.74.8ad6)., #KEYS
76:Those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. ... They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not fain'
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 40:31 NLT.,#KEYS
77:You shall not withdraw your hand from your son, or from your daughter, but from their infancy you shall teach them the fear of the Lord. ~ The Epistle of Barnabas, #KEYS
78:Life is not entirely real until it opens into the sense of the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
79:Do Japa and meditation as you like, provided you keep your mind steadfast in the Lord. You will attain to your goal in this way. Why do you worry? ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
80:"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Exodus, 20:7, #KEYS
81:Be like a little child. The more you approach the Lord, the more sincere and openhearted you will be. Our Master was the embodiment of frankness. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
82:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
83:To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord, 25, [T5],#KEYS
84:It matters not that you have been walking along a wrong path. The Lord knows what he wants and in the end fulfills it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
85:To understand the Divine one must become the Divine. 24 May 1972
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord [25],#KEYS
86:Some seek consolations through pleasures; the Lord says, "Blessed are those who mourn" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt 5)., #KEYS
87:Do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it, but do it with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
88:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
89:It befits the priest especially to adorn the temple of God with fitting splendour, so that the court of the Lord may be made glorious by his endeavours. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
90:As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor. 11:26)., #KEYS
91:By Martha a feast was being prepared for the Lord, in whose feast Mary was even now delighting herself. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
92:Live a worldly life, yet fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and touch the feet of the Lord with the other. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
93:Men value their own goods; hence they think the Lord will view His own works, the sun, moon and stars, in the same light. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
94:The Lord communicates with us as we break free of our attachment to the senses, sacrifice our own will and build our lives in humility." ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
95:They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Thessalonians, 1:9,#KEYS
96:We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
97:He who can resign himself to the will of the Almighty with simple faith and guileless love realises the Lord very quickly. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
98:Your duty for the present is complete resignation to the will of God. If you practice resignation to the will of the Lord, you will get peace of mind. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
99:It is He who engenders Himself perpetually.......the Lord of existences and of non-existences. ~ Egyptian Funeral Rites, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
100:Before the Lord comes, he sends yearning, love, reverence and faith into the heart of the devotee whom he is about to honor. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
101:Is it not a wonderful thing, that he that is the Lord and author of all liberty, would thus be bound with ropes and nailed hand and foot unto the Cross?" ~ Saint John Fisher, #KEYS
102:We see hell restoring its victims to the upper regions, earth sending its buried dead to heaven, and heaven presenting the new arrivals to the Lord. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
103:The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 500), #KEYS
104:After realization, should one dance with joy or take up his former work? Go on with your work, leaving the issue with the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
105:He who is weighed down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
106:One is truly wise who has seen the Lord becomes like a little child. His individuality is merely in appearance, not in reality. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
107:The lord makes the Bhakta the heir of His infinite glories and gives the realization of God Personal as well as God Impersonal. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
108:For of all things He is the Lord and Father and Source, and the life and power and light and intelligence and mind. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
109:He who is weighted down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
110:So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
111:Divine incarnations and those that are the Lord's own -- their love is not made up of scriptural formula, it springs from within. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
112:Every work... is sacred - everything is service unto the Lord. You have to learn to do everything with an equal sense of reverence and sanctity in your heart. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
113:I can understand that life is difficult, but the Lord's force is infinite and it is always available for those who pray for it sincerely.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
114:Perform all your worldly duties with your hands, never forgetting to repeat and glorify the name of the Lord with all your heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
115:A real prayer will never contain any suggestions, instructions or demands. In real prayer you bow down, surrender and declare your helplessness to the Lord. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
116:But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Deuteronomy, 4:29, #KEYS
117:Men shed rivers of tears for family, love and riches, but who sheds even a drop because he is not fortunate enough to see the Lord? ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
118:One is truly wise who has seen the Lord and becomes like a little child. His individuality is merely in appearance, not in reality. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
119:The Lord has to be served with one's body, mind, and possessions. Merely to sit quiet and make japa will not do. Do serve Him a little with your body as well. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
120:To a Bhakta, the Lord manifests in various forms. To one who reaches Jnana (Samadhi), he is the formless Nirguna Brahman once more. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
121:For as without woman Adam produced woman, so did the Virgin without man this day bring forth a man. For it is a man, saith the Lord, and who shall know him. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
122:Grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ, as through the Lord and Author of truth and grace ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on John 1)., #KEYS
123:In samadhi, usually a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
124:It is the mean-minded who covet supernatural powers. Those who are pure Bhaktas do not want anything but the louts-feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
125:I must attain perfection in this life! I must find God with a single utterance!" By such violent love, the Lord is quickly attracted. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
126:In samadhi, usually, a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
127:Know thyself and thou shalt know the non-self, the Lord of all. Ponder deeply and thou shalt know that there is no such thing as "I". ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
128:So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 22:14, #KEYS
129:So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 16:13, #KEYS
130:Call with love the name of the Lord and the mountain of your sins shall go away, just as a mountain of cotton will burn up and vanish. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
131:However polluted one may become by living amidst the attractions of the phenomenal world, the Lord creates the means for purification. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
132:If you surrender to the Lord and call on Him with a heart full of yearning, He is bound to listen and take care of everything for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
133:I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 116:1-2, NIV, #KEYS
134:It is the Lord who sustains our floundering hope, just as he sustained Peter when he was floundering in the water, and made the waters firm beneath his feet. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
135:We are full of words but empty of actions, and therefore are cursed by the Lord, since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves. ~ Saint Anthony of Padua, #KEYS
136:Some wish to avoid evil by oppressing those under them; the Lord says, "Blessed are the merciful" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Matthew 5)., #KEYS
137:The Lord has provided different forms of worship to suit different people with different capacities in different stages of development. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
138:He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 6:8, #KEYS
139:Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 103:1-2, #KEYS
140:The devote Ramprasad called this world a structure of dreams; yet because he loved for the Lord, he was loyal to both God and the world. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
141:The Lord of the universe manifests differently according to the different likings of His worshipers who each have their own view of God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
142:When a doctor assures that he will save the patient, he does not know that no human power can save one whom the Lord chooses to destroy. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
143:The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 18:2, #KEYS
144:Those who seek name and fame are under a delusion. They forget that everything is ordained by the great disposer of all things, the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
145:The Jnana-Yoga will attain Jnana and Bhakti. It will be given to him to realize Brahman and, the Lord willing, the personal God of Bhakti. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
146:When some serve the Lord for a long time, He endows them with all His glory and attributes and raises them to His own seat of sovereignty. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
147:Have faith in the Lord; He is ever present...But no one can find God without continuous love for Him in the heart. To feel that love for God, one must practice it. ~ PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA, #KEYS
148:If you can attain devotion to the lotus-feet of the Lord, singing His glory, then you will not have to struggle long to control the senses. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
149:Children, see to it that your dissensions do not deprive you of your life. How do you propose to discipline the Lord's elect, if you have no discipline yourselves? ~ The Shepherd of Hermas, #KEYS
150:When a person considers that the Son of God, the Lord of death, willed to die, he no longer fears death ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Hebrews 2)., #KEYS
151:When I calmed my mind And entered my heart, The Love of the Lord Leapt like a flame within me. All my old ideas and beliefs Just blew away like chaff to the wind. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
152:The cross to me is certain salvation. The cross is that which I ever adore. The cross of the Lord is with me. The cross is my refuge. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
153:The Lord did everything in a mystery. . . He said, 'I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like those inside. I came to unite them.
~ Gospel of Philip,#KEYS
154:You are the Divinity, the Lord of lords you are; feel that. Realize in this moment. Faith full of conviction and devoid of the least doubt is true faith and works wonders. ~ SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA, #KEYS
155:Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself... And the Lord will take care of your progress. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
156:Take your refuge in truth. Surrender yourself to the Lord. Make your heart and lips the same, and the Lord, who knows the innermost thoughts of our hearts, will protect you. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
157:Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:5-6, #KEYS
158:Know that you will not be at all tormented by mental unrest if you, without being sentimental, dedicate the good or bad results of your actions to the lotus feet of the Lord. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
159:The manifestation of the Lord in life and works is the law of our being and the object of our world-existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
160:Make sajdah with love. Pray with love. Do everything that the Lord of the Heavens is ordering you to do with love. ~ Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
161:When one perceives clearly this Self as God and as the Lord of all that is and will be, he knows no longer any fear. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
162:Fire will descend from heaven and humanity will be purified and completely renewed, so as to be ready to receive the Lord Jesus who will return to you in glory." ~ Our Lady to Father Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
163:If the Lord wills for you a hardship, do not protest. Take it as a blessing and indeed it will become so.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Difficulties of Surrender,#KEYS
164:[The Lord] teaches us to make prayer in common for all our brethren. For he did not say my Father who art in heaven, but our Father, offering petitions for the common body. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
165:Today every creature shouts in resounding song: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is he who comes in every age, for this is not his first coming. ~ Proclus of Constantinople, #KEYS
166:The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace. ~ Guru Nanak, #KEYS
167:The goldness of gold, the silverness of silver, the manhood of man, the womanhood of woman, the reality of everything is the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 378), #KEYS
168:The Divine may very well lean down towards you, but to understand Him rightly you must come up to Him.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Ways of the Working of the Lord,#KEYS
169:'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints' ~ Ps. 116:15). No degree of cruel inhumanity can destroy the religion founded on the mystery of the cross of Christ. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
170:You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise. 27 October 1952
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord, The Path [29],#KEYS
171:Recite the Lord's name with all your heart, throughout the day and night, whether you are in the midst of work or not. While outwardly you are engaged in work, repeat His name inwardly. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
172:The supreme duty of man is to remember the Lord always, whether one is engaged in consciously repeating His name or not. Every breath of ours should be associated with Him, in our mind. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
173:We go on to say, May your name be hallowed. It is not that we think to make God holy by our prayers; rather we are asking God that his name may be made holy in us. ~ Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer, #KEYS
174:... churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord." ~ Our Lady of Akita (1973), #KEYS
175:If thou canst, thou mayst see Him by the eyes of the intelligence, for the Lord is not a miser of Himself; He reveals Himself in the whole universe. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
176:Happiness and misery, pleasure and pain are transient and so the Lord asks us in the Gita to go beyond both, and this can be attained only by constantly thinking of the Lord in the heart. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
177:Let us work for the food which does not perish - our salvation. Let us work in the vineyard of the Lord to earn our daily wage in the wisdom which says: Those who work in me will not sin. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
178:While repeating the name of the Lord, you will see His form - effulgent and smiling. You will also smile and then weep, and say, ' Why did You not appear before? Why have You come so late?' ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
179:What is Consciousness?
When the Lord becomes conscious of Himself, the world is created. Consciousness is the breath that gives life to all.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
180:Have strength. Have courage, no matter what may come before you. Overcome all weakness by the strength of purity. Move onward boldly, having real faith in the Lord. He will always protect you. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
181:John is the voice, but the Lord is the Word who was in the beginning. John is the voice that lasts for a time; from the beginning Christ is the Word who lives for ever. ~ Saint Augstine, Sermo 293.3 (PL 1328-1329), #KEYS
182:If you harbour anger and passions, it will be your ruin; especially lust and anger - they are demonic. If they arise in your heart, weep and pray before the Lord. By His grace they will fly away. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
183:When thou lookest up to heaven and gazest at the beauty of the stars, pray to the Lord of the visible world; pray to God the Arch-artificer of the universe, Who in wisdom hath made them all. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
184:Believe me, the Lord is always with you. If you practice a little, He will extend His helping hand to you. It is He who is protecting us all from miseries and troubles. How unbounded is His grace! ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
185:Why think merely of your disease and ill health? Know always, and under all circumstances, 'I belong to the Lord. The Lord is my eternal treasure; He is the one Reality, the source of my well-being.' ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
186:Our Lady received through the ineffable kindness of Jesus the strength to endure the trials of her love until the end. May you also find the strength to endure with the Lord to Calvary! " ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
187:The mind that becomes elated also is subject to depression. Don't identify yourself with either! Go beyond! Somehow touch the feet of the Lord. Then you are no longer subject to the opposites of life. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
188:With every inhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. With every exhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. Use this splendid and precious chance in your life to the fullest. Live in God, for Him and with Him. ~ SRI SATHYA SAI, #KEYS
189:Do not be discouraged, because, if there is a continuous effort to improve in the soul, in the end the Lord rewards it by making it suddenly blossom in all its virtues as in a flower garden. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina #KEYS
190:The Divine's Grace is wonderful and almighty. And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour...
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, the Ways of Working of the Lord,#KEYS
191:You need not worry about awakening the spiritual power called Kundalini. If you chant the name of the Lord with a steadfast mind and meditate on His blissful form, you need not bother about anything else. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
192:In a beautiful phrase Mary calls Israel the servant of the Lord. The Lord came to his aid to save him. Israel is an obedient and humble servant, in the words of Hosea: 'Israel was a servant, and I loved him'. ~ Venerable Bede, #KEYS
193:The glory of the sacraments is the redemption of captives. Truly they are precious vessels, for they redeem men from death. That, indeed, is the true treasure of the Lord which effects what His blood effected. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
194:The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 9:9-10, #KEYS
195:Through creation itself the Word reveals God the Creator. Through the world he reveals the Lord who made the world. Through all that is fashioned he reveals the craftsman who fashioned it all. ~ Irenaeus, Against Heresies IV.6, #KEYS
196:He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
197:Do not believe that this precept is beyond your power. More than anyone else, the Lord knows the true natures of created things; he knows that moderation, not a fierce defence, beats back a fierce attack. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
198:Someone who looks down from such a peak will become dizzy, and so too I become dizzy when I look down from the high peak of these words of the Lord: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
199:This mental being in the inner heart who has the truth and the light is the lord and sovereign of all; he who knows it, governs all this that is. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V.6, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
200:And the Lord Jehovah said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us...and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ~ Genesis, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
201:The Lord can rescue the good from the ordeal, and hold the wicked for their punishment until the day of Judgement, especially those who are governed by their corrupt bodily desires and have no respect for authority. ~ 2 Peter 2:9, #KEYS
202:For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ~ Zechariah 3:9, [ERV] #KEYS
203:The paralytic at the pool was waiting for someone. Who was this if not the Lord Jesus, born of a virgin? At his coming it is not a question of a shadow healing an individual, but Truth himself healing the universe. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
204:According to the nature of the action, it brings you near to the Divine or takes you away from Him, and that is the supreme consequence.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Ways of Working with the Lord,#KEYS
205:Spiritually speaking the Lord and His name are one. Hence through constant repetition of His name God is realized. One should always try to repeat His name all through the day even in the midst of one's work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
206:The end of the path of knowledge (jnana) or Vedanta is to know the truth that the 'I' is not different from the Lord (Isvara) and to be free from the feeling of being the doer. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
207:The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace: for thus says the Apostle, "He is our peace, who made both one"; because whether we are Jew or Gentile, "through Him we have access in one Spirit to the Father." ~ Pope Leo the Great, #KEYS
208:Go and preach the necessity of penance and conversion, of return to the Lord along the way of prayer and repentance, of renunciation of Satan and all his wiles, of evil and the tyranny of the passions." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
209:'He went away sad, for he had many possessions.' This is the sadness that leads to death. The cause of his sadness is also recorded, that he had many possessions. There are the thorns and thistles that choked the Lord's seed. ~ Jerome, #KEYS
210:Whatever name he gives to this Power or whether he gives it a name or not, it is Isha, the Lord, whose presence he must feel around every object and movement in the Universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
211:All the nations will be united in the Catholic faith. Men will seek the kingdom of God in all solicitude. The Lord will give good pastors to the Church. Men will live in peace, each in his own field." ~ Venerable Barthalomew Holzhauser, #KEYS
212:He, who wishes to meditate on the Lord after all his problems are solved, is like the fool, who wishes to bathe in the sea after the waves have subsided". That moment will never come. The sea will always have waves. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
213:How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! (~ )Was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, by which she is honored as its patroness. ~ Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, (1207-1231), #KEYS
214:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. ~ MOTHER MIRA, #KEYS
215:The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself. For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
216:The passions spur us on like cruel drivers, daily urging us, through our love for earthly things, to act in opposition to the Lord and our own true welfare, and to do what is pleasing to that flatterer, Satan. ~ Saint John of Kronstadt, #KEYS
217:Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
218:The enjoyment of the infinite delight of existence free from ego, founded on oneness of all in the Lord, is what is meant by the enjoyment of Immortality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
219:...God will elevate to the throne a model king, a Christian king. The son of Saint Louis will love religion, goodness, justice. The Lord will give him the light, the wisdom, and the power." ~ Ven. Mother Marie Josepha of Bourg (1788-1862), #KEYS
220:The Church will almost seem abandoned and everywhere her ministers will desert her… even the churches will have to close! By his power the Lord will break all the bonds that now bind her to the earth and paralyze her!" ~ Mary Immaculate, #KEYS
221:Hold on to God even in gloom. Never miss meditation or forget to repeat the name of the Lord. Meditation is the anchorage of the soul. Meditation will purify your mind. Continue japa and meditation without losing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
222:Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
223:The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Kings, 7:19, #KEYS
224:The Lord said against this error ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Dt 6:4): "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on John 1, lect. 2)., #KEYS
225:At the time of Japa and meditation, we meditate on the Lord keeping our mind concentrated on Him, in the same way, if we learn to see the same Lord in every man, then we shall not forget God even in the midst of work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
226:Though it be a dog we see hungry, often we are overcome; and though we behold a wild beast, we are subdued; but seeing the Lord, are you not subdued? And wherein are these things worthy of defense? ~ Saint John Chrysostom, Homily 79 on Mt. 25, #KEYS
227:Be very sure that a 'Great Tribulation' will occur in the world, from which the demon Lucifer will be incited against the Church; never since he was bound in hell has such anger been released." ~ The Lord to St. Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297), #KEYS
228:Open your lips, says Scripture, and let God's word be heard. It is for you to open, it is for him to be heard. So David said: I shall hear what the Lord says in me. The very Son of God says: Open your lips, and I will fill them. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
229:Detachment begets love. Hope in God begets detachment. Endurance and long-suffering beget hope. Total self-mastery begets these. Fear of God begets self-mastery. And faith in the Lord begets fear ~ Maximus the Confessor, Centuries on Charity 1.2, #KEYS
230:Meditate on the Lord alone, on Him, the Fountain of Goodness. Pray to Him; depend on Him. Try to give more time to japa and meditation. Surrender your mind at His Feet. Endeavor to sustain japa and meditation without a break. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
231:The lack of faith is spreading. Sins are committed and justified. The ministers of the sanctuary languish in lukewarmness and indifference and are dissipating the treasures which the Lord has put into their hands." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
232:Thou art also in the trees and the plants; the earth bears Thee in its flanks and gives birth to Thee as its nursling, Thee, the Lord of beings, Thee, the essence of all that exists. ~ Harivansa, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
233:The Church is called the threshing floor; the wheat is the faithful, who will be gathered together by the angels: "Ask the lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Lk 10:2)., #KEYS
234:We will have to cover the whole universe by the Lord Himself. If we cannot do that how can we expect to reach perfection, how can we expect to realize the eternal and infinite ocean of wisdom as the foundation of this universe? ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
235:If you understand clearly that the Lord is the highest, then nothing will frighten or discourage you, but all your senses will run in the direction of the Supreme, and both your mind and your senses will help you reach Him. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
236:When man has known beyond this world the Being who is hidden according to the form in every creature, the Lord who contains in himself all things, then he becomes immortal. ~ wetaswatara Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
237:'As oil poured from one vessel to another falls in an unbroken line, so, when the mind in an unbroken stream thinks of the Lord, we have what is called Para-Bhakti or supreme love.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 85), #KEYS
238:The Israelites could not look on the face of Moses in glory, though he was their fellow servant and kinsman. But you have seen the face of Christ in his glory. Paul cried out: We see the glory of the Lord with faces unveiled. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
239:The Lord displays His glory before chosen witnesses, and invests that bodily shape which He shared with others with such splendour, that His face was like the sun's brightness and His garments equalled the whiteness of snow. ~ Pope St. Leo the Great, #KEYS
240:Even scrubbing the floor may be turned into worship if there is the remembrance of the Lord within. Done sacra mentally, every work is an offering to the Lord. He accepts it as He accepts a flower placed at the altar with devotion. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
241:If a person possesses sincere yearning for the Lord and is eager to follow the spiritual path, he is sure to find a real Guru through the grace of the Lord. Therefore a spiritual aspirant need not feel anxious about finding a Guru. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
242:When you have altogether resigned yourselves at the feet of the Lord, you have know the secret of a peaceful, blissful life. Life is a constant fight. You must fight hard with the senses, the result is all in the hands of God. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
243:Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, let us die for the holy laws of our fathers, so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them. ~ Saint Boniface, #KEYS
244:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. However it may be - be it perfectly or imperfectly - keep on repeating His name, which has a power of its own. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
245:If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
246:We are blessed, beloved, if we fulfil the commands of the Lord in harmonious, loving union, so that through love our sins may be forgiven. For it is written: Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. ~ Pope St Clement I, #KEYS
247:What was born of Mary was human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. ~ Athanasius, #KEYS
248:You must work constantly, day and night devote your whole energy, and let the results remain in the hands of the Lord. Let every action of your daily life be a free offering to the world. Let us all work for others and die for others, ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
249:Let your heart burn away with yearning for God! Feel that life is not worth living without Him! Then He will reveal Himself! As the poor man longs for wealth, as the lustful man longs for a woman, so must the devotee long for the Lord. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
250:Christ is born, glorify Him. Christ from heaven, go out to meet Him. Christ on earth; be exalted. Sing unto the Lord all the whole earth; and that I may join both in one word, Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. ~ Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
251:Worldly joys lose their flavour when one gets a taste of Bliss Divine. All objects of enjoyment appear to be not only insignificant but positively bitter. Offer yourself, heart and soul, to the Lord and let Him do with you as He pleases. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
252:Peace is the mother of love, the bond of concord and the manifest sigh of a pure soul, one which seeks to please God, which seeks to be fulfilled and has its desire rewarded. Peace must be preserved according to the Lord's precepts. ~ Saint Peter Chrysologus, #KEYS
253:And occupy youself with dhikr, remembrance of God, with whatever sort of dhikr you choose. The highest of them is the Greatest Name; it is your saying "Allah, Allah," and nothing beyond "Allah." ~ Ibn Arabi, Journey to the Lord of Power, #KEYS
254:The Wise men fulfil their desire, and come to the child, the Lord Jesus Christ, the same star going before them. They adore the Word in flesh, the Wisdom in infancy, the Power in weakness, the Lord of majesty in the reality of man. ~ Pope Leo the Great, Sermon 31, #KEYS
255:We must neither doubt nor hesitate with respect to the words of the Lord; rather, we must be fully persuaded that every word of God is true and possible, even if our nature should rebel against the idea; for in this lies the test of faith. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
256:This sign of the cross will be in the heavens when the Lord comes to judge. Then all the servants of the cross, who during life made themselves one with the Crucified, will draw near with great trust to Christ, the judge. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
257:You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Deuteronomy, 5:15, #KEYS
258:The dirt of the mind is washed away if one can think of the Lord and meditate on Him; if one can cry unto Him with repentance, saying, "Lord! forgive me. I will not do wrong in the future." At once the magnet of God draws the needle of the mind. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
259:The snake itself is not affected by the poison in its fangs ; but when it bites, the poison kills the creature bitten. Likewise Maya is in the Lord but does not affect Him, while the same Maya deludes the whole world. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
260:The world creates itself invincibly;
For its body is the body of the Lord
And in its heart stands Virat, King of Kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
261:Do not agitate yourself, dreaming up all sorts of projects. The Lord does His work. You be the instrument. If the idea that 'I am the doer' gets hold of a person, it will be the cause of bondage, and no permanent good ever comes out of such deeds. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
262:Spirit is the image of the Lord of the Yoga; mind and body are the means He has provided for reproducing that image in phenomenal existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Threefold Life, 29,#KEYS
263:We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible... In the first, Christ was our redemption; in the last, he will appear as our life; in this middle coming, he is our rest and consolation. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
264:I must attain God in this very life; yea, in three days I must find Him; nay, with a single utterance of His name I will draw Him to me" - with such violent Love the devotee can attract the Lord and realize Him quickly. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
265:So Daniel, when he was required to worship the idol Bel, which the people and the king then worshipped, in asserting the honor of his God, broke forth with full faith and freedom, saying, "I worship nothing but the Lord my God" ~ Dn 14:5). ~ Saint Cyprian of Carthage, #KEYS
266:The appearance of form, as revelation of the depths, is an indissoluble union of two things. It is the real presence of the depths, of the whole of reality, and it is a real pointing beyond itself to these depths. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord I.118, #KEYS
267:In those days Christ was present to the Israelites as he followed them, but he is present to us in a much deeper sense. The Lord was with them because of the favor he showed to Moses; now he is with us, but not simply because of your obedience. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
268:The Lord says indeed, 'Blessed are they that mourn' [Matthew 5:4], speaking of those who mourn for their sins; and no one mourns that kind of mourning, nor cares for a lost soul; but this other we were not bidden to practice, and we practice it. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
269:In the last times the Lord will especially spread the renown of His Mother: Mary began salvation and by her intercession it will be concluded. Before the Second Coming of Christ, Mary must, more than ever, shine in mercy, ..." ~ Ven. Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602-1665), #KEYS
270:Remember what the Lord taught when he said, 'Do not judge, that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; be merciful and you will receive mercy. For whatever you measure out to other people will be measured out to you also.' ~ Polycarp to the Philippians, #KEYS
271:Christ, the light of all lights, follows John, the lamp that goes before him. The Word of God follows the voice in the wilderness; the bridegroom follows the bridegroom's friend, who prepares a worthy people for the Lord by cleansing them by water. ~ Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
272:On the Lord's Day . . . gather together, break bread and offer the Eucharist, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure. Let no one who has a quarrel with his neighbor join you until he is reconciled, lest our sacrifice be defiled ~ Didache)., #KEYS
273:The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them." ~ George Fox, (1624 - 1691) English Dissenter, a founder of the Quakers., #KEYS
274:May divine wisdom open to you, through the Lord's grace! To make all mankind your own by loving all — that is the real Jnana, the real Bhakti of this age. Work and serve with all your heart, and thus you will receive Bhakti, Moksha, Jnana, and Vijnana. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
275:'Son of man, I have appointed you as watchman to the house of Israel.' ~ Note that Ezekiel, whom the Lord sent to preach his word, is described as a watchman. Now a watchman always takes up his position on the heights so that he can see from a distance whatever approaches., #KEYS
276:Scripture tells you: You shall speak of these commandments when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down, and when you get up. Let us then speak of the Lord Jesus, for he is wisdom, he is the word, the Word indeed of God. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
277:You can meditate and chant the name of the Lord very well sitting on a chair. There is no rule regarding time and place for meditating on the Lord and repeating His holy name, What is needed is to remember our Chosen Ideal always and in all circumstances. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
278:If a person feels intoxicated with God's love, there is no father, no mother, and no wife for him. He may have so much love for the Lord that he may appear to be mad! Such a person has no duties. He is freed from all his debts. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
279:When we pray we pray not for one but for all people, because we are all one people together. The God of peace and master of concord, who taught that we should be united, wanted one to pray in this manner for all, as he himself bore all in one. ~ Cyprian, On the Lord's Prayer, #KEYS
280:As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
281:Do not seek for human help, but look only to the grace of the Lord. He will protect you. Pray to Him & depend on Him alone. Human help is so uncertain. Human friends are selfish and they betray; but He is the Divine Friend, who loves for the sake of love. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANANDA, #KEYS
282:After all these tribulations and miseries, in a way beyond all human understanding, the Lord God will purify His holy Church, and and awaken the spirit of His elect. Such a wondrous reform after these things will happen in the holy Church of God, ..." ~ Saint CATHERINE OF SIENA, #KEYS
283:The Lord is making you His own. He will not allow even the slightest ego to remain within you. The sufferings and difficulties you are undergoing are intended to make you realize that you have no independent will of you own. It is all given over to the Lord. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
284:When you lie down, speak so that the sleep of death may not steal upon you. Listen and learn how you are to speak as you lie down; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
285:At the point where all roads meet which lead from the Old Testament to the New we encounter the Marian experience of God, at once so rich and so secret that it almost escapes description.... In Mary, Zion passes over into that church ~ Von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord I, 338, #KEYS
286:'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.' The prophecy makes clear that it is to be fulfilled, not in Jerusalem but in the wilderness: it is there that the glory of the Lord is to appear, and God's salvation is to be made known to all mankind. ~ Eusebius, #KEYS
287:Christ is risen. His rising brings life to the dead, forgiveness to sinners, and glory to the saints. So David the prophet summons all creation to join in celebrating the Easter festival: Rejoice and be glad, he cries, on this day which the Lord has made. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
288:Give up all desires & dedicate yourself solely to the Lord. You cannot have Divine bliss & worldly enjoyments at the same time. You cannot get the one without renouncing the other. You cannot give up the lower unless you come to possess a taste for the higher. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
289:The Guru should not be looked upon as an ordinary human being. His physical body is the temple, in which resides the Lord. If the Guru is served with this idea in mind, one comes to acquire love and devotion for him, which can then be directed toward the Lord. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
290:The Lord is within you, He is seated in your heart. Whatever you see, hear, taste & touch is God. Therefore hate not anybody, cheat not anybody, harm not anybody. Love & be one with all. You will soon attain eternal bliss, immortality, & perennial joy. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
291:The ocean is full of precious pearls,but you may not get them at the first dive. My boys, once again I enjoin you, have firm faith in the words of your Guru, & try to get absorbed in deep meditation. Be sure, sooner or later you will have a vision of the Lord. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
292:Mary looks back to the beginning of her song where she said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord. Only that soul for whom the Lord in his love does great things can proclaim his greatness with fitting praise and encourage those who share her desire and purpose. ~ Ven. Bede, #KEYS
293:The name of the Lord purifies both the body & the mind. "I have taken the name of God; what have I to fear? What is there in the world to bind me? I have become immortal by taking the Lord's name with such a burning faith one should practice spiritual exercises ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
294:But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage; the same is true, by faith, of all who are reborn through baptism. That is why we are to celebrate the Lord's paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
295:The heart of our Divine Master has no more amiable law than that of sweetness, humility, charity. Often place your confidence in Divine Providence and be assured that sooner heaven and earth shall pass away than that the Lord neglect to protect you. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
296:Happy is she who out of her treasure brings forth the perfect image of the King. Your treasure is wisdom, your treasure is chastity and righteousness, your treasure is a good understanding, such as was that treasure from which the Magi, when they worshipped the Lord. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
297:The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers.... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them. ~ Saint Thomas, #KEYS
298:When blessed Mary was to be called from the world, the Apostles gathered to her house from their different regions. And when they had heard that she was to be taken from the world, together they kept watch with her; and lo, the Lord Jesus came with His angels ~ Saint Gregory of Tours, #KEYS
299:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
300:Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine." ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
301:Repression of passions is bad. Unless the mind is directed toward a high ideal, they will find expression through other channels. Place your mind in God, then all evil will fall away by itself. That is what is meant by self-control; it arises from devotion to the Lord ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
302:We utter the name of the Lord superficially, too superficially. We say, 'I am Thy servant; Thou art my Master; Thou art my Lord; I have renounced all for Thee; I call Thee, Lord, come unto me.' But we harbor withal all sorts of evil thoughts in the mind. This won't do ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
303:When a man lusts after a woman then even if she remains chaste he is still an adulterer. The Lord's judgement is clear and true: If a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
304:The Lord is with you" are the most praise-laden words that the Angel could have uttered; and, hence, he so profoundly reverenced the Blessed Virgin because she is the Mother of the Lord and Our Lady ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Angelic Salutation a. 1)., #KEYS
305:Wherever the Lord keeps you, that will be for your good. He knows best. Leave everything to Him & don't forget Him - that is your duty. It is His responsibility where & in what condition to keep you & what He will make you do. For your part, just see that you may not forget Him.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
306:Do u ever weep for God? How wonderful is the state when the name of the Lord brings tears to the eyes! The Master said, 'if u weep before the Lord, ur tears wipe out the mind's impurities of many births, & his grace immediately descends upon u. It is good to weep before the Lord.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
307:Those who come under the guidance of a Guru need have no anxiety about their spiritual progress. They have been put on the right way. Their only task is to follow it. If they meet with any trouble or make any mistake, the Lord is sure to protect them & show them the right course ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
308:Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Threefold Life, #KEYS
309:Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,' who was, and is, and is to come." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Revelation, 4:8, https://biblehub.com/revelation/4-8.htm #KEYS
310:Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former glories in itself, the latter in the Lord ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, City of God 14.28).., #KEYS
311:It matters not if you live the life of a house-holder, only you must fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and hold the feet of the Lord with the other. When you have no work in the world to do, hold His feet fast to your heart with both your hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
312:For whatever desires still trouble his being, he must, if he accepts the high aim of Yoga, put them away from him into the hands of the Lord within us. The supreme Power will deal with them for the good of the Sadhaka and for the good of all.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
313:Know thyself and thou shalt know the Non-ego and the Lord of all. Meditate deeply, thou shalt find there is nothing thou canst call "I". The innermost result of all analysis is the eternal divine. When egoism vanishes, divinity manifests itself. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
314:Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former glories in itself, the latter in the Lord ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Augustine, City of God 14.28).., #KEYS
315:But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine #KEYS
316:The Blessed Virgin is said to have merited to bear the Lord of all, not because she merited God to be incarnate, but because she merited, from the grace given to her, that grade of purity and holiness, which suited her to be the Mother of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.2.11ad3)., #KEYS
317:The Lord then did not blame Martha's work, but distinguished between their services. You are occupied about many things; yet one thing is needful. Already has Mary chosen this for herself. The labor of many things pass away, and the love of unity abides. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
318:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)., #KEYS
319:The disciples were amazed at the extraordinary gentleness and humility of Christ: for the Lord of the world stooped to speak with a poor woman, and for a long time, giving us an example of humility: 'Be friendly to the poor' ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir 4:7)(Commentary on Jn. 4 lect. 3)., #KEYS
320:No words can express what is of Christ: "Glorify the Lord as much as you ever can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can, for he is above all praise" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir. 43:30)(Commentary on Hebrews 5, lect. 2)., #KEYS
321:If you study every word of the petitions of Scripture, you will find, I think, nothing that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. When we pray, then, we may use different words to say the same things, but we may not say different things. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Letter to Proba, #KEYS
322:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)(In Jn 6 lect 1)., #KEYS
323:fruits of the sacrifice :::
The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109],#KEYS
324:Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
325:The Lord sent the Apostles ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mk. 6:9) shod with sandals. These have soles underneath, which signifies the raising of the mind from earthly concerns. And they are open above, which signifies an eagerness for divine wisdom ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Ephesians 6, lect. 4)., #KEYS
326:True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #KEYS
327:... 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. ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice and the Lord of the Sacrifice [112] [T1],#KEYS
328:If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 1:5-8, #KEYS
329:My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear atentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2:1-22,#KEYS
330:There is nothing to fear - all is the Lord-there is nothing else than the Lord; the Lord alone exists and all that tries to frighten us is only a silly and meaningless disguise of the Lord. Cheer up - the way is open before you, shake off this obsession of illness and bring down the Divine Calm. Then everything will be all right. With love and blessings.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T1],#KEYS
331:The boy with the flute is Sri Krishna, the Lord descended into the world-play from the divine Ananda; his flute is the music of the call which seeks to transform the lower ignorant play of mortal life and bring into it and establish in its place the lila of his divine Ananda. It was the psychic being in you that heard the call and followed after it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
332:My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:1-35, #KEYS
333:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
334:Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.
Guessing and dreaming
they pursue the real,
faces turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.
While the lord remains among them
in every turn of time
abiding in their every condition
every instant.
Never without him, they,
not for the blink of an eye --
if only they knew!
nor he for a moment without them." ~ Mansur al-Hallaj,#KEYS
335:15-Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16-When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."
17-And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 28:16, Berean Study Bible,#KEYS
336:Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.
Guessing and dreaming
they pursue the real,
faces turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.
While the lord remains among them
in every turn of time
abiding in their every condition
every instant.
Never without him, they,
not for the blink of an eye --
if only they knew!
nor he for a moment without them. ~ Mansur al Hallaj,#KEYS
337:5'If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6'But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7'Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8'Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 1, #KEYS
338:A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:1-6, #KEYS
339:One says, When my son Harish shall have grown up, I will marry him off, give up the burden of the family, renounce the world and begin to practise Yoga. To him the Lord replies: You will never find the opportune moment to practise Yoga; for you will then say, 'Harish and Girish are very fond of me and cannot do without me', you will no doubt desire that Harish should have a son and the son marry. There will never be an end to your desires. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
340:The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all of history.
~ Robert Heinlein, Notebooks Of Lazarus Long, from Time Enough for Love (1973).,#KEYS
341:Help yourself during this troubled period by reading holy books. This reading provides excellent food for the soul and conduces to great progress along the path of perfection. By no means is it inferior to what we obtain through prayer and holy meditation. In prayer and meditation it is ourselves who speak to the Lord, while in holy reading it is God who speaks to us. Before beginning to read, raise your mind to the Lord and implore Him to guide your mind Himself, to speak to your heart and move your will. ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
342:Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 40:28-31, #KEYS
343:It is the Divine who is the Master - the Self is inactive, it is always a silent wideness supporting all things - that is the static aspect. There is also the dynamic aspect through which the Divine works - behind that is the Mother. You must not lose sight of that, that it is through the Mother that all things are attained.
Again I feel that this Self is not only the Lord of this being, but that I myself am this Self. All these feelings are within myself, not above me; they come down from above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother [T8],#KEYS
344:Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 130
,#KEYS
345:What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
346:the lord of the sacrifice and the measure of our works :::
The Divine, the Eternal is the Lord of our sacrifice of works and union with him in all our being and consciousness and in its expressive instruments is the one object of the sacrifice; the steps of the sacrifice of works must therefore be measured, first, by the growth in our nature of something that brings us nearer to the Divine Nature, but secondly also by an experience of the Divine, his presence, his manifestation to us, an increasing closeness and union with that Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
347:I am not a philosopher, I am not a scholar, I am not a savant, and I declare it very loudly: neither a philosopher nor a scholar nor a savant. And no pretension. Nor a littérateur, nor an artist - I am nothing at all. I am truly convinced of this. And it's absolutely unimportant - that's perfection for human beings. There is no greater joy than to know that you can do nothing and are absolutely helpless, that you're not the one who does, and that what little is done - little or big, it doesn't matter - is done by the Lord; and the responsibility is fully His. That makes you happy. With that, you are happy. Voilà.
~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 5, Satprem,#KEYS
348:Noah harkened to the voice of the Lord that is he lived according to the Law, perfecting his soul and enriching his consciousness with the many experiences which result from the mystery of living. As a consequence the "Lord" protects the life of Noah, and brings the Ark at the end to a safe testing place upon the Mount of the illumination, Ararat. Part of the thirty-third degree of Freemasonry includes an interpretation of the symbolism of Noah and his Ark. Considered mystically, the story of the Flood is the wise man's mastery of adversity. It is the philosopher surviving the onslaughts of ignorance. It is the illumined mystic floating safely over the chaos.
~ Manly P Hall, How To Understand Your Bible,#KEYS
349:Where spring, the lord of seasons reigneth, there the unstruck music sounds of itself,
There the streams of light flow in all directions, few are the men who can cross to that shore!
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,
Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, where millions of Brahmas are reading the Vedas,
Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,
Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, where millions of Saraswatis, goddess of music play the vina,
There is my Lord self-revealed, and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps. ~ Kabir, II.57, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore[26],#KEYS
350:Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own kind? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy health shall spring forth speedily. ~ Isaiah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
351:It is not one's self, but the band of the spirit's inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the altar of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the soul's errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our self's real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may throw by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [108-109],#KEYS
352:The Pentagram
[Dedicated to George Raffalovich]
In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth,
Man mastered the mammoth and horse, and Man was the Lord of the Earth.
He made him an hollow skin from the heart of an holy tree,
He compassed the earth therien, and Man was the Lord of the Sea.
He controlled the vigour of steam, he harnessed the lightning for hire;
He drove the celestial team, and man was the Lord of the Fire.
Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs of the æeons declare
The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of the Air.
Arise, O Man, in thy strength! the kingdom is thine to inherit,
Till the high gods witness at lenght that Man is the Lord of his spirit.
~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
353:Invitation:::
With wind and the weather beating round me
Up to the hill and the moorland I go.
Who will come with me? Who will climb with me?
Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow?
Not in the petty circle of cities
Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell;
Over me God is blue in the welkin,
Against me the wind and the storm rebel.
I sport with solitude here in my regions,
Of misadventure have made me a friend.
Who would live largely? Who would live freely?
Here to the wind-swept uplands ascend.
I am the Lord of tempest and mountain,
I am the Spirit of freedom and pride.
Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger
Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
354:But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions Of The Synthesis, The Threefold Life, 29,#KEYS
355:Bhagavan: There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it. One is to inquire whose this destiny is and discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self and that the ego is non-existent. The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time: "Not I, but Thou, oh Lord," giving up all sense of "I" and "mine" and leaving it to the Lord to do what He likes with you. Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation. In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-inquiry or through bhakti-marga. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, 28-6-46, #KEYS
356:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~ 2 Timothy 3#KEYS
357:There is only one thing painful in the beginning to a raw or turbid part of the surface nature; it is the indispensable discipline demanded, the denial necessary for the merging of the incomplete ego. But for that there can be a speedy and enormous compensation in the discovery of a real greater or ultimate completeness in others, in all things, in the cosmic oneness, in the freedom of the transcendent Self and Spirit, in the rapture of the touch of the Divine. Our sacrifice is not a giving without any return or any fruitful acceptance from the other side; it is an interchange between the embodied soul and conscious Nature in us and the eternal Spirit. For even though no return is demanded, yet there is the knowledge deep within us that a marvellous return is inevitable. The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109],#KEYS
358:Yes, from thenceforward, is there any suffering for one who sees this unity of the universe, this unity of life, this unity of the All? The separation between man and man, man and woman, man and child; nation and nation, that is the real cause of all the misery of the world. Now this separation is not at all real ; it is only apparent, it is only on the surface. In the very heart of things is the unity which is for ever. Go into yourself and you will find this unity between man and man, women and children, race and race, the great and the little, the rich and the poor, gods and men : all of us are one, even the animals, if you go down to a sufficient depth. And to the man who goes so far nothing can cause any illusion. ..where can there exist for him any illusion ? What can deceive him ? He knows the reality of everything, the secret of everything. Where can there exist any misery for him ? What can he desire ? He has discovered the reality of everything in the Lord who is the centre, the unity of all and who is the eternal felicity, the eternal knowledge, the eternal existence. ~ Virekananda, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
359:The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience.
But this vision of what is to be and therefore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature. When the individual soul is entirely at one in its being and knowledge with the Lord and directly in touch with the original Shakti, the transcendent Mother, the supreme Will can then arise in us too in the high divine manner as a thing that must be and is achieved by the spontaneous action of Nature. There is then no desire, no responsibility, no reaction; all takes place in the peace, calm, light, power of the supporting and enveloping and inhabiting Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218,#KEYS
360:the three results of effective practice: devotion, the central liberating knowledge and purification of ego; :::
...it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible;.. There is bound up a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our through, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved conscecration to the Divine of the totality of our being....
...next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, ... 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. ...
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.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [T1],#KEYS
361:The third operation in any magical ceremony is the oath or proclamation. The Magician, armed and ready, stands in the centre of the Circle, and strikes once upon the bell as if to call the attention of the Universe. He then declares who he is, reciting his magical history by the proclamation of the grades which he has attained, giving the signs and words of those grades. He then states the purpose of the ceremony, and proves that it is necessary to perform it and to succeed in its performance. He then takes an oath before the Lord of the Universe (not before the particular Lord whom he is invoking) as if to call Him to witness the act. He swears solemnly that he will perform it-that nothing shall prevent him from performing it-that he will not leave the operation until it is successfully performed-and once again he strikes upon the bell. Yet, having demonstrated himself in that position at once infinitely lofty and infinitely unimportant, the instrument of destiny, he balances this by the Confession, in which there is again an infinite exaltation harmonised with an infinite humility. He admits himself to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a creature of circumstance utterly dependent-even for the breath of life-upon a series of fortunate accidents.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
362:JOSH
hmm. its so upsetting.. it seems like the book is a perfect symbol for something terribly wrong. I constantly avoid anything Donald Trump related because I find him so repulsive its upsetting. like its too disgusting of a corruption and i just avoid it. but maybe this book is a lukewarm symbol so I can learn to move towards and fight such darknesses.. I dont know.. so upsetting.
and people buy into such double-thought inconscience? I cant even comprehend how this can be like this. I guess its like I turn away from disgust it allows people to turn away from reason through that infantile pre-rational regression or something. I mean we all want safety but..
the book itself goes against itself from the title.. like its bashing the left for wanting to divide america but thats what the book is doing by attacking them. so I guess if people cant catch the deception from the title they wont catch it in the book? ayah
ALAN
Yeah it's the whole white male fragility persecution envy trip. Donny Jnr was so triggered he had to write a whole book (I pity the ghostwriter).
And yes it is upsetting, we live in a world where the Lord of Falsehood is on the ascendant, through instruments like Trump, Koch, and Murdoch. Some people are particularly susceptible, others are immune. This is the battle for the Earth ~ M Alan Kazlev, Facebook,#KEYS
363:Bhakti Yoga, the Path of Devotion; :::
The path of Devotion aims at the enjoyment of the supreme Love and Bliss and utilses normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a a play of the Lord, with our human life as its final stages, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revealation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase the intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. ... We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of Devotion may be used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in humanity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga,#KEYS
364:38 - Strange! The Germans have disproved the existence of Christ; yet his crucifixion remains still a greater historic fact than the death of Caesar. - Sri Aurobindo.
To what plane of consciousness did Christ belong?
In the Essays on the Gita Sri Aurobindo mentions the names of three Avatars, and Christ is one of them. An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.
I heard Sri Aurobindo himself say that Christ was an emanation of the Lord's aspect of love.
The death of Caesar marked a decisive change in the history of Rome and the countries dependent on her. It was therefore an important event in the history of Europe.
But the death of Christ was the starting-point of a new stage in the evolution of human civilisation. This is why Sri Aurobindo tells us that the death of Christ was of greater historical significance, that is to say, it has had greater historical consequences than the death of Caesar. The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss, accepting to assume human ignorance and suffering in matter, in order to help men to emerge from the falsehood in which they live and because of which they die.
16 June 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.61-62),#KEYS
365:Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it may be offered to the cosmic All or it may be offered to the transcendent Supreme. The worship given may take any shape from the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water, a handful of rice, a loaf of bread, to consecration of all that we possess and the submission of all that we are. Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master. All our actions, all our efforts, even our sins and stumblings and sufferings and struggles are obscurely or consciously, known to us and seen or else unknown and in a disguise, governed in their last result by the One. All is turned towards him in his numberless forms and offered through them to the single Omnipresence. In whatever form and with whatever spirit we approach him, in that form and with that spirit he receives the sacrifice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109-110],#KEYS
366:the one entirely acceptable sacrifice :::
And the fruit also of the sacrifice of works varies according to the work, according to the intention in the work and according to the spirit that is behind the intention. But all other sacrifices are partial, egoistic, mixed, temporal, incomplete, - even those offered to the highest Powers and Principles keep this character: the result too is partial, limited, temporal, mixed in its reactions, effective only for a minor or intermediate purpose. The one entirely acceptable sacrifice is a last and highest and uttermost self-giving, - it is that surrender made face to face, with devotion and knowledge, freely and without any reserve to One who is at once our immanent Self, the environing constituent All, the Supreme Reality beyond this or any manifestation and, secretly, all these together, concealed everywhere, the immanent Transcendence. For to the soul that wholly gives itself to him, God also gives himself altogether. Only the one who offers his whole nature, finds the Self. Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere. Only a supreme self-abandonment attains to the Supreme. Only the sublimation by sacrifice of all that we are, can enable us to embody the Highest and live here in the immanent consciousness of the transcendent Spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [110],#KEYS
367:During the stage of sadhana one should describe God by all His attributes. One day Hazra said to Narendra: 'God is Infinity. Infinite is His splendour. Do you think He will accept your offerings of sweets and bananas or listen to your music? This is a mistaken notion of yours.' Narendra at once sank ten fathoms. So I said to Hazra, 'You villain! Where will these youngsters be if you talk to them like that?' How can a man live if he gives up devotion? No doubt God has infinite splendour; yet He is under the control of His devotees. A rich man's gate-keeper comes to the parlour where his master is seated with his friends. He stands on one side of the room. In his hand he has something covered with a cloth. He is very hesitant. The master asks him, 'Well, gate-keeper, what have you in your hand?' Very hesitantly the servant takes out a custard-apple from under the cover, places it in front of his master, and says, 'Sir, it is my desire that you should eat this.' The Master is impressed by his servant's devotion. With great love he takes the fruit in his hand and says: 'Ah! This is a very nice custard-apple. Where did you pick it? You must have taken a great deal of trouble to get it.'
"God is under the control of His devotees. King Duryodhana was very attentive to Krishna and said to Him, 'Please have your meal here.' But the Lord went to Vidura's hut. He is very fond of His devotees. He ate Vidura's simple rice and greens as if they were celestial food. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
368:When, then, by the withdrawal of the centre of consciousness from identification with the mind, life and body, one has discovered ones true self, discovered the oneness of that self with the pure, silent, immutable Brahman, discovered in the immutable, in the Akshara Brahman, that by which the individual being escapes from his own personality into the impersonal, the first movement of the Path of Knowledge has been completed. It is the sole that is absolutely necessary for the traditional aim of the Yoga of Knowledge, for immergence, for escape from cosmic existence, for release into the absolute and ineffable Parabrahman who is beyond all cosmic being. The seeker of this ultimate release may take other realisations on his way, may realise the Lord of the universe, the Purusha who manifests Himself in all creatures, may arrive at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all beings; but these are only stages or circumstances of his journey, results of the unfolding of his soul as it approaches nearer the ineffable goal. To pass beyond them all is his supreme object. When on the other hand, having attained to the freedom and the silence and the peace, we resume possession by the cosmic consciousness of the active as well as the silent Brahman and can securely live in the divine freedom as well as rest in it, we have completed the second movement of the Path by which the integrality of self-knowledge becomes the station of the liberated soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
369:I have written a short sentence which will appear in the Bulletin, the next Bulletin. It goes something like this (I dont remember the words exactly now): If you say to the Divine with conviction, I want only You, the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere.1 Something in the being I want only You. the aspiration and then one wants a hundred odd things all the time, isnt that so? At times something comes, just usually to disturb everythingit stands in the way and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably. Then when all is removed, you begin to howl and complain; but later, if you are sincere and look at yourself straight in the eye you have said to the Lord, you have said, I want only You. He will remain close to you, all the rest will go away. This is indeed a higher Grace. Only, you must say this with conviction. I dont even mean that you must say it integrally, because if one says it integrally, the work is done. What is necessary is that one part of the being, indeed the central will, says it with conviction: I want only You. Even once, and it suffices: all that takes more or less long, sometimes it stretches over years, but one reaches the goal. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 1954-06-16, #KEYS
370:the ruthless sacrifice ::: The vulgar conception of sacrifice is an act of painful self-immolation, austere self-mortification, difficult self-effacement; this kind of sacrifice may go even as far as self-mutilation and self-torture. These things may be temporarily necessary in man's hard endeavor to exceed his natural self; if the egoism in his nature is violent and obstinate, it has to be met sometimes by an answering strong internal repression and counterbalancing violence. But the Gita discourages any excess of violence done to oneself; for the self within is really the Godhead evolving, it is Krishna, the Divine; it has not to be troubled and tortured as the Titans of the world trouble and torture it, but to be increased, fostered, cherished, luminously opened to a divine light and strength and joy and wideness. It is not one's self, but the band of the spirit's inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the alter of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the soul's errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our self's real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may thrown by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
371:But what has fixed the modes of Nature? Or who has originated and governs the movements of Force? There is a Consciousness - or a Conscient - behind that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for her works; this consciousness is Soul or Purusha. Prakriti shapes the action in us; Purusha in her or behind her witnesses, assents, bears and upholds it. Prakriti forms the thought in our minds; Purusha in her or behind her knows the thought and the truth in it. Prakriti determines the result of the action; Purusha in her or behind her enjoys or suffers the consequence. Prakriti forms mind and body, labours over them, develops them; Purusha upholds the formation and evolution and sanctions each step of her works. Prakriti applies the Will-force which works in things and men; Purusha sets that Will-force to work by his vision of that which should be done. This Purusha is not the surface ego, but a silent Self, a source of Power, an originator and receiver of Knowledge behind the ego. Our mental "I" is only a false reflection of this Self, this Power, this Knowledge. This Purusha or supporting Consciousness is therefore the cause, recipient and support of all Nature's works, but he is not himself the doer. Prakriti, NatureForce, in front and Shakti, Conscious-Force, Soul-Force behind her, - for these two are the inner and outer faces of the universal Mother, - account for all that is done in the universe. The universal Mother, Prakriti-Shakti, is the one and only worker. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 214, #KEYS
372:Karma Yoga, the Path of Works; :::
The Path of Works aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 39,#KEYS
373:But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed in the bliss of conscious self-existence, there is rest; when thePurusha pours itself out in the action of its Energy, there is action, creation and the enjoyment or Ananda of becoming. But if Ananda is the creator and begetter of all becoming, its method is Tapas or force of the Purusha's consciousness dwelling upon its own infinite potentiality in existence and producing from it truths of conception or real Ideas, vijnana, which, proceedingfrom an omniscient and omnipotent Self-existence, have the surety of their own fulfilment and contain in themselves the nature and law of their own becoming in the terms of mind, life and matter. The eventual omnipotence of Tapas and the infallible fulfilment of the Idea are the very foundation of all Yoga. In man we render these terms by Will and Faith, - a will that is eventually self-effective because it is of the substance of Knowledge and a faith that is the reflex in the lower consciousness of a Truth or real Idea yet unrealised in the manifestation. It is this self-certainty of the Idea which is meant by the Gita when it says, yo yac-chraddhah sa eva sah, 'whatever is a man's faith or the sure Idea in him, that he becomes.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Synthesis of the Systems, 43,#KEYS
374:The Lord has veiled himself and his absolute wisdom and eternal consciousness in ignorant Nature-Force and suffers her to drive the individual being, with its complicity, as the ego; this lower action of Nature continues to prevail, often even in spite of man's half-lit imperfect efforts at a nobler motive and a purer self-knowledge. Our human effort at perfection fails, or progresses very incompletely, owing to the force of Nature's past actions in us, her past formations, her long-rooted associations; it turns towards a true and high-climbing success only when a greater Knowledge and Power than our own breaks through the lid of our ignorance and guides or takes up our personal will. For our human will is a misled and wandering ray that has parted from the supreme Puissance. The period of slow emergence out of this lower working into a higher light and purer force is the valley of the shadow of death for the striver after perfection; it is a dreadful passage full of trials, sufferings, sorrows, obscurations, stumblings, errors, pitfalls. To abridge and alleviate this ordeal or to penetrate it with the divine delight faith is necessary, an increasing surrender of the mind to the knowledge that imposes itself from within and, above all, a true aspiration and a right and unfaltering and sincere practice. "Practise unfalteringly," says the Gita, "with a heart free from despondency," the Yoga; for even though in the earlier stage of the path we drink deep of the bitter poison of internal discord and suffering, the last taste of this cup is the sweetness of the nectar of immortality and the honey-wine of an eternal Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 219, #KEYS
375:...that personality, like consciousness, life, soul is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence. This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it a forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour. As an occult vision opens in him, he becomes aware of worlds behind in which consciousness and personality hold an enormous place and assume a premier value; even here in the material world to this occult vision the inconscience of Matter fills with a secret pervading consciousness, its inanimation harbours a vibrant life, its mechanism is the device of an indwelling Intelligence, God and soul are everywhere. Above all stands an infinite conscious Being who is variously self-expressed in all these worlds; impersonality is only a first means of that expression. It is a field of principles and forces, an equal basis of manifestation; but these forces express themselves through beings, have conscious spirits at their head and are the emanation of a One Conscious Being who is their sorce. A multiple innumberable personality expressing that One is the very sense and central aim of the manifestation and if now personality seems to be narrow, fragmentary, restrictive, it is only because it has not opened to its source or flowered into its own divine truth and fullness packing itself with the universal and the infinite. Thus the world-creation is no more an illusion, a fortuitous mechanism, a play that need not have happened, a flux without consequence; it is an intimate dynamism of the conscious and living Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice and the Lord of the Sacrifice, 127,#KEYS
376:the second aid, the need for effort and aspiration, utsaha :::
The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individiual mould and transform it. The first determining element in the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' It is this zeal for the Lord, -utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, - that devours the ego and breaks up the petty limitations ...
So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
377:This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims. As we gain in clarity and the turmoil of egoistic effort gives place to a calmer self-knowledge, we recognise the source of the growing light within us. We recognise it retrospectively as we realise how all our obscure and conflicting movements have been determined towards an end that we only now begin to perceive, how even before our entrance into the path of the Yoga the evolution of our life has been designedly led towards its turning point. For now we begin to understand the sense of our struggles and efforts, successes and failures. At last we are able to seize the meaning of our ordeals and sufferings and can appreciate the help that was given us by all that hurt and resisted and the utility of our very falls and stumblings. We recognise this divine leading afterwards, not retrospectively but immediately, in the moulding of our thoughts by a transcendent Seer, of our will and actions by an all-embracing Power, of our emotional life by an all-attracting and all-assimilating Bliss and Love. We recognise it too in a more personal relation that from the first touched us or at the last seizes us; we feel the eternal presence of a supreme Master, Friend, Lover, Teacher. We recognise it in the essence of our being as that develops into likeness and oneness with a greater and wider existence; for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts; an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. One who is the Lord or Ishwara of the Yogic philosophies, the Guide in the conscious being ( caitya guru or antaryamin ), the Absolute of the thinker, the Unknowable of the Agnostic, the universal Force of the materialist, the supreme Soul and the supreme Shakti, the One who is differently named and imaged by the religions, is the Master of our Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 62 [T1],#KEYS
378:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
379:It is your birthday tomorrow?
Yes, Mother.
How old will you be?
Twenty-six, Mother.
I shall see you tomorrow and give you something special. You will see, I am not speaking of anything material- that, I shall give you a card and all that- but of something...You will see, tomorrow, now go home and prepare yourself quietly so that you may be ready to receive it.
Yes, Mother.
You know, my child, what "Bonne Fete" signifies, that is, the birthday we wish here?
Like that, I know what it means, Mother, but not the special significance you want to tell me.
Yes, it is truly a special day in one's life. It is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us- or when we are face to face with the Eternal- one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning flash. That is why I give so much importance to the birthday- because what one gains in one day is truly something incomparable. And it is for this that I also work to open the consciousness a little towards what is above so that one may come before the Eternal. My child, it is a very, very special day, for it is the day of decision, the day one can unite with the Supreme Consciousness. For the Lord lifts us on this day to the highest region possible so that our soul which is a portion of that Eternal Flame, may be united and identified with its Origin.
This day is truly an opportunity in life. One is so open and so receptive that one can assimilate all that is given. I can do many things, that is why it is important.
It is one of those days when the Lord Himself opens the doors wide for us. It is as though He were inviting us to rekindle more powerfully the flame of aspiration. It is one of those days which He gives us. We too, by our personal effort, could attain to this, but it would be long, hard and not so easy. And this- this is a real chance in life- the day of Grace.
It is an occult phenomenon that occurs invariably, without our knowledge, on this particular day of the year. The soul leaves behind the body and journeys up and up till it merges into the Source in order to replenish itself and absorb from the Supreme Its Power, Light and Ananda and comes down charged for a whole year to pass. Then again and again... it continues like this year after year. ~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, Mona Sarkar,#KEYS
380:If we look at this picture of the Self-Existence and its works as a unitary unlimited whole of vision, it stands together and imposes itself by its convincing totality: but to the analysis of the logical intellect it offers an abundance of difficulties, such as all attempts to erect a logical system out of a perception of an illimitable Existence must necessarily create; for any such endeavour must either effect consistency by an arbitrary sectioning of the complex truth of things or else by its comprehensiveness become logically untenable. For we see that the Indeterminable determines itself as infinite and finite, the Immutable admits a constant mutability and endless differences, the One becomes an innumerable multitude, the Impersonal creates or supports personality, is itself a Person; the Self has a nature and is yet other than its nature; Being turns into becoming and yet it is always itself and other than its becomings; the Universal individualises itself and the Individual universalises himself; Brahman is at once void of qualities and capable of infinite qualities, the Lord and Doer of works, yet a non-doer and a silent witness of the workings of Nature. If we look carefully at these workings of Nature, once we put aside the veil of familiarity and our unthinking acquiescence in the process of things as natural because so they always happen, we discover that all she does in whole or in parts is a miracle, an act of some incomprehensible magic. The being of the Self-existence and the world that has appeared in it are, each of them and both together, a suprarational mystery. There seems to us to be a reason in things because the processes of the physical finite are consistent to our view and their law determinable, but this reason in things, when closely examined, seems to stumble at every moment against the irrational or infrarational and the suprarational: the consistency, the determinability of process seems to lessen rather than increase as we pass from matter to life and from life to mentality; if the finite consents to some extent to look as if it were rational, the infinitesimal refuses to be bound by the same laws and the infinite is unseizable. As for the action of the universe and its significance, it escapes us altogether; if Self, God or Spirit there be, his dealings with the world and us are incomprehensible, offer no clue that we can follow. God and Nature and even ourselves move in a mysterious way which is only partially and at points intelligible, but as a whole escapes our comprehension. All the works of Maya look like the production of a suprarational magical Power which arranges things according to its wisdom or its phantasy, but a wisdom which is not ours and a phantasy which baffles our imagination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.02, #KEYS
381:There is one fundamental perception indispensable towards any integral knowledge or many-sided experience of this Infinite. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and truth unaltered by forms and phenomena. Otherwise we are likely to remain caught in the net of appearances or wander confusedly in a chaotic multitude of cosmic or particular aspects, and if we avoid this confusion, it will be at the price of getting chained to some mental formula or shut up in a limited personal experience. The one secure and all-reconciling truth which is the very foundation of the universe is this that life is the manifestation of an uncreated Self and Spirit, and the key to life's hidden secret is the true relation of this Spirit with its own created existences. There is behind all this life the look of an eternal Being upon its multitudinous becomings; there is around and everywhere in it the envelopment and penetration of a manifestation in time by an unmanifested timeless Eternal. But this knowledge is valueless for Yoga if it is only an intellectual and metaphysical notion void of life and barren of consequence; a mental realisation alone cannot be sufficient for the seeker. For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge. This infinite and eternal Self of things is an omnipresent Reality, one existence everywhere; it is a single unifying presence and not different in different creatures; it can be met, seen or felt in its completeness in each soul or each form in the universe. For its infinity is spiritual and essential and not merely a boundlessness in Space or an endlessness in Time; the Infinite can be felt in an infinitesimal atom or in a second of time as convincingly as in the stretch of the aeons or the stupendous enormity of the intersolar spaces. The knowledge or experience of it can begin anywhere and express itself through anything; for the Divine is in all, and all is the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
382:An integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But mans present nature is limited, divided, unequal, -- it is easiest for him to concentrate in the strongest part of his being and follow a definite line of progress proper to his nature: only rare individuals have the strength to take a large immediate plunge straight into the sea of the Divine Infinity. Some therefore must choose as a starting-point a concentration in thought or contemplation or the minds one-pointedness to find the eternal reality of the Self in them; others can more easily withdraw into the heart to meet there the Divine, the Eternal: yet others are predominantly dynamic and active; for these it is best to centre themselves in the will and enlarge their being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the Lord of the cosmic action as the master and mover of all their energies of thought, feeling, act, becoming by this enlargement of being selfless and universal, they can reach by works some first fullness of a spiritual status. But the path, whatever its point of starting, must debouch into a vaster dominion; it must proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. In the supramental consciousness, on the level of the supramental existence this integration becomes consummate; there knowledge, will, emotion, the perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise each to its absolute of itself and all to their perfect harmony and fusion with each other, to a divine integrality, a divine perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then becomes part of the Divine Truth, an element and means of the supreme union and oneness; this ascent and descent must be therefore an ultimate aim of this Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works [279-280],#KEYS
383:Apotheosis ::: One of the most powerful and beloved of the Bodhisattvas of the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet, China, and Japan is the Lotus Bearer, Avalokiteshvara, "The Lord Looking Down in Pity," so called because he regards with compassion all sentient creatures suffering the evils of existence. To him goes the millionfold repeated prayer of the prayer wheels and temple gongs of Tibet: Om mani padme hum, "The jewel is in the lotus." To him go perhaps more prayers per minute than to any single divinity known to man; for when, during his final life on earth as a human being, he shattered for himself the bounds of the last threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard. Under differing forms he traverses the ten thousand worlds, and appears in the hour of need and prayer. He reveals himself in human form with two arms, in superhuman forms with four arms, or with six, or twelve, or a thousand, and he holds in one of his left hands the lotus of the world.
Like the Buddha himself, this godlike being is a pattern of the divine state to which the human hero attains who has gone beyond the last terrors of ignorance. "When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change." This is the release potential within us all, and which anyone can attain-through herohood; for, as we read: "All things are Buddha-things"; or again (and this is the other way of making the same statement) : "All beings are without self."
The world is filled and illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva ("he whose being is enlightenment"); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus. Pain and pleasure do not enclose him, he encloses them-and with profound repose. And since he is what all of us may be, his presence, his image, the mere naming of him, helps. "He wears a garland of eight thousand rays, in which is seen fully reflected a state of perfect beauty.
The color of his body is purple gold. His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. The halo surrounding his head is studded with five hundred Buddhas, miraculously transformed, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, who are attended, in turn, by numberless gods. And when he puts his feet down to the ground, the flowers of diamonds and jewels that are scattered cover everything in all directions. The color of his face is gold. While in his towering crown of gems stands a Buddha, two hundred and fifty miles high." - Amitayur-Dhyana Sutra, 19; ibid., pp. 182-183. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Apotheosis,#KEYS
384:The supreme Truth aspect which thus manifests itself to us is an eternal and infinite and absolute self-existence, self-awareness, self-delight of being; this bounds all things and secretly supports and pervades all things. This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature,-self, conscious being or spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory,-Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara; for these terms grew from a root of Intuition and, while they have a comprehensive preciseness, are capable of a plastic application which avoids both vagueness in the use and the rigid snare of a too limiting intellectual concept. The Supreme Brahman is that which in Western metaphysics is called the Absolute: but Brahman is at the same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative exists as its forms or its movements; this is an Absolute which takes all relativities in its embrace. [...] Brahman is the Consciousness that knows itself in all that exists; Brahman is the force that sustains the power of God and Titan and Demon, the Force that acts in man and animal and the forms and energies of Nature; Brahman is the Ananda, the secret Bliss of existence which is the ether of our being and without which none could breathe or live. Brahman is the inner Soul in all; it has taken a form in correspondence with each created form which it inhabits. The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; He is Space and all that is in Space; He is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the Transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe. These and similar statements taken together are all-comprehensive: it is possible for the mind to cut and select, to build a closed system and explain away all that does not fit within it; but it is on the complete and many-sided statement that we must take our stand if we have to acquire an integral knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 02: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution, Part I, The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti [336-337],#KEYS
385:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
386: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
387:Allow the Lord to Do Everything :::
Now, when I start looking like this (Mother closes her eyes), two things are there at the same time: this smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony - and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all: you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: "There, be quiet, don't stir, don't bother me, I don't need you." Then a door opens - you don't even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are tkane over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
All this... oh, this tremendous labour of hte mind striving to understand, toiling and giving itself headaches!... It is absolutely useless, absolutely useless, no use at all, it merely increases the confusion.
You are faced with a so-called problem: what should you say, what should you do, how should you act? There is nothing to do, nothing, you only have to say to the Lord, "There, You see, it is like that" - that's all. And then you stay very quiet. And then quite spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflection, without calculation, nothing, nothing, without the slightest effect - you do what has to be done. That is to say, the Lord does it, it is no longer you. He does it. He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words into your mouth or your pen - He does everything, everything, everything, everything; you have nothing more to do but allow yourself to live blissfully.
I am more and more convinced that people do not really want it.
But clearing the ground is difficult, the work of clearing the ground before hand.
But you don't even need to do it! He does it for you.
But they are constantly breaking in: the old consciousness, the old thoughts....
Yes, they try to come in again, by habit. You only have to say, "Lord, You see, You see, You see, it is like that" - that's all. "Lord, You see, You see this, You see that, You see this fool" - and it is all over immediately. And it changes automatically, my child, without the slightest effort. Simply to be sincere, that is to say, to truly want everything to be right. You are perfectly conscious that you can do nothing about it, that you have no capacity.... But there is always something that wants to do it by itself; that's the trouble, otherwise...
No, you may be full of an excellent goodwill and then you want to do it. That's what complicated everything. Or else you don't have faith, you believe that the Lord will not be able to do it and that you must do it yourself, because He does not know! (Mother laughs.) This, this kind of stupidity is very common. "How can He see things? We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly!
I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and try - there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely because He is All-Truth, He does not understand. (Mother laughs.) He does not understand our falsehood, I must deal with it myself." That is very strong, very common.
Ah! we make complications for nothing. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
388: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
389: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
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:May the Lord bless you real good. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 2:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 3:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 4:No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 5:Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 6:The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 7:We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 8:Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 9:I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 10:I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 11:Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 12:Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 13:Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 14:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 15:Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 16:May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 17:More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 18:Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 19:In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 20:Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 21:The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 22:May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 23:To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 24:Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 25:This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 26:Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 27:Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 28:The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 29:The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 30:The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 31:The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 32:Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 33:The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 34:The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 35:The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 36:Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 37:The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 38:If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 39:I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 40:We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 41:We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 42:It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 43:He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 44:I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 45:Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 46:Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 47:When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 48:Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 49:The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 50:As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 51:Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 52:Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 53:In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 54:It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 55:The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 56:Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 57:I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 58:Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 59:I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world. ~ rupert-sheldrake, @wisdomtrove 60:We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 61:I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 62:Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 63:Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 64:The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 65:We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 66:The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 67:Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 68:Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 69:If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 70:Peace holds within itself trust in the Lord, the trust that He governs all things and provides all ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 71:However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 72:I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 73:In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 74:When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 75:Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 76:We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 77:Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord! ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 78:The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 79:The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 80:The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 81:A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord's plan to give us challenges. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 82:It is possible that we can get so busy doing work & 83:It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 84:Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 85:The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 86:Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 87:It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 88:Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 89:Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 90:Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 91:The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, & 92:Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 93:How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 94:A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 95:A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 96:Donôt miss what the Lord has in store for those who love Him and are willing to let Him be the Master of their lives. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 97:That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works - I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 98:Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 99:The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 100:If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 101:The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 102:The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 103:Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 104:If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 105:You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 106:I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, & 107:Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 108:We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 109:What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 110:You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 111:Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart." ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 112:Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 113:The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 114:I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 115:It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 116:Should anyone knock at my heart and say, & 117:The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 118:you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 119:The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 120:If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 121:So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 122:His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 123:I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 124:Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 125:I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: & 126:Angels from their wisdom go still further. They say that not only every thing good and true is from the Lord, but every thing of life as well. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 127:The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 128:When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 129:I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 130:The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 131:The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 132:Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 133:Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 134:When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 135:If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 136:Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 137:I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 138:I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 139:Peace holds within itself trust in the Lord, the trust that He governs all things and provides all things, and that He leads towards an end that is good. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 140:So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 141:If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 142:The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 143:Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 144:As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 145:If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 146:I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 147:I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 148:Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best? ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 149:what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 150:Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 151:We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 152:The hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove 153:A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 154:Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 155:My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 156:Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 157:A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 158:Every president has taken comfort and courage when told... that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed." ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 159:When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 160:At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 161:But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 162:Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 163:I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 164:Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 165:Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 166:The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 167:The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 168:The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 169:Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 170:If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 171:Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 172:The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 173:If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 174:We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 175:The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 176:The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 177:man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 178:The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 179:When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 180:Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 181:The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 182:God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 183:child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 184:Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 185:We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter] ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 186:I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 187:Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 188:In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 189:... when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, & 190:And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 191:In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah! ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 192:We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 193:The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 194:The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 195:To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 196:Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 197:The verb & 198:If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 199:There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 200:Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 201:There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 202:We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 203:The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 204:Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 205:When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 206:You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 207:The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 208:We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 209:We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 210:Next time you're faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don't say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 211:Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 212:Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 213:Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 214:The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 215:my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 216:Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 217:Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 218:Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 219:If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 220:I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 221:He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 222:When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 223:I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 224:The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 225:If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 226:I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 227:My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy& 228:We minister the Word of God. The proclamation of the Gospel comes after individuals have opened their hearts to God and turned from themselves to others. Only then are they truly ready to hear and benefit fully from the Word of the Lord. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 229:The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 230:When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 231:As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 232:God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 233:Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 234:Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 235:Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 236:Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 237:The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 238:There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 239:The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 240:Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 241:He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 242:Let the Lord your God be your hope ‚Äì seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 243:Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 244:I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 245:Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 246:When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 247:A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 248:We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 249:You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God's fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 250:Has the trade of interpreting the Lord's matters gone out, discouraged by the time-worn fact that nobody succeeds at it? No, it still flourishes; there was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 251:Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 252:Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 253:Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 254:Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, & 255:I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 256:The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 257:Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 258:The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 259:The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 260:Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 261:Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 262:If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 263:I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 264:One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 265:If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 266:Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 267:You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove 268:Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 269:I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 270:Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 271:Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 272:I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 273:I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 274:The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight... We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 275:I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 276:There are some of us who think to ourselves, & 277:You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 278:If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: & 279:Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon? ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 280:Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that & 281:The soul acts, to be sure, but the activity of the soul is not independent. It acts itself, but the Lord causes it to act. Moreover, the Lord in causing it to act now has regard to its former efforts, and He also caused it to act in a former existence, having regard to its efforts previous to that existence. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 282:Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 283:If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 284:Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 285:All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 286:Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 287:You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 288:Psalm 34 says, & 289:A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 290:Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 291:The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 292:Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 293:Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 294:God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 295:Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 296:You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 297:There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 298:We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 299:We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 300:Isavasyamidam Sarvam: every content of the universe is throbbing with the Life of the Lord. Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Smile with the shrubs, ferns and twigs. Develop friendship with all neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all nature’s creations. You will have a perfect and rich life. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 301:This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 302:I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 303:There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 304:Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 305:To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 306:Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, You should be afraid to meet your maker. Rock, despite being Catholic replied, My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 307:Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 308:Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the & 309:It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 310:Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 311:We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 312:When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 313:Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 314:And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 315:The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 316:The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord... Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near... Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you? ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 317:Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment & 318:It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your very style is fashioned upon Scripture models, and, what is better still, your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord. Prick him anywhere; and you will find that his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 319:Marriages on earth& 320:Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 321:Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the & 322:I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 323:Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 324:There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely & 325:The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like & 326:Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 327:Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 328:Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 329:If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 330:It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil's gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 331:Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 332:There are many locks in my house and all with different keys, but I have one master-key which opens them all. The Lord has many treasures and secrets all shut up from carnal minds with locks which they cannot open. But he who walks in fellowship with Jesus possesses the master-key which will open to him all the blessings of the covenant and even the very heart of God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 333:He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 334:When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 335:The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 336:Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor... . Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 337:In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 338:Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 339:Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 340:If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing! ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 341:You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 342:You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 343:Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 344:You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 345:I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be & 346:[& 347:& 348:We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 349:Even after attaining samadhi, some retain the "servant ego," or the "devotee ego." The bhakta keeps this "I-consciousness." He says, "0 God, Thou art the Master and I am Thy servant; Thou art the Lord and I am Thy devotee," He feels that way even after the realization of God. His "I" -is not completely effaced. Again, by constantly practicing this kind of consciousness," one ultimately attains God... ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 350:I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 351:I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 352:The Scripture says, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" [Psalm 118:24].Glory days are days that can happen right now. The key is understanding some basic principles that don't just apply to any one season of life but transcend all seasons of life - not allowing our circumstances to define our outlook on life, but allowing what God's Word says about life to define that outlook. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 353:In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 354:People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 355:& 356:& 357:If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 358:Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 359:It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this & 360:With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject]. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 361:What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 362:Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 363:When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase & 364:Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 365:Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 366:Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away& 367:When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 368:Children, when we go to the temple, do not hurry to have darshan, then make some offering and return home in a hurry. We should stand there patiently in silence for some time and try to visualize the beloved deity in our hearts. If possible, we should sit down and meditate. At each step, remember to do japa. Amma doesn't say that the offerings and worship are not necessary, but of all the offerings we make, what the Lord wants most is our hearts! ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 369:Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 370:Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 371:How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 372:I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 373:I don't think there is anything wrong with a man who wants to give credit to the Lord, but I don't think the team with the most Christians on it is necessarily going to win. The Lord may be helping their characters and souls, but I don't think he's any more for the Dodgers than he is for the Braves. More than being concerned with who's going to win the Super Bowl, I feel the Lord is probably more concerned that they might find a day other than Sunday to play it on. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 374:The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 375:Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 376:We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 377:There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 378:Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 379:No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord & 380:I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 381:One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 382:The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 383:The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 384:If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, & 385:Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 386:Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 387:There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 388:I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 389:We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 390:Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) & 391:The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 392:Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 393:The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . As we do our part rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude, God does his part. He bestows upon us the peace of God. Note, this is not a peace from God. Our Father gives us the very peace of God. He downloads the tranquility of the throne room into our world, resulting in an inexplicable calm. We should be worried, but we aren't. We should be upset, but we're comforted. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 394:On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 395:Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it. You can't run the world, but you can entrust it to God. This is the message behind Paul's admonition to "rejoice in the Lord." Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord. Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty, as Paul did. Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 396:Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality... plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way... Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered... the strength [not length] of your prayer... wins... God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 397:Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: Missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. Contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. Universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 398:When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 399:Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 400:We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 401:We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 402:Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 403:Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 404:Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 405:A man sitting under the shade of the Kalpa-vriksha (wishing-tree) wished to be a king, and in an instant he was a king. The next moment he wished to have a charming damsel, and the damsel was instantly by his side. The man then thought within himself, if a tiger came and devoured him, and alas; in an instant he was in the jaws of a tiger! God is like that wishing-tree: whosoever in His presence thinks that he is destitute and poor, remains as such, but he who thinks and believes that the Lord fulfils all his wants, receives everything from Him. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 406:We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 407:He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 408:A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove 409:If God is the Lord of the world, He can do with it as he pleases. Suppose you have grown beautiful flowers in your garden, but decide to plant fruit trees in their place, won't you have to remove the flowers? If you have a fine house, but wish to build a larger and better one on the same plot, you demolish the old one. The freedom that is yours in small things, God exercises in great ones. In both is He, in destruction as well as in construction. The history of nations, families and individuals is the great Lila (divine sport) that He stages with Himself. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 410:Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 411:As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 412:The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 413:It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 414:What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 415:It must be particularly borne in mind, that Mahomet did not profess to set up a new religion ; but to restore that derived in the earliest times from God himself. " We follow," says the Koran, " the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater. We believe in God and that which hath been sent down to us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from the Lord : we make no distinction between any of them, and to God we are resigned. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 416:Does it follow from: & 417:In the Protestant Christian world, active repentance, which is examining ourselves, recognizing and admitting to our sins, praying to the Lord, and starting a new life, is extremely difficult to practice, for a number of reasons that will be covered later. Therefore here is an easier kind of repentance: When we are considering doing something evil and are forming an intention to do it, we say to ourselves, I am thinking about this and I am intending to do it, but because it is a sin, I am not going to do it. This counteracts the enticement that hell is injecting into us and keeps it from making further inroads. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 418:There is one God, in whom there is the Divine Trinity, and he is the Lord Jesus Christ. This can be briefly illustrated in the following way: It is a certain and established truth that God is one, and his essence cannot be divided; and also that there is a Trinity. Since God is One, and his essence cannot be divided, it follows that God is one Person. And since he is one Person, the Trinity is in that Person. It is clear that this Person is the Lord Jesus Christ from the fact that he was conceived from God the Father (Luke 1:34, 35), and thus as to his soul and life itself he is God. Therefore, as he himself said, "he and the Father are one." (John 10:30). ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 419:It is evident that there are three means for the formation of faith in man: the first is, approaching the Lord; the second, learning truths from the Word; and the third, living in conformity to them. Now these three means being each distinct from the other, it follows that they may be separated; as for instance, a person may approach the Lord, and yet be acquainted with no truths concerning God and the Lord, except such as are historical; so another may be acquainted with abundance of truths derived from the Word, and yet not live in conformity with them; but in such cases, where the three means are separated, that is, where one is without the other, there can be no faith profitable to salvation. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:for the LORD p knows ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:The Lord Will Provide. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
3:vengeance was the Lord’s ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
4:The LORD will provide”; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
5:such is the Lord's Will. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
6:The LORD is in the right, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
7:You must worship the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
8:The Lord saved my soul. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
9:Be the chief but never the lord. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
10:I am the LORD who heals you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
11:Prepare ye the way of the Lord. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
12:I wish the Lord would take me now ~ Livia, #NFDB
13:PSA27.14 Wait on the LORD: be ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
14:say, Praise the Lord, call upon ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
15:use the Lord’s name in vain! ~ Jon Scieszka, #NFDB
16:Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
17:For I am the Lord, I achange not ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
18:The Lord is Eternal in words of ~ The Mother, #NFDB
19:The Lord won't confirm a lie. ~ Ernest Angley, #NFDB
20:And the Lord added to their number ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
21:Memento mori and obey the Lord. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
22:Let the Lord judge the criminals. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
23:May the Lord bless you real good. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
24:Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord. ~ R J Parker, #NFDB
25:the LORD my God lightens my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
26:Where could I go but to the Lord? ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
27:declare the decree: the Lord hath said ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
28:Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
29:The Law of the Lord is a love story. ~ Russ Ramsey, #NFDB
30:The Lord makes his servants bold. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
31:By the Lord of Hell’s hairy balls! ~ Katharine Kerr, #NFDB
32:I thank the Lord for the night time. ~ Neil Diamond, #NFDB
33:I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
34:The Lord of Rags and Tatters. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
35:they have rejected the law of the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
36:And the Lord said you got to rise Up! ~ Stuart Scott, #NFDB
37:Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care? ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
38:•fear the LORD and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
39:for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
40:Nothing but the best for the Lord. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
41:Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. ~ Moses, #NFDB
42:is most vital that the Lord breaks us. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
43:Praise the Lord of One-Night Stands, ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
44:The hand of the Lord is heavy. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich, #NFDB
45:The joy of The Lord really is strength. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
46:The Lord instructs me not to judge any man. ~ Marilyn, #NFDB
47:Kill them all in the Name of the Lord. ~ Jerry Falwell, #NFDB
48:Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
49:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
50:the LORD is with me like a mighty warrior; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
51:The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
52:The LORD will bless His people with peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
53:Whatever happens, the Lord is in it. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
54:14 a Is anything too hard [4] for the LORD? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
55:Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
56:Its not over, until the Lord says its over. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
57:The lord is the peasant that was, ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
58:The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
59:The Lord of the worms comes and goes. ~ Niccol Ammaniti, #NFDB
60:The Lord preserve us from sainthood ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
61:The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
62:Don’t you go taking the lord’s name in vain. ~ C L Stone, #NFDB
63:The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not? ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
64:The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
65:You cannot petition the lord with prayer! ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
66:And whoever †trusts in the LORD, happy is he. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
67:But David found strength in the LORD his God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
68:I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds. ~ Evel Knievel, #NFDB
69:Now, the old man happened to be the Lord. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
70:The lord of production is the consumer ~ Ludwig von Mises, #NFDB
71:The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
72:Today is what the Lord has prepared you for. ~ Mark Dever, #NFDB
73:But a prudent wife is from the LORD. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
74:I am totally in the hands of the Lord. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
75:I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor. ~ Barbara Stanwyck, #NFDB
76:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Solomon, #NFDB
77:The Lord helps those who help themselves. ~ Diego Maradona, #NFDB
78:The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~ Troy Perry, #NFDB
79:The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. ~ Robert Lowell, #NFDB
80:Even in a palace hall, Law is the lord of all. ~ Cao Xueqin, #NFDB
81:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ~ William Blake, #NFDB
82:Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
83:Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor. ~ John Climacus, #NFDB
84:Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say rejoice ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
85:Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
86:The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
87:The LORD is m my chosen portion and my n cup; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
88:The Lord’s ways are not our ways. (Isa. 55:8-9) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
89:Trust in the Lord, and do good. . . . ~ Judith McCoy Miller, #NFDB
90:Trust in the LORD, and do good. PSALM 37:3 ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
91:May the LORD smile on you…. NUMBERS 6:25 (NLT) ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
92:The Lord helped those that helped themselves. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
93:The Lord help me to press after God forever ~ David Brainerd, #NFDB
94:The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
95:The Lord loves the one that loves the Lord ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
96:I can work for the Lord in or out of prison. ~ Charles Colson, #NFDB
97:I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
98:Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
99:Psalm 100:2: “Serve the Lord with gladness. ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
100:q the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
101:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not. ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB
102:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious She is not. ~ Frank Wilczek, #NFDB
103:The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon. ~ Jeremiah, #NFDB
104:The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
105:The people sang to the Lord, not about Him. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
106:The secret things belong to the LORD our God. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
107:Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
108:Praise the Lord for Catholic girls schools … ~ William F Brown, #NFDB
109:PSA23.1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
110:The Lord God sees this here mess from on high. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
112:as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
113:Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins. ~ James Reston Jr, #NFDB
114:JEHOVAH SHAMMAH, “The Lord was there. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
115:Putting down the devil was the Lord’s own sport. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
116:The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace. ~ Pope Leo I, #NFDB
117:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
118:the Lord vanquished the devil in my heart. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
119:Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
120:who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
121:Whoever worships the Lord must give up doing wrong. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
122:29The way of the LORD is a refuge for the blameless, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
123:Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
124:Day and night, meditate forever on the Lord. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
125:For what?” the Lord of Douglas demanded. “For ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
126:Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ~ Miro Gavran, #NFDB
127:No man of God does something against the Lord ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
128:Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
129:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.”* ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
130:What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord. ~ Sojourner Truth, #NFDB
131:Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
132:With the Lord behind us they're ain't nothing we can't do. ~ DMX, #NFDB
133:Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
134:Happy are the people whose God is the LORD! ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
135:Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
136:Sir 39:21 All the works of the Lord are exceeding good. ~ Various, #NFDB
137:The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
138:The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil. ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
139:You are what you allow the Lord to make you. ~ Chris Heimerdinger, #NFDB
140:He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
141:If you're happy, you've got the Lord on your side. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
142:My promise of peace will never change," says the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
143:no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded. ~ Various, #NFDB
144:the LORD abhors d the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
145:The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
146:22“There† is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
147:4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
148:and Malachy, which is called also an angel of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
149:as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
150:Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:But he who hopes in the Lord, mercy shall encircle him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
152:Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
153:Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
154:Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. ~ Richard J Daley, #NFDB
155:EXO15.3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
156:For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth. ~ Heinrich Bullinger, #NFDB
157:[F]or whatever happens, the Lord is always risen. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
158:Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
159:More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
160:Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB
161:The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
162:To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing. ~ Lisa Leslie, #NFDB
163:Work on, be lions; and the Lord will bless you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
164:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
165:14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
166:8 And the LORD gave them victory over their enemies. The ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
167:Be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. ~ Isaiah. LII. 11, #NFDB
168:But nothin lasts, I guess. Only the love of the Lord. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
169:Over Emily’s grave, Peach said the Lord’s Prayer in a ~ John Sweeney, #NFDB
170:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of heaven. And ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
171:The Lord is near to all who call upon Him. Psalm 145:18 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
172:The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
173:Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
174:Cold prayers—ask the Lord not to hear them. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
175:Do not presume to know me, or the ways of the Lord, ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
176:Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's ~ Stonewall Jackson, #NFDB
177:I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies. ~ Norma McCorvey, #NFDB
178:I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
179:I would praise the Lord above for a ticket to that ride. ~ Lola Stark, #NFDB
180:Lost Ark, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings. ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
181:Lucas took Hades’ place as the lord of the dead. ~ Josephine Angelini, #NFDB
182:What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
183:your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
184:3Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
185:And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
186:A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
187:Because the Lord is with me, I am a successful person. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
188:Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. ~ John of Damascus, #NFDB
189:I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord. ~ Louise Rennison, #NFDB
190:I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
191:I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12. ~ Chuck Norris, #NFDB
192:I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me! ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
193:I wasn’t made to live a life that dishonors the Lord. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
194:Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
195:PSA89.52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
196:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
197:They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
198:They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
199:To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
200:1And athe child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
201:Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord. ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
202:Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
203:Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
204:I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
205:I thank the Lord He never treats us as our sins deserve. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
206:Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
207:The dice are thrown, but the LORD determines every outcome. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
208:The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third. ~ Gale Sayers, #NFDB
209:The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt. We ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
210:The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
211:The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery. ~ Bette Greene, #NFDB
212:Today is the day the Lord has made, be Glad & Enjoy It! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
213:We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
214:11:7 Certainly29 the Lord is just;30 he rewards godly deeds; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
215:almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
216:Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
217:Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
218:Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
219:I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
220:I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
221:I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord. ~ Tammy Faye Bakker, #NFDB
222:look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
223:No more taking the Lord’s name in vain or even in earnest. ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
224:Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all ~ Shri Radhe Maa, #NFDB
225:The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
226:the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14 n “Bring out of the camp ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
227:This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
228:This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
229:work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Col. 3:23). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
230:But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
231:I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
232:Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
233:Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
234:PSA2.11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
235:Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
236:Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
237:The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord. ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
238:The Lord delights in every little step you take. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
239:The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. ~ Clement of Alexandria, #NFDB
240:20We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
241:As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
242:Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
243:Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
244:I can do all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
245:If I die before I wake, pray the lord my soul to take. ~ Angela Richardson, #NFDB
246:May the LORD show you his favor and give you his peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
247:Proverbs 18:10, “The name of the LORD is a strong tower. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
248:Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
249:The Lord has an ocean to give. Don't come with teaspoons. ~ Kalki Bhagavan, #NFDB
250:The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
251:The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars. ~ Frank Laubach, #NFDB
252:When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
253:Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
254:38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
255:3 Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
256:Be merciful, as your Father is merciful, says the Lord. Lk 6:36 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
257:Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
258:Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. ~ George Washington Cable, #NFDB
259:fight the Lord's battles with the devil's weapons ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
260:Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change.
~ The Mother,#NFDB
261:I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
262:I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
263:Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord - ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
264:Sometimes the Lord answered prayers at an alarming rate. ~ Roseanna M White, #NFDB
265:The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
266:The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
267:Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. ~ Moses, Deuteronomy 18:13 KJV, #NFDB
268:to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
269:You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
270:A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
271:Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
272:Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
273:Gabriel exclaimed, "Verily the truth of the Lord endureth forever! ~ Various, #NFDB
274:It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
275:Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
276:May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. ~ Michael Servetus, #NFDB
277:Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff. ~ Mark Vonnegut, #NFDB
278:The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear. ~ Sara Zarr, #NFDB
279:The LORD’s mercies . . . are new every morning” (Lam. 3:23). ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
280:Wait for the LORD; i be strong, and let your heart take courage; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
281:We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
282:You hit the Lord of The Titans with a blue plastic hairbrush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
283:Zeus, the Lord of the Gods, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
284:21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
285:And this will be his name: ‘The LORD Is Our Righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
286:Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
287:Do not put the LORD your God to the test. (Deuteronomy 6:16) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
288:Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
289:I will walk before the LORD l in the land of the living. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
290:Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
291:Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. ~ Roy Acuff, #NFDB
292:The law of the LORD is perfect, [3] p reviving the soul; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
293:The Lord takes raw materials, shapes them and refines them. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
294:Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22 ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
295:Unless the Lord keepeth the city, the watchman guardeth in vain ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
296:Whatever you do, do for love. Vengeance, my dear, is the Lord’s. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB
297:You know that the hard work you do for the Lord is not pointless. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
298:You, my Lord, are a warrior; the Lord is Your name. (Exod. 15:3) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
299:16:31 told her, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
300:3Commit your works to the LORD And your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
301:3 The LORD is m a man of war; n the LORD is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
302:A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap. ~ ASAP Ferg, #NFDB
303:Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
304:I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love? ~ Cole Porter, #NFDB
305:in every way. The Lord be with all of you. —2 THESSALONIANS 3:16 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
306:Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord. ~ Pope Clement I, #NFDB
307:PSA131.3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
308:The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
309:The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
310:The Lord makes sure there's no journey we can't handle. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray, #NFDB
311:The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born ~ Stephen Leacock, #NFDB
312:There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
313:Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
314:Without the Lord, the disciple no longer knows who he is. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
315:11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
316:1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
317:2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
318:a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord evaluates the motives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
319:break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
320:Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me. ~ Hannibal Buress, #NFDB
321:he believed the LORD, and j he counted it to him as righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
322:He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him? ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB
323:If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
324:In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
325:In his mind a man plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
326:In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life. ~ John Green, #NFDB
327:I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
328:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #NFDB
329:ps.131.3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.† ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
330:The Lord don’t like ugly, she say. And he ain’t stuck on pretty. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
331:The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. ~ Psalms 46:4 - 7, #NFDB
332:Yes,” said the Lord Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
333:3But know that the LORD has set aparta for Himself him who is godly; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
334:9The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
335:And he said to man, ‘Behold, x the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
336:But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
337:For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
338:Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
339:One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord’s creation, Adam. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
340:Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
341:The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
342:The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
343:Those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength. Isaiah 40:31 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
344:Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
345:We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
346:20 Our soul i waits for the LORD; he is our j help and k our shield. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
347:2‘The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
348:4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
349:And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
350:Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
351:Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
352:Can’t never go by your feelings. Got to go by the word of the Lord. ~ Lynn Austin, #NFDB
353:Commit your activities to the Lord,and your plans will be achieved. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
354:Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. ~ Adi Shankara, #NFDB
355:Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
356:If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
357:If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you. ~ Mark Dever, #NFDB
358:Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
359:PSA103.2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
360:PSA3.5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
361:The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
362:The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
363:They feared the LORD, but also served their own gods. (2 Kings 17:33 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
364:THUS says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
365:We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
366:21 You can make many plans, but the LORD’s purpose will prevail. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
367:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
368:A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
369:At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work. ~ Robin Lee, #NFDB
370:blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
371:Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
372:consider yourself to be wise; •fear the Lord and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
373:Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #NFDB
374:For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
375:Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
376:Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
377:Serve the LORD with h fear, and i rejoice with h trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
378:The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ Dana Mentink, #NFDB
379:The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
380:There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor. ~ Andrew Jackson, #NFDB
381:What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd." ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
382:Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
383:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
384:24This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
385:6†As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
386:8 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
387:Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
388:Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
389:I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
390:I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
391:It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us. ~ Brigham Young, #NFDB
392:People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
393:Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
394:The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
395:The house of the Lord doesn't filter out the flock" - Wanda Lovell ~ Britney Spears, #NFDB
396:The Lord of The Rings stage show at the Princess of Wales Theatre, ~ David Gatewood, #NFDB
397:We may throw the dice,[*] but the LORD determines how they fall. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
398:Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
399:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
400:5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
401:And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
402:Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
403:Exalt and sing the Lord on high, of wine dark sea and tumbling sky. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
404:I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
405:I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns. ~ Henry Martyn, #NFDB
406:I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
407:I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps. ~ Stuart Turton, #NFDB
408:I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
409:Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. PSALM 105 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
410:Lord, You are my lamp; the Lord illuminates my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
411:Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector. ~ John Forsythe, #NFDB
412:say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;c apart from you I have no good thing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
413:Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord ~ Abdul Qadir Gilani, #NFDB
414:shall worship the Lord your God and l him only shall you serve. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
415:The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
416:The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
417:The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord’s departure. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
418:We have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ! Halleluiah! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
419:we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
420:You hit the lord of titans in the eye with a blue plastic hair brush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
421:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
422:2 All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord evaluates the motives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
423:But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
424:Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
425:fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
426:Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
For his kindness is for ever. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
427:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
428:I need not fear that the Lord would come to me with His sorrows. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
429:I sought the Lord and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
430:It is not eye-service that pleases the Lord, but singleness of heart. ~ Amber Schamel, #NFDB
431:I x lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
432:Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.” PSALM 105 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
433:Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion. ~ Wayne Gretzky, #NFDB
434:May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
435:More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
436:Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls. ~ Marjane Satrapi, #NFDB
437:PRO16.9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
438:ps.118.8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
439:Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
440:The Lord gives us wings
He gives us a stomach
we can fly or vomit ~ Patti Smith,#NFDB
441:The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD accepts my prayer. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
442:The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
443:the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
444:The "very best" is to live always in the Truth and the Love of the Lord! ~ The Mother, #NFDB
445:This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
446:Wait with hope for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart be courageous. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
447:You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much. ~ Benny Hinn, #NFDB
448:Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
449:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
450:Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB
451:Fear is not of the Lord. It is of the Enemy. Do not give in to it. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren, #NFDB
452:Genesis 39:2—“The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man... ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
453:If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge? ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
454:If the things I value are taken away, is my joy in the Lord undiminished? ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
455:In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
456:I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
457:Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge! ~ Oliver Cromwell, #NFDB
458:PSA3.8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
459:Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the LORD of hosts. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
460:Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
461:The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
462:The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
463:The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
464:the LORD is the true God; He is †the living God and the †everlasting King. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
465:The Lord will not forsake His people or abandon His heritage. Psalm 94:14 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
466:to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
467:Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
468:We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do. ~ Ricky Skaggs, #NFDB
469:Work is not an evil to be avoided but a gift from the Lord to be embraced. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
470:You are blessed for believing that the Lord would keep his promise to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
471:4For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
472:All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart? ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
473:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
474:Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
475:For the LORD is a God of justice; q blessed are all those who wait for him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
476:If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don't know where I would be. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
477:It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
478:Love the Lord full-heartedly and all will be well.
In Love eternal. ~ The Mother,#NFDB
479:May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
480:Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
481:PSA115.14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
482:PSA118.6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
483:Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. (Philippians 4:4) ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
484:Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!—PHILIPPIANS 4:4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
485:ROM10.13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
486:Stand up and bless the LORD your God forever and ever! – Nehemiah 9:5 ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
487:The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
488:The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
489:The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
490:The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
Psalm 27:1 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
491:The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? PSALM 27:1 ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
492:The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
493:The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. EXODUS 14:14 NIV ~ Susie Larson, #NFDB
494:Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people. Joel 2:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
495:Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. ~ Candace Cameron Bure, #NFDB
496:When the fear of the Lord matures in you, Christ becomes irresistible. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
497:You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
498:you hit the lord of the titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
499:Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
500:But the LORD is in his holy Temple; the LORD still rules from heaven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
501:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come! ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
502:If we discern the Lord’s body, we will walk in His health and wholeness. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
503:In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) ~ John Green, #NFDB
504:Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation! ~ Caedmon, #NFDB
505:May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
506:Oh, s magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
507:Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
508:PSA6.9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
509:Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank. ~ Bob Gunton, #NFDB
510:The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB
511:The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there. ~ Frank D Gilroy, #NFDB
512:The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
513:The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
514:The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again. ~ T B Joshua, #NFDB
515:The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
516:The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift. ~ Dan T Cathy, #NFDB
517:The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB
518:The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
519:This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice in it and be glad. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
520:This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
521:To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
522:When you delight in the Lord He becomes the desire of your heart ~ Jennifer Kennedy Dean, #NFDB
523:Wherefore, let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
524:You shall worship the Lord your God and l him only shall you serve. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
525:12 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
526:22 A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
527:2 A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
528:2 Corinthians 3:17. Now the Lord is the Spirit...is that the one you like? ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
529:but u we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
530:DEU3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
531:fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
532:For what the Lord giveth, is precisely what he cometh later to taketh away. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
533:Gaudete in Domino semper.” (A.D. Phil. 4:4.) “Rejoice in the Lord always. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
534:Isn't it a blessing when the Lord shows us the path to who we really are? ~ Jamison Green, #NFDB
535:is there ever anything safe about serving the Lord with one’s whole heart? ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
536:I will be the lord of traveling salesmen!” “That,” I said, “is truly evil. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
537:JAM4.10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
538:man's own foolishness leads him astray, yet his heart rages against the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
539:Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty. ~ Davis Bunn, #NFDB
540:People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord. ~ Michael Scott, #NFDB
541:Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. ~ Phil Donahue, #NFDB
542:taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
543:The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
544:The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down. ~ Annette Funicello, #NFDB
545:the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
546:The sage is never alone...he bears in himself the Lord of all things. ~ Angelius Silesius, #NFDB
547:Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20). ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
548:Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
549:We lighten the loads of others best by helping the Lord strengthen them. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
550:We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
551:Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
552:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
553:22 The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, without painful toil for it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
554:A healthy fear of the Lord keeps us from forgetting who we are and who He is. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
555:All humans are musical.
Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart? ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
556:Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home. ~ John Henry Jowett, #NFDB
557:At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work. ~ Robin Lee Hatcher, #NFDB
558:Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord. ~ Horatius Bonar, #NFDB
559:COL2.6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
560:Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He will bring it to pass. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
561:Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
562:Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
563:I’m not the lord of anyone anymore,” Karyl said. “Not even myself, perhaps. ~ Victor Mil n, #NFDB
564:In his heart, a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
565:Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary. ~ Robert D Hales, #NFDB
566:PSA54.4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
567:That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
568:The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
569:The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. ~ Judi Dench, #NFDB
570:The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom should I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
571:The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
572:To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ~ proverbs XXL 3, #NFDB
573:18 The LORD is near to q the brokenhearted and saves r the crushed in spirit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
574:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
575:7Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
576:9“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Be strong and finish the task! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
577:Again e it is written, f ‘You shall not g put the Lord your God to the test. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
578:And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
579:are those who fear the LORD? He will show them the path they should choose. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
580:Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3). ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
581:Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
582:Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
583:Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
584:Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
585:Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
586:I began to murmur the Lord's Prayer in thanks.
"Shit," Mrs. Parsall said. ~ Laura Bickle,#NFDB
587:I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
588:in the Lord with all your heart and lean not onto thy own understanding… ~ K Victoria Chase, #NFDB
589:I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
590:Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
591:My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
592:None of us is fit to do anything. It’s only with the Lord’s help we get by. ~ Colleen Coble, #NFDB
593:PSA34.4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
594:Psalm 37:23 as Vegas exited. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord ... ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
595:Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.3 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
596:Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
597:The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person. ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
598:The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
599:The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
600:The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
601:The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
602:The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
603:The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
604:The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
605:The Messenger of the LORD camps around those who fear him, and he rescues them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
606:Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
607:This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB
608:Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. ~ Beth Wiseman, #NFDB
609:18 The LORD is h near to all who call on him, to all who call on him i in truth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
610:20[†] The LORD l preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
611:29. The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
612:2TH3.3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
613:31 A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory comes from the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
614:a man's ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
615:And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
616:Be not wise in your own eyes; n fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
617:Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's. ~ Matthew Carter, #NFDB
618:Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. ~ Moses, #NFDB
619:Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure
hearts ~ Megan McCafferty,#NFDB
620:Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
621:Family life is typically where our true feelings for the Lord become most clear. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
622:I say, if it’s love, the Lord won’t mind. There’s enough hate in the world. ~ Gordon Merrick, #NFDB
623:Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
624:Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
625:Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
626:Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face continually. —Psalm 105:4 (NASB) ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
627:Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
628:The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
629:The •fear of the Lord is this: wisdom. And to turn from evil is understanding.” ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
630:The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. ~ Homer, #NFDB
631:The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
632:they will be like great oaks that the LORD has planted for his own glory. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
633:Trust in the lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
634:We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don’t be afraid to love the Lord. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
635:You can pray in the churchyard," the sergeant said. "The Lord has large ears. ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB
636:10The name of the LORD is a strong †tower; The righteous run to it and are esafe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
637:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
638:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
639:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
640:A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9 NKJV ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
641:Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
642:Don’t call the lord of the universe bro. Otherwise, I think we’re all settled! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
643:Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
644:He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
645:If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
646:I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films. ~ John C Reilly, #NFDB
647:It’s my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it? ~ Michael Z Williamson, #NFDB
648:I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . . ~ Wilford Woodruff, #NFDB
649:Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
650:One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
651:Our little son is surely with the Lord God now, singing with the angels. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
652:The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB
653:The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
654:The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
655:The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot. ~ Joy Williams, #NFDB
656:They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
657:Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.” ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
658:Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes ~ Gaylord Perry, #NFDB
659:10 For y my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will z take me in. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
660:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
661:2 I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
662:33The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
663:3 Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
664:4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
665:A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble. ~ Adlai Stevenson I, #NFDB
666:and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
667:Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law. ~ Mary Caroline Richards, #NFDB
668:because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
669:Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
670:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
671:Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
672:Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
673:I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
674:It is the will of the Lord to strengthen and preserve the family unit. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith, #NFDB
675:Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.”- ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
677:men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
678:Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
679:Proverbs 15:33 33 Fear of the LORD teaches wisdom; humility precedes honor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
680:PROVERBS 16:9 “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
681:PSA103.8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
682:Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
683:Success in the Lord’s service always produces miracles beyond our own powers. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
684:The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. ~ Bob Sorge, #NFDB
685:(The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
686:the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
687:The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog. ~ Jacob Grimm, #NFDB
688:the Lord is in His holy temple; let everyone on earth be silent in His presence. t ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
689:The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He saves those crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
690:The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
691:The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
692:The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
693:The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
694:The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is r the maker of them all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
695:the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
696:The true way to handle a matter wisely is to trust in the Lord. This ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
697:Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
698:we dabble in sin, the Lord has the right to discipline us for it immediately, ~ Andrew M Davis, #NFDB
699:will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
700:3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
701:7Knowledge begins with respect for the LORD, but fools hate wisdom and discipline. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
702:8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and rich in faithful love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
703:All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
704:And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
705:assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
706:Be strong and courageous. . . for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. ~ Various, #NFDB
707:Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew. ~ Diane Duane, #NFDB
708:Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
709:For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15–18) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
710:if we are to gain wisdom, we must first cultivate the fear of the Lord (Prov. 1:7). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
711:I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 18:32). ~ John Piper, #NFDB
712:In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” – Augustus’ Mom ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
713:It appears that having a close walk with the Lord is not religiously acceptable. ~ Gene Edwards, #NFDB
714:Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
715:PSA40.1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
716:Pursue holiness, for without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14, ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
717:Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
718:The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
719:The LORD is good. His love is forever, and his loyalty goes on and on. Psalm 100:5 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
720:The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
721:The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
722:Those whose way is blameless-- who walk in the LORD's Instruction--are truly happy! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
723:Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
724:To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
725:trusting the Lord in the little things, to looking for His hand in everything, ~ Chautona Havig, #NFDB
726:What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
727:Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
728:Worshipful reverence and awe, not cowering dread, define a right fear of the Lord. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB
729:10 The Lord reigns forever; •Zion, your God reigns for all generations. Hallelujah! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
730:14But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
731:8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
732:A life lived outside of the will of the Lord is like trying to climb a waterfall. ~ Nicole Baart, #NFDB
733:Amazing how the Lord always seemed to make everything turn out all right. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray, #NFDB
734:Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
735:Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
736:But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
737:Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. ~ C J Anderson, #NFDB
738:How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
739:I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
740:I say God bless you... I don't say bless you... I'm not the Lord. I can't do that... ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
741:I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
742:Know that your heart can be deployed to wherever the Lord sends you in prayer ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
743:The Bible says all things work together for good, for those who love the Lord. ~ Louis Zamperini, #NFDB
744:The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
745:The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. ~ Tom Lantos, #NFDB
746:The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do. ~ John of Kronstadt, #NFDB
747:This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. —PSALM 118:24 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
748:You got to be strong on your own. You need to find your strength in the Lord, not man. ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
749:33. The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
750:4 b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
751:5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
752:6† Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
753:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
754:7 p The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
755:And so he calmly responded, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.”* The ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
756:Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
757:Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established" (Psalms 16:3). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
758:Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
759:For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit. Isaiah 54:6 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
760:Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever. Psalm 136:1 (NIV) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
761:God works all things for good...’” “‘For those who love and serve the Lord. ~ Patricia H Rushford, #NFDB
762:LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
763:My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord. ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
764:My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways," declares the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
765:The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
766:The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
767:The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They’d ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
768:The Lord promised Noah that He would “never again” destroy the earth with a food. ~ John Eckhardt, #NFDB
769:The Lord's lamp sheds light on a person's life, F searching the innermost parts. G, j ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
770:The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9 ~ Charles R Swindoll, #NFDB
771:The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called. ~ Henry Blackaby, #NFDB
772:There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
773:TRUST in the Lord with all your heart and lean not onto thy own understanding… ~ K Victoria Chase, #NFDB
774:Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
775:You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight. ~ Mark Gungor, #NFDB
776:1CH16.34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
777:6. The LORD* executes acts of loving kindness1 and justice for all that are oppressed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
778:Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. —RUTH 4:14 ESV ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
779:Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
780:•fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
781:Hebrews 13:6 says, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me? ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
782:if I regard iniquity, the Lord will not accept my person, He will not regard my covenant ~ Various, #NFDB
783:in the LORD with all your heart, and j do not lean on your own understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
784:I WILL bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
785:Just as the Lord prepared the Israelites, he prepares us for our journey through life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
786:Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
787:Love, and nothing else, was eternal. "Love is the Lord by whom we escape death. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
788:May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. ~ John Hampden, #NFDB
789:The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
790:The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world ~ Oswald J Smith, #NFDB
791:The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
792:The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
793:The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
794:There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
795:This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” It helps ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
796:To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
797:Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
798:When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
799:Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
800:14 A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife is from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
801:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
802:24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
803:28 For it is you who light my z lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
804:.. all is done by the Lord, and it is He alone who can save you from your predicament. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
805:Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy splendor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
806:Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
807:Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
808:Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
809:Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
810:Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the LORD. PSALM 34:11 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
811:EPH1.2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
812:For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces. ~ Michael Chang, #NFDB
813:I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord, ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
814:I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord, ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
815:I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! ~ Christopher McCandless, #NFDB
816:In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord. ~ Ellen G White, #NFDB
817:I've seen too much of the beauty of the Lord's creation to ever doubt the Almighty. ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
818:Jotham became powerful because he was careful to live in obedience to the LORD his God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
819:May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. 2 Thessalonians 3:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
820:Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
821:People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
822:Proverbs 16:9: “A man’s heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directs his steps. ~ Ronald C White Jr, #NFDB
823:PSALM 1 “The Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
824:Psalm 94:22 tells us, “The Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge. ~ Nancy Missler, #NFDB
825:She would do whatever it took in the Lord’s or the devil’s name to survive now. ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
826:The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
827:The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
828:The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation— ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
829:The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible. ~ David B Haight, #NFDB
830:The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
831:The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called. ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
832:we must let the Lord punish the wrongdoer. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. ~ Patricia H Rushford, #NFDB
833:Words cannot convey the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to His people, nor ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
834:Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
835:14 Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
836:17 For y the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD z upholds the righteous. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
837:19Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
838:19. the LORD* has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
839:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches v all his paths. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
840:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
841:24 The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
842:3 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
843:As the Lord's divine nature had no mother, so His human nature had no father. ~ D Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
844:Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
845:Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
846:Forget your difficulties.Forget yourself. And the Lord will take care of your progress. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
847:He named it Ebenezer, explaining, “The LORD has helped us to this point.” 1 Samuel 7:12 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
848:If the Lord should come
He'd change you to nothing
for there's nothing to you. ~ Carl Sandburg,#NFDB
849:In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. —PROVERBS 16:9 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
850:Let us listen to the voice of the Lord, for He has declared the secret. He ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
851:Listen to the Lord, honey. Don’t worry about tomorrow. God will make it all clear. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
852:PSA126.1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
853:PSA145.14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
854:says— / your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: / ‘I am the LORD your God, / who teaches ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
855:shall receive a blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation ~ Sarah Price, #NFDB
856:The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite. ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB
857:The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
858:The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone...we must be compassionate! ~ Josephine Bakhita, #NFDB
859:The Lord made a way.
He has a knack for doin' that. Makin' a way outa no way. ~ Ann H Gabhart,#NFDB
860:The Lord remembers with love and does not let any small detail slip his memory. ~ Evgenij Vodolazkin, #NFDB
861:The Lord will always lead you, satisfy you in a parched land, and strengthen your bones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
862:There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
863:There's no room for pride, not in a slave,
not with the lord and master standing by. ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
864:' . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .' [the Lord]
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#NFDB
865:Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
866:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
867:23The fear of the LORD leads to life, So that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
868:24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
869:27 ‡ Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
870:3:5And may the Lord direct your hearts in the love of God, and in the patience of Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
871:All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
872:Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you. (Psalm 37:5 NLT) ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
873:Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes. ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
874:Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
875:ISA40.31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
876:Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work? ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
877:I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. ~ Dennis Kucinich, #NFDB
878:I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
879:Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. ~ Walker Percy, #NFDB
880:Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me. ~ Gabby Douglas, #NFDB
881:Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal him. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
882:Regulate the breath, be happy, link the mind with the Lord in your heart. ~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, #NFDB
883:Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord. s ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
884:Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
885:Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. Hear O Israel, the LORD our GOD, is ONE GOD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
886:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
887:the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, w a land flowing with milk and honey. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
888:The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. —PSALM 145:18 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
889:-The Lord says to forgive is devine.
-The Lord didn't go to high school with you. ~ Dakota Cassidy,#NFDB
890:The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made. ~ Ezra Stiles, #NFDB
891:The Lord, they say, works in mysterious ways.” Lane parried: “And Satan never sleeps. ~ Ryan C Thomas, #NFDB
892:The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
893:Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
894:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
895:1Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
896:ACT2.21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
897:All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances. ~ Julie B Beck, #NFDB
898:And David became more and more powerful, because the LORD of Heaven’s Armies was with him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
899:And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the LORD, to glorify Him. Isaiah 61:3 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
900:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. —PSALM 37:4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
901:Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
902:for joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones;†‡ Praise is bbecoming to the upright. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
903:For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." - ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
904:How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
905:If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
906:If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
907:If you cannot do anything, not a single good work, then take refuge [in the Lord]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
908:JER32.27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
909:Job i. 21. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.{12} ~ Various, #NFDB
910:Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord, zand He will give a reward to the lender. E, a ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
911:My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
912:Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days. ~ R Kent Hughes, #NFDB
913:Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
914:PSA37.17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
915:Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
916:The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
917:The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and k humility comes before honor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
918:The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
919:The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time. ~ Louis Gossett Jr, #NFDB
920:The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind. ~ Timothy B Tyson, #NFDB
921:This song is called ‘To Be a Martyr for the Lord.’ It’s very popular in house churches. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
922:Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11). ~ Smith Wigglesworth, #NFDB
923:Though my father and mother forsook me,
the Lord would gather me in.
-Psalm 27:10 ~ Robert Alter,#NFDB
924:through prayer and trust in the Lord her losses would turn into something beautiful. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
925:Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
926:15 ‡ The eyes of the LORD† are on the righteous,† and his ears are attentive† to their cry; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
927:5For the LORD is good; †His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
928:All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
929:Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
930:...'cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
931:Come! All ye faithful! Jiggy and triii-umphant! Come all ye faithful, sing yay for the Lord! ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
932:Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
933:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
934:Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
935:I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
936:In the gospel-simple life we do not live to please men; we live to please the Lord alone. ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB
937:Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord? ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
938:I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
939:I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
940:I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
941:Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
942:Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
943:Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
944:remember the Lord is in charge. You should cast your cares upon His shoulders.” I ~ Judith McCoy Miller, #NFDB
945:The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
946:The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
947:The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie. ~ Bette Lee Crosby, #NFDB
948:We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
949:Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
950:11 We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
951:17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
952:20 He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
953:23 Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
954:25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
955:28Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
956:Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
957:Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
958:Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still. ~ Moses, #NFDB
959:I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
960:It’s the Lord’s will,” she said quietly. “You get through it. You just never get over it. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
961:Knowing the Lord was in their midst took the edge off the agony."
"Told You Twice ~ Kristen Heitzmann,#NFDB
962:Lord, I am grateful for Your mercy and faithfulness. I celebrate You as the Lord of my life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
963:O GIVE thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
964:PSA37.4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
965:Thank the Lord, Tucker’s a corgi,” Pewter, upset herself, blurted out. “Smart as a cat. ~ Rita Mae Brown, #NFDB
966:The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. Psalm 145:8 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
967:The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. ~ Calvin Seerveld, #NFDB
968:The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me" (Isaiah 61:1). ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
969:This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.—PSALM 118:24 ESV ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
970:10[†] h The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. n Praise the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
971:15 m The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous n and his ears toward their cry. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
972:32And it shall come to pass that f everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
973:8“For my thoughts† are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”† declares the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
974:And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
975:But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
976:But the one who seeks the Lord above all will find himself fully satisfied and secure in God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
977:Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
978:fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
979:I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it. ~ Les Dawson, #NFDB
980:It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand. ~ M Russell Ballard, #NFDB
981:Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
982:My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds. ~ Louis Farrakhan, #NFDB
983:Nothing can fully satisfy a person—but the Lord's love and the Lord's own self. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
984:PSA91.2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
985:Spirit of the Lord doth not bdwell in cunholy dtemples— ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
986:... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
987:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
988:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
989:The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
990:The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace. —PSALM 29:11 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
991:The Lord, in his kindness
He gives me what you always wanted
He gives me more- ~ Lin Manuel Miranda,#NFDB
992:The Lord sends to each of us some chastisement. Some burden, so that we may turn to him. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
993:Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving! 16 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
994:The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations, ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
995:Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. —PROVERBS 3:5 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
996:Very few have heard that without holiness or sanctification no one will see the Lord. ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB
997:We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
998:When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part. ~ Austin Collie, #NFDB
999:Yet the LORD longsc to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.d ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1000:You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord. ~ Pope Gregory I, #NFDB
1001:13Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1002:14People receive houses and money from their parents, but a good wife is a gift from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1003:14Waith for the LORD; be strongi and take heart and wait for the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1004:17Now the Lord [4] is the Spirit, and where r the Spirit of the Lord is, there is s freedom. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1005:1†Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1006:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1007:4 The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose — even the wicked for the day of disaster. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1008:A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord. ~ Horatius Bonar, #NFDB
1009:and her face was white as a sheet despite the burning glory of the Lord’s sunshine. “Padre! ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1010:And it shall come to pass that c everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1011:Better far in the Lord’s strength to meet the difficulty, and glorify Him in it. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1012:clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1013:Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. ~ Lady Jane Grey, #NFDB
1014:Don’t let the door hit you where the Lord split you. —The gospel according to Elmer Stillman ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
1015:Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth. ~ Jerry Lee Lewis, #NFDB
1016:From eternity to eternity the Lord's faithful love is toward those who fear Him. Psalm 103:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1017:He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1018:Hosanna!1” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”2 “Blessed is the king of Israel! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1019:Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing His counsel to His servants the prophets. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1020:I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson. ~ G B Edwards, #NFDB
1021:I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1022:Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1023:PSA91:02 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1024:Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1025:The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you. ~ Rees Howells, #NFDB
1026:The LORD is q a stronghold for r the oppressed, a stronghold in s times of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1027:The Lord may indeed put His kirk to a trial, but He will not suffer her to be overthrown by any. ~ Various, #NFDB
1028:The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1029:There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1030:This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. PSALM 118:24 NASB ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1031:Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1032:We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1033:When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord. ~ Mary Garden, #NFDB
1034:Whom does the Lord help, Jamie?” “Them that help themselves,” I said. “Ungrammatical but true. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1035:will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 30:17). ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
1036:19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 20. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1037:28You shall not make any b cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1038:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1039:Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1040:As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights center in the Lord Jesus. The ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1041:Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1042:Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1043:by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1044:Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB
1045:Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1046:Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1047:Enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your fathers. Deuteronomy 6:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1048:for the LORD; i be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1049:GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE THE LORD, AND WE'LL FEEL ALRIGHT
LET'S GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALRIGHT ~ Bob Marley,#NFDB
1050:In the eyes of Popes and Imams we are Us and Them, but in the eyes of the Lord we are one. ~ Yasmina Khadra, #NFDB
1051:It is when we seek the Lord and ground our faith in Him that our fears are overcome (Ps. 34:4). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1052:I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek. ~ Kunal Nayyar, #NFDB
1053:Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1054:Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22) ~ Wiley Drake, #NFDB
1055:No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word. ~ Sam Smith, #NFDB
1056:put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1057:Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you. ~ Pachomius the Great, #NFDB
1058:Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1059:The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind. ~ Thaddeus of Vitovnica, #NFDB
1060:the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
1061:The Lord, in his kindness,
he gives me what you always wanted;
he gives me more- ~ Lin Manuel Miranda,#NFDB
1062:The Lord is close to the broken hearted. He rescues the crushed in spirit.
[Psalm 34:18] ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1063:The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. ~ Saint Patrick, #NFDB
1064:The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1065:Those who seek to honor the Lord above all else will put thought into what they say in worship. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1066:Thou shalt tear out the dragons' teeth, and shall trample the lions under foot, saith the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1067:Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1068:When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1069:11but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1070:11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our High Tower and Stronghold). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1071:1May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1072:2. Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever. (1 Chronicles 16:34) ~ Pauline Creeden, #NFDB
1073:39The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1074:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1075:6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1076:8By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1077:A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
1078:And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1079:And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29 ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1080:Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1081:Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1082:Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
1083:Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1084:Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1085:For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1086:For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1087:If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy. ~ Mukunda Goswami, #NFDB
1088:If the Lord gives you a talent toe skill, you have an obligation to use it as best as you can. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1089:king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1090:Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1091:Now u the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1092:PSA68.19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1093:So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self. ~ Alfred Edersheim, #NFDB
1094:The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
1095:The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1096:To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1097:Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself. ~ Robin Brande, #NFDB
1098:We shall not be afraid of their terror. Our confidence is in the Lord Almighty and not in man. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1099:When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1100:Why do you ask My name,” the Angel of the LORD asked him, “since it is wonderful?” Judges 13:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1101:10 The LORD sits enthroned over n the flood; the LORD sits enthroned o as king forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1102:12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD’s anger was turned away, and he did not destroy him ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1103:13For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1104:16but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1105:17But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1106:18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1107:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1108:1It is the Lord of Mercy 2who taught the Qur’an.a 3He created man 4and taught him to communicate. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1109:22Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1110:29 Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1111:34 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1112:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools[3] despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1113:As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1114:At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. ~ Timothy Radcliffe, #NFDB
1115:Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord. ~ Cecil Frances Alexander, #NFDB
1116:Hebrews 13:6 reads, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1117:I always liked that Arab saying, 'First tie your camel and then trust in the Lord, ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman, #NFDB
1118:I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, I am going straight to heaven. ~ Tammy Faye Bakker, #NFDB
1119:If the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have an obligation to use it as best as you can. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1120:I keep the Lord in mind always. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 16:8 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1121:In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
1122:It is of no use going to the Lord’s battle till we are armed with heavenly weapons. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1123:Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1124:Pray as though everything depended on the Lord and work as though everything depended on you. ~ Brigham Young, #NFDB
1125:The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately. ~ Greg Laurie, #NFDB
1126:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1127:The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
1128:The LORD is good. He is a fortress in the day of trouble. He knows those who seek shelter in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1129:The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1130:The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1131:The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. ~ Ezra Stiles, #NFDB
1132:Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself. ~ Gustavo Gutierrez, #NFDB
1133:True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord. ~ David Wilkerson, #NFDB
1134:Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1135:We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1136:Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1137:Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1138:13 Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1139:1CH16.25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1140:22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1141:9In the same way I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born,” says the LORD. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1142:Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
1143:Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
1144:Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1145:Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB
1146:Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1147:For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
1148:from Psalms. “Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the angel of the Lord chase them. ~ J T Geissinger, #NFDB
1149:God hasn't given up on us, my friend. Aren't you glad? Thank the Lord, for a second chance. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
1150:It is the Lord your God who goes with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1151:I will praise the LORD o as long as I live; p I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1152:I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty. ~ Alben W Barkley, #NFDB
1153:Keep the LORD’S commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good. Deuteronomy 10:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1154:Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. ~ Jay Sekulow, #NFDB
1155:Praise God!* Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the LORD! Hail to the King of Israel!”* ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1156:Self-esteem comes from the Lord, not other people. Why should we care what other's think? ~ Kristin Billerbeck, #NFDB
1157:Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone. ~ Francine Rivers, #NFDB
1158:Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (PSALM 34:8) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1159:The closer you get to the Lord, the more you see that He has to be your Source in all things. He ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1160:The Lord is present in every one of us, and when we love those around us, we are loving him. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB
1161:The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.' ~ M Russell Ballard, #NFDB
1162:The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. ~ Alvin Dark, #NFDB
1163:The problem comes when we start to look to food to do for us what the Lord God alone should do. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
1164:There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ~ Kevin J Anderson, #NFDB
1165:There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith, #NFDB
1166:The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1167:the ultimate expression of truth appeared on this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Joel R Beeke, #NFDB
1168:Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5) ~ Pauline Creeden, #NFDB
1169:Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice. ~ M Russell Ballard, #NFDB
1170:will make them strong in the LORD, and j they shall walk in his name,” declares the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1171:Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
1172:5 I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the LORD was watching over me. 6 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1173:All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word—are defilements and pollutions. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1174:For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. - Isaiah 55:8 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1175:For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1176:For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1177:Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1178:harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1179:I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry. ~ Leif Enger, #NFDB
1180:It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1181:It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1182:Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1183:Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
1184:Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord. ~ Harriet Tubman, #NFDB
1185:PSA16.8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1186:The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. ~ Julius Evola, #NFDB
1187:The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? PROVERBS 20:24 NLT ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1188:The Lord gave them rest on every side according to all He had sworn to their fathers. Joshua 21:44 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1189:The Lord has declared that He will restore me to health and heal my wounds. —JEREMIAH 30:17 (NIV) ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1190:The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1191:The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1192:The Lord tends to come at the moment of great alarm, when we're 'ready to sink into despair. ~ S Michael Wilcox, #NFDB
1193:The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1194:They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” Acts 16:31 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1195:They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage. ~ Joni Rodgers, #NFDB
1196:They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
1197:This is the day which the Lord has brought about; we will rejoice and be glad in it. PSALM 118:24 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1198:to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1199:We are going to soak this rock with blood! I am Uhtred! I am the lord here. This is my rock! ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1200:Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide. ~ Isaac Newton, #NFDB
1201:You’re a genuine Greek god. You’re the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot? ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1202:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1203:1 Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1204:21 And it shall come to pass that c everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1205:7Jesus said to him, “Again e it is written, f ‘You shall not g put the Lord your God to the test. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1206:All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful† toward those who keep the demands of his covenant. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1207:Because of the Lord's faithful love, we do not perish, for His mercies never end. Lamentations 3:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1208:Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. PSALM 127:3 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1209:Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous man falter. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1210:For x a man’s ways are y before the eyes of the LORD, and he z ponders [6] all his paths. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1211:I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1212:I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1213:I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs. ~ Larry the Cable Guy, #NFDB
1214:I’m already saved. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Now unlock that door and set me free, brother. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks, #NFDB
1215:I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
1216:ISA33.22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1217:I think it is notable in this connection that it is not Adam but the Lord who rebukes Cain. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1218:I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility. ~ Harper Lee,#NFDB
1219:Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider L the Lord's acts of faithful love. u ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1220:May the Lord of peace give you his peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1221:O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1222:Paul said, “You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord’s approval. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1223:Sometimes we forget we're on an adventure with the Lord and that his presence is with us. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd, #NFDB
1224:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (1:7). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1225:The Lord bless King George, convert him... and take him to heaven, as we want no more of him! ~ Roseanna M White, #NFDB
1226:The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart. ~ Peter Julian Eymard, #NFDB
1227:The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Ps. 34:18). The ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1228:the Lord sometimes lets things happen to break the hardness . . . to make a heart pliable again. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
1229:To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance. ~ Paul Engle, #NFDB
1230:Wait for the LORD; i be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1231:Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord? ~ J Oswald Sanders, #NFDB
1232:You better give your soul to the Lord, because the rest of your scrawny ass, will belong to me! ~ The Undertaker, #NFDB
1233:A church makes no more or less of a man; it is his mind and his actions that interest the Lord. ~ Iain Rob Wright, #NFDB
1234:A mutual giving and receiving is the law of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Lord of the Sacrifice, #NFDB
1235:because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1236:but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1237:Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1238:Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1239:Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. JOSHUA 1:9 ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
1240:Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
1241:Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1242:Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1243:If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing. ~ Donald Barnhouse, #NFDB
1244:If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
1245:Just because you love someone doesn't mean the Lord has it in His plan for you two to be together. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1246:Mankind looks on the outward appearance, the Lord looks at the heart." 2Samuel 6:7 Holy Bible. ~ Anne B Caluwaert, #NFDB
1247:May the Lord, whose cause this is, enlighten you and make you a vessel to honour and glory. Amen. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1248:pr.1.7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.† ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1249:Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1250:The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
1251:The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
1252:The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1253:Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart” (Psalm 27:14). Lord, ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1254:When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord” (Proverbs 19: 3). ~ David A Powlison, #NFDB
1255:When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. PROVERBS 16:7 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1256:You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love. ~ Bobby Helms, #NFDB
1257:You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1258:3This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do what is right! ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1259:7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1260:A child’s career choice is important, but it is nothing compared with his having a heart for the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1261:And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent from one another. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1262:Behold, b the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1263:Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1264:Be not grieved and depressed, for the joy of the Lord is your strength and stronghold. NEHEMIAH 8:10 AMP ~ Various, #NFDB
1265:Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” (Luke 1:45) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1266:By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. ~ Derek Prince, #NFDB
1267:Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
1268:Didn’t need to fear the Lord on Josephat either, just the idiots who thought they knew His will. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
1269:Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him ~ Josemaria Escriva, #NFDB
1270:Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #NFDB
1271:Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching. ~ Christopher Reeve, #NFDB
1272:Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
1273:If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves. ~ M R DeHaan, #NFDB
1274:I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1275:I love the Lord with my life and through that love, I walk the walk, I don't just talk the talk. ~ Christian Hosoi, #NFDB
1276:I'm just one person.
But you are one. One plus the Lord can do mighty things now and again. ~ Ann H Gabhart,#NFDB
1277:In a sense the most approachable Person this world has ever seen was the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ D Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
1278:Isaiah 49:23, “Then you will know that I am the LORD. Those who hope in me will not be disappointed. ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1279:I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1280:Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
1281:Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1282:MAT9.38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1283:Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1284:Proverbs 21:30 (NIV). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD....... ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1285:Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
1286:Some in the latter days will doubt the Second Coming—The elements will melt at the coming of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1287:Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
1288:The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea, ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1289:The •fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1290:The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe” (Proverbs 18:10). ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1291:The wishes we make in the dark have consequences, and the Lord of Mischief will call their reckoning ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
1292:They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which can not be removed, but abideth forever. ~ Martha Finley, #NFDB
1293:This is the day which the Lord has brought about; we will rejoice and be glad in it ( Psalm 118:24 ) ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1294:We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come. ~ Isobel Miller Kuhn, #NFDB
1295:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1296:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1297:45Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1298:Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol. ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
1299:Did the Lord give you a voice so that you could express yourself? ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
1300:Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1301:How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! ~ Elizabeth of Hungary, #NFDB
1302:I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
1303:I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1304:I give thanks every day for each new day that the Lord allows me to live and enjoy life to the fullest. ~ Nola Ochs, #NFDB
1305:I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world. ~ Rupert Sheldrake, #NFDB
1306:It is He who engenders Himself perpetually…….the Lord of existences and of non-existences. ~ Egyptian Funeral Rites, #NFDB
1307:Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you. ~ Bruce Cockburn, #NFDB
1308:My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1309:No one is holy like the LORD! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1310:No one’s stuck anywhere unless they choose to be. The Lord God guides those who are moving forward. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
1311:Obeyh the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go welli with you, and your lifej will be spared. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1312:PROV 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1313:Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1314:Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
1315:Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. PSA20:08 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1316:That’s what the Lord told Jeremiah: “I am watching over My word to perform it” (Jer. 1:12 NASB). ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1317:The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. ~ Jeremiah, #NFDB
1318:The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1319:The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~ Frederick Denison Maurice, #NFDB
1320:The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
1321:Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
1322:We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1323:When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1324:you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1325:You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, † with all your soul, and with all your strength. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1326:14. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1327:20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1328:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1329:5You e shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1330:ACT15.11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1331:A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. ~ Finley Peter Dunne, #NFDB
1332:Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1333:Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1334:Cast your burden on the LORD, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1335:HEB13.6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1336:How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? ~ Hans Rookmaaker, #NFDB
1337:I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1338:In everything, you should do it as if you are doing it unto the Lord, and then give God the glory. ~ Lorilyn Roberts, #NFDB
1339:I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand and say to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1340:It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him. ~ Brigham Young, #NFDB
1341:Let him that walks in darkness, and sees no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1342:man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word [1] that comes from the mouth of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1343:Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. ~ Alice Cooper, #NFDB
1344:PRO9.10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1345:Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1346:The heart rejoices at the feet of the Lord, who is the Self eternally shining within as 'I-I'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1347:Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1348:Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1349:We can be content in whatever situation we're in, as long as we trust the Lord for what's good for us. ~ Ann Tatlock, #NFDB
1350:We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. Joshua 9:19 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1351:You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. ~ Barbara Bush, #NFDB
1352:You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
1353:10 The •fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His instructions have good insight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1354:13Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1355:1The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1356:30Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. ~ Charles F Stanley, #NFDB
1357:All the LORD’S ways show faithful love and truth to those who keep His covenant and decrees. Psalm 25:10 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1358:As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple. Jonah 2:7 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1359:Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. ~ Eleanor H Porter, #NFDB
1360:Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1361:Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.” 6And Joshua said to the priests, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1362:Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB
1363:He is beyond our reach. We must give him to the Lord and pray the Lord gives him back to us again. ~ Kathleen Y Barbo, #NFDB
1364:I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
1365:moving forward in the Lord’s service, no matter what the obstacles. ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
1366:Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1367:The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
1368:The asacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1369:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and q the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1370:The Lord God had caused a cursing to come upon the Lamanites, a sore cursing because of their iniquity. ~ Hari Kunzru, #NFDB
1371:The LORD g tests the righteous, but h his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1372:The LORD hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1373:The Lord must have created coffee to reward humans for those bad times they sometimes have on Earth. ~ Sahara Sanders, #NFDB
1374:The Lord’s Supper is a testimony from God of His love for us, not our religious devotion to Him. ~ Thomas R Schreiner, #NFDB
1375:The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:1 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1376:Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
1377:Vengeance is mine saith the Lord but this morning He's going to fucking well have to share. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover, #NFDB
1378:Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
1379:We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1380:Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge. PROVERBS 14:26 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1381:You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. (Isa. 62:3) ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1382:11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1383:12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him c will he instruct in the way that he should choose. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:20You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1385:26Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1386:30As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is hproven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1387:45†Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1388:But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1389:Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial. Christ is the Lord even of marriage. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
1390:DEUTERONOMY 7:15: God takes all sickness away from you. "And the Lord will take away from you all sickness ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1391:For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. – Luke 2:11 ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
1392:How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' ~ Julian Huxley, #NFDB
1393:I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, y “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1394:I am the Lord God, who teaches you for your benefit, who leads you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1395:I asked the Lord Our God why do we suffer.
He didn't answer.
He couldn't speak through the tears. ~ Tom King,#NFDB
1396:I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1397:I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. ~ Taliesin, #NFDB
1398:I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You took away the guilt of my sin. Psalm 32:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1399:I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your g wonderful deeds. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1400:May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness. ~ Pope Alexander VI, #NFDB
1401:O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever. Psalm 136:1 ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1402:Please. Don’t use the Lord’s name, unless you’re in prayer. It’s a hundred years in purgatory. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, #NFDB
1403:PRO31.30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1404:PSA12.6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1405:sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out? ~ Bette Lee Crosby, #NFDB
1406:The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
1407:The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
1408:The Lord's Prayer takes less than twenty seconds to read aloud, but it takes a lifetime to learn. ~ R Albert Mohler Jr, #NFDB
1409:The only reason why anything virtuous or lovely survives in us is this: “the Lord was there. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1410:Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1411:We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1412:Well, I would appreciate it if the Lord were a little less mysterious and a little more straightforward. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
1413:Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. COLOSSIANS 3 : 23 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1414:When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1415:15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1416:2My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1417:2“Speak to the entire assembly of Israela and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God,b am holy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1418:Always remember that if this were not the Lord's work, the adversary would not pay attention to us. ~ Spencer W Kimball, #NFDB
1419:beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1420:But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth” (Deut. 8:18a). ~ Myles Munroe, #NFDB
1421:Call on the Lord who pervades the entire universe. He will shower His blessings upon you. ~ Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, #NFDB
1422:For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, c but the LORD looks on the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1423:He who cries out with his whole heart, "O Lord, I want but Thee" , to him the Lord reveals Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1424:He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done. PROVERBS 19:17 ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1425:In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1426:I've come to realize that the only way to deal with life's problems is to walk close to the Lord. ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB
1427:Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who d trusts in the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1428:PSA12:06 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1429:The Lord always grants sincere prayers,provided the decision is entirely and absolutely left to Him alone. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1430:The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1431:The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
1432:The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'? ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1433:The lord works in mysterious ways.
Indeed.
And a shorter way to say that is:
God is a sneak ~ Demetri Martin,#NFDB
1434:Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1435:The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.'—Psalms 25:14. ~ James E Talmage, #NFDB
1436:Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
1437:8God will swallow up death forever. The Lord, the Eternal, will wipe away the tears from each and every face ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1438:And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1439:God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. ~ Margaret Clarkson, #NFDB
1440:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1441:However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1442:I am the LORD, and there is no other… . I, the LORD, speak truthfully; I say what is right. Isaiah 45:18–19 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1443:I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1444:I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”’ “I ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
1445:I think common-looking people are the best in the world. That's why the Lord makes so many of them. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
1446:It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare. ~ Roger Williams, #NFDB
1447:It was well known that Liza Hamilton and the Lord God held similar convictions on nearly every subject. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1448:Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! PSALM 33:8 ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1449:The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives. ~ John A Widtsoe, #NFDB
1450:The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history. ~ Gustavo Gutierrez, #NFDB
1451:The Lord God has often lost out when competing with the gods of entertainment for our time and attention. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
1452:The Lord hereby would make us the more acknowledge His hand, and to see that our help is always in Him ~ Mary Rowlandson, #NFDB
1453:The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building. ~ John Vianney, #NFDB
1454:The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him,he will be found by you. (2 Chronicles 15:2) ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1455:the Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us. ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
1456:The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1457:The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1458:Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning." hosea 6:3 ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1459:The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all. PSALM 34:19 NIV ~ Pamela L McQuade, #NFDB
1460:Who has known the Lord's mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1461:A graceless man can never make melody to the Lord in singing psalms, nor please God in any other performance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1462:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.” PSALM 29 : 2 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1463:But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1464:Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #NFDB
1465:Dog, the Lord of Man's Loyalty, stirs, half-heartedly licks his balls, and then settles back down to sleep. ~ Jonny Nexus, #NFDB
1466:Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1467:For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1468:For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
1469:Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
1470:Heaven was a dim attraction compared to that of fighting—and perhaps perishing—in the service of the Lord. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1471:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1472:If you will remain at rest and hold your peace, then the battle is not yours, but the battle is the Lord’s. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1473:If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it. ~ Maurice Baring, #NFDB
1474:In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. I ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1475:In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1476:I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1477:it is the Lord’s love that sends the Spirit, whose final duty is always to prepare mankind for love. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
1478:It's no part of your job to think for the Lord," his great-uncle said. "Judgment may rack your bones. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
1479:Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
1480:Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.” Mark 12:30 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1481:Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11). ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1482:O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1483:Proverbs 31:30: “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
1484:PSA27.14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1485:PSA32.11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1486:Since the devil became the lord of illusions. It's very easy to do evil deeds when you are trying to do good. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
1487:Some of our greatest problems in ministering to people is that they knew us back before we came to the Lord ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1488:Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark. ~ Robert W Service,#NFDB
1489:The Lord is not just our problem solver; He is our everything, and we need to relate to Him that way. “Now, ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1490:The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification ~ Elizabeth Camden, #NFDB
1491:The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1492:The tangible display and performance of the gospel in the Lord’s Supper is a deeply affecting practice. ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB
1493:The very heart of the Gita’s message is to see the Lord in every creature and act accordingly, ~ Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, #NFDB
1494:The ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. —Hosea 14:9b ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1495:This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1496:What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1497:Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us. ~ Saint Jerome, #NFDB
1498:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1499:17Every man shall give as he is able, aaccording to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1500:4for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
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12 Agenda Vol 09
12 Agenda Vol 01
11 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
10 The Secret Of The Veda
10 Talks
10 Mysterium Coniunctionis
10 Agenda Vol 11
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Golden Bough
9 Shelley - Poems
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
8 Words Of The Mother II
8 Magick Without Tears
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
7 Lovecraft - Poems
7 Kena and Other Upanishads
7 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
7 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
7 Emerson - Poems
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
7 Agenda Vol 12
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Perennial Philosophy
6 Songs of Kabir
6 Some Answers From The Mother
6 Record of Yoga
6 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Prayers And Meditations
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
5 Wordsworth - Poems
5 Words Of Long Ago
5 Vedic and Philological Studies
5 Essays Divine And Human
5 Amrita Gita
5 Aion
4 Whitman - Poems
4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
4 Raja-Yoga
4 Questions And Answers 1956
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Keats - Poems
4 Faust
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 Yeats - Poems
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
3 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1953
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 Crowley - Poems
3 Browning - Poems
3 Anonymous - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 Savitri
2 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Labyrinths
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Goethe - Poems
2 General Principles of Kabbalah
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Cybernetics
2 Arabi - Poems
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
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.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ivsyamidam sarvam: All this is for habitation by the Lord;
or,Sarvam khalvidam brahma: All this is indeed the Brahman;
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It would be interesting to know what the five ranges or levels or movements of consciousness exactly are that make up the Universal Brahman described in this passage. It is the mystic knowledge, the Upanishad says, of the secret delight in thingsmadhuvidy. The five ranges are the five fundamental principles of delightimmortalities, the Veda would say that form the inner core of the pyramid of creation. They form a rising tier and are ruled respectively by the godsAgni, Indra, Varuna, Soma and Brahmawith their emanations and instrumental personalities the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Maruts and the Sadhyas. We suggest that these refer to the five well-known levels of being, the modes or nodi of consciousness or something very much like them. The Upanishad speaks elsewhere of the five sheaths. The six Chakras of Tantric system lie in the same line. The first and the basic mode is the physical and the ascent from the physical: Agni and the Vasus are always intimately connected with the earth and -the earth-principles (it can be compared with the Muladhara of the Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras the navel centre). Indra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous Mind. In the present passage, Indra is taken in his second aspect and instead of the Maruts with whom he is usually invoked has the Rudras as his agents and associates.
The third in the line of ascension is the region of Varuna and the Adityas, that is to say, of the large Mind and its lightsperhaps it can be connected with Tantric Ajnachakra. The fourth is the domain of Soma and the Marutsthis seems to be the inner heart, the fount of delight and keen and sweeping aspirations the Anahata of the Tantras. The fifth is the region of the crown of the head, the domain of Brahma and the Sadhyas: it is the Overmind status from where comes the descending inflatus, the creative Maya of Brahma. And when you go beyond, you pass into the ultimate status of the Sun, the reality absolute, the Transcendent which is indescribable, unseizable, indeterminate, indeterminable, incommensurable; and once there, one never returns, neverna ca punarvartate na ca punarvartate.
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But Yama did answer and unveil the mystery and impart the supreme secret knowledge the knowledge of the Transcendent Brahman: it is out of the transcendent reality that the immanent deity takes his birth. Hence the Divine Fire, the Lord of creation and the Inner Mastersarvabhtntartm, antarymis called brahmajam, born of the Brahman. Yama teaches the process of transcendence. Apart from the knowledge and experience first of the individual and then of the cosmic Brahman, there is a definite line along which the human consciousness (or unconsciousness, as it is at present) is to ascend and evolve. The first step is to learn to distinguish between the Good and the Pleasurable (reya and preya). The line of pleasure leads to the external, the superficial, the false: while the other path leads towards the inner and the higher truth. So the second step is the gradual withdrawal of the consciousness from the physical and the sensual and even the mental preoccupation and focussing it upon what is certain and permanent. In the midst of the death-ridden consciousness in the heart of all that is unstable and fleetingone has to look for Agni, the eternal godhead, the Immortal in mortality, the Timeless in time through whom lies the passage to Immortality beyond Time.
Man has two souls corresponding to his double status. In the inferior, the soul looks downward and is involved in the current of Impermanence and Ignorance, it tastes of grief and sorrow and suffers death and dissolution: in the higher it looks upward and communes and joins with the Eternal (the cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest status. It is true, however, that the Upanishad does not make a trenchant distinction between the cosmic and the transcendent and often it speaks of both in the same breath, as it were. For in fact they are realities involved in each other and interwoven. Indeed the triple status, including the Individual, forms one single totality and the three do not exclude or cancel each other; on the contrary, they combine and may be said to enhance each other's reality. The Transcendence expresses or deploys itself in the cosmoshe goes abroad,sa paryagt: and the cosmic individualises, concretises itself in the particular and the personal. The one single spiritual reality holds itself, aspects itself in a threefold manner.
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
'Kavi' is an invariable epithet of the gods. The Vedas mean by this attribute to bring out a most fundamental character, an inalienable dharma of the heavenly host. All the gods are poets; and a human being can become a poet only in so far as he attains to the nature and status of a god. Who is then a kavi? The Poet is he who by his poetic power raises forms of beauty in heavenkavi kavitv divi rpam sajat.1Thus the essence of poetic power is to fashion divine Beauty, to reveal heavenly forms. What is this Heaven whose forms the Poet discovers and embodies? HeavenDyaushas a very definite connotation in the Veda. It means the luminous or divine Mind 2the mind purified of its obscurity and limitations, due to subjection to the external senses, thus opening to the higher Light, receiving and recording faithfully the deeper and vaster movements and vibrations of the Truth, giving them a form, a perfect body of the right thought and the right word. Indra is the Lord of this world and he can be approached only with an enkindled intelligence, ddhay man,3a faultless understanding, sumedh. He is the supreme Artisan of the poetic power,Tash, the maker of perfect forms, surpa ktnum.4 All the gods turn towards Indra and become gods and poets, attain their Great Names of Supreme Beauty.5 Indra is also the master of the senses, indriyas, who are his hosts. It is through this mind and the senses that the poetic creation has to be manifested. The mind spreads out wide the Poet's weaving;6 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation.7 But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge.8 The poet envisages the golden forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness.9 For the substance, the material on which the Poet works, is Truth. The seat of the Truth the poets guard, they uphold the supreme secret Names.10 The poet has the expressive utterance, the creative word; the poet is a poet by his poetic creation-the shape faultlessly wrought out that unveils and holds the Truth.11The form of beauty is the body of the Truth.
The poet is a trinity in himself. A triune consciousness forms his personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara. He has the direct vision, the luminous intelligence, the immediate perception.12 A subtle and profound and penetrating consciousness is his,nigam, pracetas; his is the eye of the Sun,srya caku.13 He secures an increased being through his effulgent understanding.14 In the second place, the Poet is not only Seer but Doer; he is knower as well as creator. He has a dynamic knowledge and his vision itself is power, ncak;15 he is the Seer-Will,kavikratu.16 He has the blazing radiance of the Sun and is supremely potent in his self-Iuminousness.17 The Sun is the light and the energy of the Truth. Even like the Sun the Poet gives birth to the Truth, srya satyasava, satyya satyaprasavya. But the Poet as Power is not only the revealer or creator,savit, he is also the builder or fashioner,ta, and he is the organiser,vedh is personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara, of the Truth.18 As Savita he manifests the Truth, as Tashta he gives a perfected body and form to the Truth, and as Vedha he maintains the Truth in its dynamic working. The effective marshalling and organisation of the Truth is what is called Ritam, the Right; it is also called Dharma,19 the Law or the Rhythm, the ordered movement and invincible execution of the Truth. The Poet pursues the Path of the Right;20 it is he who lays out the Path for the march of the Truth, the progress of the Sacrifice.21 He is like a fast steed well-yoked, pressing forward;22 he is the charger that moves straight and unswerving and carries us beyond 23into the world of felicity.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Ten years after his coming to Kamarpukur, Khudiram made a pilgrimage on foot to Rameswar, at the southern extremity of India. Two years later was born his second son, whom he named Rameswar. Again in 1835, at the age of sixty, he made a pilgrimage, this time to Gaya. Here, from ancient times, Hindus have come from the four corners of India to discharge their duties to their departed ancestors by offering them food and drink at the sacred footprint of the Lord Vishnu. At this holy place Khudiram had a dream in which the Lord Vishnu promised to he born as his son. And Chandra Devi, too, in front of the Siva temple at Kamarpukur, had a vision indicating the birth of a divine child. Upon his return the husband found that she had conceived.
It was on February 18, 1836, that the child, to be known afterwards as Ramakrishna, was born. In memory of the dream at Gaya he was given the name of Gadadhar, the "Bearer of the Mace", an epithet of Vishnu. Three years later a little sister was born.
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Second, the three great systems of thought known as Dualism, Qualified Non-dualism, and Absolute Non-dualism — Dvaita, Visishtadvaita, and Advaita — he perceived to represent three stages in man's progress toward the Ultimate Reality. They were not contradictory but complementary and suited to different temperaments. For the ordinary man with strong attachment to the senses, a dualistic form of religion, prescribing a certain amount of material support, such as music and other symbols, is useful. A man of God-realization transcends the idea of worldly duties, but the ordinary mortal must perform his duties, striving to be unattached and to surrender the results to God. The mind can comprehend and describe the range of thought and experience up to the Visishtadvaita, and no further. The Advaita, the last word in spiritual experience, is something to be felt in samadhi. for it transcends mind and speech. From the highest standpoint, the Absolute and Its manifestation are equally real — the Lord's Name, His Abode, and the Lord Himself are of the same spiritual Essence. Everything is Spirit, the difference being only in form.
Third, Sri Ramakrishna realized the wish of the Divine Mother that through him She should found a new Order, consisting of those who would uphold the universal doctrines illustrated in his life.
Fourth, his spiritual insight told him that those who were having their last birth on the mortal plane of existence and those who had sincerely called on the Lord even once in their lives must come to him.
During this period Sri Ramakrishna suffered several bereavements. The first was the death of a nephew named Akshay. After the young man's death Sri Ramakrishna said: "Akshay died before my very eyes. But it did not affect me in the least. I stood by and watched a man die. It was like a sword being drawn from its scabbard. I enjoyed the scene, and laughed and sang and danced over it. They removed the body and cremated it. But the next day as I stood there (pointing to the southeast verandah of his room), I felt a racking pain for the loss of Akshay, as if somebody were squeezing my heart like a wet towel. I wondered at it and thought that the Mother was teaching me a lesson. I was not much concerned even with my own body — much less with a relative. But if such was my pain at the loss of a nephew, how much more must be the grief of the householders at the loss of their near and dear ones!" In 1871 Mathur died, and some five years later Sambhu Mallick — who, after Mathur's passing away, had taken care of the Master's comfort. In 1873 died his elder brother Rameswar, and in 1876, his beloved mother. These bereavements left their imprint on the tender human heart of Sri Ramakrishna, albeit he had realized the immortality of the soul and the illusoriness of birth and death.
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The Europeanized Kristodas Pal did not approve of the Master's emphasis on renunciation and said; "Sir, this cant of renunciation has almost ruined the country. It is for this reason that the Indians are a subject nation today. Doing good to others, bringing education to the door of the ignorant, and above all, improving the material conditions of the country — these should be our duty now. The cry of religion and renunciation would, on the contrary, only weaken us. You should advise the young men of Bengal to resort only to such acts as will uplift the country." Sri Ramakrishna gave him a searching look and found no divine light within, "You man of poor understanding!" Sri Ramakrishna said sharply. "You dare to slight in these terms renunciation and piety, which our scriptures describe as the greatest of all virtues! After reading two pages of English you think you have come to know the world! You appear to think you are omniscient. Well, have you seen those tiny crabs that are born in the Ganges just when the rains set in? In this big universe you are even less significant than one of those small creatures. How dare you talk of helping the world? the Lord will look to that. You haven't the power in you to do it." After a pause the Master continued: "Can you explain to me how you can work for others? I know what you mean by helping them. To feed a number of persons, to treat them when they are sick, to construct a road or dig a well — isn't that all? These, are good deeds, no doubt, but how trifling in comparison with the vastness of the universe! How far can a man advance in this line? How many people can you save from famine? Malaria has ruined a whole province; what could you do to stop its onslaught? God alone looks after the world. Let a man first realize Him. Let a man get the authority from God and be endowed with His power; then, and then alone, may he think of doing good to others. A man should first be purged of all egotism. Then alone will the Blissful Mother ask him to work for the world." Sri Ramakrishna mistrusted philanthropy that presumed to pose as charity. He warned people against it. He saw in most acts of philanthropy nothing but egotism, vanity, a desire for glory, a barren excitement to kill the boredom of life, or an attempt to soothe a guilty conscience. True charity, he taught, is the result of love of God — service to man in a spirit of worship.
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Sri Ramakrishna was sinking day by day. His diet was reduced to a minimum and he found it almost impossible to swallow. He whispered to M.: "I am bearing all this cheerfully, for otherwise you would be weeping. If you all say that it is better that the body should go rather than suffer this torture, I am willing." The next morning he said to his depressed disciples seated near the bed: "Do you know what I see? I see that God alone has become everything. Men and animals are only frameworks covered with skin, and it is He who is moving through their heads and limbs. I see that it is God Himself who has become the block, the executioner, and the victim for the sacrifice.' He fainted with emotion. Regaining partial consciousness, he said: "Now I have no pain. I am very well." Looking at Latu he said: "There sits Latu resting his head on the palm of his hand. To me it is the Lord who is seated in that posture."
The words were tender and touching. Like a mother he caressed Narendra and Rakhal, gently stroking their faces. He said in a half whisper to M., "Had this body been allowed to last a little longer, many more souls would have been illumined." He paused a moment and then said: "But Mother has ordained otherwise. She will take me away lest, finding me guileless and foolish, people should take advantage of me and persuade me to bestow on them the rare gifts of spirituality." A few minutes later he touched his chest and said: "Here are two beings. One is She and the other is Her devotee. It is the latter who broke his arm, and it is he again who is now ill. Do you understand me?" After a pause he added: "Alas! To whom shall I tell all this? Who will understand me?" "Pain", he consoled them again, 'is unavoidable as long as there is a body. the Lord takes on the body for the sake of His devotees."
Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss
of Hallucinations.
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the Angel of the Lord of Despair and Cruelty.
Also "Silence" and "Shut Up".
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It did not take much time for M. to become very intimate with the Master, or for the Master to recognise in this disciple a divinely commissioned partner in the fulfilment of his spiritual mission. When M. was reading out the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the Master discovered that he had been, in a previous birth, a disciple and companion of the great Vaishnava Teacher, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and the Master even saw him 'with his naked eye' participating in the ecstatic mass-singing of the Lord's name under the leadership of that Divine personality. So the Master told M, "You are my own, of the same substance as the father and the son," indicating thereby that M. was one of the chosen few and a part and parcel of his Divine mission.
There was an urge in M. to abandon the household life and become a Sannysin. When he communicated this idea to the Master, he forbade him saying," Mother has told me that you have to do a little of Her work you will have to teach Bhagavata, the word of God to humanity. The Mother keeps a Bhagavata Pandit with a bondage in the world!"
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An appropriate allusion indeed! Bhagavata, the great scripture that has given the word of Sri Krishna to mankind, was composed by the Sage Vysa under similar circumstances. When caught up in a mood of depression like that of M, Vysa was advised by the sage Nrada that he would gain peace of mind only qn composing a work exclusively devoted to the depiction of the Lord's glorious attributes and His teachings on Knowledge and Devotion, and the result was that the world got from Vysa the invaluable gift of the Bhagavata Purana depicting the life and teachings of Sri Krishna.
From the mental depression of the modem Vysa, the world has obtained the Kathmrita (Bengali Edition) the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna in English.
Sri Ramakrishna was a teacher for both the Orders of mankind, Sannysins and householders. His own life offered an ideal example for both, and he left behind disciples who followed the highest traditions he had set in respect of both these ways of life. M., along with Nag Mahashay, exemplified how a householder can rise to the highest level of sagehood. M. was married to Nikunja Devi, a distant relative of Keshab Chander Sen, even when he was reading at College, and he had four children, two sons and two daughters. The responsibility of the family, no doubt, made him dependent on his professional income, but the great devotee that he was, he never compromised with ideals and principles for this reason. Once when he was working as the headmaster in a school managed by the great Vidysgar, the results of the school at the public examination happened to be rather poor, and Vidysgar attri buted it to M's preoccupation with the Master and his consequent failure to attend adequately to the school work. M. at once resigned his post without any thought of the morrow. Within a fortnight the family was in poverty, and M. was one day pacing up and down the verandah of his house, musing how he would feed his children the next day. Just then a man came with a letter addressed to 'Mahendra Babu', and on opening it, M. found that it was a letter from his friend Sri Surendra Nath Banerjee, asking whether he would like to take up a professorship in the Ripon College. In this way three or four times he gave up the job that gave him the wherewithal to support the family, either for upholding principles or for practising spiritual Sadhanas in holy places, without any consideration of the possible dire worldly consequences; but he was always able to get over these difficulties somehow, and the interests of his family never suffered. In spite of his disregard for worldly goods, he was, towards the latter part of his life, in a fairly flourishing condition as the proprietor of the Morton School which he developed into a noted educational institution in the city. the Lord has said in the Bhagavad Git that in the case of those who think of nothing except Him, He Himself would take up all their material and spiritual responsibilities. M. was an example of the truth of the Lord's promise.
Though his children received proper attention from him, his real family, both during the Master's lifetime and after, consisted of saints, devotees, Sannysins and spiritual aspirants. His life exemplifies the Master's teaching that an ideal householder must be like a good maidservant of a family, loving and caring properly for the children of the house, but knowing always that her real home and children are elsewhere. During the Master's lifetime he spent all his Sundays and other holidays with him and his devotees, and besides listening to the holy talks and devotional music, practised meditation both on the Personal and the Impersonal aspects of God under the direct guidance of the Master. In the pages of the Gospel the reader gets a picture of M.'s spiritual relationship with the Master how from a hazy belief in the Impersonal God of the Brahmos, he was step by step brought to accept both Personality and Impersonality as the two aspects of the same Non-dual Being, how he was convinced of the manifestation of that Being as Gods, Goddesses and as Incarnations, and how he was established in a life that was both of a Jnni and of a Bhakta. This Jnni-Bhakta outlook and way of living became so dominant a feature of his life that Swami Raghavananda, who was very closely associated with him during his last six years, remarks: "Among those who lived with M. in latter days, some felt that he always lived in this constant and conscious union with God even with open eyes (i.e., even in waking consciousness)." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXXVII. P. 442.)
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That highest thing, the spiritual existence, is concerned with what is eternal but not therefore entirely aloof from the transient. For the spiritual man the mind's dream of perfect beauty is realised in an eternal love, beauty and delight that has no dependence and is equal behind all objective appearances; its dream of perfect Truth in the supreme, self-existent, self-apparent and eternal Verity which never varies, but explains and is the secret of all variations and the goal of all progress; its dream of perfect action in the omnipotent and self-guiding Law that is inherent for ever in all things and translates itself here in the rhythm of the worlds. What is fugitive vision or constant effort of creation in the brilliant Self is an eternally existing Reality in the Self that knows2 and is the Lord.
But if it is often difficult for the mental life to accommodate itself to the dully resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual existence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material existence and reject it either wholly and physically or in the spirit. It sees this world as the kingdom of evil or of ignorance and the eternal and divine either in a far-off heaven or beyond where there is no world and no life. It separates itself inwardly, if not also physically, from the world's impurities; it asserts the spiritual reality in a spotless isolation. This withdrawal renders an invaluable service to the material life itself by forcing it to regard and even to bow down to something that is the direct negation of its own petty ideals, sordid cares and egoistic self-content.
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2 The Unified, in whom conscious thought is concentrated, who is all delight and enjoyer of delight, the Wise. . . . He is the Lord of all, the Omniscient, the inner Guide.
Mandukya Upanishad 5, 6.
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Spirit is the crown of universal existence; Matter is its basis; Mind is the link between the two. Spirit is that which is eternal; Mind and Matter are its workings. Spirit is that which is concealed and has to be revealed; mind and body are the means by which it seeks to reveal itself. Spirit is the image of the Lord of the Yoga; mind and body are the means He has provided for reproducing that image in phenomenal existence. All Nature is an attempt at a progressive revelation of the concealed Truth, a more and more successful reproduction of the divine image.
But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Bhakta, the devotee or lover of God; Bhagavan, God, the Lord of Love and Delight.
The third term of the trinity is Bhagavat, the divine revelation of Love.
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Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the Lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
First, therefore, the powers of order must be helped to overcome
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purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy.
To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If, however, we leave aside, here also, the actual methods and practices and seek for the central principle, we find, first, that Tantra expressly differentiates itself from the Vedic methods of Yoga. In a sense, all the schools we have hitherto examined are Vedantic in their principle; their force is in knowledge, their method is knowledge, though it is not always discernment by the intellect, but may be, instead, the knowledge of the heart expressed in love and faith or a knowledge in the will working out through action. In all of them the Lord of the Yoga is the Purusha, the Conscious Soul that knows, observes, attracts, governs. But in Tantra it is rather Prakriti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the
Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tantric Yogin pursued the aims of his discipline, - mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude. Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. But in the end, as is the general tendency of Prakriti, Tantric Yoga largely lost its principle in its machinery and became a thing of formulae and occult mechanism still powerful when rightly used but fallen from the clarity of their original intention.
We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed
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0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
Begins the exposition of the stanzas which treat of the way and manner which the soul follows upon the road of the union of love with God. Before we enter upon the exposition of these stanzas, it is well to understand here that the soul that utters them is now in the state of perfection, which is the union of love with God, having already passed through severe trials and straits, by means of spiritual exercise in the narrow way of eternal life whereof Our Saviour speaks in the Gospel, along which way the soul ordinarily passes in order to reach this high and happy union with God. Since this road (as the Lord Himself says likewise) is so strait, and since there are so few that enter by it,19 the soul considers it a great happiness and good chance to have passed along it to the said perfection of love, as it sings in this first stanza, calling this strait road with full propriety 'dark night,' as will be explained hereafter in the lines of the said stanza. The soul, then, rejoicing at having passed along this narrow road whence so many blessings have come to it, speaks after this manner.
BOOK THE FIRST
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
through which the Lord passes His forces freely and pours upon
all His Light, His Consciousness and His Joy, according to each
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother? What can one do for the Lord which will be
this "much"?
To do something for the Lord is to give Him something of what
one has or of what one does or of what one is. In other words,
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The New Man will be Master and not slave. He will be master, first, of himself and then of the world. Man as he actually is, is but a slave. He has no personal voice or choice; the determining soul, the Ishwara, in him is sleep-bound and hushed. He is a mere plaything in the hands of nature and circumstances. Therefore it is that Science has become his supreme Dharmashastra; for science seeks to teach us the moods of Nature and the methods of propitiating her. Our actual ideal of man is that of the cleverest slave. But the New Man will have found himself and by and according to his inner will, mould and create his world. He will not be in awe of Nature and in an attitude of perpetual apprehension and hesitation, but will ground himself on a secret harmony and union that will declare him as the Lord. We will recognise the New Man by his very gait and manner, by a certain kingly ease and dominion in every shade of his expression.
Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels itself only by creating an eternal opponentErbfeindby coming in constant clash with a rival that seeks to gain victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the egoit is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert hut simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master.
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Supreme Spirit, Purushottama, who holds in himself the dual reality of Brahman and the world, is the master of action who acts but in actionlessness, the Lord in whom and through whom the universes and their creatures live and move and have their being. Karmayoga is union in mind and soul and body with the Lord of action in the execution of his cosmic purpose. And this union is effected through a transformation of the human nature, through the revelation of the Divine Prakriti and its descent upon and possession of the inferior human vehicle.
Arrived so far, we now find, if we look back, a change in the whole perspective. Karma and even Karmayoga, which hitherto seemed to be the pivot of the Gita's teaching, retire somewhat into the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of gravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord's own status, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute consecration of each limb of man's humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and incarnation and play in and upon this human world.
The higher secret of the Gita lies really in the later chapters, the earlier chapters being a preparation and passage to it orpartial and practical application. This has to be pointed out, since there is a notion current which seeks to limit the Gita's effective teaching to the earlier part, neglecting or even discarding the later portion.
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore is no inventor or innovator when he posits Spirit as Beauty, the spiritual consciousness as the ardent rhythm of ecstasy. This experience is the very core of Vaishnavism and for which Tagore is sometimes called a Neo-Vaishnava. The Vaishnava sees the world pulsating in glamorous beauty as the Lila (Play) of the Lord, and the Lord, God himself, is nothing but Love and Beauty. Still Tagore is not all Vaishnava or merely a Vaishnava; he is in addition a modern (the carping voice will say, there comes the dilution and adulteration)in the sense that problems exist for himsocial, political, economic, national, humanitarianwhich have to be faced and solved: these are not merely mundane, but woven into the texture of the fundamental problem of human destiny, of Soul and Spirit and God. A Vaishnava was, in spite of his acceptance of the world, an introvert, to use a modern psychological phrase, not necessarily in the pejorative sense, but in the neutral scientific sense. He looks upon the universe' and human life as the play of the Lord, as an actuality and not mere illusion indeed; but he does not participate or even take interest in the dynamic working out of the world process, he does not care to know, has no need of knowing that there is a terrestrial purpose and a diviner fulfilment of the mortal life upon earth. The Vaishnava dwells more or less absorbed in the Vaikuntha of his inner consciousness; the outer world, although real, is only a symbolic shadowplay to which he can but be a witness-real, is only a nothing more.
A modern idealist of the type of a reformer would not be satisfied with that role. If he is merely a moralist reformer, he will revolt against the "witness business", calling it a laissez-faire mentality of bygone days. A spiritual reformer would ask for morea dynamic union with the Divine Will and Consciousness, not merely a passive enjoyment in the Bliss, so that he may be a luminous power or agent for the expression of divine values in things mundane.
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words, these heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is that that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred chord, "awakening in you someone dead" till thenmrtam kcana bodhayant. More than the matter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who embodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the words and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the soul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any speaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in what he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind and draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men, self-confident and bold and fiery, can carry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a lower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that is touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes straight to the spirit in youit is the call of the deep unto the deep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is asleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are free and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness Sachchidananda that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and invincible and free absolutely. The courage and fearlessness that Vivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the Lordship of your spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in man.
Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the Atman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of India. India had a large place in Vivekananda's consciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to India's future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather the spiritual work to do. Here is India's work as Vivekananda conceived it in a nutshell:
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
It is never possible for man, weak and bound as he is, to reject the thraldom of his flesh, he can never purify himself wholly by his own unaided strength. God in his infinite mercy sent his own son, an emanation created out of his substancehis embodied loveas a human being to suffer along with men and take upon himself the burden of their sins. God the Son lived upon earth as man and died as man. Sin therefore has no longer its final or definitive hold upon mankind. Man has been made potentially free, pure and worthy of salvation. This is the mystery of Christ, of God the Son. But there is a further mystery. Christ not only lived for all men for all time, whether they know him, recognise him or not; but he still lives, he still chooses his beloved and his beloved chooses him, there is a conscious acceptance on either side. This is the function of the Holy Ghost, the redeeming power of Love active in him who accepts it and who is accepted by it, the dynamic Christ-Consciousness in the true Christian.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the right to judge? Only the Lord sees and knows - He alone is
the Truth.
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to the Lord; then your heart will be at peace."
13 May 1963
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what the Lord's will is, always, at every moment and in all
circumstances? No, so you are ignorant of what "good" is -
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Islam comes with a full-fledged spiritual soul and a mental and vital formation commensurable with that inner being and consciousness. It comes with a dynamic spirit, a warrior mood, that aims at conquering the physical world for the Lord, a temperament which Indian spirituality had not, or had lost long before, if she had anything of it. This was, perhaps, what Vivekananda meant when he spoke graphically of a Hindu soul with a Muslim body. The Islamic dispensation, however, brings with it not only something complementary, but also something contradictory, if not for anything else, at least for the strong individuality which does not easily yield to assimilation. Still, in spite of great odds, the process of assimilation was going on slowly and surely. But of late it appears to have come to a dead halt; difficulties have been presented which seem insuperable.
If religious toleration were enough, if that made up man's highest and largest achievement, then Nature need not have attempted to go beyond cultural fusion; a liberal culture is the surest basis for a catholic religious spirit. But such a spirit of toleration and catholicity, although it bespeaks a widened consciousness, does not always enshrine a profundity of being. Nobody is more tolerant and catholic than a dilettante, but an ardent spiritual soul is different.
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The stress of the inner urge to the heights and depths of spiritual values and realities found special and significant expression in his paintings. It is a difficult problem, a problem which artists and poets are tackling today with all their skill and talent. Man's consciousness is no longer satisfied with the customary and the ordinary actions and reactions of life (or thought), with the old-world and time-worn modes and manners. It is no more turned to the apparent and the obvious, to the surface forms and movements of things. It yearns to look behind and beyond, for the secret mechanism, the hidden agency that really drives things. Poets and artists are the vanguards of the age to come, prophets and pioneers preparing the way for the Lord.
Roerich discovered and elaborated his own technique to reveal that which is secret, express that which is not expressed or expressible. First of all, he is symbolical and allegorical: secondly, the choice of his symbols and allegories is hieratic, that is to say, the subject-matter refers to objects and events connected with saints and legends, shrines and enchanted places, hidden treasures, spirits and angels, etc. etc.; thirdly, the manner or style of execution is what we may term pantomimic, in other words, concrete, graphic, dramatic, even melodramatic. He has a special predilection for geometrical patterns the artistic effect of whichbalance, regularity, fixity, soliditywas greatly utilised by the French painter Czanne and poet Mallarm who seem to have influenced Roerich to a considerable degree. But this Northerner had not the reticence, the suavity, the tonic unity of the classicist, nor the normality and clarity of the Latin temperament. The prophet, the priest in him was the stronger element and made use of the artist as the rites andceremoniesmudras and chakrasof his vocation demanded. Indeed, he stands as the hierophant of a new cultural religion and his paintings and utterances are, as it were, gestures that accompany a holy ceremonial.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
when the Lord will take the earth into His arms and "the
earth will be transformed". Is that day drawing near?
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One moment of the Lord probably means many years for
us!
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phrase: 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' "11
Does this mean an intense, constant and integral
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters
of our being; there are others when it retires and men
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let us learn to be silent so that the Lord may make use of
us.
0 1956-04-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
the Lord hast willed, and Thou dost execute;
A new Light shall break upon the earth.
0 1956-10-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As Sri Aurobindo says, people see God as a magnified man: he is the Demiurge, Jehovahwhat I call the Lord of Falsehood.
Arbitrariness. But the Divine is not like that!
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble before the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the ethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter and illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the patience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like a tempest, a hurricaneif I listened to myself, I would tear into the future, and everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any communication with the rest.
One must have the patience to wait.
Humility, a perfect humility, is the condition for all realization. The mind is so cocksure. It thinks it knows everything, understands everything. And if ever it acts through idealism to serve a cause that appears noble to it, it becomes even more arrogant more intransigent, and it is almost impossible to make it see that there might be something still higher beyond its noble conceptions and its great altruistic or other ideals. Humility is the only remedy. I am not speaking of humility as conceived by certain religions, with this God that belittles his creatures and only likes to see them down on their knees. When I was a child, this kind of humility revolted me, and I refused to believe in a God that wants to belittle his creatures. I dont mean that kind of humility, but rather the recognition that one does not know, that one knows nothing, and that there may be something beyond what presently appears to us as the truest, the most noble or disinterested. True humility consists in constantly referring oneself to the Lord, in placing all before Him. When I receive a blow (and there are quite a few of them in my sadhana), my immediate, spontaneous reaction, like a spring, is to throw myself before Him and to say, Thou, Lord. Without this humility, I would never have been able to realize anything. And I say I only to make myself understood, but in fact I means the Lord through this body, his instrument. When you begin living THIS kind of humility, it means you are drawing nearer to the realization. It is the condition, the starting point.
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0 1958-06-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Throughout all this life, knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters.
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0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of the temple, and doctors of all kinds are the officiating priests in the different rituals of worship. Thus, medicine is really a priesthood and should be treated as such.
The same can be said of physical culture and of all the sciences that are concerned with the body and its workings. If the material universe is considered as the outer sheath and the manifestation of the Supreme, then it can generally be said that all the physical sciences are the rituals of worship.
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If we could truly, perfectly know all the details of the ceremony of life, the worship of the Lord in physical life, it would be wonderfulto know, and no longer to err, never again to err. To perform the ceremony as perfectly as an initiation.
To know life utterly Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And its strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras1 (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, like that):
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There is ones position in the universal hierarchy, which is something ineluctableit is the eternal lawand there is the development in the manifestation, which is an education; it is progressive and done from within the being. What is remarkable is that to become a perfect being, this positionwhatever it is, decreed since all eternity, a part of the eternal Truthmust manifest with the greatest possible perfection as a result of evolutionary growth. It is the junction, the union of the two, the eternal position and the evolutionary realization, that will make the total and perfect being, and the manifestation as the Lord has willed it since the beginning of all eternity (which has no beginning at all! ).
And for the cycle to be complete, one cannot stop on the way at any plane, not even the highest spiritual plane nor the plane closest to matter (like the occult plane in the vital, for example). One must descend right into matter, and this perfection in manifestation must be a material perfection, or otherwise the cycle is not completewhich explains why those who want to flee in order to realize the divine Will are in error. What must be done is exactly the opposite! The two must be combined in a perfect way. This is why all the honest sciences, the sciences that are practiced sincerely, honestly, exclusively with a will to know, are difficult pathsyet such sure paths for the total realization.
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the Lord will possess his universe only when the universe will have consciously become the Lord.
See Agenda 1957, p. 119
0 1959-03-26 - Lord of Death, Lord of Falsehood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The power of this Titan comes from an Asura. There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical bodythey have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I dont know what has become of him.1 As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted, but he found it disgusting!
At times he calls himself the Lord of Nations. It is he who sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation nor the supramental world, for that would spell his end. Besides, he knows We talk to each other; beyond all this, we have our relationship. For after all, you see (laughing), I am his mother! One day he told me, I know you will destroy me, but meanwhile, I will create all the havoc possible.
This Asura of Falsehood is the one who delegated the Titan that is always near me. He chose the most powerful Titan there is on earth and sent him specially to attack this body. So even if one manages to enchain or kill this Titan, it is likely that the Lord of Falsehood will delegate another form, and still another, and still another, in order to achieve his aim.
In the end, only the Supramental will have the power to destroy it. When the hour comes, all this will disappear, without any need to do anything.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3
One crore = 10 million.
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'It wants to live only to conquer.' Then the next day, Mother sent the following note to the disciple: 'Friday, 1.29.60yesterday, when I left you, the experience was there, but in my hurry to leave, the words did not come correctly, or rather they were incomplete (I had said, 'to live only to conquer'). What my body was experiencing was, 'Live to win the Lord's Victory.'
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0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But there was no consciousness of being Mother, neither eternal nor whatever: it was a continuous and all-powerful flood, and so extraordinarily varied, of the Lord manifesting Himself.
It was as vast as the universe, a continuous movement the movement of manifestation of something which was EVERYTHING at once, a single whole. There was no division. And such a variety of colors, vibrations, powersextraordinary! It was one single thing, and everything was within it.
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Im waiting for the Lord to tell me clearly.
But when I say that, I always see Him smilinga smile its all very good to smile, but it encourages you more than it cures you!
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The effort to see and to understand this gripped me all night. And when I woke up this morning, I thanked the Lord; I said to Him, Obviously, if You were to keep me totally in that consciousness, I could no longer I could no longer do my work! How could I do my work? For I can only say something to people when I feel it or see it, when I see that its what must be said, but if I am simultaneously in a consciousness in which Im aware of everything that has led to that situation, everything that is going to happen, everything Im going to say, everything the others going to feel then how could I do it!
There are still many hundreds of years to go before it becomes entirely what Sri Aurobindo describes theres no hurry!
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I myself use it for a very special reason, because You see, I invoke (the words are a bit strange) the Lord of Tomorrow. Not the unmanifest Lord, but the Lord as he will manifest tomorrow, or in Sri Aurobindos words, the divine manifestation in its supramental form.
So the first sound of my mantra is the call to that, the evocation. With the second sound, the bodys cells make their surrender, they give themselves. And with the third sound comes the identification of this [the body] with That, which produces the divine life. These are my three sounds.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But since Zs visit yesterday, and this morning on the balcony Oh, its so I had already seen this long agothis whole milieu that is not very pretty and I had said, Well, its all right, thats how it is, and I didnt discuss it further: Thats how it is, and absolutely the whole world belongs to the Lord IS the Lord! And the Lord made it so, and the Lord wants it so, and its quite all right. Then I put it aside. But with his visit yesterday, it found its placesuch a smiling place. And theres a whole world of things of life which have found their true place in this waywith a smile!
(silence)
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Certainly, we CAN be heard. So far I never said anything. It even surprised me, for I had never paid it any attention, I was quite away from all that: its raining?so what, its raining, it happens. Its not raining?so what, its not raining, its the same thing. And then gradually people started mentioning that should it continue, they wouldnt be able to do their exercises, and they wouldnt be ready for December 2.1 Then I started receiving desperate lettersone person even told me he was doing his puja underwater! So I answered by saying, Take it as the Lords blessing but Im not sure he appreciated it! And then I learned that 200 houses [in the Ashram]200!are leaking. Naturally, each one is in a great hurryits terribly urgent! So perhaps I shall file a complaint and ask them what they mean by this!
Actually, if communications are interrupted, it can be troublesome Let us see.
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A while ago You know that I have TREMENDOUS financial difficulties. In fact, I have handed the whole matter over to the Lord, telling Him, Its your affair; if you want us to continue this experience, well, you must provide the means. But this upsets some of them, so they come along with all kinds of suggestions to keep me from having to to resort to something so drastic. They suggest all kinds of things; some time ago they said, What about a good cyclone, or a good earthquake? A lot of damage to the Ashram, a public appeal that would bring in some funds! (Mother laughs) Yes, its of this order! And its all quite clear and definitewe have veritable conversations!
I listen, I answer. Its not satisfactory! I told them. But theyve kept to their idea, they like it. When that first storm came some time back (you remember, with those terrible bolts of lightning and that asuric being P.K. saw and sketched): Dont you want us to destroy something? I got angry. But it was This influence was so close and acute that it gave you goose bumps! The whole time the storm lasted, I had to hold on tight in my bed, like this (Mother closes her fists tight as in a trance or deep concentration), and I didnt movedidnt movelike a a rock during the entire storm, until he consented to go a bit further away. Then I moved. And even now, it comesfrom others (theres not just one, you see, there are many): How about a good flood? A roof collapsed the other day with someone underneath, but he was able to escape. So roofs are collapsing, houses Arouse public sympathy, we must help the Ashram! Its no good, I said. But maybe thats whats responsible for this interminable rain. And they offer so many other things oh, what they parade past me! You could write books on all this!
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Savitri is really a condensation, a concentration of the universal Mother the eternal universal Mother, Mother of all universes from all eternityin an earthly personality for the Earths salvation. And Satyavan is the soul of the Earth, the Earths jiva. So when the Lord says, he whom you love and whom you have chosen, it means the earth. All the details are there! When she comes back down, when Death has yielded at last, when all has been settled and the Supreme tells her, Go, go with him, the one you have chosen, how does Sri Aurobindo describe it? He says that she very carefully takes the SOUL of Satyavan into her arms, like a little child, to pass through all the realms and come back down to earth. Everything is there! He hasnt forgotten a single detail to make it easy to understand for someone who knows how to understand. And it is when Savitri reaches the earth that Satyavan regains his full human stature.
These seem to be the forces ruling the subconscious mechanisms or reactions of the body: all the automatism produced by evolution and atavismwhat might be termed evolutionary habits. This is the 'descending path,' which started forty years earlier, as Mother said (or the 'physical plunge' referred to by Sri Aurobindo), leading to the pure cellular consciousness.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lord of the Snow.
Very well, replied Madame Theon, I shall see about that when I get up. Now go away, youre spoiling my room!
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has been good for it (not externally, but inwardly, for its state of consciousness: the body-consciousness), it has done the body some good, but. Now its like this (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of total surrender). For each blow it receives (its a bludgeoning, my child!), for each blow, it remains like this (same gesture). Yesterday, to make it happy, I wrote down something like this (concerning its latest difficulty): If this present difficulty is useful (its the body addressing the Lord, and the Lord. its a perpetual adoration: all the cells vibrate, vibrate with the joy of Love; yet despite that ), if this or that difficulty is useful for Your Workso be it. But if it is an effect of my stupidity (its the body speaking), if its an effect of my own stupidity, then I beseech You to cure me of this stupidity as quickly as possible.
It doesnt ask to be cured of the illness! It doesnt ask, it is ready; All right, it says. As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But thats not what Im asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity. I believe this is what enables it to yes, what gives it the necessary endurance.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body doesnt ask (its so docile), it doesnt even ask for its sufferings to stopit adapts to them. Its mainly my contact with people that makes the thing difficult: when I am all alone upstairs, everything goes well, quite well. But when I spend one or one and a half hours in the afternoon seeing people, afterwards I feel exhausted. That, obviously, is whats making the thing difficult. But the body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain, its ready. The other day when it went back upstairs, it felt a bitwell, at the end of its resources, as though it had pushed itself to the limit. It said to the Lord (and it said this so clearly, as though the consciousness of the cells were speaking; I noted it down): If this (I cant call it an illness there is no illness! Its a condition of general disequilibrium), if this condition is necessary for Your Work, then so be it, let it go on. But if its an effect of my stupidity (you see, its the BODY saying, If its because I dont understand or I am not adapting or not doing what I should or not taking the proper attitude), if it is an effect of my stupidity, then truly I pray that. It asks only to changeto know and to change!
It is attached to nothing: none of its habits, none of its ways of being-nothing. It says in all sincerity, I ask only for the Light, only to change. That is its state. it has never, never said, Oh, Im tired, Ive had enough! Bah! Its not like that. It is attached to nothing for a long, long time it has ceased to have desiresit is attached to nothing at all, to nothing. There isnt a single thing for which it says, Oh, I cant do without that! Not one. It doesnt care-if something comes, it takes it; if it doesnt come, the body doesnt think about it. In other words, its truly good-natured. But if this isnt sufficient, then it doesnt know and it says, If there is something I cant do or I dont know or I am not doing It asks for nothing more than to make the necessary effort!
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But truly speaking, the minute one completely emerges from the ordinary mind, NO EXTERIOR SIGN IS A PROOF, absolutely none. There is absolutely no standard to go byneither splendid good health nor good equilibrium, nor an almost general disorganizationnone of these. All depends exclusivelyexclusivelyon what the Lord has decided. Exclusively. Consequently, if one remains very quiet, one is sure to know what He has decided.
When I am perfectly tranquil, I immediately live in a beatific joy where questions dont arisethere are no questions! One asks for nothingone LIVES! One lives happily, and thats all. Theres no, Will it be like this? Will it be like that?how childish! There are no questions, questions dont arise. One is a beatitude manifesting, that is all.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things are going very badly: a pack of enemies assailing me, friends deserting usits going very, very badly. Then yesterday evening, while I was walking for japa and all these good tidings were arriving, I said to the Lord, Listen, Lord, you have Indra to help the good people I beseech you, send him to me; he has some work to do!(Mother laughs) Then my walk became so amusing! I was watching them come in as I walked Indra and all the other godsand they were hard at work. Delightful!
Hibiscus, double flower, light pink.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, these things can always be explained symbolically. Theon explained mans exile like this: when the Being the hostile Beingassumed the position of the Lord Supreme in relation to the terrestrial realization, he didnt want humanity to progress mentally and gain a knowledge permitting it to stop obeying him! That is Theons occult explanation.
According to Theon, the serpent wasnt the spirit of evil at all: it was the evolutionary Force. And Sri Aurobindo fully agreed; he used to tell me the same thing: the evolutionary power the mental evolutionary poweris what drove man to gain knowledge, a knowledge of division. And its a fact that along with the sense of Good and Evil, man became conscious of himself. Naturally, this ruined everything and he couldnt stay: it was his own consciousness that drove him out of Paradisehe could no longer stay.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In short, I have known people from everywhere, I have been everywhere, I have seen and heard everything. It was very strange, very strange. And I didnt do it on purpose, but just because the Lord willed it.
What experiences!
0 1961-05-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is worthwhile is to seek the TRUE SENSE of life: to what does it really correspond? What is there behind it all? Why has the Lord created it? What is He heading towards? What does He want? What does He want to happen? That, we have not found. What does He want!!
He obviously has a secret, and He is keeping it. Well, I want His secret.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are successive curves, each second of which would have to be noted down; and in the course of one of these curves, something is suddenly found. For example, at the beginning of The Yoga of Self-Perfection, Sri Aurobindo reviews other yogas, beginning with Hatha Yoga. I had just translated this when I remembered Sri Aurobindo saying that Hatha Yoga was very effective but that it amounted to spending your whole life training your body, which is an enormous time and effort spent on something not essentially very interesting. Then I looked at it and said to myself, But after all, (I was looking at life as it is, as people ordinarily live it) one spends at least 90% of ones life merely to PRESERVE ones body, to keep it going! All this attention and concentration on an instrument which is put to hardly any use. Anyway, I was looking at it with that attitude, when suddenly all the cells of my body responded, in such a spontaneous and WARM way. How to say it? Something so so moving. They told me, But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us! Each one was saying: But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us!
It was truly lovely. Then I gave my reason a good poke: How stupid can you be! You always forget the essential.
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This feeling was so warm, so intimate, so I dont know how to express it. At once so soft and so powerful and so. Oh, it was concrete! The whole atmosphere, the whole atmosphere became solidall, all had the taste of the Lord. I dont know how to make it clear. It was quite material, as if you had a mouthful of it, everything was full of itit was like that. In such a PHYSICAL way! Like. You might compare it to the most delicious taste you could ever haveit was the sense of touch and of tastevery, very material. It was like closing your hand on something solidsuch a warm, soft vibration, and SO STRONG, so powerful, so concrete!
It is evidently proof of an evolution in this direction, within this whole cluster of cells, but.
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They say I have become deaf. I believe its the Lords grace, because when I make an effort to hear what is being said to me, nine times out of ten its completely useless and its absolutely stupid. Its better not to hear!
So there, mon petitand I said I wasnt going to talk! Its always the same thing.
0 1961-05-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Personally I have stopped I have stopped trying to know. With the stubbornness of a child, I keep repeating to the Lord, Its time You change all this!
There are moments, you know, when you want to weepwhich is idiotic! So you surrender it all to the Lord: I leave this work to Youdo what You will, as You will, when You will.
And I try to be as tranquil as I can (Mother makes a gesture of mental immobility), but when you do so, you become aware of oh, its like a swarm of flies comingfrom here, from there, from above, from below, oh coming and coming and coming!
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Fundamentally, I have noticed one thing: if you yourself are in the right state, the right atmosphere is immediately created. And in addition, I am always in a sort of not even a convictionan ABSOLUTE perception that all that happens is the Lords doing. When He makes me late going upstairs its because He wants me to be late, and consequently, if I take it wellif instead of closing myself and getting annoyed I say, Good, thats fineimmediately a very interesting atmosphere is created, because at the same time I see all the advantages of this change. But this movement must not be mentalit has to be spontaneous.
Therefore, I have told her (to put it simply): provided you are sincere in your attitude, all is well.
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its so subtle! It could almost be. Its almost like being on the border between two worlds. Its the same world and itsis it two aspects of this world? I cant even say that. Yet its the SAME world; all is the Lord, He and nothing but He, only its. And so subtle, so subtle: if you go like this (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the right), its perfectly harmonious; if you go like that (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the left), oof! Its its at once absurd, meaningless, and laborious, painful. But its the SAME thing! Its all the same thing.
What is it?
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother remains silent for a moment, then says:) Over the years I have had a considerable number of experiences in this realm, and my first action is always the same: send the Peace (I do this in all cases, for everyone) and apply the Force, the Power of the Lord, for the best thing to happen. Some people are very sick, sick to the point where there is no hope, where they cannot be cured, where the end is coming; but they sense that their souls must still need to have certain experiences, so they hang on-they dont want to die. In such cases I apply the Force for them to last as long as possible. In other cases, on the contrary, they are weary of suffering, or indeed the soul has finished its experience and desires to be liberated. In such a case, if I am sure of it, sure that they themselves are expressing the desire to depart, its over in a few hours I say this with certainty because Ive had a considerable number of experiences. There is a certain force which goes out and does what is necessary. I havent done either of these things for your fathernei ther to prolong his life (because when people are suffering its not very kind to prolong their lives indefinitely), nor to finish it, because I didnt knowone cant do either without knowing the persons conscious wish.
As for your mother, she must have been thinking of me, for otherwise she wouldnt have come in that wayshe would have come through you (its different when things come through you). But she came to me directly, so I thought that for some reason she must have remembered me. I dont know. And I looked and said to myself (it came just like that), Now that she will be left all alone, why doesnt she come here? I havent done anything about that, either, one way or the other.
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Do you know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastiche had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apartboth serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, I congratulate you. Practically the same phrase in both cases. And they both protested: Why are you congratulating me? (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwards.) Why? You did the operationyou should be congratulated for my quick recovery. And in both cases the doctor replied, No, no; we only operate, the body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify as miraculous, and I genuinely congratulate you. And then the two of them had the same reaction they wrote to me saying, We know where the miracle comes from. And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me a remarkable letter a few days before her operation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, I know that the operation is ALREADY done, that the Lord has already done it, and so I am calm.
Things like that, everywhere and PRECISE! Something quite precise. Of course, to say that I work consciously is almost silly, its commonplace. But in many cases one may work consciously for long years without getting that precision in the result the action enters a hazy atmosphere and makes a kind of stir, and out of it comes the best that can, but no more than that. But now its exact, preciseits becoming interesting.
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And then one understands all, allall the details. Some things can be understood intellectually or psychologically (which is very good, it has an effect and it helps you), but that always seems so hazy; it works through an imprecision. But now the vibrations mechanism is understoodits MECHANICS; and thus it becomes precise. All these attitudes the yoga recommendsbeginning with action done as offering, then complete detachment from the result (leaving the result to the Lord), then perfect equanimity in all circumstances, all these stages which one understands intellectually, feels sentimentally, and has fully experiencedwell, all this takes on its TRUE MEANING only when it becomes what could be called a mechanical action of vibrationat that point one understands why it must be like it is.
And these last few days, especially yesterday and this morning, oh! Extraordinary discoveries! We are on the right track.
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is it possible? I dont know. We would have to ask the Lord! But He generally doesnt answer such questionsHe just smiles!
You know, there comes a time when, really, you can no longer say anything; you feel that whatever you say is, if not absolute rubbish, then the next thing to it, and that in practice its best to keep silent. Thats the difficulty. And in some of these aphorisms you get the feeling that he has suddenly captured something beyondbeyond anything which can be thought. So what to do?
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Can God truly be said to be weak or to fail? Does this actually happen, or is it simply the Lords play?
Thats not how it is, mon petit! This is precisely how the modern Western attitude has become twisted compared to the ancient attitude, the attitudeit isnt exactly ancientof the Gita. Its extremely difficult for the Western mind to comprehend vividly and concretely that ALL is the Divine. It is so impregnated with the Christian spirit, with the idea of a Creator the creation on one side and God on the other! Upon reflection, one rejects this, but it has entered into our sensations and feelings, and sospontaneously, instinctively, almost subconsciouslyone credits God with all one considers to be the best, the most beautiful, and especially with what one wishes to attain, to realize. (Each individual, of course, changes the content of his God according to his own consciousness, but its always what he considers to be the best.) And just as instinctively, spontaneously and subconsciously, one is shocked by the idea that things one doesnt like or doesnt approve of or which dont seem to be the best, could also be God.
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While walking in my room, a series of invocations or prayers have come to me2 (I didnt choose themthey were dictated to me) in which I implore the Lord to manifest his Perfection (and I am quite aware of how foolish this expression is, but it does correspond to an aspiration).3 When I say manifest, I mean to manifest in our physical, material world Im asking for the transformation of this world. And the moment I utter one of these invocations, the sense of the particular approach it represents is there; thats why I am now able to give such a lecture on PerfectionPerfection is one of these approaches. Manifest this, I tell Him, Manifest that, manifest Your Perfection. (The series is very long and it takes me quite a while to go through it all.) Well, each time I say Manifest Your Perfection, I have an awareness of what constitutes Perfectionit is something global.
Its like the word purityone could lecture endlessly on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. Divine purity (at the lowest level) is to admit but one influence the divine Influence (but this is at the lowest level, and already terribly distorted). Divine purity means that only the Divine existsnothing else. It is perfectly pureonly the Divine exists, nothing other than He.
0 1961-07-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the last conversation, where Mother spoke of divine Perfection and of the series of invocations in her japa imploring the Lord to manifest his various aspects:)
But Perfection is only one side, one special way of approaching the Divine. There are innumerable sides, angles, aspectsinnumerable ways to approach the Divine. When I am walking, for example, doing japa, I have the sense of Unity (I have spoken to you of all the things I mention when I am upstairs walking: will, truth, purity, perfection, unity, immortality, eternity, infinity, silence, peace, existence, consciousness the list goes on). And when one follows a particular tack and does succeed in reaching or approaching or contacting the Divine, one realizes through experience that these many approaches differ only in their most external forms the contact itself is identical. Its like looking through a kaleidoscopeyou revolve around a center, a globe, and see it under various aspects; but as soon as the contact is established, its identical.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then of course its accompanied by all the usual suggestions (but thats nothing, it comes from a domain which is easily controlled). Suggestions of this type: Well, but Sri Aurobindo himself didnt do it! (I know why he didnt. but people in general dont know.) And every adverse vibration naturally takes advantage of this: How do you expect to succeed where he didnt! But my answer is always the same: When the Lord says its all over with, I will know its all over with; that will be the end of it, and so what! This stops them short.
But it doesnt keep them from starting up again! They did so particularly after I read the passage where Sri Aurobindo affirms, THIS time I have come for THATand I shall do it. The day when I read this I turned towards him, not actually putting the question to him but simply turning towards him, and he told me, Read the book through to the end. And I know, I know its truewhen I have read the book through to the end I will understand what he has done and I will even have the power to reply to all these suggestions. But meanwhile, everything that wants to keep me from doing it, all this obscure and subconscious ill will, tries its best to keep me from reading, including giving me this eye hemorrhage.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its rather delicate, like a very, very delicate clockwork, like a precision machine, and the least little thing throws everything out of gear. When someone has a bad reaction, for instance, or a bad thought, or an agitated vibration, or an anxietyanything of this nature is enough to dissolve all the harmony. For me, its translated straight-away into a malaise in my body, a very particular type of malaise; then disorder sets in, and the ordinary routine returns. So again I have to gather up, as it were, the Presence of the Lord and begin to infuse it everywhere. Sometimes it goes quickly, sometimes it takes longer; when the disorganization is a little more radical, it takes a little longer.
This eye [hemorrhage], for instance, resulted from such a disorder, a very dark force that someone allowed to enter, not deliberately, not knowingly, but through weakness and ignorance, always mingled, of course, with desire and ego and all the rest. (Without desire and ego, such things would find no access but desire and ego are very widespread.) At any rate, that was plainly the cause and I sensed it immediately. Sometimes when it comes, it creeps up like this (Mother brings her hand to her throat), a black shadow strangling you. Yet inwardly nothing is affected at all, to such an extent that if I didnt pay attention to the purely external reaction, I wouldnt know anything had happened (its the great Play); but externally the indication is immediate: half an hour later I had this eye hemorrhage. I was struggling against a wholly undesirable intrusion, and I knew italthough from an outer point of view, the cause was insignificant. Its not always the events we consider serious or important that produce the most harmful effectsfar from it. Sometimes its an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reasonwhat is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness.
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I have made it a habit to always do this (gesture of abandonment to the Light). When a problem comes up, I offer it to the Lord and then leave it. And the moment the solution is required, it comesit comes in facts, in deeds, in movements.
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are two lines in the ancient traditions, two ways of explaining this. One says it is by the descent of what already exists in all its perfection that what is involved can be awakened to consciousness and evolution. Its like the old story: when what Sri Aurobindo calls the universal Mother or the Shakti (or Sachchidananda1) realized what had happened in Matter (that is, in what had created Matter) and that this involution had led to a state of Inconscience, total unconsciousness, the ancient lore says that at once the divine Love descended straight from the Lord into Matter and began to awaken what was involved there.
Other traditions speak of the Consciousness, the divine Consciousness, instead of Love. One even finds accounts full of imagery depicting a Being of prismatic light lying in deep sleep in the cave of the Inconscient; and this Descent awakens him to an activity which is still (how to put it?) inner, an immobile activity, an activity by radiation. Countless rays issue from his body and spread throughout the Inconscient, and little by little they awaken in each thing, in each atom, as it were, the aspiration to Consciousness and the beginning of evolution.
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I myself would NEVER try to deal with the why; I would always say this is how it is. When people ask me, Why did it happen like this? Why is the world so unhappy? Why does it have to be dark before growing luminous? Why has there been this accident (if it can be called an accident)? Why did the Lord permit You can say its because of this, because of thatthere are fifty thousand replies and theyre all worthless.
Its like this because thats the way it is!
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a VERY interesting experienceit was last year or the year before, I dont recall, but after I retired to my room upstairs.6 You know that during pujas these goddesses come all the timethey dont enter the body and tie themselves to it, but they do come and manifest. Well, this time I think it must have been for last years pujaDurga came (she always arrives a few days in advance and remains in the atmosphere; she is present, like thisgesture as if Durga were walking up and down with Mother). I was in touch with her during my meditations upstairs, and this new Power in the body was in me then as it is in me now, and (how to put it?) I made her participate in this concept of surrender. What an experience she had, mon petit! An extraordinary experience of the joy of being connected with That. And she declared, From now on, I am a bhakta of the Lord.
It was beautiful.
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it is strangely indifferent to any scale of values or circumstances. Sometimes when I am meeting and speaking with someone, when I am seeing someone, this great universal Light of a perfect whiteness comes streaming in. Well, I must admit, this also occurs for the merest trifles, when Im tasting some cheese somebody has sent me, for example, or arranging objects in a cupboard, or deciding what things Im going to use or have to organize. It doesnt come in the same massive way as when it comes directly. When it comes directly its a mass, passing through and going out like that (Mother shows the Light descending directly from above like a mass and passing through her head in order to spread out everywhere). In these small things its pulverized, as though it came through an atomizer, but its that same sparkling white light, utterly white. Then, whatever Im doing, theres a sensation in the body thats like lying on a sea of something very soft, very intimate, very deep and eternal, immutable: the Lord. And all the bodys cells are joyously saying, You, You, You, You.
Thats my present condition.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know that at a certain moment I was making the distinction between the two states, between the person the individual, personal beingturning towards the Lord, imploring Him to reveal His Will, and then this experience of becomingby extending oneself, by opening, by enlarging, by merging into the creationof BECOMING the Will of the Lord, the Supremes Will. No longer any need to implore Him, to know His Will and receive it like something foreign to youyou become that Will.
The experience was there at that moment, and it was eloquent enough.
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I must add that the experience came after I had been concentrating for three days (concentrating almost constantly) on finding an explanation for this: why has it become this way? It is impossible to find the why because its the reason asking and this goes beyond reason but what is the MECHANISM? Finding the mechanism would already be somethingto have the experience of the mechanism. And then came this CONCRETE superposition of the vibration of Love and the reception of hate. But this is exactly what happens! I said. the Lord is All-Love, All-Truth, All-Bliss, All-Deligh tHe is CONSTANTLY like thatand the world, especially the human world, constantly receives him in the other way. And the two things are superposed (Mother covers her left hand with her right).
Words dont convey anything; it was the experience. I made contact. It was very interesting. It lasted a long time, some two or three days. Since it was also linked to a state of healtha headache that had to be curedit bore its consequences: a crystal clear explanation of illness came. But I must again add something that preceded this.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have done my best, all these years, to try to keep him at a distance. He has a powera terrible asuric power. Between you and me, I saw him like that from the start thats why I became involved with him. I never intended to marry him (his family affairs made it necessary), but when we met, I recognized him as an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood that is his origin (what he called the Lord of Nations); and in fact, this being has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries. As for Theon, he was.
It was not by choice that I met all the four Asurasit was a decision of the Supreme. The first one, whom religions call Satan, the Asura of Consciousness, was converted and is still at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood; Richard was an emanation, a vibhuti,1 as they say in India, of this Asura.
Theon was the vibhuti of the Lord of Death.
Its a wonderful story, a real novel, which will perhaps be told one day when there are no more Asuras. Then it can be told.
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He wrote the Lord of Nations. And I saw him, oh! I saw this Lord of Nations. During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him again, but not through Richarddirectly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story! And I knew when they were going to meet (because after all, hes my son!9 That was the funniest part of it); and on one occasion I substituted myself for him, became Hitlers god and advised him to attack Russia. Two days later he attacked Russia. But upon leaving the meeting I encountered the other one [the real Asura] just as he was arriving! He was furious and asked me why I had done that. Its none of your business, I said, its what had to be done. You will see, he replied, I KNOW, I know you will destroy me, but before being destroyed I will wreak just as much havoc as I can, you can be sure of that.
When I returned from my nocturnal promenades I would tell Sri Aurobindo about them.
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Throughout the war Sri Aurobindo and I were in such a CONSTANT tension that it completely interrupted the yoga. And that is why the war started in the first placeto stop the Work. At that time there was an extraordinary descent of the Supermind; it was coming like that (massive gesture), a descent! Exactly in 39. Then the war broke out and stopped everything cold. For had we personally continued [the work of transformation] we were not sure of having enough time to finish it before the other one crushed the earth to a pulp, setting the whole Affair back centuries. The FIRST thing to be done was stop the action of the Lord of Nations.
the Lord of Falsehood.
You dont believe he is going to begin again?
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Even when I had that experience [the first supramental manifestation of February 29, 1956], when the Lord said, The time has come, well, it was not a complete descent; it was the descent of the Consciousness, the Light, and a part, an aspect of the Power. It was immediately absorbed and swallowed up by the world of Inconscience, and from that moment on it began to work in the atmosphere. But it was not THE thing that comes and gets permanently established; when that happens, we wont need to speak of itit will be obvious!
Although the experience of 56 was one more forward step, its not. Its not final.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
'If the Lord wills that a calamity befall you, why should you protest? Take it as a blessing and in fact it will become one.'
Then Mother thought that this message might not be too comforting and she put it aside (after asking the opinion of two disciples). Finally she chose the text of the experience which is the subject of this conversation. But the coming year, 1962, would be marked by the first great turning-point in Mother's yoga and a rather calamitous ordeal for the body.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, Im putting it poorly, but this experience was concrete to the point of being physical. It happened in a Japanese country-house where we were living, near a lake. There was a whole series of circumstances, events, all kinds of thingsa long, long story, like a novel. But one day I was alone in meditation (I have never had very profound meditations, only concentrations of consciousness Mother makes an abrupt gesture showing a sudden ingathering of the entire being); and I was seeing. You know that I had taken on the conversion of the Lord of Falsehood: I tried to do it through an emanation incarnated in a physical being [Richard]7, and the greatest effort was made during those four years in Japan. The four years were coming to an end with an absolute inner certainty that there was nothing to be done that it was impossible, impossible to do it this way. There was nothing to be done. And I was intensely concentrated, asking the Lord, Well, I made You a vow to do this, I had said, Even if its necessary to descend into hell, I will descend into hell to do it. Now tell me, what must I do?The Power was plainly there: suddenly everything in me became still; the whole external being was completely immobilized and I had a vision of the Supreme more beautiful than that of the Gita. A vision of the Supreme.8 And this vision literally gathered me into its arms; it turned towards the West, towards India, and offered meand there at the other end I saw Sri Aurobindo. It was I felt it physically. I saw, sawmy eyes were closed but I saw (twice I have had this vision of the Supremeonce here, much later but this was the first time) ineffable. It was as if this Immensity had reduced itself to a rather gigantic Being who lifted me up like a wisp of straw and offered me. Not a word, nothing else, only that.
Then everything vanished.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But truly, EVERYTHING was changed at that moment: something was achieved. It was the perception of Power the Power that comes from Love (what Love is to the Supreme Consciousness, which has nothing to do with what we usually mean by the word love). And it was it was simple! None of those complications resulting from thought, intellect, understandingall that was gone, all gone. A formidable Power! And it made me understand one thing, that the state I had been put in (by the Lord of Yoga, in fact) was for obtaining the particular power that comes through an identity with all material things, a power possessed by certain personsnot always yogis, certain mediums, for instance. I saw it with Madame Theon: she would will a thing to come to her instead of going to the thing herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her mattershe exercised a will over her matterher central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an organization of Matter. And so I began to understand: With this comes the power to put each thing in its place! provided one is universal enough.
Well, I have understood. And now I know where I stand.
0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He stopped at the subtle physicalhe refused to go any farther. It was Satan, the Asura1 of Light who, in cutting himself off from the Supreme, fell into Unconsciousness and Darkness (Ive told the story many times). But anyway, when I was with Thon, I summoned that being and asked him if he wanted to enter into contact with the earth. Its worth mentioning that Thon himself was an incarnation of the Lord of Death Ive had good company in my life! And the other one [Richard] was an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood but it was only partial. With Thon too it was partial. But with Satan it was the central being; of course, he had millions of emanations in the world, but this was the central being in person. The others lets keep that for another time.
He agreed to take on a body. Theon wanted to keep him there: Dont let him go, he told me. I didnt answer. This being told me he didnt want to be more material than that, it was sufficientyou could feel him move the way you feel a draft, it was that concrete.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was like a memory,1 an eternally present memory of that consciousness of supreme Love emanated by the Lord onto earth INTO earthto draw it back again to Him. And truly it was the descent of the very essence of the divine nature into the most total divine negation, and thus the abandonment of the divine condition to take on terrestrial darkness, so as to bring Earth back to the divine state. And unless That, that supreme Love, becomes all-powerfully conscious here on Earth, the return can never be definitive.
It came after the vision of the great divine Becoming.2 Since this world is progressive, I was wondering, since it is increasingly becoming the Divine, wont there always be this deeply painful sense of the nondivine, of the state that, compared with the one to come, is not divine? Wont there always be what we call adverse forces, in other words, things that dont harmoniously follow the movement? Then came the answer, the vision of That: No, the moment of this very Possibility is drawing near, the moment for the manifestation of the essence of perfect Love, which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and this ill will that goes with it into a luminous and joyous progression, wholly progressive, wholly comprehensive, thirsting for perfection.
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It happened this morning, with great simplicity, but at the same time it had something so vast and almighty in it, as if the Universal Mother were turning towards the Lord and saying, At last! We are ready.
That was my experience this morning.
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When Satprem published extracts from this conversation in the Ashram Bulletin of April 1962, Mother had this passage modified (over his protests). Instead of "Do not try to be virtuous," she put "Do not try to seem virtuous"; and she added: "There's a drawback here. People never understand anything, or rather they understand everything in their own way. They would take this sentence as an encouragement to get into mischief, to misbehave, to entertain wrong feelings, and then proclaim, 'We are the Lord's favorites!' ... There was something like it in one of Sri Aurobindo's letters, you remembera letter to people who wanted to bring all the impurities in themselves out to the surface; he told them that was definitely not the way!" (See Sri Aurobindo's two letters on psychoanalysis in the Addendum)
Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., XXIV. 1605 ff.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I also remember reading The Tradition, before I met Sri Aurobindo (it was like a novel, a serialized romance of the worlds creation, but it was very evocative; Theon called it The Tradition). That was where I first learned of the universal Mothers first four emanations, when the Lord delegated his creative power to the Mother. And it was identical to the ancient Indian tradition, but told like a nursery story; anyone could understandit was an image, like a movie, and very vivid.
So She made her first four emanations. The first was Consciousness and Light (arising from Sachchidananda); the second was Ananda and Love; the third was Life; and Truth was the fourth. Then, so the story goes, conscious of their infinite power, instead of keeping their connection with the supreme Mother and, through Her, with the Supreme, instead of receiving indications for action from Him and doing things in proper order, they were conscious of their own power and each one took off independently to do as he pleased they had power and they used it. They forgot their Origin. And because of this initial oblivion, Consciousness became unconsciousness, and Light became darkness; Ananda became suffering, Love became hate; Life became Death; and Truth became Falsehood. And they were instantly thrown headlong into what became Matter. According to Theon, the world as we know it is the result of that. And that was the Supreme himself in his first manifestation.
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Buddhism and all similar lines of thought took the shortest path: The desire to exist is what has caused all the trouble. If the Lord had refrained from having this desire, there would have been no world! Its childish, very childish, really a much too human way of looking at the problem.
To see it from the angle of delight of being is qualitatively far superior, but then theres still the problem of why it all became the way it is. The usual reply is: because all things were possible, and this is ONE possibility. But its not a very satisfying feeling: Yes, all right, thats just the way it is, its a fact. People used to ask Theon too, Why did it happen like this? Why? Wait till you get to the other side, then you will know. And meanwhile do whats necessary to get there thats the most urgent thing.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And so according to your mission in the world, you have to find for yourself the right proportion between this work and external, intellectual or organizational work; and then there are the bodys needs, which can be met in the same way, trying to make it possible for the Lord to take delight in them. I have seen this for trivial things: for example, making your bath a pleasant experience, or caring for your hair, or whatever (of course, its been a long time since there have been any of those stupid, petty ideas of personal pleasure), so that these things arent done indifferently, out of habit and necessity, but with a touch of beauty, a touch of charm and delight for the Lord.
There, thats all.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A problem like that reaches a point of such acute tension that you feel you know nothing, understand nothing, you will never understand anything, its hopeless. When I reach that point, I always tilt in the same direction, its always: All right, I adore the Lord, as for the rest, it doesnt matter to me! I enter into a marvelous adoration and let Him do what He wants! Thats how it all ends up for me.
But this would only be suitable for those who have stopped thinking.
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Ultimately, looking at it like any idiot who thinks himself intelligent, one could say: this must be why the Lord created the universe.
For the joy of this You.
0 1962-02-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A line from Savitri constantly haunts or assails meits when the Lord proposes that she come live a blissful life above, and she replies, No, there are still too many battles to wage on earth.2
That went deep into me, and it returns each time difficulties arise, as if to say, Dont complain.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So on the 21st morning I could say quite spontaneously and unhesitatingly, Today the Lord has given me the gift of healing me. (I was speaking in English about the things people had given me, and I said, and the Lord has given me the gift of healing me.)
This explanation is clear; and the healing was the result of tapasya. Its self-explanatory. Something was even saying to my body, to the bodys SUBSTANCE, O unbelieving substance, now you wont be able to say there are no miracles. Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I dont know who, because it doesnt come like something foreign to me any more, its like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but that which knows, whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, From now on, O unbelieving substance, you cant say there are no miracles. Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesnt come from the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; its rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and thats what was being addressed and being shown certain movements, certain vibrations and so forth: You see, from now on you cant say there are no miracles. In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesnt follow the beaten path, but does things in His own way.
There was also that attack (it was rather serious and threw the doctor into a fit of anxiety) which took place, I think, the day before sari distribution.6 The next morning, throughout the distribution, someone else seemed to have taken possession of my body and to be doing what had to be done, taking care of all the difficulties; I was comfortable, serene, simply like a carefree spectator. I had nothing to worry about, someone was. (What someone? Someone, something, I dont know, theres no more difference, its not delineated like that any more; but anyway, it was a being, a force, a consciousness perhaps a part of myself, I dont know; none of this is clear-cut; its quite precise, but not divided, very smoothMo ther makes a rounded gestureno breaks.) Something, then, a will or a force or a consciousness plainly a powerhad taken possession of the body and was doing all the work, looking after everything. I was witnessing everything, smiling. But its gone now. It came specifically for that work (I was in pretty bad shape); when the work was over, it dissolvedit didnt leave abruptly but it became inactive. Afterwards, I felt rather confident. Well in any case, I thought, something similar could happen on the 21st, since it just happened now.
The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of health.
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
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Yes, I thought I didnt see you! But when I went out on the balcony, something suddenly began making me do pranayama! I started doing it and it was funny I had great fun. It was like the Lord entering into me as air, and when it was held inside like that (I was doing it physically at the same time), all the air began to flow out into everybody and do its work in each onewith such a sensation of ease, of tranquil power, and so sure of itself! So comfortably peaceful.
The balcony darshans are interesting.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I always do is say, Well, all right (I say this to the Lord with a smile), if You have now decided I should leave, Ill go willingly.
If He ever gave me a slap, thats when Id get one! I can feel it even while I am saying this.
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You know, all those little rules were enjoined to follow: Above all, dont do that; and be sure to do this, dont forget that. Like ablutions, for instance, or attitudes, or what to eattheres no dearth of them. A mountain of dos and dontsall completely swept away! And swept away to the point where sometimes a rule, something highly recommended (Be sure to do this, be careful to do thatan attitude or an action) becomes an obstacle. I hardly dare say it, but one example is having a regular schedulealways making ablutions at the same hour, always doing japa in the same manner and so on. And I am perfectly aware that Sri Aurobindo himself puts all sorts of trivial obstacles in my wayobstacles I could hurdle with a single second of reflection; he sets them up as if in play. Do you remember the aphorism where he says he was quarreling with the Lord and the Lord made him fall in the mud?2 Thats just what I feel. He puts a stick in my spokes and laughs. So I say, All right, thats enough, I dont give a hoot! Ill do whatever You want, its not my problem; I can do it or not do it, do it this way or that. It has all gone up in smoke now.
What has become constant, though. I shouldnt say it, because its going to get me into trouble again! But anyway, whats trying to be constant is DISCRIMINATION: taking all circumstances, vibrations, relationships, what comes from the people around me, what responds, and putting each in its proper place. A second-to-second discrimination. I know where things are coming from, why they come, their effect, where theyre going to lead me, and so on. Its growing more and more frequent, constant, automaticlike a state of being.
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Ill tell you what I do: I say to the Lord, All right, if thats how it is, well, I am not doing anything any more; I am resting in Your arms and waiting. I actually, concretely (I was about to say materially) do itand then I dont stir. You will do it all, I am not doing anything.And I really stay like that. Immediately, of course, theres a great joy and I dont stir.
For instance, I am completely snowed under with material work, letters, people, matters to arrange and decide, big things to organize, all of it falling on me from every side and trying to take up all my time and energy. At times it really gets too much. So when its too much, I say, All right, Lord, now I will nestle in Your arms. And there I am, no longer thinking, no longer bothering about anything, and I go into Bliss. Usually after ten minutes everything is fine!
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have told you about my dealings with the Lord of Nations on several occasionsits that kind of thing. It can hardly be called collaboration!
The great ones know (I am not speaking of the multitude of minor beings, but the others; there are millions of emanationsemanations by the truckload!but only a few great ones), they know enough to be aware of their own position in the universe and that they will come to an end. They know there is such a thing as the Supreme (although they deny it), and that they are cut off from the Supreme, and that they will come to an end. But they have taken a stand against the Work, the Action, the Progress, and are intent on destroying as much as they can.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, not that. I said two things. One, if I make it through to the end, I may even let it be shown to the public, for the living proof will be there: You dont need to scoffjust see where it leadsHERE! And if the Lord decides its not for this time, well, then I will give it to those who have loved me, who have lived with me, worked with me, endeavored with me, and who respect what was attempted. It will be my parting gift if I go. And I dont intend to.
I certainly hope not!
0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I woke up at two and noticed that the heart had been affected by the attack of this group that is wanting to take my life away from this body, because they know that as long as I am in a body upon earth their purpose cannot succeed. Their first attack was many years ago in vision and action. It happened during the night and I spoke of it to no one. I noted the date, and if I can come out of this crisis, I will find it and give it out. They would have liked me dead years ago. It is they who are responsible for these attacks on my life. Until now I am alive because the Lord wants me to be alive, otherwise I would have gone long ago.
I am no more in my body. I have left the Lord to take care of it, if it is to have the Supramental or not. I know, and I have also said, that now is the last fight. If the purpose for which this body is alive is to be fulfilled, that is to say, the first steps towards the Supramental transformation, then it will continue today. It is the Lords decision. I am not even asking what He has decided. If the body is incapable of bearing the fight, if it has to be dissolved, then humanity will pass through a critical time. What the Asuric Force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation. But everybody must know that it is not true, it is not Sri Aurobindos teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good and great and compassionate and divine. Et cest Lui qui aura la victoire finale.1
Now, individually, if you want to help, you have only to pray. What the Lord wants will be done. Whatever He wills, He will do with this body, which is a poor thing.
(Sometime later, when the communication was read to her.)
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It cant go on. They must be defeated or else this body is defeated. All depends on what the Lord decides.
It is the battlefield. How far it can resist I dont know. After all, it depends on Him. He knows if the time has come or not, the time for the beginning of the Victory then the body will survive. If not, in any case, my love and consciousness will be there.
0 1962-04-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And our consciousness is the same, absolutely the same as the Lords. There was no difference, no difference at all.
We are That, we are That, we are That.
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Otherwise, you know, I would not have consented. If That had not agreed, I would have said to my body, Go on, keep going, move and it would have gone on. It stopped because That said yes. And then I understood that that whole so-called illness was necessary for the Work. So I let myself go. And then what I told you about happened: this body was consigned to the care of three people, who looked after it marvelously, by the wayreally, it filled me with constant admirationa selflessness, a care oh, it was wonderful! I was saying to the Lord the whole time, Truly, Lord, You have arranged all the material conditions in an absolutely marvelous, incredible way, bringing together whatever is necessary, and placing around me people beyond all praise. For at least two weeks they had a hard time of itquite hard. The body was a wreck, you know! (Mother laughs) They had to think of everything, decide everything, take care of everything. And they looked after it very, very wellreally very well.
Its a wonderful story, seen as I see it. And I have observed it very carefully: it isnt an ordinary story seen with an exceptional knowledge, but a true Knowledge and a true Consciousness witnessing an exceptional story. Those three people may not be aware of how utterly exceptional it is, but thats simply because their consciousness is not sufficiently awake. But they too have been, and continue to be, exceptional.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And suddenly, when I let myself go. You know, I have been advised (by the Lord!) to relax, relax, relax. He doesnt want action to result from the tension of an individual will; so relaxall right, relax. But when you relax and then suddenly get a horrible pain, you say Hey!but at the same time I laugh! What the people around me must think. I am crying and laughing! (Mother laughs.)
Well.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only thing to do is not torment yourself and to say to the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), Its up to You. Rid me of this. And it is very effective. Very effective. At times I have had old things like that dissolved in a flash; certain inveterate little habitsso stupid, but so ingrained you cant get rid of them. Then, while doing japa or walking or meditating or whatever, suddenly the flame flares up and (you have really had enough of it; it disgusts you, you want it to change, you really want the change) and you say to the Lord, I cant do it on my own. (You very sincerely know you cant do it; you have tried and tried and tried and have achieved exactly nothingyou cant do it.) Well then, I offer it to YouYou do it. Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading away. It is simply wonderful. You know how Sri Aurobindo used to take away someones pain? Its exactly the same. Certain habits bound up with the bodys formation.
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its neither you nor me nor Tom, Dick or Harry nor the Lord thats just the way it is. Theres a reason behind it were too obtuse to understand.
Yes, but its getting to be a pretty long reason. I have the feeling its all going to crack one day.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It will be as the Lord decides.
(silence)
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And I am more and more aware that people really panicked this time; they imagined I was going to die I could have died, had the Lord willed it. But it has been a sort of death, thats for suresure, sure, surealthough I dont say so, because. After all, one must have some regard for peoples common sense!
But really, if I let myself go one step further I would say that I was dead and have come back to life. But I dont say it.
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This greatly objectifies my situation, which has nothing to do with an illness to be cured! I cant be cured! It is a work of transformation. At any moment, if the Lord decides its hopeless, it will be hopeless, finished; and no matter what happens, if the Lord has decided that Ill go right to the end of the experience, then Ill go right to the end.
That whole way of seeing, feeling and reacting belongs really to another world. Really to another world to such a degree that if I had no regard for peoples peace of mind I would say, I dont know whether I am dead or alive. Because there is a life, a type of life vibration that is completely independent of. No, Ill put it another way: the way people ordinarily feel life, feel that they are alive, is intimately linked with a certain sensation they have of their bodies and of themselves. If you totally eliminate that sensation, the type of relation that allows people to say I am alive well, eliminate that, but then how can you say, I am alive, or I am not alive? The distinction NO LONGER EXISTS. Well, for me, it has been completely eliminated. That night April 12-13, it was definitively swept out of me. It has never come back. Its something that seems impossible now. So what they mean by I am alive is I cant say I am alive the way they doits something else entirely.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then after all, if its lost, its lost! It will have been the Lords decision, so it doesnt matter.
the Lord we must help Him out a little!
He doesnt know the job! (Mother laughs)
0 1962-07-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The true life in its SIMPLE purity cannot come until until the Lord Himself is doing and deciding everything, acting, realizing, living, having the experience. When everything is in His hands and you have absolutely nothing to do and dont even know WHERE YOU ARE, then then it comes in its purity, not before.
This is the difference, the radical difference, since the experience of [April 13]: there is nothing but the Lord. All the rest what is it? No more than a habit of speaking (not even a habit of thinking, thats all gone), a habit of speaking; so the less one speaks, the happier one is. Otherwise nothing. And what else could there be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts.
Then everything comes spontaneously, easily, with such great simplicity.
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother listens to Satprem read a passage from the last conversation in which she says: This is the radical difference since the experience of April 13: there is nothing but the Lord. All the rest what is it? No more than a habit of speaking (not even a habit of thinking, thats all gone). Otherwise nothing. And what else could there be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts.)
You know, theres the same vibration here as in to die unto death. Its something yes, I think we could say it is His Presence His creative Power. It is a special vibration. Dont you feel something like like a pure superelectricity?
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When you read those words it suddenly came to me that it must be the Lords Power within material vibrations.
Its interesting, worth investigating.
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And simultaneously there is an automatic perception of timeclock timewhich is rather curious (everything is regulated by the comings and goings of the people around me, you see: such a thing at this time, such a thing at that time), I dont need to hear the clock I am warned just before it strikes. I repeat one part of the japa in a particular way while lying down, because the Power is greater (these arent meditations, they are actions), and another part while walking. So I stay stretched out for a certain time, I walk for a certain time, and at a fixed hour this one goes, another comes, and so on. But none of them are people; I dont tell them so, but theyre not people: they are movements of the Lord. And its extremely interestingone of the Lords movements will have this particular character, another movement will have a different type of vibration, and they all harmonize very nicely into a whole. But I know what time it is just before the clock strikes: six oclock, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, like that. Not with the words six, seven, but: its time, its time, its time. And along with thisthis clockwork precision I have that other notion of time which is quite different, its. Although its a very rigid convention, our time is a living formation with its own living power here in the world of action. The other time is the rhythm of consciousness. So according to the intensity of the Presence (theres a concentration and an expansion, I mean), according to this pulsationwhich can vary, its not regular and mechanicalwalking around the room takes either no time at all, or else an ENORMOUS amount of time. But this doesnt interfere with the other time, theres no contradiction. Our time is on a different plane, something far more external; but it has its usefulness and its own law, and the one doesnt hinder the other.4
And its gradually becoming foreseeable that.5
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like an image. You see, the body is stretched out here on the chaise longue. You know how it is when experiments are done on animals? Its something like that the body is there as the subject of an experiment. Then theres my consciousness, the part focused on the earthly experience and the present transformation (its what I mean when I say I). And then the Lord. I say the Lord Ive adopted that because its the best way of putting it and the easiest for me, but I never, NEVER think of a being. For me, its a simultaneous contact with the Eternal, the Infinite, the Vast, the Totality of everything the totality of everything: all that is, all that has been, all that will be, everything. Words spoil it, but its like thatautomaticallywith consciousness, sweetness and SOLICITUDE. With all the qualities a perfect Personality can offer (I dont know if you follow me, but thats the way it is). And That (I use all these words to say it, and three-fourths is left out) is a spontaneous, constant, immediate experience. So the I I spoke of asks that the body may have the experience, or at least an initial taste, even a shadow of the experience of this Love. And each time its asked for, it comes INSTANTLY. Then I see the three together1in my consciousness and perception the three are together and I see that this Love is dosed out and maintained in exact proportion to what the body can bear.
The body is aware of this and is a little sad about it. But immediately comes something soothing, calming, making it vast. The body instantly senses the immensity and regains its calm.
This experience I am describing is exactly what happened yesterday (it happens every day, but yesterday it was especially clear). And its still here I am seeing it as I saw it, its still here. Actually, it is always herealways herethough its more striking when the body is stretched out, motionless in the Yoga. The experience is slightly different when walking because that involves action. When the body walks, it acts on behalf of everything thats related to it, hence the action is vaster and more powerful. But when it is stretched out and asks the Lord to take possession of it, it really asks with all its aspiration. And the very intensity of the aspiration brings in the possibility of a slight emotional vibration. But it is immediately drowned in the immobile immensity of matter, which senses the Divine Descent like a leaven that makes dough rise thats it exactly, the terrestrial immensity of matter and the leavening action of the Divine Descent. The intensity of these vibrations is above and beyond anything we are used to feeling the vital seems dull and flat in comparison. And what a Wisdom! It knows how to make use of time that is, it actually changes itself into timeso as to minimize the possibilities of damage.
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
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This body-consciousness has a will; it is constantly, constantly calling upon the Lords will: Lord, take possession of this, take possession of that, take. Theres no question of taking possession of the will, that was done ages ago, but: Take possession of these cells, those cells, this, that. It is the BODYS aspiration. Well, the blow wasnt caused by this will acting in the body; the blow didnt come directly from the body, but from something that had slipped in through an unconscious element; and the body simply erased, or absorbed, digested this unconsciousness and the thing vanished without a trace!
And do you know how this body is? It immediately began wondering (I was quietly watching it all from above), What if (ifs are always idiotic but its an old bodily habit), what if the object had been sharp, would the results have been so easy to annul? (Mother laughs) Then I distinctly heard someone reply (I am putting it into words), You idiot! That wouldnt have happened in the first place! That is, the necessary protection would have been there. The protection intervenes only when necessary, not just for the fun of it. You numbskull, it said (I am translating freely), how silly can you be! It wouldnt have happened.
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You just cant imagineyou CANNOT. When I try to see life as most people see it (its getting increasingly difficult! but anyhow), the way people ordinarily see it, it becomes a big mishmash! I understand nothing, it makes no more sensenothing makes sense. Simply, for the sake of the action, I have been warned that nobody can understandNOBODY can comprehend to what extent the Lord is intermingled, is present and active in all things.
In all things.
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For instance, sometimes He tells me (of course its not external; its an extremely delicate working, and sort of automatic; no time elapses between the order and its execution: theyre not two movements but one single thing) when He says Speak, or when He says Keep silentlike the other day when, as you pointed out, I stopped in the middle of a sentenceits that all of a sudden (Mother makes a gesture as if she were unable to speak, or as if suddenly held by silence). At other times it pours out like its doing now. And I dont hear an order, I dont feel an order: I LIVE the Order; and its so patently the Lords that it seems stupid to even mention it.
Oh, such humorous things happen. The other day I saw T. Her old mother lives in Moscow; shes very old and on her deathbed, and has asked T. to come see her. So T. is going to go there. Its a risky adventure. She wrote to ask if she could see me before leaving (I dont see anyone and I had no intention of receiving her, but it was decided in spite of me and I let her come). She had been told not to speak, but thats impossible for such a chatterbox! So she began by lamenting (probably thinking it was the thing to do) over my serious illness and god knows what else I didnt listen. I simply told her, No, its not that, its the yoga. Then, with the effervescence of an ignorant child: Yoga! But you shouldnt be doing yoga! You shouldnt be. Just then, the Lords face came ( the Lords face often takes on Sri Aurobindos appearancean idealized Sri Aurobindo, not exactly as he was physically), and it came here (right up against Mothers face), and it was blue. Then It made my finger touch her cheek, like this (Mother seems to tap T.s cheek), and It told that child, Little children dont know what theyre talking about. And it was so thoroughly Him! He was speaking and I saw only Him, his appearance: Little children dont know what theyre talking about.
I dont know how I looked (I was enjoying myself enormously), but she must have felt something (she didnt say a word), she must at least have felt something strange because a shudder went through her being. And I was told that when she left, she said, I may come back before I leave, but I wont ask to see Mother! (Mother laughs.)
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The body, the "I," and the Lord.
"The regret of the person who bumped me," Mother specified. "This person's state of consciousness entered the body along with the blow. And this kind of regret for having given a blow was an ego movement. All these vibrations accompanied the blow and that's what the body had to annul in order to annul the result."
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats all I had told him (not in great detail, in a few words). Then I sat down near him and he began talking with Richard, about the world, yoga, the futureall kinds of thingswhat was going to happen (he already knew the war would break out; this was 1914, war broke out in August, and he knew it towards the end of March or early April). So the two of them talked and talked and talkedgreat speculations. It didnt interest me in the least, I didnt listen. All these things belonged to the past, I had seen it all (I too had had my visions and revelations). I was simply sitting beside him on the floor (he was sitting in a chair with Richard facing him across a table, and they were talking). I was just sitting there, not listening. I dont know how long they went on, but all at once I felt a great Force come into mea peace, a silence, something massive! It came, did this (Mother sweeps her hand across her forehead), descended and stopped here (gesture at the chest).4 When they finished talking, I got up and left. And then I noticed that not a thought remained I no longer knew anything or understood anything, I was absolutely BLANK. So I gave thanks to the Lord and thanked Sri Aurobindo in my heart.
And I was very careful not to disturb it; I held it like that for I dont know how long, eight or ten days. Nothingnot one idea, not one thought, nothinga complete BLANK. In other words, from the outside, it must have looked like total idiocy.
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But I have never been able to do it for anyonenot like that, with such plenitudenever, never. Its fantastic! It was stupendous! Truly we can say that only the Lord can do such a thing, He alone. Without the slightest effort, without even seeming to he didnt even seem to concentrate, nothing, just like that. You never met him, did you?
Yes, I had a darshan.
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These vibrations have various qualities; if they were expressed through a mental observation, it would be done through such things as taste, color, and so forth, everything Ive just mentioned1but thats not how theyre expressed. They come almost exclusively as sensations, but those sensations some, I mean some vibrations, have rounded edges. Some come horizontally (I was in fact studying everything that comes horizontally), others result from the state of consciousness (vertical gesture from top to bottom). While at the same time, others are. Yes, its like looking through a high-powered microscope: some are rounded, others pointed; some are darker, some brighter. Some are very upsetting to the body, and some even feel dangerous. On the other hand, certain ones make the body receptive to the vibration, which we might call the Lords Vibration, the supreme Vibration. You see, all this is the outcome of a discipline, a tapasya, for preparing the body to receive the Lords Vibrations (the first step is receiving, being able to receive them; afterwards you have to hold on to and then manifest them). Those vibrations are unmistakable, they are something else entirely. But other vibrations are helpful, beneficial, while still others are disruptive, contradictory.
And each one is beginning to reveal its own particular nature. There are those stemming from peoples thoughts (I sense them in my body, not in the mind: the material consequence of peoples psychological state, and even their state of health). Some things are general and last a bit longer; others are momentary, lasting only a few seconds. The first step is to study the different vibrational qualitiesyou could practically draw diagrams: if we had a machine sensitive enough to record these things, it would produce all kinds of zigs and zags.2 Certain vibrations immediately stop or change or are dissolved or repelled. Others are adopted, as it were, and transformed. The majority are simply pushed back and worked on from a distancequite a distance! I keep them at a fair distance (Mother laughs). Very few are let in. But some are let in for the sake of the experience, to see how much they upset the body. Theres also the effect of peoples permanent auras: I know a certain person is arriving by his auras effect on the body; because (laughing) each vibration has its particular effect on the bodyperfectly prosaic things, maybe, but by studying them you realize that each thing has its own law.
0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a sort of reply to something I am translating in The Synthesis of Yoga. You know, there are these three aspects that must always be kept united in ones consciousness: jiva (the individual), Shakti, and Ishwara (the Supreme). He gives a wonderful description of how we have all three together in a kind of inner hierarchy. So while reading that (as I translate I have all the experiences, they come spontaneously), I kept saying to myself, No, that jiva hampers me; that jiva hems me in! Its not natural to me. Whats natural to me is its probably Mahashakti. There is always that sense of creative Power, and of the Lord. The infinite, marvelous, innumerable joy of the Lord, you see, which is so intermingled with the Poweryou can sense the presence of the Lord, yet you cannot distinguish or differentiate between the two. Its all a delectable play. So to introduce the individual, the jiva, into this spoils everything, makes everything so small!
I wanted to put all this into my sentence.
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Oh, during those hours the Presence lasted this morning, what I say here became so obvious, so obvious! You see (theres nothing but the Lord, of course), its exactly as if the Lord were seeing all things (and this body is part of what He sees!), seeing all things and laughing, laughingforever laughing at all the tragedy the tragedy of this existence! And I was seeing Him right here, you know, there was nothing but Himimmense, marvelous, yet at the same time scaled to the size of the earth, almost to the size of this room, you could say! He was here, in everythingin all the past, all the future, in all places, in everything. And He was smiling, smiling with the consciousness of that joyits not joy, joy sounds pallid. And there was no excitement, nothing of what human consciousness mixes into these things, only an eternal certitude, a crystal clear vision of the most MINUTE details. And all of this simultaneously, just like that, with a smile. And although I cant say what is He and what is me, I have the joy of perceiving Him (that isnt abolished), and yet I am nowhere in particular! Still I have the joy, I feel the joy of perceiving Him.
Its difficult to describe. It lasted from around midnight until eight oclock.
0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must learn to be immobile, silent, and let the Lord speak through you; its much better than deciding in advance, much better. Personally, the Lord has never failed me. I have found myself hundreds of times in very difficult situations; I wouldnt do anything, I would say, All right, lets see what happens! And of course, what happened was always for the best. And I had nothing to do with itit wasnt me, it was the Lord.
The less one explains, the less one plans, the betteralways, always.
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Perhaps there once was a jiva. I dont know, I dont remember; all I remember now is ultimately, an evolving universe, with a special concentration on the affairs of the earth, because the Lord has decided that the time has come to to change something. Thats all. To change something.
(silence)
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once, when I saw how it was, I complained a bit to the Lord: Lord, why did you make the body this way for doing this kind of work? Just look at it! He answered me (laughing), Its the best that could be done. So I said Thank you! and kept quiet.
And thats probably true! It has some good points: what they call stubborn in Englishyou know (Mother plants down her two fists and holds them motionless). And stubbornness is an essentially British quality, so theres no other word for it. The body is stubborn; and thats what is needed.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the other end is the new creation, so its clear that. How MANY steps will it take, how many incomplete or imperfect things, approximations, attemptshow many MINUSCULE realizations for you to simply acknowledge, Yes, indeed, were on the way? For how many oh, you could practically say centuries will it be like this before the glorious body of a supramental being appears? Something came yesterday evening (it seemed like mere excitation to me); it was a power of creative imagination attempting to visualize supramental forms, beings that live in other worlds, and all sorts of things like that. I saw many things. But it seemed so like champagne bubbles! Thats all very nice, I said, for widening my power of imagination so I can present these forms to the Lord. But its not necessary! (Mother laughs) It really seemed so. There was a time when I considered it a great creative power (and many things that I saw in those moments of super-creativity, super-imagination, were actually realized years later on earth), and this time it came again (perhaps to give me a little fun, a little spectacle along the way), it came and I looked at it; I could see all its power, I could see it was something trying to materialize in the future, and I said, What histrionics! Why go through all these theatrics? Jugglers.
And it was supramental light, it originated in supramental light. How beings from other worlds would relate with the future beings, and all sorts of similar thingsbedtime stories.
But the vibration was there, you see, high above and all around the earth, very powerful (it was all around the earth) and very strong, it seemed to be coming from other parts of the universe and trying to enter the earths atmosphere to help it participate in those new combinations. And it all seemed like childishness to me the whole universe seemed to be living in childishness. There was something so tranquil hereso tranquil, so calm and unhurried, not interested in showing anything off, but capable of living in an eternity of quiet effort and progress. It was here, immobile, watching all these things. Finally (the spectacle lasted all evening) when I lay down in bed for the night, I said to the Lord, I dont need diversions, I dont need to see encouraging things I only want to work calmly, quietly, IN You. You, You are the worker; You are here and You alone exist. You are the realizer. Then all grew silent, still, motionlessand the excitement waned.
So you see, theres excitement in the universe too, if youre not careful! But my impression is that it simply complicates thingsit clouds the issue, you know, it complicates things. Then you have to wait for the bubbles to subside before you can calmly set off again on your way towards the goal.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a strange sensation, a bizarre perception of both the true functioning and the functioning distorted by the sense of being an individual body. Theyre not even you cant even say theyre superimposed, theyre almost simultaneous, and thats why it is so hard to explain. A number of things are malfunctioning in the body; I dont know if they can be called illnesses (maybe the doctors would call them illnesses), but in any case, theyre malfunctionings in the bodys organs: the heart, the stomach, the intestines, the lungs and so on. And at the same time theres (it cant be called a functioning) the true state. And thus certain disorders appear only when the consciousness as if the consciousness were pulled or pushed or poised in a certain way, and then, those malfunctionings INSTANTLY appearnot as a consequence: I mean the consciousness becomes aware of their existence. And if the consciousness stays in that position long enough, there are what we conventionally call consequences: the malfunctioning has its consequences (tiny things, such as physical discomforts, for instance). And if through (is it yogic discipline, is it the Lords intervention? Call it what you will) but if the consciousness regains its true position, the consequences cease IMMEDIATELY. Sometimes, though, its like this (Mother makes a gesture of an overlapping or interpenetration by interlacing the fingers of her two hands), in other words, this way, then that, this way, then that (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand back and forth through the fingers of her left to show the consciousness alternating between two states), this position, then that position, this one, then that one. This movement takes only a few seconds, so I can almost perceive the two functionings simultaneously. Thats what gave me the knowledge of the process, otherwise I wouldnt understand; I would simply think I am falling from one state into another. Thats not it, its just. The substance, the vibrations, everything is probably following its normal course, you see, and all that is really changing is the way consciousness perceives things.
So pushing this knowledge to its limit that is, applying it generallylife (what we usually call life, the physical life of the body) and death are THE SAME THING, simultaneous its just that the consciousness moves back and forth, back and forth (same gesture). I dont know if I am making myself clear. But its fantastic.
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Although perhaps it means we are drawing closer to the knowledge of the thingby knowledge I mean the power to change it, of course. If you have power over something, its because you know it; knowing a thing means being able to create it, or change it, to make it last or cease to bein other words it is Power. Thats what knowing means. All the rest is explanations the mind gives to itself. And I can feel that something (something! Well, what Sri Aurobindo calls the Lord of Yoga: the part of the Supreme concerned with terrestrial evolution) is leading me towards the discovery of that Power that Knowledgenaturally by the only possible means: experience. And with great care, for I can feel that.
Its going as fast as it possibly can.
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Nothing. Or do pranam1 to him, thats all, it doesnt matter. Personally, I could do pranam before a puppy dog, mon petit, in all sincerityseeing the Lord in it. You have only to think of the Lord, no?
In fact, thats what I always do.
Think of the Lord, thats all.
And be polite.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is a fairly common experience. When it occurs, and for some time afterwards (not very long), everything seems to organize itself quite naturally around that Light. Then, little by little, it blends with all the rest. The intellectual awareness of it remains, formulated in one way or another that much is left but its like an empty husk. It no longer has the driving force that transforms all movements of the being in the image of that Light. And this is what Sri Aurobindo means: the world moves fast, the Lord moves ever forward, and all that remains is but a trail He leaves in His wake: it no longer has the same instantaneous and almighty force it had at the MOMENT He projected it into the world.
Its like a rain of truth falling, and anyone who can catch even a drop of it receives a revelation. But unless they themselves advance at a fantastic pace, the Lord and His rain of truth will already be far, far away, and theyll have to run very fast to catch up!
This is an image I have always seen.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something is, and simultaneously its opposite exists. Well, for us it cant be both yes and no at the same time; but for the Lord its CONSTANTLY both yes and no at the same time!
Its the same with our notion of space. I am here, we say, therefore you are not here. But I am here and you are here and all is here! (Mother laughs) But you cant understand this unless you go beyond the notion of space and time.
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Actually, if you look at things closely, youre forced to conclude that the Lord is acting out a tremendous comedy for Himself, that the Manifestation is a comedy Hes playing with and for Himself!
He has put Himself in the role of spectator and Hes watching Himself. And to watch Himself, He has to accept the notion of time and spaceo therwise He cant watch Himself! And immediately the whole comedy begins. But its a comedy and nothing more!
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In fact theres no such thing as error. There are only things that seem impossible because we dont know that the Lord is all possibility and can do whatever He wants, any way He wants. We just cant get it through our heads: This can be, but that cant, we keep saying. But its not true! Everything is possible, and only our own stupidity says that something cant be.
Difficult to say anything reasonable for the Bulletin.
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Theres a person I wont name who has read Sri Aurobindos books and thought he understood them. He has been following a yogic discipline (anyway, he thought he was doing yoga) and he pulled down the Force. The Force responded (Mother laughs). He wound up with a headache! He got frightened and wrote to me in these exact words: This Force is the Lords Force (which is true, quite true), and it has turned into fear. So (Mother laughs) fear is the Lords principal perversion. There you have it. He read in books that the Lord is behind everything, that there is nothing that isnt the Lord; so its the Lord who has become perverted in His manifestation, naturally. The Force of the Lord came to help him and was changed into fear, so the Lords principal perversion is fear!
If you read that, youd say he was going off his rocker.
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This is plainly what he meant: Error is one of the innumerable, infinite possibilities (infinite means that absolutely nothing is outside the possibility of being). So where is there room for error in this? Its WE who call it error, its totally arbitrary. Thats an error, we say but in relation to what? To our judgment of what is true, yes, but certainly not in relation to the Lords judgment, since it is part of Him!
Few people can bear this widening of understanding.
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Theres nothing to sayif you sincerely want to get out of it, its really not so difficult: theres nothing to do but leave everything to the Lord. And He does it all. He does it all, He is its so wonderful! So wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a quite ordinary intelligence, and then He simply shows you how to put that intelligence aside, lay it to rest: There now, keep still, dont stir, dont bother me; I dont need you. And then a door opensyou dont even feel you have to open it; its wide open, and youre led through to the other side. Its Someone else who does all this, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
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You find yourself facing a so-called problem: What am I to say? What am I to do? How should I act? There is nothing to do! Nothing but to say to the Lord, You see, heres the situation. Thats all. And then keep very still. And spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflecting, without calculating, without doing anything, anything whatsoever, without the slightest effort you do what must be done. But its the Lord who does it, its no longer you. He does it, He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words in your mouth or under your penHe does it all, all, all, all, and you have nothing more to do, nothing but let yourself live in bliss.
I am beginning to be convinced that people dont really want it.
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Yes, out of habit it all tries to start up again. But all you need to say is, Look, Lord; see, see how it is. Thats all. Look at this, Lord, look at that, look at this idiot here and its over. Immediately. And the change comes automatically, mon petit, without the slightest effort. Simply simply be sincere, in other words, TRULY want the right thing. One is quite conscious of being powerless, utterly incompetent: more and more, I feel that this amalgam of matter, of cells and all the rest, is just pitiful! Pitiful. I dont know, under certain conditions people may feel powerful, wonderful, luminous, competent but as far as I am concerned, thats because they have no idea what theyre really like! When you really see what youre made of its nothing, really nothing. But its capable of anything, provided provided you let the Lord do it. The trouble is that something always wants to do things on its own. If it werent like that.
People come, letters arrive, various circumstances and problems arise (its over now, but at the timeeven a year ago that kind of thing was sometimes a problem for me). Well, right away, I (Mother opens her hands in front of her forehead, palms upwards, as though presenting the problem to the Lord): Here, Lord, look at this. All I am good for is (same gesture): I am presenting it to You, Lord. And then I keep still, I just keep still: I wont move unless You move me, I wont speak unless You make me speak. And then you stop thinking about it. You think about it just for a second, long enough to do this (same gesture). It comes in like this, then up it goes (gesture showing a problem coming to Mother from one side and being sent above). And later, you suddenly realize youre speaking or acting or making a decision or writing a letter or and He has done it all.
But one can be full of excellent goodwill and still want to Do things. And thats what complicates everything. Or else theres a lack of faith, a lack of belief in the Lords abilityyou think you have to do things yourself because He doesnt know how! (Mother laughs) This sort of stupidity is very widespread, you know: How can He see these things? Were living in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood? But in fact He does see things as they are!
And I am not talking about people with no intelligence, but about intelligent people, people who are trying. Theres still a sort of conviction in them somewhere, even in those who know that were living in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that theres a Lord who is all truth. Well, they reason that precisely because He is all truth, He wont understand (Mother laughs). He wont understand our falsehood, I have to deal with it on my own. This is a very predominant, very widespread attitude.
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I often wonder: when one prays to the Lord, when one wants to tell Him that somethings wrong, I always feel its necessary to concentrate very hard because its really something Far you have to call. But is this true? Or is it really.
It depends on us!
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Not at all, mon petit! You just call on the Lord and say Now then: heres the program. And thats enoughit comes.
It comes.
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Perhaps I am moving as fast as the Lord!3
When she next saw Satprem, Mother added the following correction: "After you left, they came. It's not I who remembered they MADE me remember! There was Saraswati saying, 'What about my sitar?' And Krishna, 'What about my flute?' (Mother laughs) There was another one also, I don't remember who. They were really upset! They told me right away, 'What are you talking about! We LOVE music.' All right. 'Fine,' I said (Mother laughs). It's trueKrishna is a great musician, and Saraswati is the perfection of expression.... Now that we have acknowledged their merits (Mother bows), go on with your reading."
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if you can look at things from that angle, because its only one angle. Certainly if we asked the Lord, Whats the use of it? He would either say Its all the same to Me, or Its none of your business, or I get some fun out of it that would be enough for Him!
But.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My method is essentially very simple: for each thing that comes, I say, Here, Lord, its for You; change it, transform it. A work of offering and dedication (gesture of presenting something to the Light). And this morning there was a sort of replynot exactly to a question, but as though I were wondering How do I do it? (because the Lord tells me I am here for His work), How do I do His work? Whats the new way of doing the Work? We know all the old ways, but whats the new way? And the reply came, very concrete, without words: By bringing the two extremes together. Everything you see, everything that comes to you or that you discover is automatically put in the presence of the Most High, of the Supreme. You join the two extremes. Your whole work is to make the junction.
And now you read me all this! Its as if you were explaining itdont you find that interesting! (Mother laughs) I find it VERY interesting.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know its the will of that Asura Ive mentioned to you several times, the Lord of Falsehood who was born the Lord of Truth, and who knows that his hour is at hand (at hand relative to that world there) and has declared he will cause as much havoc as he can before disappearing. Quite recently, just before the present conflict broke out, I went to a realm in the vital world which is right above the earth, like a platform (not a mountain top, but a spot where you get an overall view, like the bridge of a ship, for instance, where the captain stands; it was a place like that in the vital world, overlooking all terrestrial life). I went there it was rather dark, very dark in factand that tall being was there (hes quite tall, higher than this roomMo ther looks up at the ceilinghe likes to look tall). Hes very tall and all black. (Thats more or less his natural state; he appears to humans blazing with light, but that doesnt fool someone with inner vision: its an icy light. But some people are fooled and take him for the supreme God. Anyway, thats an aside.) So he was there and I went to himnot to him: I went to that place and found him there. He was gloating and told me to take a look around.
From there you had a panoramic view of everything. And no sooner did I arrive than a storm broke outa terrible storm. I kept watching, and then I saw in this direction (I dont know whether it was north, south or west, but it was this direction: Mother points to the north), I saw two nearly simultaneous flashes of lightning. The first one (I was looking north, I was quite conscious of facing north) the first one, a terrific bolt, came and fell from the east; and just a moment after, very soon after, another came from the west. The two didnt come together, but they fell on the same spotthey didnt meet but they fell on the same spot. It was pitch dark, the earth and everything was dark, you couldnt see a thing, and suddenly those two flashes of lightning lit up the area where they fell, making a dreadful din, and (my field of vision was confined to that area; all the rest was in darkness, you see) it burst into flames! Everything was set ablaze. In the lightning flashes you could distinguish the tops of monuments, houses, all sorts of things, and then everything burst into flames: a dreadful conflagration.
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Ive had my eye on this gentleman since the Second World War (and even earlier), and I know thats just what he wants. He has foretold all sorts of catastrophic things. So I suppose thats what X is seeing too, without knowing where it comes from I dont know. I wonder. At any rate, he wrote it so categorically that you might nearly think he wanted it! I cant believe he wants it. I simply replied, Well, yes, its ONE possibility. Which of the two will prevail? That, I dont know. Its a secret the Lord doesnt reveal because He thinks (and this is altogether certain) that it wouldnt be good to know whats going to happenwe wouldnt do what had to be done. Its always that way: we dont know whats going to happen because then we wouldnt do what had to be done.
I do what He tells me to do, but He doesnt say what the consequences will be. And I dont ask Him; I know its none of my business.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres no longer any hope that a human being can give protection by his own powerit doesnt work any more. If the Lord is protecting you, fine, nothing will happen to you. But as far as knowing what Hes going to decide. For if He decides upon such a destruction, it means the earth truly needs itotherwise He wouldnt decide it.
Anyway, its best not to think about itwell see soon enough. Well see from this world here or from a more subtle one (laughing), thats all.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lord is enjoying himself!
The November 24 Darshan.
0 1962-12-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, my usual answer, the only answer that has some weight with those beings, is Its not up to me. Its up to the Lord, address yourselves to Him. Then they keep quiet. They come back another time, hoping to succeed, and the response is always the same, which they find somewhat discouraging. After a while its over. But really, everything imaginable; and precisely for those who were progressing steadily: a collapse into all the old errors and stupidities. And then a sort of hate coming out of everything and everybody and hurled at me, with this inevitable conclusion: What are you doing here! Go away, youre not wanted. Nobody wants you, cant you see that! Its not up to me, its none of my business. Wanted or not, I am here for as long as the Lord keeps me here; when He no longer wants to keep me here, Hell make me go, thats allits none of my business. That calms them down, its the only thing that calms them down. But it doesnt discourage them!
Now I am just waiting for the hurricane to pass.
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Actively, theres only one thing to do: Its not up to me, its the Lord who decides. Its the Lord who acts, its the Lord who organizes everything and to top it off, its even the Lord who sends you away! That irks them more than anything! (Mother laughs.)
Rightly or wrongly, Satprem did not keep the recording of this conversation, not to obey Mother, for he was never very obedient, but because the words that follow rent his heart. He didn't know at the time how very true they all were.
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, I understand! Because its true, you know, that an Asura is behind it allnot Christ! Sri Aurobindo considered Christ an Avatar (a minor form of Avatar). One emanation of the Divines aspect of Love, he always said. But what people have made of him! Besides, the religion was founded two hundred years after his death. And its nothing but a political construction, a tool for domination, built with the Lord of Falsehood in the background, who, in his usual fashion, took something true and twisted it.
Its a real hodgepodge, that religion the number of sects! The only common ground is the divinity of Christ, and it became asuric when he was made out to be unique: there has been but ONE incarnation, Christ. Thats just where it all went wrong.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was difficult and it attracts a lot of. Its like another type of exercise, as if my body were now being taught other kinds of things, another way of being, you understand, another way. And its trying to find a harmony, the equilibrium of a constant harmony. But its very, very, very difficult. Its not at all the usual condition: in ordinary life, the cells are accustomed to a very restless and unexpected life, with ups and downs, peaks of intense sensation, now sorrow, now pleasure, now acute pain, now something very pleasantall of this jumbled up in a sort of chaos. And I have realized that for the people here, even those near me, its even worse than that! This doesnt make sense to me any more. On its own the body is naturally in a sort of gently undulating movement, a very harmonious, very peaceful, very quiet movement. And when its not forced into outer activity theres such a wonderful sense of the divine Presence everywhere, everywherein it, around it, over it, in everything, everywhere and so concrete! (Mother touches her hands, her arms, her face, as if she were bathing in the Lord.) Its really inexpressible. And well, THATS what it wants to have ALL THE TIME, in all circumstances, even when its forced to have contacts with the outside. So I cant go too quickly; things like the balcony cause a bit too much pressure, and the body starts feeling a little unsure of itself.
Yesterday, for instance, I had to see F. and R., since they had just arrived the day before. I spent three-quarters of an hour with them, and by the time it was over they had literally EMPTIED the atmosphere of all spiritual senseit had become empty and hollow. It took me two or three minutes of concentration (which isnt so long) to bring it all back to normal.
0 1963-01-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If the inner being the true beingis the ruler, the power of the true being makes the body act automatically; but then it doesnt grow conscious of its own change, it doesnt collaborate in its change, so for the change to happen it would take maybe millennia. The true being has to be like this (gesture to the background, standing back) and the body has to do everything BY ITSELF, in other words, contain the Lord, receive the Lord, give itself to the Lord, BE the Lord. It does aspireoh, its intense, aflame thats very good. But the Lord (smiling) doesnt conform to the ordinary habit! So all the habits, the minute He just tries to take possession of one function or another, even partially (not totally), all the interrelationships, all the movements are changed instantlypanic. Panic at the particular spot. And the result: you faint, or you are just about to faint, or you have an excruciating pain, or anyway something APPARENTLY breaks down completely. So whats to be done? Wait patiently until that small number or large number of cells, that little spot of consciousness, has learned its lesson. It takes one day, two days, three days, then the chaotic, upsetting big event calms down, is explained, and those particular cells say to themselves (or begin saying to themselves), God, how dumb we are! It takes a little while, then they understand.
But there are thousands and thousands and thousands of them!
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, two or three nights ago (I dont remember), I was with Sri Aurobindo, we were doing a certain work (it was in a mental zone with certain vital reactions mixed in), well, a general work. I was with Sri Aurobindo and we were doing the work together. He wanted to explain to me how a particular movement is turned into a distorted movement; he was explaining this to me (but theres nothing mental or intellectual about it, nothing to do with theories). And without even (how can I put it?) without even a thought or an explanation to forewarn you, a true movement is changed into a movement that is not false but distorted. I was speaking to Sri Aurobindo and he was answering, then I turn my head away like this (not physicallyall this is an inner life, naturally), I turned my head as if to see the [vibratory] effect. Then I turn back and send Sri Aurobindo the movement necessary to carry on with the experience, and I receive a reply which surprises me because of the quality of its vibration (it was a reply of ignorance and weakness). So I turn my attention back again, and as a matter of fact in Sri Aurobindos place I saw the doctor. Then I understood! Superficially, one may say, So, Sri Aurobindo and the doctor are the same! (To people who would see such a thing it would occur that they are the sameof course its all, all the same! All is one, people just dont understand this complete oneness.) Naturally it didnt surprise me for the thousandth of a second, there wasnt any surprise, but oh, I understood! This way (Mother slightly tilts her hand to the left), its Sri Aurobindo, and that way (slightly to the right), its the doctor. This way its the Lord, and that way its a man!!
Really interesting.5
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You see, Sri Aurobindo was explaining something to me, but the explanation wasn't like a theory: it's immediately translated into movements of matter, that is, movements of forms and forces. So I was listening (I was listening to him, we were talking), and I turned my head away to follow the demonstration of forces, of what he said; naturally it led to another movement which was the consequence, and then I described what I was seeing. When I began describing the consequence, I received a reply (it was a sort of dialogue between us, but without different voices and all the things we know physically), but the quality of the vibration was different, it had become ... instead of being supramental, if you like, it had become sattvic [moral], the reply was sattvic. In other words, a diminution, a limitation. I was surprised so I turned back again, and instead of finding Sri Aurobindo, I saw the doctor, with his hair very neatoh, a super-doctor, you know! But it was he, I mean at his best. So immediately I thought, "Here we are! Here is how things get more and more diminishedyes, diminished, altered, altering also physical appearanceshere is how the Lord changes all His physical appearances." Oh, it was really funny, because it was a practical and precise little illustration. But then there was immediately the feeling that everything, the whole universe is like this! That's how all forms are changed.
So now you see!
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was actually my experience (for a long, long time, many years) but, these last few days, concrete, in the bodys cells. There arent things in which the Lord is and things in which He isntthere are only fools who think so! He is ALWAYS there. He takes nothing seriously and has fun with everything. And He plays with you, if you know how to play but you dont, people dont know how to play. But how well He knows! How He plays with everything, with the smallest things: you have objects to put on your table? Dont think you have to ponder over how to arrange themno, well play: lets put this here, lets put that there, lets put this like that. Then some other day (because people think, Now she has decided on this arrangement, so thats the way its going to bewell, not so!), some other day (they want to help you! They want to help you put things in order, so it just becomes a mess!), I stay still and quiet, and then we start playing: So! Lets put this here, and that there, and this there ah! (Mother laughs) Since I saw you last time it has been that way constantly, probably to prepare me for this aphorism!
Very entertaining.
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Agreed, then, well try and learn to laugh with the Lord.
I know I know He wants me to learn not to take seriously the responsibility (responsibility isnt the right word), the formidable task of finding 8,000 rupees a day to meet the Ashrams expensesin other words, a colossal fortune every month.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There may be (I cant say, its all imagination because I dont know), there may come a few somewhat weird things. But there is an insistence on the need to keep to each line as though it stood all alone in the universe. No mixing up the line order, no, no, no! For when he wrote it, he SAW it that way I knew nothing about that, I didnt even know how he wrote it (he dictated it, I believe, for the most part), but thats what he tells me now. Everything comes to a stop, everything, and then, oh, how we enjoy ourselves! I enjoy myself! Its more enjoyable than anything. I even told him yesterday, But why write? Whats the use? Then he filled me with a sort of delight. Naturally, someone in the ordinary consciousness may say, Its very selfish, but And then its like a vision of the future (not too near, not extremely nearnot extremely far either) a future when this sort of white thingwhite and stillwould spread out, and then, with the help of this work, a larger number of minds may come to understand. But thats secondary; I do the translation simply for the joy of it, thats all. A satisfaction that may be called selfish, but when he is told, Its selfish, he replies that there is no one more selfish than the Lord, because all He does is for Himself!
There.
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And, I must say, I was observing this because, originally, the first time I heard of it, this conception shocked me, in the sense that (I dont know, it wasnt an idea, it was a feeling), as though it meant lending reality to something which in my consciousness, for a very long time (at least millennia perhaps, I dont know), had been the Falsehood to be conquered. The Falsehood that must cease to exist. Its the aspect of Truth that must manifest itself, its not all that: doing anything whatsoever just for the fun of it, simply because you have the full power. You have the power to do everything, so you do everything, and knowing that there is a Truth behind, you dont give a damn about consequences. That was something something which, as far back as I can remember, I have fought against. I have known it, but it seems to me it was such a long, long time ago and I rejected it so strongly, saying, No, no! and implored the Lord so intensely that things may be otherwise, beseeched Him that his all-powerful Truth, his all-powerful Purity and his all-powerful Beauty may manifest and put an end to all that mess. And at first I was shocked when Sri Aurobindo told me that; previously, in this life, it hadnt even crossed my mind. In that sense Theons explanation had been much more (what should I say?) useful to me from the standpoint of action: the origin of disorder being the separation of the primal Powers but thats not it! HE is there, blissfully worshipping all this confusion!
And naturally this time around, when I started translating it came back. At first there was a shudder (Mother makes a gesture of stiffening). Then I told myself, Havent you got beyond that! And I let myself flow into the thing. Then I had a series of nights with Sri Aurobindo so marvelous! You understand, I see him constantly and I go into that subtle physical world where he has his abode; the contact is almost permanent (at any rate, thats how I spend all my nights: he shows me the work, everything), but still, after this translation of Savitri he seemed to be smiling at me and telling me, At last you have understood! (Mother laughs) I said, It isnt that I didnt understand, its that I didnt want it! I didnt want, I dont WANT things to be like that any more, for thousands of years I have wanted things to be otherwise!
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday evening (was it yesterday? No, the day before), when I went out on the balcony-terrace,3 the difference in perception between the consciousness I have now and the one I had before felt enormous! Before, as I have always said, I would stay there, call the Lord, be in His presence, and only when He withdrew would I come in again thats how it was. And I had a certain relationship with people, things, the outside world (outside, well, not outsideanyway, the world). The day before yesterday, when I went to the balcony, I wasnt thinking of anything or observing anything, I simply went I didnt want to know what was going on, it didnt interest me, I wasnt observing. The other experience [of the previous balcony, one year ago] seemed to go back centuries! It was so much OTHER! And so spontaneous, so natural, and so immense too! The earth was tiny. Yet it was very much here: I wasnt over there, the BODY itself was feeling that way. And at the same time (I was two floors above people), every time I looked, I recognized scores and scores of people, they seemed to leap to my eyesa crystal clear vision, much sharper (the vision I had before was always a bit hazy because what I saw wasnt entirely physical: I saw the movement of forces), and yesterday, it was as if as if I had risen above the very possibility of haziness! It was far less physicalFAR MORE accurate.4
Formerly too, I used to sense the Force, the Consciousness, the Power concentrated in a particular point and then spreading out. While here, there was an IMMENSITY of Power, of Light, of Consciousness, of perception, concentrated in a tiny point: the people gathered there.
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The wings of the Lord.
Mother was eighty-five on February 21.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A real miracle Its only the mind that has the notion of miracle, because following its own logic, the mind decides that given this and that condition, this or that circumstance can or cannot be. But these are merely the minds limitations. Because from the Lords point of view, how could there be a miracle? All is but Himself objectifying Himself.
Here we come to the great problem of the road we travel, the eternal Road Sri Aurobindo refers to in Savitri. It is easy to imagine, of course, that what was first objectified had an inclination to objectification. The first point to accept, a logical point considering the principle of evolution, is that the objectification is progressive, it is not complete for all eternity. (silence) Its very hard to express, because we cannot free ourselves from our habit of seeing it as a finite quantity unfolding indefinitely and of thinking that only with a finite quantity can there be a beginning. We always have an idea (at least in our way of speaking) of a moment (laughing) when the Lord decides to objectify Himself. And put that way, the explanation is easy: He objectifies Himself gradually, progressively, with, as a result, a progressive evolution. But thats just a manner of speaking. Because there is no beginning, no end, yet there is a progression. The sense of sequence, the sense of evolution and progress comes only with the Manifestation. And only when we speak of the earth can we explain things truthfully and rationally, because the earth had a beginningnot in its soul, but in its material reality.
A material universe probably has a beginning, too.
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We might say that the sense of miracle can only belong to a finite world, a finite consciousness, a finite conception. It is the abrupt, unexpected entryor appearance or intervention or penetrationof something that did not exist in this physical world. So it follows that any manifestation of a will or consciousness belonging to a realm more infinite and eternal than the earth is necessarily a miracle on the earth. But if you go beyond the finite world or the understanding proper to the finite world, then miracle does not exist. the Lord can play at miracles if He enjoys it, but theres no such thing as a miracleHe plays all possible games.
You can begin to understand Him only when you FEEL it that way, that He plays all possible gamesand possible not according to human conception but according to His own conception!
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Basically, people with a very strict logic tell you, Why pray? Why aspire, why ask? the Lord does what He wills and will always do what He wills. Its perfectly obvious, it goes without saying, but this fervor, Lord, manifest Yourself! gives His manifestation a more intense vibration.
Otherwise He would never have made the world as it isthere is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the worlds intensity of aspiration to become again what it is.
0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had several experiences of the kindquite a number of them. And since that last experience [the death of death], which lasted a second, Ive had the feeling the same kind of feeling. Before that, whenever I intervened for people, either to prevent them from dying or to help them once they were deadhundreds and hundreds of things I used to do all the time I did them with the sense of Death like this (gesture above Mother), as something to be conquered or overcome, or the consequences of which had to be mended. But it was always that way, Death was (laughing) just a little above. And from that moment [the death of death], the head emerged above the head, the consciousness, the will were above. On the side of the Lord.
I had an experience quite a long time ago, when Sri Aurobindo was here: one night I had the experience of being in contact with the Supreme Lord, and it was concrete:
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I dont remember in detail (I wrote it down), but the idea was like this: the Lord makes you die only with your consentyour consent is necessary for you to die. And unless He decides, you can never die. Those two things: for you to die, something (the inmost soul, that is) must consent, the soul must say yes, then you die; and when the soul says yes, its for the Lord to decide. Ever since that experience, there had been the certainty that you can die only when the Lord wills it, that it depends entirely and exclusively on His Will, that there are no accidents, no unforeseeable mishaps, as human beings thinkall that doesnt exist: its His Will. From that experience till this latest one [the death of death], I lived in that knowledge. Yet with the feeling of not quite the unknown but the incomprehensible. The feeling of something in the consciousness which doesnt understand (what I mean by understand is having the power to do and undo, thats what I call to understand: the power to realize or to undo, thats the real understanding, the POWER), well, of something which eluded me. It was still the mystery of the Infinite Supreme. And when that experience [the death of death] came, then, Ah, there it is! I have it, Ive caught it! At last, I have it.
I didnt have it long (laughing), it went away! But my position changed. Its one more thing I see from above; I rose above, my position is above.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with people who get cured. That I know, to some extent: the Power acts so forcefully that it is almost miraculousat a distance. The Power I am very conscious of the Power. But, I must say, I find it doesnt act here so well as it does far away. On government or national matters, on the terrestrial atmosphere, on great movements, also as inspirations on the level of thought (in certain people, to realize certain things), the Power is very clear. Also to save people or cure themit acts very strongly. But much more at a distance than here! (Although the receptivity has increased since I withdrew because, necessarily, it gave people the urge to find inside something they no longer had outside.) But here, the response is very erratic. And to distinguish between the proportion that comes from faith, sincerity, simplicity, and what comes from the Power Some people I am able to save (naturally, in my view, its because they COULD be saved), this is something that for a very long time I have been able to foresee. But now I dont try to know: it comes like this (gesture like a flash). If, for instance, I am told, So and so has fallen ill, well, immediately I know if he will recover (first if its nothing, some passing trouble), if he will recover, if it will take some time and struggle and difficulties, or if its fatalautomatically. And without trying to know, without even trying: the two things come together.2 This capacity has developed, first because I have more peace, and because, having more peace, things follow a more normal course. But there were two or three little instances where I said to the Lord (gesture of presenting something, palms open upward), I asked Him to do a certain thing, and then (not very often, it doesnt happen to me often; at times it comes as a necessity, a necessity to present the thing with a commentfrom morning to evening and evening to morning I present everything constantly, thats my movement [same gesture of presenting something] but here, there is a comment, as if I were asking, Couldnt this be done?), and then the result: yes, immediately. But I am not the one who presents the thing, you see: its just the way it is, it just happens that way, like everything else.3 So my conclusion is that its part of the Plan, I mean, a certain vibration is necessary, enters [into Mother], intervenes, and No stories to tell, mon petit! Nothing to fill people with enthusiasm or give them trust, nothing.
Three or four days ago, a very nice man, whom I like a lot, who has been very useful, fell ill. (He has in fact been ill for a long time, and he is struggling; for all sorts of reasons of family, milieu, activities and so on, he isnt taken care of the way he should be, he doesnt take care of his body the way he should.) He had a first attack and I saw him afterwards. But I saw him full of life: his body was full of life and of will to live. So I said, No need to worry. Then after some time, maybe not even a month, another attack, caused not by the same thing but by its consequences. I receive a letter in which I am informed that he has been taken to the hospital. I was surprised, I said, But no! He has in himself the will to live, so why? Why has this happened? The moment I was informed and made the contact, he recovered with fantastic speed! Almost in a few hours. He had been rushed to the hospital, they thought it was most serious, and two days later he was back home. The hospital doctor said, Why, he has received a new life! But thats not correct: I had put him back in contact with his bodys will, which, for some reason or other, he had forgotten. Things like that, yes, theyre very clear, they take place very consciously but anyway, nothing worth talking about!
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These last few days, while walking in meditation, I said to the Lord, What do I have? I have no certainty, no foreknowledge, no absolute power, I have nothing. (I dont mean I, I mean the bodythis body.) The body was saying: Do you see my condition? I am still full of (it was complaining bitterly), oh, full of the silliest movements. Petty movements of apprehension, petty movements of uncertainty, petty movements of anxiety, petty movements of all kinds of very, very petty thingsthose who live a normal life dont take any notice, they dont know, but when you observe whats going on deep down with that discernment oh, mon petit! Its so petty, so petty, so petty.
Only one thing (which is not even absolute): a sort of equality that has come into the bodynot an equality of soul (laughing): an equality in the cells! It has come into the body. There is no longer that clash of joy and painalways and for everything, every minute, every reaction, You, Lord, to You, Lord. As though the cells were chanting, To You Lord, to You Lord, to You Lord. And well, thats how it is.
There are enough physical miseries to experience what people call physical painquite enough (!) Yet, materially, everything is organized to give every possible joy! For example (ever since the age of five it has been like that), whenever the body felt, Oh, if I had this. Oh, it would be nice to have that, the thing would come in no time. Fantastic! It has always been that way, only it has become more conscious. Before, it would happen without my noticing it, quite naturally. Now, of course, the body has changed, its no longer a baby, it no longer has a childs fancies. But when that kind of Rhythm comes, when something says, Oh, this is fine! mon petit, it comes in TORRENTS from all sides without my saying a word. Just like that. There was a time when the body enjoyed it, it was delighted by it, made very happy by it (even two years ago, a little more perhaps), very happy, it found that amusingit was lovely, you see. But now: To You Lord. Only this, a sort of quiet, constant joy: To You Lord, to You Lord, to You Lord. And on both accounts: for physical pain as well. In that regard, the body is making progress. Although to tell the truth, its life is made so easy! So easy that it would have to be quite hard to please not be satisfied the Lord is full of infinite grace.
No, in spite of everything, the body doesnt have that sort of eternal stability, the sense of its immortality (immortality isnt the right word), of its permanence. Not that it has a sense of impermanence, far from it, the cells feel eternal that much is there. But a certain something that would be sheltered from all attacks. It still feels the attacks. It feels an instability, it doesnt have a sense of absolute security, it hasnt yet reached a state of absolute security thats it: the sense of security. There are still vibrations of insecurity. Yet that seems so mean, so silly! It still lives in insecurity. Security, the sense of security only comes through union with the Supremenothing in life as it is, nothing in the world as it is, can offer the sense of security, its impossible. But to feel the Supremes presence so constantly, to be able to pass everything on to Him, To You, to You, to You, and yet not to have a sense of security! A shock or a blow comes (not necessarily personally, but in life), and theres still a particular vibration: the vibration of insecurityit still exists. The body finds that disquieting, painful: Why? Not that it complains, but it complains about itself, it finds itself not up to the mark.
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its erased immediately; as soon as I wake up, my first movement (gesture of offering) is to present it all to the Lord: the cause, the effect, the image, the sensationeverything. When its all seen, I tell Him, Now its Yours. And then I forgetfortunately, thank God!
It goes on every night. It takes the form of all sorts of scenes, of symbols, of memories, from words to images. It comes in groups and categories of tendencies, it represents the various human tendencies in detailits infinitesimal. Its only because they are multiplied millions of times that they can have some importance but theyre nothing! Mere nothings. Yet thats just what blocks the way.
0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So looking at it from an ordinary viewpoint, its so fantastic, it means such a colossal work. Of course, its the Lord who does it, but will this hold out? (Mother touches her body) I cant say.
If He wants, certainly He will find a way for it to hold out. But the thing is rather new.
0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lord is peaceful resignation,
but the Lord is also the struggle
and the Victory.
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is always something which says that the risk is great for We are toostill too cautious. Or is it a lack of faith? But its a lack of knowledge more than a lack of faith, because if we say, Whatever happens is the Lords Will, and if the experiment dissolves the body, well, it only shows He willed it, then there is no need to worry. And its true, you live in this idea, you feel this way, you sense this way; but there is something on the outside or from the outside that says, Thats all very well, but is this need or inclination to experiment legitimate? Couldnt the same knowledge be obtained without running so great a risk?
Thats the kind of problem you have to face.
So personally, my attitude (all this has nothing to do with the Bulletin, by the way), my attitude is to watch it all: this opinion, that opinion, this attitude, that attitude, and I stay like this (gesture of a Witness completely outside and passive). I refrain from deciding or acting, I become exclusively a witnessa non-interfering witness. I say to the Lord, Its for You to decide; it isnt my business, You will decide. Whatever happens is Your concern. So far, this has always resulted in an intervention that restored order, but but with no positive proof that the order was restored in this way or that, because of this or that. There is no certainty.2
In this field, we know nothing. Oh, as soon as we get into the field even the field of sensation, the vital, all problems are solved. Nothing could be easier, theres nothing to discuss; in the field of feelings, the work was done long ago. Thats not what I mean: I mean when we get to the bottom of the problem. There, everything, everything is in a sort of incomprehension, of total ignorance, along with all the ideas that result from the intellectual and scientific development and are so sure of themselves, so full of impregnable certainty! The certainty of the material experience, of the thing you touch.
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Mother means that there is no proof that the order was restored because of the Lord's intervention rather than by some other, "natural" mechanism.
Let us recall that it was in 1952 that the biochemist Stanley Miller discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a feeling that I was given the awareness of something thats taking place right now. Because at night, generally, I disconnect myself from everything and universalize myselfno, universalize isnt the word: I identify myself with the Lord. Thats my way of resting. I do it every night, it is the time when I have my deep rest. But now Ive been made aware of this Force at work. Often experiences come (there have been a number of them lately), but its the first time this one has come, because It was certainly something happening FOR the earth; but it didnt come from the center of forces that generally acts on the earth. It wasnt the usual working of forces on the earth. It was something happening. And it gave the sense that the earth was very small the movement was towards the earth, it was for the earth, but the earth was very small.
Very small.
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And all at once, it came so clearly, as though the Lord Himself were arranging something, and it was translated into, Give him a bath of the Lord. You understand, to make an atmosphere (no need to speak, no need for words), an atmosphere that is a bath of the Lord. So that all those who enter the atmosphere automatically enter the bath of the Lord. It was so lovely! And so simple, so smiling, nothing showy, no big words: something very simple and natural. So, early in the morning, I went to the room over there; I had many people to see beforehand, a host of people who came to see me in the morning, but nevertheless early in the morning I had already started preparing my bath of the Lord! I was finished seeing people about an hour before Nehrus arrival, so I stayed in the room, preparing the bath. It was very charming.
He may have felt something they are very thick-skinned, you know, necessarily so: overworked, full of self-conceit, naturally, and convinced that they know everything and can do everything (and unfortunately they can do a lot), so the whole of life is organized so as to BLOCK all inner receptivity.
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With me, its a wonderful thing (I give thanks to the Lord): I feel neither hot nor cold nor anything any more. But I can see that people suffer from heat.
I suffer when I write. When I write, I burn. I burn, my body literally burns! When I wrote the book on Sri Aurobindo, I was exhaustedit burns me, you see, I am ablaze! And then I get covered all over with salt: I dont sweat but I get covered with salt!
0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a rather amusing experience while walking [during japa]. I was looking at peoples attitude (I mean those who think they lead a spiritual life, who think they have made a surrender), and how they are utterly vexed when things dont happen the way they want! (They dont always admit it, they dont always say it to themselves, but its a fact.) Then all at once, I saw a huge robothuge, magnificent, resplendent, covered with gold and jewelsa huge being but a robot. And all-powerfulall-powerful, capable of doing anything, anything at all; anything you could imagine, he could do it: you had only to press a button and he did it. And it was (laughing) as if the Lord were telling me, See, here is what I am to them!
I couldnt have recounted the experience just like that, but I made a note of it. He said, See, this is what I am to them. So I wrote it down.
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the Lord is not an all-powerful automaton that the human beings can move by (laughing) the push-button of their will
Its very funny!
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its yet too human a vision of things. I prefer I prefer the vision of the Lord telling the Asura, Go ahead, keep on growing and growing and growing and there will be no more Asura! (laughing) Thats better.
(silence)
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what I saw when I spoke to you the other day about what I called a bath of the Lord. The atmosphere was full, really chockfull of a Presence (you cant even call it a vibration, its much more than a vibration: its a Presence), but when people enter it, they dont feel anything! Or if they do, they dont even understand, it doesnt correspond to anything in their consciousness. But if I concentrate a particular vibration on their consciousness, I bring them into contact with it. And all of a sudden they feel something, with the impression that its a new thingits nothing new! Whats new is their capacity to perceive the thing.
In a general way, thats how it works: the Lord is everywhere, His vibration is everywhere, but whats new is the capacity to feel Him or be conscious of Him. From all eternity He has been there, for all eternity He shall be there.
And the experience I have constantlyconstantlyisnt that I go in search of something thats not there and bring it where it wasnt! When I tell the Lord, Manifest Yourself, I dont mean He hasnt manifested! I mean: Give us the power to feel Your manifestation. We should say: Become manifest. Grant that we may grow conscious of Your Presence.
And that gives a clear sense of Unreality and Unconsciousness and of all the consequent disorder. Because there is a CONSTANT Reality, a CONSTANT divine Order, and its only the incapacity to perceive it that makes the present Disorder and Falsehood.
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I gave him his bath of the Lord!
It was very interesting. I had to see someone before him, and I wanted enough time to prepare the atmosphere, but it didnt last too long. Then it condensed and accumulated. It made an absolutely still atmosphere, with only the internal vibration I dont know how to explain. Ive said this a few times already: there is a Force which doesnt move and consequently can be said to be absolutely still, yet has an INNER intensity of vibration far more considerable than the vibration of motion. And its a PALE golden light: it isnt white at all, its golden. But not an intense gold: a pale color. It filled everything (there were no more walls in the room), and it was condensed, so condensed, as if tight as if under pressure, you know. There was nothing left but the inner vibration.
0 1963-07-17, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It requires no preparation, it isnt something you have to attain: its ALWAYS there. Only, it also stems from the fact that I am not here (thats so clear, so clear, it needs no reflection or observation, its such a well-established fact) I am not here for anything, anything whatsoever, any satisfaction of any sort, on any level, any pointnone of that exists any more, that has no more reality, no more existence. The only thing I still FEEL is a sort of not an aspiration, not a will, not an adherence or enthusiasm, but something that is maybe its more like a power: to do the Lords Work. At the same time, I feel the Lord you understand, He isnt in front of me or outside of me! Thats not it, He is everywhere and He is everywhere and I am everywhere with Him. But what holds these cells together in a permanent form is that something which is at once the will and power (and something more than both) to do the Lords work. It contains something which probably is translated in peoples consciousnesses as Bliss, Ananda (I must say its an aspect of the problem I am not concerned with). Something like the intensity of a superlove as yet unmanifestits impossible to say.
Some time ago I made a discovery of that kind: someone asked me if there was any difference between Ananda and Love; I said, No. Then he said to me, But then how is it that some people feel Ananda while others feel Love? I answered him, Yes! Those who feel Ananda are those who like to receive, who have the capacity to receive, and those who feel Love are those who have the capacity to give. But its the same thing: you receive it as Ananda, you give it as Love.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body had based its sort of sense of good health on a certain number of vibrations, and whenever those vibrations were present, it felt in good health; when something came and disturbed them, it felt that it was about to fall ill or that it was ill, depending on the intensity. All that has changed now: those basic vibrations have simply been removed, they no longer exist; the vibrations on which the body based its sense of good or ill healthremoved. They are replaced by something else, and something else of such a nature that good health and illness have lost all meaning! Now, there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: its no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly; and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isnt affected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (its a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, Whats that? What effect will it have? Whats going to happen? (what the body calls the desire to learn), if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure (laughing) that youll have something very unpleasant which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the bodys functioning. While if you dont have that unhealthy curiosity and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.
The body is unable to know things in the way it did formerly.
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Yet it has a spontaneous tendency to find itself incapable; and it receives the same answer all the time: Thats still the ego. That happens so often, it says to the Lord, Look how incapable I am of doing what You want, and pat comes the answer, direct, in a flash: Dont bother about that, its not your business! Naturally, I put it into words to express myself, but it isnt words, its only sensationsnot even sensations: vibrations.
Voil.
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I console myself with the thought that the ways of the Lord are unknown to us, and that the day it pleases Him to declare, Here, now its all changed, (Mother laughs) all well have to do is contemplate!
But when? I dont know.
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And yet, for some time now and increasingly, there has been an extremely concrete Response to a kind of aspiration (a call or prayer) in which I say to the Lord, Supreme Lord, manifest Your Love. (It comes at the end of a long invocation in which I ask Him to manifest all His aspects one after another, one after another, and it ends like that.) But then, remarkably enough, at that moment there comes a Response which is growing clearer and clearer, stronger and stronger. But Sri Aurobindo says that Truth should be established first, and that what he calls the Supramental is the supreme Truth, the Divine Truth. It corresponds to what I noticed while translating that last chapter on the perfection of the being in the Yoga of Self-Perfection: I kept thinking, But thats only the aspect of Truth; all that he expresses is the aspect of Truth; always and everywhere, its the angle of Truth; and his supramental action is an action of Truth.
I didnt know he had said it, but its written clearly here:
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As long as you were here, I didnt bother about it. I simply thought of something else. But when you left, I thought, Theres no reason to leave that here. So I concentrated I called the Lord and put Him here (gesture to the side), and I saw it all, what Ive just told you, that state of stupid negation, and how if you allow the thing to follow what they call its normal course, it becomes a good illness (Mother laughs), a serious illness. I call the Lord. (He is always here! But the fact that I concentrate and keep quiet.) And then its almost instantaneous: the first thing is a reactionalmost a STATE rather than a reactionwhich DENIES the possibility of divine Action. It isnt a will, its an automatic negation. Then there is always a Smile that answers (thats what is interesting, theres never any anger or any force that imposes itself, only a Smile), and almost instantly the pain disappearsThat settles in, luminous, tranquil.
It isnt final, mind you, only a first contact: the experience recurs on another occasion and for another reason (they arent mental reasons, they are occasions), it recurs, but there is already a beginning of collaboration: the cells have LEARNED that with That, the state changed (very interestingly, they remember), so they begin to collaborate, and the Action is even more rapid. Then a third time, a few hours away, it recurs once again; but then THE CELLS THEMSELVES call and ask for the divine Action, because they remember. And then That comes in, gloriously, like something established.
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It would be better to remain quiet, take things as they are and let the Lord do His work without without pushing Him all the time like that. I always feel that all our misfortunes are attracted by our impatience or discontent. If we were blissfully content and let things follow their course, When You will it, it will be, thats all. I am an idiot, I remain an idiot, and when You will it to change
But can we afford to let things follow their course? If we do, everything goes haywire.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last experience (which Ive had these last few days), in which apparently there was a hitch (it wasnt really one) was a sort of demonstration. I told you what it was, you remember: its like a purge of all the vibrations that are false vibrations, that arent the pure and simple response to the supreme Influence (all that in the cells still responds to the vibrations of falsehood, either from habit or from the people around or the food takenfifty thousand things). Then, with an aspiration or a decision, almost a prayer for purification coming from the body, something happens which, naturally, upsets the balance; the imbalance in turn brings about a general discomfort. The form discomfort takes is habitually the same: first, pains and all kinds of sensations I need not describe; if that state goes on developing, if it is allowed to assume its full proportions, it results in the past it resulted in a faint. But this time, I followed the process for about two hours from the moment I got up: the struggle between the new balance, the new Influence that was getting established, and the resistance of all the existing elements forced to go away. That created a sort of conflict. The consciousness remained very clear the consciousness of the BODY remained very clear, very quiet, perfectly trusting. So for two hours I was able to follow the process (while going on with all my usual activities, without changing anything), until I felt, or rather was told sufficiently clearly that the Lord wanted my body to be completely immobile for a while so that He might complete His work. But I am not all alone: there are other people here to help me and watch over everything (but I dont say or explain anything to them, those are things I dont talk about I dont say what goes on, I dont say anything), so I sat there wondering, Is it really and truly indispensable? (Mother laughs) Then I felt the Lord exert a little more pressure, which heightened the intensity of the conflict, so that I had all the signs of fainting I understood (!) I stood up, let my body moan a little to make it plain it didnt feel too well (!) and I stretched out. Then I was immobile, and in that immobility, I saw the work that was being donea work that cannot be done if you go on moving about. I saw the work. It took nearly half an hour; in half an hour it was over. Which means there is really there is a fact I cannot doubt, even if all the surrounding thoughts and forces contradict it: I cannot doubt that the consciousness is increasing more and more the consciousness in the body. It is growing more and more precise, luminous, exactQUIETvery peaceful. Yet very conscious of a TREMENDOUS battle against millennial habits. Do you follow?
When it was over, I saw that even physically, bodily, there is a strength: the result is an increased strength. A very clearly increased strength.
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So at 2:30 in the morning, I said to the Lord, That will do, wont it?! (Mother laughs) And He gave me a blissful rest till 4:30.
Good.
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This body was built for that purpose, because I remember very well that when the war the First World Warstarted and I offered my body up in sacrifice to the Lord so that the war would not be in vain, every part of my body, one after another (Mother touches her legs, her arms etc.), or sometimes the same part several times over, represented a battlefield: I could see it, I could feel it, I LIVED it. Every time it was it was very strange, I had only to sit quietly and watch: I would see here, there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that allall that pain, all that suffering, everythingwould hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war.
The body was built for that purpose.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because that was my question, I wondered, But why? I who am Any second I just have to do this (gesture upward) and its theres only the Lord, all is THATbut in such an absolute way that all that is not It vanishes! So the proportion at present.. (laughing) is that too many things would have to disappear!
That I understood.
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And once more, I had that experience when the body was again moaning I say moaning, but its not that, its a kind of aspiration so strong that it becomes like an anguish; and also that sense of incapacity. And the same Response: all at once the body is seized by a formidable power, so great that the body itself feels it could break anything! It comes like a mass. And I recalled a sentence of Sri Aurobindo in which he said, Before you can be the Lords lion, you should first be the Lords lamb,2 and it was as though I were told, Enough of being the lamb! (laughing) Now become the lion. But it doesnt last.
And I can easily see why it doesnt last! Oh, its You feel as if youre going to tear everything down!
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is an answer Ill have sent to all those people whom I dont know and who ask me for things: What have you given to the Lord, or done for Him, that you ask me to do something for you?I do only the Lords work! (Mother laughs)
You know, its clearly millions and millions of miles away from their thought, so
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a very concrete way, there was the consciousness that everything is the Lord and that everything is His will, His action, His consciousness and so forth; at the same time, the perception of the world as it is (as it is, anyway as we feel it). And as there was no longer any notion of good and evil and all that, there was a sort of almost candid surprise, a very spontaneous surprise, not thought out, at reprobation, anger, disapproval, scorn for all the people who are called bad, who do evil and have bad will. It seemed so strange that one could lose ones temper because of that! Then there arose a profound Pity but a Pity that has nothing of the sense of superiority or inferiority, nothing like thatlike a sort of sorrow that there can be people who are so small and so weak in that Immensity that they are COMPELLED to be nasty and malicious, to hate, to reject, to wish evil.
The words diminish the experience very, very much. It was so a super-compassion, you know, full of a deep Love and Understanding: How can one reproach them for being the way the Lord wants them to be?
Then, when it all settled down, several hours afterwards, I wrote something I wrote it in French (even with the will that it should not be translated into English). And as a matter of fact its untranslatable. Here is what I wrote:
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There is almost a paroxysm of disorder and confusion in all the affairs of the earth (at the Ashram toomaybe even worse than elsewhere! No, not worse but just as bad!), and it seems to be reaching new heights: almost hour by hour I discover confusion confusion, disorder (before I would have called it mischief, but now). And what confusion! People who are convinced that they know how to deal with things (they know far better than the Lord, far better the Lord is completely ignorant of the things of this world, but THEY know better), and then the blunders they commit! And when theyve committed a blunder, after a while they realize its a blunder, so to make it good they commit another blunder! Everything is like that here, absolutely everything, with all sorts of blunders. And once they have thoroughly bungled, piled up blunder upon blunder and landed themselves in a complete mess, they think of asking me! (laughing) They ask me, What should we do? So I answer, Its about time!
But whats marvelous is that nothing stirs here (gesture to the head), nothing stirs. And the Lord smiles.
***
I had several hours of concentration regarding that decrease of energy in your body; not an illness: a decrease of energy in your body2 (you add mental things to it, but thats your affair, mon petit, you will correct that). I had several hours of concentration, and I even reproached the Lord, telling Him that really if thats the effect I have on people, (laughing) its not worth mentioning, Id better leave! (There was a conjunction of a good number of things.) I dont believe a word of my complaint! But anyway (laughing) I make it just like that.
Immediately, there came a massive descent, and everything was blissful I said to myself, Lord, its up to You. Its up to You to have me here, its up to You to have me act; I dont act, You are the one who acts. The result is up to You, but as far as I can see, if I am allowed to see, I dont find that logical!
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Because NOTHING in the consciousness budged during those changeovers [back and forth from the true to the false movement]; the consciousness is like that, turned not upward, not inward, turned simply turned to the Lord, living in His Light, which, in the physical world, becomes a golden splendor. The consciousness is turned to That. There is nothing but That, its the sole reality, the sole truth. And It vibrates like this (Mother touches her hands, her arms), It vibrates in all the cells, everywhere. I go like this (Mother makes a gesture of collecting it in the air around), as if I picked it up. It isnt ethereal, its very material; it feels like an air that is thick but vibrant, very vibrant. The consciousness is like that. And all this goes on in the body. But with the presence of that old idiot which is immediately pessimistic, catastrophic, defeatisthow defeatist, oh it sees everything as a calamity. And then that wonderful character, after imagining the worse (in the space of a second, of course), it submits it all to the Lord and tells Him, Here, Lord, here is Your work, its all Yours, do what You will with it! The silly idiot, why did it have to prepare its catastrophes! A catastrophe, invariably a catastrophe, everything is catastrophic but it offers its catastrophe to the Lord!
And the answer is invariably a smile full of such patience, oh! That patience gives me a sense of wonder every second.
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Though, yes, there was that experience the other day, when all was the Lord, all, with all things as they are, as we see them; when all was That in SUCH a perfect whole, perfect because it was so complete, and so harmonious because it was so conscious, and in a perpetual Movement of progression towards a greater perfection. (Thats something odd, things cant stay still for a quarter of a second: they are constantly, constantly, constantly progressing towards a more perfect Totality.) Then, at that moment, if the Power acts (probably it does act), if the Power acts, it acts as it should. But it isnt always there it isnt always there, there is still a sense of the things that are to fade away and of those that are to comeof the passage; a progression which which isnt all-containing.
But in that state, it seems that what you see MUST beand inevitably (I should say necessarily), it is. And probably instantly so. But you have to see the whole at once for your vision to be all-powerful. If you see only one point (as, for example, when you feel that the action on earth is limited to a certain field that depends on you), as long as you see that way, you cant be all-powerful, its not possiblenot possible. Its inevitably conditioned.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I answer, When the Lord wants me to know, I will know; when its necessary for me to know, I will know.
Probably for the time being
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything is possible to me, you know, absolutely everything, even the seemingly most contradictory thingsreally, I am totally unable to raise a mental or logical or reasonable objection either to this or to that. But the question (Mother leaves her sentence unfinished). That is to say, the Lords Will is very clear to Him, and (laughing) the whole thing is to unite with that Will and know it.
It had always seemed to me that way [the earth as a symbolic point of concentration], but I am so convinced that Sri Aurobindo saw things more truly and totally than anyone did that, naturally, when he says something, you tend to consider the problem!
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What he announces, and what I am sure of, is that the Victory will be won on the earth and that the earth will become a progressive being (eternally progressive) in the Lord thats understood. But it doesnt preclude the other possibility. The future of the earth he has announced clearly, and its understood that such is the future of the earth; only, if that possibility [of death as an exclusively earthly phenomenon] is what we could term historically correct, it would sort of legitimize the attitude of those who get away from it. How is it that Buddha, who undeniably was an Avatar, laid so much stress on Deliverance as the conclusion of things? He who stayed behind only to help others to get away faster. Then that means he saw only one side of the problem?
Oh, yes!
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is what happened: I do my usual bath of the Lord and it is arranged that, after a time, Champaklal opens the doorwhich signals to me the end of the visit. So I looked at X, just to see (I had looked at him several times before, but there was nothing particular), I looked at him and saw in front of him a sort of mass of substance, not material but responsive to a mental formation, which means that mental thought and will can make this substance take different shapes I know it (Mother makes a gesture of fingering the substance), its very like the sort of substance mediums use for their apparitions (less material, more mental, but anyway the same kind). There was a sort of mass in front of him, which was hiding him; it wasnt luminous, not black either, but dark enough. So I looked at it, STARED at it to see what it was, and as I was staring, I saw that there was a will or an effort to give that mass of substance a shape. It was exactly in front of Xs head and shoulders. And there was a will to give it a shape (gesture of molding). As I stared very carefully, it took the shape of Sri Aurobindos head as it appears in newspapers and magazines (what I call the popular Sri Aurobindo, as he is shown in books), the substance took that form. Immediately I thought (ironic tone), Oh, its the popular form, that doesnt resemble him! And instantly, the substance rearranged itself and took the form of Cartier-Bressons Sri Aurobindo1 (the three-quarter face photo, where he is seated in his armchair). That was better! (Mother holds back a chuckle) It wasnt yet quite good, but anyway it was better (although, mind you, it had neither light nor life: it was mattera subtle matter, of courseput into shape by a mental will). So I began to wonder: Whatever is this?! Does he want me to believe that Sri Aurobindo is in him, or what? Because Xs head and shoulders had completely disappeared, there was nothing left but that. And I thought (not a strong thought, just a reflection): No, its not very good, really not very lifelike! (Mother laughs) Then there was a last attempt and it became very like the photo that was taken when he left his body (that photo which we stood on end and called Meditation), it was very like the photo, (in an ironic tone) a very good likeness. And it stayed. So I thought, Oh yes! This is the photo.
Then I concentrated just a little and thought, Lets see, now. Whom is he trying to delude? And instantly, everything vanished. And I saw X, his head.
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You see, what I do is this: the thing comes, its taken up, presented (gesture to the Heights) as though it were mine: But look, see how I am (but its the Ithe great I), its presented to the Lord, very humbly, with the sense and feeling of complete helplessness I simply say, Here, change it. The feeling that only He can do it, that everything that people have tried everywhere appears childisheverything appears to be childish. The most sublime intelligence seems to me childish. All the attempts that are made to enlighten, organize, educate mankind, to awaken it to a higher consciousness, to give it mastery over Nature and its forces, all of itall of it, which for a human vision is sometimes utterly sublime, seems absolutely like children playing and having fun in a nursery. And children who love dangerous games, who believe TERRIBLY in what they do (as do children, naturally). I have never met more serious and stern a justice than the justice children have in their games. They really take life seriously. Well, thats exactly the impression it makes on me: the impression of a mankind in infancy which takes what it does with ferocious seriousness. And which will never get out of itit will never get out of it, it lacks the little something (which may be really nothing at all), a very little something thanks to which ah, everything becomes clear and organizedall that comes from mankind always BORDERS on Truth.
So the only thing I can do is this (gesture of presenting): Look, Lord, see how ignorant and powerless we are, how utterly stupid we areits up to You to change it. How do you change it? You cant even imagine the change, you cant even do that. So all my time (same gesture)not from time to time: constantly, day and night, without letup, day and night without letup. If for an interval of one or two minutes this isnt done, there is something that catches up: Oh, all that time wasted! And if I take a close look at what happened, then I see; I see that for these few minutes, I was blissful in the Lord, letting myself live blissfully in the Lord; so I no longer presented things to Himit happens two or three times a day. A relaxation, you know, you let yourself flow blissfully in the Lord. And its so natural and spontaneous that I dont even notice it; I notice it when I resume my attitude (same gesture to the Heights) of transferring everything to the Lord every minute.
(silence)
And always that question of age In everybody, everybody, without even their noticing it, there is always in the background (for the slightest thing, at the slightest opportunity), always the idea of old age, of going downhill, of decrepitude. And it comes a thousand times a day! (Mother laughs) So here too, I say to the Lord, Listen, am I really going downhill? Then He shows me one or two things in a dazzling light. It happens to me off and onnot oftenwhen the avalanche has been considerable enough; then there is a bedazzlement of Light and Power, sometimes of such a formidable Power that you get the feeling that if you were to wield it what would happen? For instance, if I simply come into contact with a malicious ill will (thats rare), an urge or a desire to harm, I do this (Mother pinches the vibration between her fingers), I do this (but it corresponds to an inner action: its a Power that acts together with a white Light, absolutely white, you know, intolerant of anything but the perfectly white), and almost instantly, in the person in whom the movement of ill will resulted in a partial possession of the vital: an attack of nerves or (what do they call it?) a vital collapse or a nervous collapse, very tangible. So naturally, you curb all movements and you watch it all, perfectly quiet, with the eternal Smile. But its as if to show me: herehere is the potentiality (!) Only there is no Order to wield it, except now and then just to see.
(silence)
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday (this is an example I give you, but in all three domains its similar), yesterday it was a question of money. The question of money, for more than twelve years, has been a problemgrowing increasingly acute because the expenses are increasing fantastically while the income is decreasing! (laughing) So the two things together make the problem very acute. It results in things to be paid but no money, which means that the cashier (the poor cashier, it does him a lot of good from the yogic viewpoint: he has acquired a calm that he never had before! But still he is the one who has to stand the greatest tension), the cashier spends money and I cannot reimburse him. Very well. And then its not for me to run about, look for money, arrange things, discuss with people, of course, that wouldnt be proper (!), and those who do it for me have in them a rather sizable amount of tamas, which I cannot yet shake up. Anyway, yesterday they proposed something absurd to me (I dont want to go into the details, it doesnt matter), but their proposal was absurd and put me in a totally unacceptable situation. In other words, it might have brought a legal action against me, I might have been summoned before the court, anyway, all kinds of inadmissible thingsnot that I care personally, but theyre inadmissible. When they proposed their idea to me, I looked and saw it was silly; I was very quiet, when, suddenly, there came into me a Power (I told you it happens now and then) like this (massive gesture). When it comes, you feel as though you could destroydestroy everything with it you see, its too awesome for the present state of the earth. So I answered very quietly that it was unacceptable, I said why, and I returned the paper. Then something COMPELLED me to add: If I am here, it is not because of any necessity or obligation; it is not a necessity from the past, not a karma, not any obligation, any attraction, any attachment, but only, solely and absolutely because of the Lords Grace. I am here because He keeps me here, and when He no longer keeps me here, when He considers I am not to stay any longer, I wont stay. And I added (I was speaking in English), As for me (as for me [gesture upward] that is, not this [gesture to the body]), as for Me, I consider that the world isnt ready: its way of responding inwardly and outwardly, even visibly in those around me, proves that the world isnt ready something must happen for it to be ready. Or else it will take QUITE SOME TIME for it to be prepared. Its all the same to me: whether it is ready or not makes no difference. And everything could collapse, Icouldntcareless. And with what force I said that! My arm rose, my fist banged on the tablemon petit, I thought I was going to break everything!
I was watching the scene, thinking, Why the devil am I made to do this?! These people are, apparently, quite devoted, quite surrendered and intimate enough not to be afraid. (I dont know what effect it had on them, but it must have had some effect.) As soon as it was over, I started working again, looking into affairs and so on. Afterwards, once I was alone, I wondered, Why did that come into me? And in the evening, I had the solution to the situation: its here (Mother takes an envelope on the table). I didnt even look at it (Mother opens the envelope and looks at the amount of a check).
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
First it came from one direction, then a dead calmits always that way. You know how cyclones work? Its something that rotates, and at the center theres a dead calm; all around is a whirlwind, and it rotates as it advances. So the first part (what might be called the front of the cyclone) arrives from one direction, then it goes on rotating, and the second part comes from the opposite direction. We have an American rear admiral here who knows those things very wellall seafaring people know themhe had seen the cyclone from a distance on the sea and warned us. But its always that way, I had noticed it. The first wave arrived from the north, but as we were forewarned, everything had been closed. Then the wind died down completely, but the southern windows had been left open. And the second wave came from the other direction (it came around evening, a little before 7, I dont remember; anyway, I was sitting at the table here). And I saw I saw that whirlwind coming, and inside it there were formations: like heaped masses, some gray-black, others reddish-brown. And I watched it all; I saw them from a distance, there were lots of them: big formations, about as big as houses. They came in heaped masses, with kinds of formations WITHIN the whirlwind. So I was here, just beginning to have my dinner, when a reddish-brown formation went over, like this, right from here towards your house (Mother sweeps across the room from south to north), and it struck me. Mon petit, howling pains! And then a horrible discomfort. So naturally, my usual remedy: I stayed still and offered it all to the Lord. The formation went past, didnt stop (it went past, struck and went away), and left behind it (afterwards the pains were dull, they could be controlled) a kind of very peculiar sense of discomfort a sort of wickedness, like big sharp claws raking ones stomach. So I was expecting something for youothers too fell sick who were in the path of the formation. But there must have been quite a number of cases, because I saw many formations that one did strike, you see. I saw it arrive as swiftly as the cyclone, strike, and then go on. So when I was told that you had a fever, instantly I thought, Thats it.
Was it painful?
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But I stopped the immediate effect (the immediate effect was almost catastrophic), I stopped it with my great method: that sort of inner immobility, and leaving everything in the Lords hands. Nevertheless, the next day, I was unwell (Im not quite well yet), as though the body had been terribly shaken.
Then I saw all kinds of thingsoh, bah! bah! An adverse organization in the most material vital to mislead unenlightened spiritual aspirations: I encountered that last night. There was a kind of preacher teaching how to do things, and for each thing I had to contradict and explainbecause he had quite an audience: he has that audience at night, and when people wake up, they arent conscious of it, and it influences them. It results in a kind of possession. It was (oh, I see that gentleman often), its a tall, black beinghe is black, jet black but he passes himself off as a great Initiate! People dont see him as he is (they must see him in a very attractive guise), and he preaches the very things that foster disintegration. He teaches you in detail how to doa very good teacher of mischief. But I argued with him about everything, explained everything in detail, very carefully, very conscientiously, and when it was over, I offered it all to the Lordso I dont know what happened to him!
They are quite unhappy at whats going on here! (Mother laughs)
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The strange thing is that L., who was in the path of this formation (gesture from south to north), was sick, like you, he had a fever: the same thing, the same painsvery particular pains. And U. too was nearly caught; but the day before, I had explained to him how to defend himself, and he told me he had used my method and it worked quite well. I had explained to him how to pass the thing on to the Lord (that is, to learn to offer it). He tried it and told me, It worked quite well, the thing didnt take root: a moment of discomfort, and it was over.
One should learn to do that. If one does it with ones head, its useless; whats effective is when you are able to summon that sort of eternal immobility then, the effect is immediate. But generally, people know how to do it for others but not for themselves, because for themselves, they go on vibratingwhen it hurts a lot, its difficult to stop that vibrating. But it CAN be done; even when the pain is absolutely acute, almost unbearable (normally one would start screaming), one CAN, one can do it and summon that silent immobility to the painful spotimmobility of eternity. Very, very quickly, within a few seconds, the intensity disappears; there remains only a memory, which one should take care not to reawaken by thinking about it, but which lingers as a memory in the body, as when youve given yourself a good knock, a sound blow, and the acute pain has gone, but the mark stays. It stays a more or less long time. If one made the effort to stay very, very quiet, immobile, without doing anything, thinking anything, wanting anything, for a long enough time, I think there would be very little effect.
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Of course, one can imitate this mentally, but its only an imitation. What I mean is something else, which has nothing to do with mental will(laughing) maybe its a gift from the Lord, I dont know!
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0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But during that period of time, I made a study and observation of the phenomenon: how the vibration of desire is added to the vibration of the Will sent out by the Supreme (for small everyday acts). And with the vision from above (if you take care, of course, to remain conscious of that vision from above), you see how the vibration sent out was exactly the one sent out by the Supreme, but instead of producing the immediate result which the superficial consciousness expected, it was intended to trigger a whole set of vibrations in order to reach another result, more distant and more complete. I am not talking of big things or terrestrial actions, I am talking of very small things in life. For example, you tell someone, Give me this, and the person, instead of giving that, misunderstands and gives something else; so if you dont take care to keep an overall vision, a certain vibration may occur, say of impatience, or a dissatisfaction, along with the feeling that the Lords vibration is neither understood nor received. Well, its that little ADDED vibration of impatience (or, in fact, of incomprehension of what happens), its that feeling of a lack of receptivity or response that has the quality of desirewe cant call it a desire, but its the same kind of vibration. And thats what comes and complicates things. If you have the complete, exact vision, you know that Give me this will produce a result different from the immediate one and that that other result will bring about yet another, which is exactly what should be. I dont know whether I am making myself clear, its a bit complicated! But it gave me the key to the difference in quality between the vibration of the Will and the vibration of desire. And together with this, the possibility of doing away with that vibration of desire through a broader and more total visionbroader, more total, more distant, that is to say, the vision of a vaster totality.
I am insisting on this, because it eliminates all moral elements. It eliminates the derogatory notion of desire. The vision increasingly eliminates all those notions of good and evil, good and bad, inferior and superior, and so forth. There is only what I might almost call a difference of vibratory qualityquality still evokes the idea of superiority and inferiority, it isnt quality, not intensity either, I dont know the scientific term they use to distinguish one vibration from another, but thats it.
But then, the remarkable thing is that the Vibration (what we could call the quality of the vibration that comes from the Lord) is constructive: it constructs, it is peaceful and luminous; while that other vibration, of desire and such like, complicates, destroys and confuses, it twists thingsconfuses and distorts them, twists them. And it takes away the light: it makes for a dullness, which can be intensified with violent movements to the point of very dark shadows. But even where there is no passion, where passion doesnt interfere, thats how it is. You see, the physical reality has become nothing but a field of vibrations mingling together and, unfortunately, clashing together too, in conflict with one another. And the clash, the conflict, is the climax of that kind of turmoil, of disorder and confusion created by certain vibrations, which are ultimately vibrations of ignorance (they come because people dont know, they are vibrations of ignorance), and are too small, too narrow, too limitedtoo short. The problem isnt seen from a psychological standpoint at all: its nothing but vibrations.
If we look at it from a psychological standpoint On the mental plane, its very easy; on the vital plane, its not too difficult; on the physical plane, its a little heavier, because desires are passed off as needs. But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the bodys makeup, its needs, and whats good or bad for it. And all this, in its essence, again boils down to the same question of vibrations. It was quite interesting: there was an appearance (because all things as the ordinary consciousness sees them are nothing but appearances), there was an appearance of food poisoning (mushrooms that are thought to have been bad). It was the object of a particular study to find out whether there was something absolute about the poisoning, or whether it was relative, that is, based on ignorance, a wrong reaction and the absence of the true Vibration. And the conclusion was as follows: its a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as something concrete, real, or else as something that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesnt resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, because, immediately, as soon as the consciousness became aware of the cause of the trouble in the bodys functioning (the consciousness perceived where it came from and what it was), immediately the observation began, with the idea: Lets see what happens. First set the body perfectly at rest with the certainty (which is always there) that nothing happens except by the Lords Will and that the effect too is the Lords Will, all the consequences are the Lords Will, and consequently one should be very still. So the body is very still: untroubled, not agitated, it doesnt vibrate, nothingvery still. Once this is achieved, to what extent are the effects unavoidable? Because a certain quantity of matter that contained an element unfavorable to the bodys elements and life was absorbed, what is the proportion between the favorable and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous. But this is still a dream for tomorrowwere on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable (I cant say all-powerful, far from it, but rather favorable), so that the consequences of the ill-being didnt last very long and the damage was, so to say, minimal.
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and-half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All these last few days, it has been coming as as proofs, proofs that can crush any doubt: proofs of the Supremes omnipresence in the apparently MOST UNCONSCIOUS MATTER something so overwhelming that the rational reason can hardly believe it. But it is forced to. Only, of course, you notice it when you have reached that most tenuous degree of attention and when, instead of wanting great things that cause a lot of noise and movement and appear very dazzling, you content yourself with observing very, very little, very tiny things that are to our pretentious reason perfectly insignificant, but to the Lord are crushing proofs.
But I dont need proofs! I dont doubt for a second, there isnt one doubt in my consciousness.
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And here I am trying never to remember! I go to the greatest trouble to succeed I do succeed, I am beginning to succeed. When I go to bed, I ask, For the love of God, for the love of You, Lord, let me rest blissfully and peacefully, without being conscious of all that useless jumble of life and people. And when I wake up (I wake up nearly four or five times in the night, that is, I come out of my trance and enter the external consciousness), every time I notice there had been an event going on, but immediately, something comes and goes vrrt! (gesture of erasing) because I asked; so it goes away. And Hes full of humor, the Lord, you know (Mother laughs), far more than we think, because He gives me just a hint of something which is suddenly extremely interesting and revealing: the other day, I had been put in contact with the political circumstances of the country, then naturally, at my idiotic request, as soon as I woke up, as soon as I came back to the external consciousness, something came and went vrrt! and the thing vanished. So I made a little attempt to bring it back, but I heard someone laugh, saying, You see!
In the end, the conclusion of it all is that were fools! We want what were not given, we dont want what were given, and we mix in all kinds of personal desires with the care the Lord takes of us.
But I cant call unconsciousness a care! When Im unconscious, I feel it as something wrong!
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(Mother laughs) I remember, it wasnt at night, but in daytime; while I was walking, the Lord complimented me on you.
Well, Ill be!
Not that way, not the way we understand compliments. I was looking into the way the Truth has to make use of mental capacities to express itself. (Because youre asked to silence the mind, and when you succeed in doing so, you really do succeed, but but thats not the aim; its only a means, its to change your way of functioning.) So I was looking at the way the mind has to function in the true life (the supramental life, since Sri Aurobindo said he called supramental the manifestation of Truth and Light). Anyway, I was looking. I was conducting a kind of terrestrial survey, wondering, Are there on earth mentalities that are ready to receive and manifestespecially manifest that vibration properly? And I heard the Lord answer me something (I am translating, naturally): But why are you looking so far afield? You have the fitting instrument with you. And it was you. So I thought, Thats fine.
I didnt voice any doubt on His judgment!
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But I dont know, its clear that the Lord is particularly interested in your case, because He has shown me many things of your bodys life, your bodys reactionsHe must be taking care of you! (Laughing) Maybe if you give Him credit, youll notice it!
I rather get sore, I flare up, I take Him to task.
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There are times when one is disgusted, and thats just when one should remember this. Now, your disgust may have reasons of its own (!) But you have only to endure. You know, there is one thing, I dont know if you have savored it yet: as soon as you have a difficulty, dissatisfaction, revolt, disgustanythingfatigue, tension, discomfort, all, all that negative side (there are lots and lots and lots of such things, they take on all kinds of different colors), the immediate movementimmediateof calling the Lord and saying, Its up to You. As long as you try (instinctively you try to arrange things with your best light, your best consciousness, your best knowledge), its stupid, because that prolongs the struggle, and ultimately its not very effective. There is only one effective thing, thats to step back from whats still called me and with or without words, it doesnt matter, but above all with the flame of aspiration, this (gesture to the heart), and something perfectly, perfectly sincere: Lord, its You; and only You can do it, You alone can do it, I cant. Its excellent, you cant imagine how excellent! For instance, someone comes and deluges you with impossible problems, wants you to make instant decisions; you have to write, you have to answer, you have to sayall of itand its like truckloads of darkness and stupidity and wrong movements and all that being dumped on you; and its dumped and dumped and dumpedyou are almost stoned to death with all that. You begin to stiffen, you get tense; then, immediately (gesture of stepping back): O Lord. You stay quiet, take a little step back (gesture of offering): Its up to you.
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or written: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, something wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside existence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when something hurts, for instance, when things resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sentence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a WONDERFUL field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And that submissiveness, you know, that acceptance of the worst, with the idea that it comes from the Lord! Not only that, but almost imagining the worst as a trial, as a test to find out if youre really surrendered thats another stupidity! If you need to imagine such things in order to find out if you really havent revolted, it means there is still somewhere the germ or residue of revolt.
And the fear of being selfish, the fear of being rebelliousit means its still there, otherwise you wouldnt have that fear.
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
December 2nd was interestingsports day1: the day before, the 1st, the weather was wonderful, and insofar as I gave it thought I was convinced that on the 2nd it would be just as fine. But in the morning I saw it was nothing of the sort, and as the day went by, it became worse and worse. In the beginning my first movement was to say to myself, Well, I didnt see to it, I should have given it thought, but then I saw that was absurd. Then I told the Lord, Why are You doing this? Its not very nice! Those children have worked so hard, they have taken great pains. And just as I said it, the consciousness was looking at what I said, smiling, Oh, my! How silly still to be that way! And then there was yet another thing (its becoming very, very complete), something that wasnt exactly the Lord, but like an expression of the Lord, telling me (not with words, of course, but how can I explain? Sri Aurobindo describes it very well in the Yoga of Self-Perfection: its a very new thing which has to do with action, feeling, sensation and consciousness all at the same time; its all of them togethernone of those things, yet all of them), so it was there, telling me (I am putting it into words, but that distorts it entirely), So what! What if its a test, what do you have to say about it? So immediately in the consciousness here the consciousness at work here the thought awakened, Ah, it has to become a test, then. In THEIR consciousness it has to become a test. (Because at first I had made a kind of attempt to stop the rain; then I saw it didnt correspond to the Truth and that the rain had to be acceptedwhy accepted? To do nothing after having worked so hard? And to accept is easy, its nothing, its not interesting, nothing new.) So a test, all right. If they take it as a test, they will go through it victoriously and it will be very good. And all the time, I was so concentrated on them [at the sports ground] that I no longer knew what I was doing or where I was. It lasted from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. Around 8 P.M., I received the news: they had gone on with the performance just the same, the important visitors had remained till the end, so ultimately it was a real success.
There was only one difficulty: the little children, who cannot be conscious of a test, of course, and who remained four and a half hours in the rain. I didnt want it to do any damage there were about a hundred small ones, tiny tots. I spent the night in concentration to bring into their material sensation the true reaction (because, for a short while, children love rain, they have a lot of fun in it), so I said to myself, That part of their consciousness should predominate so there is no damage. And I waited for the day after. The day after, no one was sick.
Then I received a letter from M., the captain, saying that they had felt it was a test, the lila2 of the Lord (he called it the lila of the universal Mother) and asking me if it was true. I was happy and answered him that it was true and that I was happy. And everyone told me, They were wonderful. As if doing that performance in the rain had given rise to a kind of will in them, and they were remarkable: everybody was enthusiastic. So instead of saying to the Lord, Thats not nice, I thanked Him heartily! And I laughed, I thought, There you have it! Its always that way.
And all the experiences come in that way (Mother makes a round, global gesture). It cant be expressed with words; there are a hundred things that come together like that, and which (gesture of round movements within that round totality), and then there is the sense of a light (which might be like a will, but not a will formulated with words), a light that moves within it all and arranges it all, then produces a resultwhich isnt one small thing, one point or one thing: its a mass of things; and its always moving, always in motion, always in a kind of progression towards a more perfect reorganization. And the sense of individual action, of individual participation, of individual will, seems so IDIOTIC that its absolutely impossible to have it. Even if one tried, one couldnt. Once one LIVES that the whole sense of individual importance in all that seems so STUPID, you know, that its absolutely impossible to think that way or feel that way.
0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are lots of things which people dont even take notice of in life (when they live an ordinary life, they dont take any notice), theres a whole field of things that are absolutely not quite unconscious, but certainly not conscious; they are reflexesreflexes, reactions to stimuli, and so on and also the response (a semiconscious, barely conscious response) to the pressure exerted from above by the Force, which people are totally unconscious of. It is the study of this question which is now in the works; I am very much occupied with it. A study of every second. You see, there are different ways for the Lord to be present, its very interesting (the difference isnt for Him, its for us!), and it depends precisely on the amount of habitual reflex movements that take place almost outside our observation (generally completely outside it) And this question preoccupied me very, very much: the ways of feeling the Lords Presence the different ways. There is a way in which you feel it as something vague, but of which you are sureyou are always sure but the sensation is vague and a bit blurred and at other times it is an acute Presence2 (Mother touches her face), very precise, in all that you do, all that you feel, all that you are. There is an entire range. And then if we follow the movement (gesture in stages, moving away), there are those who are so far away, so far, that they dont feel anything at all.
This experience made me write something yesterday (but it has lasted several days), it came as the outcome of the work done, and yesterday I wrote it both in English and in French:
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Then, the entire world, the universe, appeared to me in that light, and at every point (which takes up no space), at every point of the universe and throughout the universe, its that way. Not that there are far and near places in the universe, thats not what I mean (its beyond space), but there is a whole hierarchy of nearness, up to something that doesnt feel and doesnt knowits not that it is outside, because nothing can be outside the Lord, but it is as if the extreme limit: so far away, so far, so farabsolutely black that He seems not to reach there.
It was a very total vision. And such an acute experience that it seemed to be the only true thing. It didnt take up any space, yet there was that sensation of nearness and farness. And there was a kind of Focus, or a Center, I cant say (but it was everywhere), which was the climax of Theepurely Thee. And it had a quality of its own. Then it began to move farther and farther away, which produced a kind of mixture with something that was nothing that didnt exist but that altered the vibration, the intensity, which made it move farther and farther away to Darknessunconscious Darkness.
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I address it to the Lord:
It is as if You flowed with the blood,
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It isnt in or by: its with, its identified. As if You flowed with the blood. And the sensation was absolutely concrete: this Presence of the Lord FLOWS with the blood, VIBRATES with the nerves, and LIVES (lives, meaning Life, the essence of Life) with the cells.
Thats the best time! (Mother laughs)
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The difference between before and after the 9th is that before the 9th there was a constant pressure of adverse suggestions, as Sri Aurobindo said in that letter we translated last time: Its all an illusion, its all imagination. A constant harassment. And sometimes it even takes very precise forms: You think youre integrally conscious of the Lordnot in the least! Its just a little bit in your head, vaguely, and so you imagine its true. When I heard that, it annoyed me very much, and I said, All right, Ill see. And it is after that kind of battle in the Subconscient that the voice stopped and I had this experience: It flows in the blood, it vibrates in the nerves, it lives in the cells.
And everywhere, you see, not just my cells, not just the cells of this body: when the experience comes, it is quite widespread; I have an impression of many bloods, many cells, many nerves. Which means that the CENTRAL consciousness isnt always aware of it, the individual isnt always aware of it (it has an extraordinary feeling, but it doesnt know what it is), while the cells are aware of it, but they cannot express it.
I felt that several times: when the experience comes, it isnt limited to one body. Only, the consciousness the observing consciousness isnt the same everywhere: there are DEGREES of consciousness, and here [in Mothers body] it appears to be a MORE CONSCIOUS center of consciousness, thats all; but otherwise For the consciousness itself its that way too: at times it is very much awake, at other times not so awake. Ultimately, all this is an experience of Oneness, of multiplicity in Oneness, and this experience depends on the degree of nearness and intensity. But it is the all the all which is oneand seen from the standpoint of the Lords consciousness. You know, what we call the Lord is that which is fully conscious of itself; and the more the consciousness diminishes, the more you feel its no longer the Lord but it is the Lord all the same!
Thats how it is.
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To the point that what happens in the body isnt (oh, its been that way for a long time, but its becoming more and more that way), isnt familiar like something that happens in a particular body: its just one way of being among all the others. Its becoming more and more like that. The reaction here [in Mothers body] isnt any more intimate than the reaction in others. And its barely more perceptible: it all depends on the state of attentiveness and concentration of the consciousness (its all movements of consciousness). But the consciousness isntis NO LONGER individual AT ALL. I am positive about that. A consciousness which is becoming more and more total. And now and thennow and thenwhen everything is favorable, it becomes the Lords Consciousness, the Consciousness of everything, and then its a drop of Light. Nothing but Light.
In 1958.
0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lords Presence is there, his Action is there, in a way that I could almost call perpetual because It rarely It never withdraws, but the times when It isnt active, when It becomes a little passive, are far less frequent than the times when It is activefar less, there is a big difference. And yet, the result this ought to bring is not there. Therefore, since It uses this body and this atmosphere [of Mother], there must be something that dims, that limits, that alters. I could give some quite precise and concrete examples, but anyway they involve certain people here, so I wont mention them. But thats what made me question: why, why?
I have a feeling that something is pressing to eliminate in my active consciousness that discernment which is so sharp, so imperativesharp, you know, with a vision (like the vision I had the other day of the nearness and farness), a vision almost microscopically exact. Obviously, this is helpful to get rid of all the things that shouldnt be, but now there is a will for this attitude to move into the background, and for the active consciousness to see constantly and almost exclusively only WHAT SHOULD BE.
0 1963-12-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I was always accompanied by a form, not a very precise one, but which was the materialization in that realm of the Lords Presence. I remember having for the work entered a huge room, completely bare, without anything, in a half-light, when suddenly I felt something grabbing hold of me here (gesture at the nape of the neck), something I even felt physically (I was lying in my bed, but I felt it physically). So I pointed it out to that Form which was accompanying me everywhereso attentive, so closeto explain and show things to me; I complained, saying, Look, something has grabbed hold of me, it even hurts physically. So I saw a kind of arm come and take that thing on my neck, pull it away and present it to me: it was like one of those big bats that are called flying fox (there are some here, they eat little birds, chicks), it was clinging to my neck! He said, Oh, its nothing! Its only that. (Mother laughs) And it was a big thing like this (about three feet) which had grabbed hold of me here and had its two claws still out (he had wrenched it off my neck). It had become flat and almost inert, but it was still as vicious as anything.
It was quite simply an incidentto mention just one.
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Its a kind of study a useful one, maybe. And I noticed, I remember having complained, Oh, it hurts! (Apparently I was sound asleep, but I was very conscious of my body.) So it interested me, and I turned to the Lord: It hurts quite a bit. So He extended his hand, took that thing away and presented it to me, saying, Oh, its only that! It wasnt pretty. But then, INSTANTLY, the pain went away. I had been feeling some pain in the evening before going to bed (the nerves ached, the neck muscles hurt, it was like something weighing down heavily and clinging to me painfully); I saw His hand take it and present that animal to me, and I heard the voice say, Oh, its only that (He speaks to me in English), its only thatgone!
Exactly what Sri Aurobindo did when he was here: his hand seemed to come, take hold of the pain, and the illness went away.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, in Savitri, Sri Aurobindo went through all the worlds, and it so happens that I am following that without knowing it (because I never rememberthank God, I really thank heaven!I asked the Lord to take away my mental memory and He took it away entirely, so I am not weighed down), but I follow that description in Savitri without mentally knowing the sequence of the worlds, and these last few days I was in that Muddle of Falsehood (I told you last time), it was really painful, and I was tracking it down to the most tenuous vibrations, those that go back to the origin, to the moment when Truth could turn into Falsehoodhow it all happened. And it is so tenuous, almost imperceptible, that deformation, the original Deformation, that you tend to lose heart and you think, Its still really quite easy to topple over the slightest thing and you can still topple over into Falsehood, into Deformation. And yesterday, I had in my hands a passage from Savitri that was brought to meits a marvel, but its so sad, so miserable, oh, I could have cried (I dont easily cry).
The world grew full of menacing Energies,
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And in his text, Sri Aurobindo says that the Lord joins the contraries, the opposites, puts them together so they fight each other, and that this will and action give Him a sardonic smile (I am commenting).
A tract he reached unbuilt and owned by none:
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I was asked for an illustration for H.; I saw the image, the Lords face with a sardonic smile. And then, after last nights experience, this morning suddenly that expression of the face changed, and I saw the image of the true, the true sorrow of Compassion I dont know how to explain it. The sardonic smile changed: from sardonic it grew bitter, from bitter it grew sorrowful, from sorrowful it grew full of an extraordinary compassion.
(silence)
So we could say that Falsehood is the sorrow of the Lord. And that His Joy is the cure for all Falsehood.
Sorrow had to be expressed so as to be erased from the creation.
And sorrow is Falsehood the Lords sorrow, sorrow in its essence, is Falsehood.
So to live in Falsehood is to hurt the Lord.
It opens up horizons.
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So, if we love the Lord, we cannot give Him cause for sorrow, and necessarily we emerge from Falsehood and enter Joy.
Thats what I saw last night. It was all silvery. All silvery, silvery.
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And Falsehood is this: the sorrow of the Lord.
I was asked for a message for next year, and things of that sort kept coming to me, so I didnt say anything. They wouldnt even understand, its incomprehensible if you dont have the experience. And if you say just like that, almost dogmatically, Falsehood is the sorrow of the Lord, it doesnt mean anything.
Or if you say it in a literary way, its no longer true.
And if you said, Falsehood is the Lords way of being unhappy (!) (Mother laughs), people would think youre not being serious.
Well. My children, I think its time to go and do our work. I wish you a happy new year!
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last time, when he came to meditate, just before he came upstairs, all of a sudden I felt the Lord coming (He has a particular way of becoming concrete when He wants me to do something), and He became concrete with the will that I should take advantage of this mans goodwill to widen his consciousness. It was very clear. And He became concrete with a Power, you know, one of those overwhelming Powers and a wonderful Love. It came like that, and he was caught in the Movementwhat he was conscious of, I cannot say. But when he left the room, he said he had had an experience. And this time, he was quite sincere, spontaneous, natural, not trying to to make a show.2 It was very good.
No, you might have gained something [with X], but its a something you would have found quite small; if you had felt it, you would have thought, Oh, really, that was it!?
0 1964-01-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted to see this sardonic laugh of the Lord! So I looked, and instead of a sardonic laugh, I saw a face with such a deep sorrowso deep, so grave and full of such compassion. Its after that that I said (you remember, it was over there,1 I was seeing that): Falsehood is the sorrow of the Lord. It was naturally based on the experience that everything is the Lordthere is nothing that cannot be the Lord. So what is this sardonic smile? I was looking at that, and then I saw this face.
So, as I am supposed to do sketches for H.s paintings, I did the sketch: Falsehood is the sorrow of the Lord.
(Mother shows the sketch representing the Lords sorrowful face. Long silence)
Sri Aurobindo had the feeling or the sensation that what was farthest from the Lord (I always base myself now on that experience, which is very concrete in its sensation, of the nearness or farnessit isnt a farness in feelings, not that, its like a material fact; yet it isnt located in space), well, Sri Aurobindo, for his part, felt that the farthest was cruelty. Thats what he felt farthest from; that vibration seemed to him the farthest from that of the Lord.
And yet, it sounds bizarre but in cruelty one can still feel, distorted, the vibration of Love; far behind or deep within that vibration of cruelty, there is still, distorted, the vibration of Love. And Falsehood the real Falsehood that doesnt arise from fear or anything of the sort, that has no reason behind itreal Falsehood, the negation of Truth (the WILLED negation of Truth), is, to me, something completely black and inert. Thats the feeling it gives me. It is black, blacker than the blackest coal, and inertinert, without any response.
When I read that description in Savitri,2 I felt a sorrow which I thought I had been unable to feel for a long timea long time. I thought I was (how shall I put it?) cured of that possibility. And last time, when I saw that, I saw it was still there; and while I was looking, I saw this same sorrow in the Lord, in His face, His expression.
The deliberate negation of all that is divineof all that we call divine.
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Oh, if we wanted to make poetry (its no longer a philosophical or spiritual way of seeing, but a pictorial way), we could imagine a Lord who is a totality of all the possible and impossible possibilities, in quest of a Purity and Perfection that can never be reached and are ever progressive and the Lord would get rid of all in the Manifestation that weighs down His unfoldingHe would begin with the nastiest. You see it? Total Night, total Unconsciousness, total Hatred (no, hatred still implies that Love exists), the incapacity to feel. Nothingness.
Were on the way. I still have a little bit of it [that total Unconsciousness] left.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Immediately afterwards, I had a visit from the Pope! The Pope [Paul VI] had come to Pondicherry (he does intend to visit India), he had come to Pondicherry and asked to see me (quite impossible things materially, of course, but they were perfectly simple and straightforward). So I saw him. He came, we met each other over there (in the music room), and we actually did speak to each other. I really felt the man in front of me (gesture of feeling), felt what he was. And he was very worried at the thought of what I was going to say to people about his visit: the revelation I would give of his visit. I saw that, but I didnt say anything. Finally he said (we were speaking in French, he had an Italian accent; but all this, you see, doesnt correspond to any thought: its like pictures in a film), he said, What will you tell people about my visit? So I looked at him (inner contacts are more concrete than pictures or words) and I simply answered him, after staring at him intently, I will tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Lord. And there was in it the warmth of a golden lightextraordinary! Then I saw something relax in him, as if an anxiety were leaving him, and he left like that, in a great concentration.
Why did that come? I dont know.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the conclusion (afterwards, naturally, when the whole thing had been seen and studied carefully), the conclusion is that the Lord has neither cause nor effect; and all that is is like those pulsations in my experience two years ago (or a year and a half ago, I dont rememberit was in April), the pulsations of Love bursting forth and creating the word, which followed one another but had neither cause nor effect: one pulsation wasnt the result of the one before or the cause of the one afternot at alleach one was a whole in itself.
Each moment of the Supreme is a whole in itself.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wasnt in a special state when I saw it. But the second time, in the morning, when I looked at it, I was in a very special state: there was a tension in all the physical cells to know the truth, the truth, the truth no illusions, and a call to the Lord, and a will for all this world of illusions to disappear the Truth, we want the Truth. And when I opened the book, there was a great call to the Lord for things to be exactly as they arenot as they are, but as they are according to the Truth. But the photo wasnt there!
It gave me an extraordinary intensity of aspiration in the body. I spent a part of the night in that tension: may all those illusions disappear, may there be only something wholly true, true, true ESSENTIALLY true, not what people are in the habit of calling trueone shouldnt confuse the real with the true (in this regard the body has made great progress!). But the photo isnt there.
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You can only comment with a smile: Never doubt your experience, for your experience is the truth of your being, but do not imagine that truth to be universal; and basing yourself on that truth, do not deny the truth of another, for everyones experience is the truth of his being. A total Truth could only be the totality of all those individual truths plus the experience of the Lord Himself!
98Revelation is the direct sight, the direct hearing or inspired memory of Truth, drishti, shruti, smriti; it is the highest experience and always accessible to renewed experience. Not because God spoke it, but because the soul saw it, is the word of the Scriptures our supreme authority.
I presume this is in reply to the biblical belief in Gods Commandments received by Moses, which the Lord is supposed to have uttered Himself and Moses is supposed to have heardits a roundabout way (Mother laughs) to say its not possible!
The supreme authority because the soul saw it, but it can be a supreme authority ONLY for the soul that saw it, not for all souls. For the soul that had that experience and saw it, its a supreme authority but not for other souls.
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for me, I only saw one thing: on the morning of the 29th, I woke up (woke up, I mean got up) with the consciousness the Vedic Rishis called the straight consciousness, the one that comes straight from the Lord the Truth-Consciousness, basically. It was absolutely quiet, calm, but with a sort of supersensation of an absolute well-being. Well-being, securityyes, a securityan indescribable peace, without the contrast of opposites. And it lasted about three hours, continuously, solidly, effortlessly (I didnt make any effort to keep it). I only had a definite perception that it was what they called the consciousness of truth and immortality, along with a perception (an observation, rather), fairly clear and precise, of the way in which it becomes crookedness (you know their word).
I hadnt tried to have that experience, I hadnt thought about it or anythingit came as something massive, and it stayed. But I had the feeling it was individual: I didnt feel it was something descending on earth. I felt it was something given to me, given to this body. Thats why I didnt attach much importance to it. The feeling of a grace given to this body. And it didnt leave tillit hasnt left, but it has been little by little and very slowly veiled by you know, that chaos of work, which has never been so chaotic and feverish at the same time.1 For about two weeks, it has been appalling. We havent come out of it yet. It has veiled that state FOR ME. But I clearly felt it was something GIVEN to this body.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you last time that when I returned from the balcony on the 29th, it was as if in my concentration I said to the Lord, Well, well wait another four years. That was the impression. And since then (today is the same day as the 29th, it was just a week ago), everything has been like this (quivering gesture in the atmosphere), like hosts of little promises but promises that havent come to fruition, in other words, its always something that IS to come, something that IS to be, something that IS to be realized; something thats drawing near, but nothing tangible. And last night, when I awoke from my usual concentration (its almost always at the same time: between midnight and half past midnight), I felt something special in the atmosphere, so immediately I let myself flow into it and made contact with it.
I noticed (Ive known it for some time, but it was quite concrete this time) that in my rest, as soon as I am at rest, the body is completely identified with the material substance of the earth, that is to say, the experience of the material substance of the earth becomes its ownwhich may be expressed by all sorts of things (it depends on the day, on the occasion). I had known for a long time that it was no longer the individual consciousness; it isnt the collective consciousness of mankind: its a terrestrial consciousness, meaning it also contains the material substance of the earth, including the unconscious substance. Because I have prayed a lot, concentrated a lot, aspired a lot for the transformation of the Inconscient (since it is the essential condition for the thing to happen)because of that there has been a kind of identification.
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For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing the light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be something analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wasnt seeing physically. But that expression thats the state I was in when I said (I was concentrated and something came out of here [gesture to the heart] and said to the Lord), Well, we will wait another four years.
Four years, that means 1968. Sri Aurobindo said there would be a beginning of supramental manifestation in 67; so perhaps in 68 the two experiences will meet. Its possible.
0 1964-03-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is only one solution in such cases, the one I have established: the bath of the Lord. You make contact within yourself, and you let That flow through you onto othersand then let what happens happen, what does it matter! Its very interesting, you feel the Force flowing and flowing and flowing through yousome people can hold on a long time. Over there
(Mother stops short and looks for a long time)
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are told (Sri Aurobindo himself has just said it) that to the Lords consciousness there is neither past nor time nor movement nor anythingeverything is. In order to translate, we say from all eternity, which is nonsense, but anyway, everything IS. So everything is (Mother folds her arms), and then its all over, theres nothing more to be done! You understand, this conception, or rather this manner of speaking (because its only a manner of speaking) nullifies the sense of progress, nullifies evolution, nullifies We are told: its part of the Determinism that you should strive to progressyes, all this is rhetorical gibberish.
And, mind you, this manner of speaking is one minute of experience, but its NOT the total experience. For a moment you feel this way, but its not total, its partial. Its only ONE way of feeling, it isnt all. There is in the eternal consciousness something far deeper and far more inexpressible than thisfar more. This is only the first stupefaction you have when you emerge from the ordinary consciousness, but it isnt all. It isnt all. When the memory of this aphorism came back to me these last few days, I felt it was only a little glimpse you have all of a sudden and a sense of opposition between the two states, but it isnt allit isnt all. There is something other than this.
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Two or three nights ago, something like that occurred: in the middle of the night, early morning, there was a descent of this Force, a descent of this Truth-Power; and this time it was everywhere (its always everywhere), but with a special concentration in the brainnot in this brain: in THE brain.2 And it was so strong, so strong, so strong! The head felt as if it were about to burstyes, as if everything were going to burstso that for about two hours I simply had to keep calling for the widening of the Lords Peace: Lord, Your widening, Your peace, like that, in the cells. And with the consciousness (which is always conscious, of course [gesture above]) that this descent into an unprepared brain would be enough to drive you completely mad or absolutely daze you (at the very best), or else you would burst.
This experience, like the other one,3 hasnt left.
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There was only this to be done: I kept perfectly still, callingcalling for the Lords Peace and Calm, that ever-widening Peace. The Infinite of the Lords Peace.
Then it became possible to bear the Vibration.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then all these cells, in a fervor (it was truly an Ananda, so inexpressible) hurled themselves at the Lord and told Him, But its so much more marvelous when we know its You!the whole body.
And the light and warmth were expressed, that intensity of Ananda, that bliss You understand, it wasnt in opposition to but like a COMPLEMENT of this vibratory knowledge, which was I cant say a coldly scientific knowledge because that introduces mental notions, but it was of such a wisdom! A knowledge so wise, so calm, so imperturbably quiet, absolutely free from any notion of good and evil, of divine, of positive and negative, absolutely independent of all of thatpurely material. And with an absolute power. Then in these same cells, which were fully conscious of this knowledge of vibrations as being the supreme means of control for their harmony, suddenly there arose in them a sort of not a flame (a flame is dark in comparison), a luminous Ananda: Love in its perfect reality.
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But the advantage of the individuality is that you can aim a beam at precise points (same gesture like a beacon) and obtain a resultnot in a miraculous way that leaves people open-mouthed and stupid, not that; but when the aspiration is sincere, when the will is sincere You know, what I do constantly is (gesture of offering): Lord, I cannot do it, do it for me. Lord, I cannot do it, do it for me. Well, thats what Sri Aurobindo said: if people around me do not have the direct Contact with the Lord (a contact I brought with my birth, of which I have grown more and more conscious, but which was the very source of this earthly existence), if they dont have that Contact, they can have a conscious contact with me; thats easy, because, of course, its something visible, tangible, with a real existence. So if one can be in that state of offering (not with words or sentences, but with a truly sincere feeling): No, I dont know how I can do it all by myself, how can I? Its such a formidable thing to do, how can I? How can I even discern exactly between the true movement and the untrue, or between the movement that leads to the Truth and No, I dont know I give it all to You, do it for me.
And that goes on twenty-four hours a day, and, I can say, as many thousand seconds as there are in a day, spontaneously, sincerely, absolutely (gesture of offering): Here, I give it to you. Oh, here comes a difficulty; oh, so-and-so has a difficulty; oh, these circumstances are bad, oh Here, here, here, I cannot sort it out with the knowledge I havedo what needs to be done; do what needs to be done, I give it to You. Its a gesture of every minute, every second.
0 1964-04-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this poor body says to the Lord, Tell me! Tell me. If I am to last, if I am to live, thats fine, but tell me so I may endure. I dont care about suffering and I am ready to suffer, as long as this suffering isnt a sign given me that I should prepare to go. Thats how it is, thats how the body is. Of course, it could be expressed with other words, but thats it. When you suffer, for instance, when the body suffers, it wonders why, it asks, Is there something I have to endure and overcome in order to be ready to continue my work, or is it a more or less roundabout way to tell me that I am coming undone and I am going to disappear? Because it rightly says, My attitude would be differentif I am to go, well, Ill completely stop bothering about myself, or about whats going on or anything; if I am to stay, I will have courage and endurance, I wont budge.
But it isnt even told that I havent yet been able to obtain a clear answer.
0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lords love is equal, constant, all-embracing, immutable, eternal.
(the second note:)
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Obviously, in those activities, I dont have recourse to divine Love to find the solution of the problem I am not allowed to do so. So I understand that this is what was translated in peoples thought by the idea that divine Love cannot manifest entirely, otherwise there would be catastrophes3its not that at all, thats not at all the way it is. But its clear that in my consciousness the [supreme] contact has been made (with some degree of limitation, but still it has been made), and nothing takes placenothing, absolutely nothing, not even the most totally in-sig-nif-i-cant thingswithout, I cant even say the thought or the sensation (in English they say awareness, but its much fuller than that), the feeling (another impossible word), without the feeling of the Lords Presence, the supreme Presence, being there twenty-four hours a day. Throughout that activity of the night Ive just told you about, He was there, the Lords Presence was there all the time, every second, directing everything, organizing everythingBUT THAT WASNT THERE. And That, which I call Love, that Manifestation, is so formidably powerful that, as I once said, it is intolerant of anything elseThat alone exists. That exists, That isand its finished. Whereas the Lord ( the Lord, what I call the Lord) is something else altogether; the Lord is all that has manifested, all that hasnt manifested, all that is, all that will be, and all, all is the Lordits the Lord. But the Lord (laughing) is necessarily tolerant of Himself! All is the Lord, but all is perceived by the Lord through the limitations of human perception!4 But everything, everything is thereeverything is there; everything, as it is every second; and with the perception of time, every second is different, in a perpetual becoming. This is supreme Tolerance: there is no more struggle, no more battle, no more destruction there is only He.
Those who have had this experience have generally stopped there. And if they wanted to get out of the world, they chose the Lords aspect of annihilation; they took refuge there and stayed thereall the rest no longer existed. But the other aspect the other aspect is the world of tomorrow, or of the day after tomorrow. The other aspect is an inexpressible glory. So all-powerful a glory that it alone exists.
Its ONE way of being of the Lord.
(silence)
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Mother later repeated: "It is the Lord perceiving Himself through human limitations."
More than 300 cases of fever.
0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are too many guides, founders of sects, heads of temples or monasteries, sadhus or saints who intervene between humanity and the supreme Lord under the pretext that they are intermediaries, and who keep for their glorified little persons the waves of gratitude that should go straight, straight to their true goal: the supreme Lord. I always refrain from having anything to do with those people, whether they are on earth or in the subtle world. Whatever the Lord wills for us He will always give us, and I prefer to receive it directly rather than through intermediaries, however great they may be.
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But the more sophisticated those machines are, the more sensitive they are. A few years ago, when I was still downstairs, they brought me a machine that measured the vibratory waves of speech. They use it, but I dont know what for. They brought it to show it to me. I said, Wait, lets make an experiment. I dont remember exactly, but I remember having said the same thing twice: once, with my usual concentration, and once, with a full charge of the Lords Presence. You know, those machines draw kinds of graphsit started dancing! Everyone could see it, there was no mistake. And as far as I was concerned, I said the same thing in the same way; only, in the first case I said it without special concentration, while in the second case, I put the full charge and concentrationit started jumping and jumping! I said, See!
Those machines have a sensitivity.1
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For two hours, it was the experience of Omnipotenceof the LordS Omnipotence for two hours, with all the decisions that were made then, that is to say, the expression of what was going to be translated in the earth consciousness. There was such a simplicity about it! Such obviousnesswhat we customarily call natural. So obvious, so simple, so natural, so spontaneous, without even the memory of what might be an effort the constant effort you have to make in material life just to live, just to keep all those cells together.
The strange thing is that (I was very conscious, perfectly conscious; the Witness consciousness is never canceled, but it isnt in the way) is that I knew, I saw (yet my eyes were closed, I was lying in my bed), I saw my body movingit had movements of such a Rhythm! You see, every movement, every gesture, every finger, every attitude was a thing that was being realized. Then what I studied, what I saw during the half-hour that followed (with my eyes closed, seeing much more clearly than with my ordinary eyes) was the difference in the body the difference in the bodys movements between that moment [during the experience] and after [when Mother returned to the personal consciousness]. At that moment, the movements were it was creation! And with an EXACTNESS, a majesty! (Mother stretches out her arms and moves them slowly in a vast Rhythm.) I dont know what other people might have seen, I have no idea, but as for me, I saw myself; I saw especially the arms because it was the arms that acted: they were like the realizing intermediaries I dont know how to put it. But it was as vast as the world. It was the earth (its always the earth consciousness), not the universe: the earth, the earth consciousness. But I was conscious then of the universe and of the action on the earth (both things), of the earth as a very small thing in the universe (Mother holds a small ball in her hands). I dont know, its hard to say, but when it expressed itself, there was also the perception of the difference in vision between that moment [during the experience] and afterwards. But all this is inexpressible. Yet it is an absolute knowledgeits another way of knowing. Sri Aurobindo explained this, that all mental knowledge is a seeking: you seek; while this knowledge has another quality, another flavor. And then the power of the Harmony is so wonderful! (Mother again depicts a great Rhythm, her arms outstretched) So wonderful, so spontaneous, so SIMPLE. And It stays there, as if It supported the entire world as it is; it is a kind of inner support of the world the world leans on it.
But outwardly, that sort of film its like a thin film of difficulties, of complications, added on by the human consciousness (its much stronger with man than with the animal; the animal doesnt have that, very littleit has it more and more because of man, but very little; its something specific to man and the mental function), its something very thinas thin as an onion skin, as dry as an onion skinyet it spoils everything. It spoils everything ONLY FOR THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. At the time [of the experience], it was unimportant. Unimportant, in the sense that it takes away all the Beauty, all the Power, all the Magnificence of the thing for the human consciousness. For man, it is of paramount importance. But for the Action, its almost negligible. Basically, its rather that it makes it difficult for man to become conscious and PARTICIPATE; otherwise, my feeling is that truly the time has come for things to get done: that experience was a NEW descent, that is, something new entering the terrestrial manifestation; it wasnt that I became conscious of how the world is: I WAS the Lords Will coming into the world to change it. Thats what it was. And that action was only very slightly affected (assuming it was affected at all) by that stupid onion skin of human mentality.
In fact, that was the interesting point: when you come back to the other side (its not even coming back to the other side, its a curious thing that happens..), I remember, when I became conscious again of this body, its gestures had become dry, sterile, thinstupid. And yet it was still in an intense Bliss and a total self-giving: it was at the height of its joy; and yet what it was doing, its appearance, oh, it all seemed so silly!
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There is no greater joy than to know that you can do nothing and are absolutely helpless, that youre not the one who does, and that what little is donelittle or big, it doesnt matteris done by the Lord; and the responsibility is fully His. That makes you happy. With that, you are happy.
Voil.
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When the time has come, it will have come; when the Lord wants it, He will want it: it will be, and thats that. We always worry too muchor rather, all our worries are an onion skin over His work.
A woman disciple of Polish origin, who was a painter.
0 1964-08-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, I got up in that state and began to wonder, Wont there be an end to it? Its always, always, always like that. And more and more I have an inner conviction that it isnt a thing you can obtain through effort and progressive transformationit would take millions of years! Its only the Grace. When the Lord decides, Its finished, now its going to be like that, it will be like that. Then you find rest and tranquillity.
I offered Him my whole night and all the difficulties and all the complications, as I always do. Then a sort of Peace came into me, and in that Peace, I saw what it was and said, Thats odd! The center of the body consciousness isnt there anymore.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We know nothing, we know nothing, nothing. All the rules Naturally, the inner experience and the inside are very fine, theres no question. But that sort of tension every minute in your every movement You know, to do EXACTLY what should be done, to say exactly what should be said the exact thing in every movement You must pay attention to everything, be tensed for everything: its a constant, constant tension. Or if you take the other attitude, trust the divine Grace and let the Lord take care of everything, isnt there a risk that it will end in the bodys disintegration? Rationally I know, but its the body that should know!
When there is someone who has made the experiment and naturally has Wisdom, its so simple! Before, whenever there was the slightest difficulty, I didnt even need to say anything to Sri Aurobindo, everything would sort itself out. Now, I am the one who is doing the work, I have no one to turn to, no one has done it! So this, too, makes for a sort of tension.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For fear of acting wrongly, we stop doing anything; for fear of speaking wrongly, we stop saying anything; for fear of eating for the pleasure of eating, we stop eating anything thats not freedom, its simply reducing the manifestation to its minimum. And the natural outcome is Nirvana. But if the Lord wanted only Nirvana, there would be only Nirvana! He obviously conceives the coexistence of all opposites and that, to Him, must be the beginning of a totality. So, of course, you may, if you feel that you are meant for that, choose only one of His manifestations, that is to say, the absence of manifestation. But thats still a limitation. And its not the only way of finding Him, far from it!
Its a very widespread tendency, which probably comes from an old suggestion, or perhaps from a poverty, an incapacity: to reduce and reducereduce ones needs, reduce ones activities, reduce ones words, reduce ones food, reduce ones active life, and it all becomes so cramped! In the aspiration not to make any mistakes, you eliminate the opportunities of making them thats no cure.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
there is only the Lords Will
that decides everything.
0 1964-09-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the inner Power is put into action (that Power which obviously is always increasing), but it never used to be exerted in that way, in detail, on tiny things of that sort, like someones wrong attitude or an action that doesnt conform to the Truth, anyway lots of things pitiable things, which I used to watch: I would smile, put the Truth-Light on them (gesture from above), and would leave them. But now, its not that way: that comes, and its like something that comes and says to people, things, circumstances and individuals (in an imperative tone): You shall do what the Lord willsyou shall do what He wills. And beware! you shall do what He wills. (Mother laughs)
It makes me laugh, but it must be having some effect!
It is very material, its in the subtle physical. And it always takes that form; it doesnt say, You should do this or You should do that, or You shouldnt do thisnothing like that: You SHALL do what the Lord wills, just like that, You SHALL do and, you know, you shall do it, so beware!
It is a strong Light, with what looks like precise little details (which probably must be translated as details of action, I dont know): they are like lines that make little marks like this (gesture). Its a formation.
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It goes towards the person (I see it with the inner vision, you understand) or towards the circumstances or towards the event, and it pummels it without letting go of it: You will do what the Lord wills, it will be as the Lord wills.
I put it into words, but
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother consults her timetable) Streams, dozens of people write to me, I WANT to see you, I WANT to see you. Thats how it is: I WANT to see you on my birthday, I WANT Now I answer very bluntly, Impossible, no time, without any explanation. But some days, I am free, so the list gets longer, there are fifteen, twenty, twenty-five people. If you think about it, it appears impossible; you go there, you put yourself in a certain state, you call the Lord and live in His Eternity and then its over before you even know it!
Life is on the verge of becoming wonderful but we dont know how to live it. We still have to learn. When we truly learn, it will be something.
0 1964-10-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Maybe its into the past that I wander? It may be into the past, it may be into the future, it may be in the present. I have noticed that the costumes arent at all like todays or like anything we know. But when I am there, in the activity, its perfectly natural, you dont notice it: its like something you see every day, you dont notice it. Only when I come back and objectify a little do I say to myself, Well, how odd! (for myself and for others). And I am not at all as I am now, not at all. Moreover, I think I have been what is called different persons at different times. There was even a time when I looked to see if it wasnt that I was identifying with different persons, but there is no identification, I dont feel I am entering someone, nothing like that. But in appearance, I am not always the same person: sometimes I am very tall, sometimes I am small, sometimes I am young, sometimes I am not old but grownup. Very, very different. But there is always the same central consciousness, there is always (Mother collects herself) the Witness who watches on behalf of the Lord and decides on behalf of the Lord. This is the attitude: the Witness who watches that is to say, who sees everything, observes everything, and who decides, either for himself or for others (indifferently), always. That is the fixed point. On behalf of of the something thats eternaleternal, eternally true, eternally powerful and eternally knowing. That is there, through everything. Otherwise, there are different things all the time, different circumstances, different surroundings; there are ways of life that are very, very different. And also, if I wake up at the beginning of the night, its one particular type of thing; if I wake up in the middle of the night, its another type of thing; if I wake up wake up, lets be clear, it isnt coming out of sleep, its returning to the present consciousness. And every time, its different, like coming from different worlds, different times, different activities.
And its clear that one doesnt expect me to remember that doesnt matter at all. It is an ACTION. Its an action, it isnt a knowledge I am givenan action. I am working. Is it I have worked? Is it I am going to work? Is it I am working? I dont know. Probably all three.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, as he saw I was talking to him, he took the opportunity to ask me, I would really like to have visions. I answered him all that had to be answered, and I told him that, in the last analysis, its only the Lord who decides when we should have visions, when we shouldnt have them, when we are making progress, when we arent, and so on. Then, in the most hypocritical tone (laughing), like someone who says something to be polite but doesnt believe a word of it, he said, Oh, then we are indeed fortunate, because we have the Lord among us. I pretended to believe he was sincere, and I answered him, No, no, no! You cant say that, its not possible I AM NOT the Lord! And I explained a little the consciousness I have of the Lord, I said, You shouldnt think I am the Lord (in my thought, it was: I am not the Lord as YOU imagine Him), because if I were the Lord (Mother smiles, amused), you would have visions and you would be cured.
This took place around 11:30. In the afternoon, usually I take my bath and stretch out a little, a good while, over there. I said to the Lord, And after all, why (laughing) cant I do something for people like this who are really nice? Why cant I work miracles? I asked Him this half seriously, half in jest. Then all of a sudden, it became very serious. All of a sudden, the Presence was very intense and it was very serious. Then l felt something that said in an absolutely positive way (it was translated into words), You MUST NOT have powers. And the total understanding.
You must not have powers.
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But there was a whole mass of adverse forces (I saw all sorts of things, I dont want to go into details) that were trying to PREVENT me from declaring it. And I had to make an effort (Mother makes a gesture of driving back an obstructing mass) not an effort to fight, but an effort to overcome something, as when you are hemmed in, an effort to break a shell so as to be able to proclaim it. And the minute I did that, the minute I took my paper and started writingpfft! it all went, as if swept away! That, yes, that I understand! Thats the Lords Power. No intermediate power can do thatit was a splendor, you know! As if all of a sudden the physical world had become a solar world, splendid and radiant, and so light, so harmonious! It was a marvel. For hours.
And it made me understand that one of the most considerable obstacles is that deviation of aspiration into a thirst for something. But who doesnt deviate? You see, I always start by looking at myself and at all that I know of this beings conscious life (thats my first observation), and all the images come; well, the self-offering, the perfectly pure aspiration that doesnt expect any resultabsolutely free from the slightest idea of result the aspiration in its essential purity thats not frequent. Its not frequent.
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What triggered the whole experience (I forgot to tell you this), when I asked the Lord, Why? Why couldnt I do something for these people who are really nice? is that that story of the past came back, when Sri Aurobindo told me, You are doing a work of the Overmind, you will work miracles that will fill the world with admiration and so on, I told you the story. It came back massively, exactly the same thing: That is not the truth we want. And thats also why I stopped all those pujas of the Mother in October-November, because they all used to come with the idea of getting something: miracles, miracles, miraclesnever for the True Thing. And thats what they expect of God, of course, miracles or favors, illogical and unreasonable things, instead of wanting the Divines progressive advance.
Obviously, thats more difficult.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was extraordinarily obvious! The physical conditions were absolutely the same, and one minute earlier, there was an almost intolerable pain, which went away like that, in the Lords Peace.
Its already two days since it went away, and it hasnt come back. I dont know if it will come back.
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Now and then, when I am perfectly at rest and perfectly quiet (when I know, for instance, that I have half an hour of perfect quiet and no one will disturb me), at such time, the Lord becomes very close, very close, and often I feel Him saying (not with words), saying to my body, Let yourself go, let yourself go; be joyous, be joyous, let yourself go, relax, and the immediate result is that it completely relaxes, and I go into a bliss but I no longer have any contact with the outside! The body goes into a deep trance, I think, and it loses all contact; for instance, the clock strikes, but I dont hear it.
One should be able to keep that bliss while being quite active and hard at work. I am not referring to the inner joy, not at all, theres no question of that, its out of the question, its immutably established: I am referring to that Joy IN THE BODY ITSELF.
0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the mind (if we can call that mind), the physical stupidity cannot understand the process: whats happening, whats going on, it doesnt understand. The body only has, as soon as it is at peace, the feeling of bathing in the Lord. Thats all. But in the body (not in its attributes, I mean when neither force nor energy nor power or any of that is there), in it there is, not something powerful, but a very gentle tranquillity. But not even the feeling of a certainty, nothing. Its negative, rather: the sensation of an absence of limits, something very vast, very vast, very tranquil, very tranquilvery vast, very tranquil. A sort ofyes, like a gentle trust, but not the certainty of transformation, for instance, nothing of that kind.
Its strange, it isnt a passivity; it isnt passive, but its so tranquil, so tranquil, with a sort ofyesgentleness.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All this is perhaps the Lord taking possession of the brain?
Its hard to explain, but as an experience it was extraordinary. You see, we live INSIDE a formation,1 which was the humanhumanformation, all human knowledge. Because I was beginning to try to find what we know of human life and life on earth: its almost nothing at all, a very small thing (Sri Aurobindo wrote somewhere that there were billions of years BEFORE2). So what we know is practically nil. All right. So, to get out of that. And it led me quite naturally to go out of humanityout of the earth, of the universe; of the earth that has been the product of all that we know (at any rate we are explaining what happened, what was there). And then suddenly, yes, the futility, the vanity of that knowledge appeared very clearly, and there was a sort of flash of something else.
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hitler asserted that Falsehood should govern the world and that it was governing it. And he was very conscious of being the instrument of the Asura who had himself called the Lord of Nations, who is precisely the present, current representation of the Asura of Falsehood (the one who was born the Lord of Trutha lovely story).
Thats why Sri Aurobindo clearly and openly took the side of the Alliesit wasnt out of love for the British!
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, it may not be a failure if its the Lords Will. Its no longer ours. Its not that we run off, you understand: its He who decides that its over.
So the answer comes (not from me, it comes from very far and its quite ABSOLUTE as a vibration): Its no solution. It means it isnt, in the present case, considered to be the solution.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And at the same time the understanding comes of all the people I met in my life and with whom I lived for a certain time: for what reasons, with what aim, for what purpose they were there and what action they had and how they did the Lords work (unknowingly, God knows!) to lead this body to prepare itself and be ready for the transformation. Its astonishingly perfect in its conception! Its wonderful! And so inhuman! Opposed to all moral and mental notions of human wisdomall the things that appeared the most insane, the most absurd, the most irrational, the most unreasonable and the most hostile, all that combined, oh, so WONDERFULLY to compel this body to transform itself.
And with such a clear vision of the whywhy it isnt transformed yet. Oh, theres work to be done.
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If the action were individual, it would necessarily be extremely poor and limited; even if the individual is very vast and his consciousness is as vast as the earth, the experience is limited. Its still one aggregate of cells, which can only have a limited sum of experiences (maybe not in the course of time, but undeniably in space). But the minute the identification with the rest takes place, the consequences take place, too: the difficulties of the rest come and have to be absorbed, they have to be transformed. So it amounts to the same thing. Its exactly whats going on now: I dont go out, I have limited my activities as much as possible (I see plenty of people, but still infinitely less than beforebefore, I used to see them by the thousand), but this reduction is largely made up for by the widening of the physical, material consciousness, to such a point that I constantly, constantly have sensations that seem like individual sensations, but immediately I can see that they are other individuals sensations, which come because the consciousness is spread out and receives all that in its movement: a movement as if one gathered everything together, then gave it to the Lord.
(silence)
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, in matters of faith (I dont mean for a very precise and very clear scientific mind), but in matters of faith, there is so far no clear proof that the Lord wants to realize Himself here; except, perhaps, for two or three visionaries who had the experience. Someone asked me if there had been a supramental realization previously, that is, before historical times (because historical times are extremely limited, of course). Naturally, the question always corresponds to one of the things that are shown to me in moments of concentration. So I answered very spontaneously that there hadnt been a collective realization, but that there might have been one or several individual realizations, as examples of what would be and as a promisea promise and examples: This is what will be.
Ive had some very precise memorieslived memoriesof a human life on earth, quite primitive (I mean outside any mental civilization), a human life on earth that wasnt an evolutionary life, but the manifestation of beings from another world. I lived in that way for a timea lived memory. I still see it, I still have the image of it in my memory. It had nothing to do with civilization and mental development: it was a blossoming of force, of beauty, in a NATURAL, spontaneous life, like animal life, but with a perfection of consciousness and power that far surpasses the one we have now; and indeed with a power over all surrounding Nature, animal nature and vegetable nature and mineral nature, a DIRECT handling of Matter, which men do not havethey need intermediaries, material instruments, whereas this was direct. And there were no thoughts or reasoning: it was spontaneous (gesture indicating the direct radiating action of will on Matter). I have the lived memory of this. It must have existed on earth because it wasnt premonitory: it wasnt a vision of the future, it was a past memory. So there must have been a moment It was limited to two beings: I dont have the feeling there were many. And there was no childbirth or anything animal, absolutely not; it was a life, yes, a truly higher life in a natural setting, but with an extraordinary beauty and harmony! And I dont have the feeling it was (how can I explain?) something known; the relationships with vegetable life and animal life were spontaneous ones, absolutely harmonious, and with the sensation of an undisputed power (you didnt even feel it was possible for it not to be), undisputed, but without any idea that there were other beings on earth and that it was necessary to look after them or make a demonstrationnothing of the sort, absolutely nothing of mental life, nothing. A life just like that, like a beautiful plant or a beautiful animal, but with an inner knowledge of things, perfectly spontaneous and effortlessan effortless life, perfectly spontaneous. I dont even have the feeling that there was any question of food, not that I remember; but there was the joy of Life, the joy of Beauty: there were flowers, there was water, there were trees, there were animals, and all that was friendly, but spontaneously so. And there were no problems! No problems to be solved, nothing at allone just lived!
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He has a political attachment to the dogma. For instance, after one of my conversations (I had a good number of conversations with him, three or four, on the mental level, and perfectly objective because his reactions were unexpected; to me they were very spontaneous, in the sense that I received answers that werent at all those I might have expectedwhich proves it was genuine), but for example, before his election, I met him once (there is a part of his mental being, a higher intelligence, thats very well formed, conscious, individualized), and I had a spontaneous conversation that I hadnt sought and which was very interesting. But at one point, I replied to something he said, and I told him with the force I have there [on that higher plane], the Lord is everywhereeven in hell the Lord is there. And then it caused such a violent reaction in him that, pfft! he vanished. I found it very striking. I dont know the dogma, but it seems that in hell, according to the Catholics, whats worse than suffering, the fire and all that, is the absence of the Lord. It seems its a dogma that the Lord is absent from hell; and me, I was speaking of universal Oneness and I told him that.
There is another thing I remember very clearly, which struck me. It was after his election (but long before his trip to India was decided upon): he had come to India and he came to Pondicherry to meet me (not to meet me: he had come to Pondicherry, then he came and met me). Once in Pondicherry, he came and I saw him there, in the room where I receive people. We had a long conversation, a very long and interesting conversation, and suddenly (it was towards the end, it was time for him to go), when he rose, he was preoccupied by something. He told me, When you speak to your children about me, what will you tell them? You understand, the ego showing itself. So I looked at him (Mother smiles) and said, I will only tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Supreme. Then he relaxed and left. It struck me. These things are very objective.
0 1965-01-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding an old Playground Talk of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and guided Hitler: Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come into contact with his guide and receive inspirations from him which he would afterwards carry out very faithfully. That being whom Hitler took for the Supreme was quite simply an Asura, the one called in occultism the Lord of Falsehood, and he proclaimed himself to be the Lord of Nations. He had a resplendent appearance and could pull the wool over anyones eyes, except one who truly had occult knowledge and could thus see what was there, behind the appearance. He could have deluded anyone, he was so splendid. He generally appeared to Hitler wearing a breast-plate and a silver helmet (with a sort of flame coming out of his head), and there was around him an atmosphere of dazzling light, so dazzling that Hitler could hardly look at him. He would tell him all that he had to dohe would play with him as with a monkey or a mouse. He had set his mind on making Hitler do all possible kinds of folly until the day when he would come a cropper, which is what happened. But there are many cases like that one, on a smaller scale, naturally. Hitler was a very good medium, he had great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence and discernment. That being could tell him anything and he would swallow it all. Thats what prodded him on little by little. And that being would do that as a pastime, he didnt take life seriously. For those beings, people are very small things with which they play as a cat plays with a mouse, until the day when they eat them up.)
I knew that being very well (for other reasons the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then I said to Hitler, Go and attack Russia. I dont exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, Go In order to have the supreme victory, go and attack Russia. That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did ittwo days later, we got the news of the attack.1 And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, Ive done your job! Naturally enough, he was furious!
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But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japanhe called himself the Lord of Nations. And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood.
And he hasnt been destroyed yet.
0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with the consciousness absolutely certain, because there have been other details. Three days earlier, Kali was in a fury because things werent as they ought to be on the earth, and especially among the people whose mission it is to prepare the new world. She was she really was in a fury. She saw all the blunders everywhere, and it made such a powerful vibration in the atmosphere, as though she wanted to begin her Dance; as for me, I kept telling her, Calm down, calm down. On the morning of the 11th, she was here and she kept going on about this, that, about the blunders in the government, in the town, in the Ashram, in this and thatshe saw everything. I tried to calm her down, but really without success. Finally, when I saw there was no way, I said to the Lord, Look after her and do what needs to be done, I beg You I handed over the responsibility to Him. And then, the same evening the attack started, and I saw it was her dancing. So I thought, We really had something to learn! And I saw, I had that experience and I KNOW now (I know it in a certain, absolute and unforgettable way) which is the vibration of Truth in the Physical, in which state the Physical must be so as to respond to the Truthso as to BE the Truth. Now I know. So that I, too, have learned my lesson. But everyone has learned something, and I hope it wont be forgotten.
And this morning (this is rather interesting), I received a letter from R. telling me, That evening I had an extraordinary experience, but now its beginning to appear like an impossibility, like something unreal. The exact moment when the experience came over me (of course, when he received the news of the attack, his first reaction was that of human fear, with the hands becoming cold and so on, but he sat down, he braced himself, he called me), and then he felt a Peace come down from above, something he had never felt before, which swept through his whole being, took hold of him entirely and lasted for I dont know, I think he said till eleven at nightit lasted a long time. He had experienced a little bit of it from time to time, but it had never been like that: it came down into him, it seized hold of him entirely. And he says, I could move about: it was THERE, it didnt budge, it was inside me. So I thought, At last someone who felt! There has been at least one who felt.
0 1965-03-03, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just two or three days ago I wrote something in reply to a question, and I said something like this: Sri Aurobindo is the Lord, but only a part of the Lord, not the Lord in His totality because the Lord is Allall that is manifested and all that is not manifested. Then I wrote: There is nothing that isnt the Lord, nothing there is nothing that isnt the Lord, but those who are CONSCIOUS of the Lord are very rare. And this unconsciousness of the creation is what constitutes its Falsehood.
It was so obvious suddenly: This is it! This is it! How did Falsehood come about?Just like this: it is the creations unconsciousness that constitutes the Falsehood of the creation. And as soon as the creation becomes conscious again of BEING the Lord, Falsehood will cease.
And thats how it is indeed: everything is difficult, everything is laborious, everything is hard going, everything is painful, because everything is done outside the Lords consciousness. But when He takes possession of His domain again (or rather when we let Him take possession of His domain again) and things are done in His consciousness, with His consciousness, everything will become not only easy but marvelous, gloriousand inexpressibly joyful.
It came as something obvious. People ask, What is it that is called Falsehood? Why is the creation made of Falsehood?It isnt an illusion in the sense of being nonexistent: its quite existent, but its not conscious of what it is! Not only unconscious of its origin but unconscious of its essence, of its truth. It isnt conscious of its truth. And thats why it lives in Falsehood.
0 1965-03-06, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had written to him (he had read something in White Roses) and he had answered me (he was indignant), How can you say that Sri Aurobindo doesnt express the WHOLE Lord, that Sri Aurobindo is only a part of the Lord! I didnt answer directly, I told him, Take care not to become dogmatic. And he has never understood anything.
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that I do what the Lord wants
me to do so as to serve on earth
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, when the Lord draws nearest to men to establish a conscious relationship with them, it is then that, in their folly, men do the most foolish things.
Its true, absolutely true.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, maybe for others it [the ecstasy] is allowed to last, but for this body After a while, all the problems from outside come back, that is to say, all the vibratory difficulties of the world are allowed to reach it again in order to be taken up and transformed in the Light of the Lord. And the whole problem crops up again.
You know, problems of illness, problems of possession (vital and mental possession), problems of egos that refuse to yield (and this results in circumstances which, humanly, are described in the ordinary way: such and such a thing has happened to so-and-so but thats not how it comes into the consciousness), well, if you look at things in a sufficiently general way, those problems REMAIN problems. There is indeed something, but a something that is still elusive (elusive in its essence): it has to do with feeling, with sensation, with perception, also with aspirationit has to do with all that, and it is what we habitually call divine Love (that is, essential Love, that which is expressed by Love and seems to be beyond the Manifestation and Nonmanifestation, which, naturally, becomes Love in the Manifestation). And That would be the ALL-POWERFUL expression. In other words, That is what would have the power to transform into divine consciousness and substance all the chaos we now call world.
0 1965-03-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the nerves have really calmed down because one has eaten well, one can go into a blissful contemplationdont be occupied with anything, above all dont try to think: like this (gesture of floating, offered), invoking the Lord and his Harmonya luminous harmony and then lying like that at least half an hour, three quarters of an hour after the meal. Its very good, its excellent. Dont fall asleep: blissfulnothing, being nothing. Nothing but a blissful tranquillity. Thats the best remedy.
I think thats easier after eating well!
0 1965-04-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How can I love the Lord? I have never seen Him and never He speaks to me.
This is my answer:
It is not what one sees or hears that one loves, it is love that one loves through the forms and sounds, and of all love the most perfect love, the most loving love is the Lords love.
When I wrote it, it was an extraordinarily intense experience: one cannot love anything but love, and it is love that one loves behind all thingsit is love that one loves.
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I like that. It has a sort of childlike simplicity: and the most perfect love, the most loving love is the Lords love.
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0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As always (laughing), I had the feeling that the Lord was laughing and saying to me, But since such is your will, it will be that way! Meaning simply: its you who CHOSE to be like that.
And its perfectly true. All our incapacities, all our limitations, all our impossibilities, its this idiotic Matter that chooses them allnot with intelligence, but with a sort of feeling that thats how things must be, that they are naturally like that. An adherencean idiotic adherenceto the mode of the lower nature.
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And the Lord looks on, smiles, waits (laughing) for the body to be cured of its idiocy.
He does all that is needed, but we dont take any notice.
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This repeats itself hundreds upon hundreds of times a day. So if this isnt called sadhana, I dont know what a sadhana is! You see, eating is a sadhana, sleeping is a sadhana, washing is a sadhana, everything is a sadhana. Whats a sadhana least of all is, for instance, receiving someone, because the body immediately keeps quite stillit calls the Lord and says, Now be here, and then everything is fine (because it keeps still). The visitor comes, the body smiles, everything is fine the Lord is there, so of course everything goes very smoothly. But when were dealing with what we call material things, the things of daily life, its hell, because of that idiot.
The other day, after you left, I couldnt eat anything! I couldnt eat because the body felt it was being diluted in the world like that (expansive gesture); so it was being diluted (which is quite all right, the experience is proceeding well), but it had a feeling that it couldnt eatwhy? I dont know. And it was impossible. The doctor, who was there as always during my meals, said, Whats wrong? (Because the day before, there had been an attack, a sort of malice: I started vomiting; it happens to me once in six or seven years; an affair recurring at long intervals; and it was serious, but it didnt last long.) But the other day it was something else: the body felt it was being diluted (you remember, you said I was white), and when it came to eating, the body said (in a moaning tone), Look how I am, I cant eat. If I had had a little time (laughing), I would have given it a good smack and told it not to make such a fuss! But I didnt have time, it was time for me to sit down and eatand I couldnt eat. So I had difficulty the whole day, because naturally those little pranks make life difficult.
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, the surgeon gentleman will tell you, Well operate, (laughing) and the gentleman who isnt a surgeon will want to give injections. No, to make it easier for you to read or work, you can get the right lenses; and then my own remedy is to sit very stillvery stillwith your elbows on a table and your eyes in your palms and then if you can have in your heart an aspiration and tell the Lord, Lord, take possession of Your domain, enter Your kingdom here, do a little cleaning, like that even formulating the thing in a very childlike manner ( the Lord isnt a pontiff, he doesnt like ceremonies: he likes sincerity), here, like this (gesture to the heart), something that says, Oh oh, that really wants thats all. Tell him like that, Come here, come, enter my eyes, come, do come, look through these eyes. Its much stronger than all the rest.
Only, its very good to get lenses to make your work easier in the meantime. But, for that, you dont need a pontiff; you need a man with goodwill who knows how to choose lenses.
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems Ramakrishna told Vivekananda, You can see the Lord just as you see me and hear His voice just as you hear my voice. Some people took this as a declaration that the Lord was on earth in the flesh (!) I said, No, thats not it! What he meant is that if you enter the true consciousness, you can hear Him I say, much more clearly than you hear physically and see Him much more clearly than you see physically.Oh, that Immediately their eyes open wide, it becomes something unreal!
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I mean that this inner knowledge doesnt have the power to convince them, thats an experience I have almost every day. So that when, concerning some event or other, I see, Oh, but its perfectly, perfectly obvious (for me): I saw the Lords Force act there, I saw such-and-such a thing happen, and so, quite naturally, this is what must take place, for me, its as obvious as could be, but I dont tell what I know, because it doesnt correspond to anything in their experience, so to them its raving or pretension. Which means that when you havent had the experience yourself, anothers experience isnt convincing, it cannot convince you.
The power isnt so much of acting on Matter thats something happening CONSTANTLYbut unless hypnotic means are used (and they are worthless, they dont lead anywhere), the difficulty is to open the understanding (gesture of breaking free at the top of the head), thats what is so difficult. The thing which you havent experienced is nonexistent.
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She speaks like a child, and it has the charm of the child. She told me, Oh, I beg you, ask the Lord to be quick and sort things out! (Mother laughs) So I answered:
We are always free (laughing) to make
our proposals to the Lord, but after
all it is only His will that is realized.
0 1965-06-09, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have a whole mantra [besides the main Mantra], I told you, for years now, and it is extremely complete: it applies to all necessities and all occasions, its a long series. But for some time it has become very spontaneous, too, and very self-living: when I want to see quite concretely where someone stands (someone meditating in front of me, for instance), I recite the mantra (within, of course) and I watch the reactions, because the mantra deals with the surrender of all the parts of the being and all the modes of life: its very complete. So according to the reactions [in Mothers centers], I see very clearly. The other day, when X came, I did it (it was the first time I had done it with him), I did it, and when I came to a certain point (Mother smiles) he couldnt bear it! He sort of stiffened, bowed to me and got up. Before that, he had remained very silent, very quiet. But that (Mother laughs) You see, I invoke the Lord and ask Him to manifest His various ways of being or realizations (its not taken in a mental sense, not at all), but when I said I say many things, but up to that point he had been quiet, silent, still, and at one point (because it comes in a logical succession), I said, Manifest Your Knowledgehe felt uneasy, as if he felt he was being thrown out of himself! So I tried to calm that down, but he couldnt bear itafter five minutes, he got up and left. A real unease; because, as for me, I am inside people (I am everywhere, of course), I feel just as if it took place in my own body.
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This is advice to childlike mentalities (childlike not in terms of age), the same thing as, You say that you cant love the Lord because you have never seen Him. Its the same kind of level. But I like it because at least they dont pretend to be intelligent. And yesterday a child announced to me that it was his birthday and that there were two questions he wanted to ask me, in English: Where does God live? or Where is the house of God? (something of the sort) and Can I ever see Him? So I replied to him just as one replies to a child, with the childs simplicity:
God lives everywhere and in everything,
0 1965-06-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are all kinds! Complications, lots of complications; there are all kinds of ill will, at least of people who go round in circles instead of going forward. And stupid inventions. The other night Because the head is always still, like this (gesture to the forehead, palms open to the Light from above); I give thanks to the Lord for that, and its always like that; so I dont decide whats to be done, I dont decide whats to be answerednothing: when it comes, it comes. And some people had played a really nasty trick ([laughing] I couldnt care less!) and I wasnt budging. And as it happens, in the middle of the night, a force comes, takes hold of me and tells me, Heres the answer, here is what you must say. I say, Very well (I was lying in bed, of course) and I dont budge. (Mother puts on a more imperative tone:) Here is what you must say.Oh, very well! And I still dont budge. (In a still more imperious tone:) Here is what you must say. (Mother laughs)
So I got up, went over there, and in the dark I wrote what I had to say!
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
H. hopes so! (Mother laughs) I didnt say either yes or no to her, I told her, the Lord will decide. It depends on my health. Moving from hereno: I am here because of the Samadhi, I remain here, thats quite certain; but I can go there on a visit (its not so far away, it takes five minutes by car). Only, H. wants to be in peace, silence, far from the world, and its quite possible in her park with a road around it and someone to stop people from enteringone can be really in peace but if I am there, thats an end to it! There will be collective meditations and so on. So if I have signs (physical signs, first), then the inner comm and to go out, I will go there in a car and spend an hour in the afternoon I can do it from time to time. We still have time, because it will take years before everything is ready.
You mean the disciples will remain here.
0 1965-07-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the play of the will on the cells, the way in which the cells obey the will, is very interesting. Because, it goes without saying, now it isnt an individual will (it isnt a personal will, its nothing that looks like the old business of before), but it is the Will for Harmony in the world: the Lord in his aspect of harmony. There is the Lord in his aspect of transformation and the Lord in his aspect of harmony. But the Lord in his aspect of harmony has a harmonizing will; so when that will for harmony comes, it acts in its turn, saying, Not everything for the Will for Transformation! Things shouldnt go too fast because everything will be demolished! The will for harmony should be there and things should follow a rhythmic and harmonious movement, and then everything is sorted out.
To tell the truth (it has been a very intense study these last few days), I dont know what an illness is. They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak but we are entirely made up of those things! Its only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the difference. There is nothing that isnt a microbe or a virusthey give ugly names to the things they dont want, but its all the same thing! For the cells, thats not the problem the problem is not that, but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a bit brutalbrutal compared to the very small thing a body is), or whether to follow the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposing.
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
0 1965-07-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right. Its perfectly obvious that one wants us to be like this gentleman who faces everything without ever tiring.1 Its obvious. Because as soon as something begins to moan, I see the Lord smile, I see his smile (I dont see his face, for me he doesnt have a face!), but I see his smile, and he smiles as if saying, Still there! Havent you got past that yet!
We always give ourselves excuses, but thats stupid.
0 1965-08-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Always listen to what the Lord of Truth has to tell you and let your action be guided by Him.
Thats good.
I often wonder. We are indeed told that we should leave our action to the Lord, but shouldnt we help him a bit?!
(Mother laughs) He certainly must need help!
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No! Its admirable. But its admirable provided you dont live in the world, provided you live secluded in the cave or the forest. Because in worldly life, there are all the wills, impulses, desires from all those around, which keep coming constantly; so then, if you are passive, you also receive that. And its to protect yourself from that that you should remain activehelp the Lord.
But this note was intended for someone who needed to hear this. They arentthey are NEVER universal things applicable to one and all.
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At any rate, it is quite certain (Sri Aurobindo wrote it somewhere, I read it again just two or three days ago), quite certain that the Lord doesnt want automatons that He has to push along. Thats not what He wants: He wants a conscious collaboration. Only, a point comes when the sense of the person truly disappears; you go on saying I, because how do you express yourself? But when you say I, you have the feeling (not the thought for the thought, it takes a long time), a sort of feeling of the higher Will manifesting here, in this spot, with these means.
It comes after years.
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But, oh, how many little experiences Ive had about this, and so interesting! Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing; as long as you dont pay attention to itas long, above all, as you dont mention it to anyone and you give it up to the Lord (if it happens to hurt, you give it up to the Lord), its all rightits fine, you arent sick: its a disorder somewhere. If you are unfortunate enough to utter a word about it to anyone, and especially to the doctor, whoever he is, it instantly becomes an illness. And I know why, its because the cells that are in disorder feel all of a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons! So then, as they are very interesting, they must make themselves still more interesting. If they have a movement that isnt harmonious, they exaggerate itit becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more.
It sounds like a joke, but its true! Thats how it is, I know it. I have observed it carefully in my cells. So when they are told (Mother slaps her armrest), You fools! Thats not your duty at all, you are ridiculous, they keep quiet.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday or the day before, I dont know (I think it was two days ago), it hurt all over and it was a constant effortan effort to maintain an acceptable balance; and then, at one point, I lay down and the body said, Oh, (laughing) wont it end? Will it always be like this? Then it suddenly had the perception, Oh, what a coward I am! It was ashamed of itself. And it felt (Mother presses her hands against her face), like this, inside here, everywhere, the presence of the Lordeverywhere like this, a Presence! A Presence of luminous power, but a luminous power that can be destructive, you understand! (Mother laughs) It can melt you completelyWell, arent you content, do you want something other than this?! Oh!
It doesnt ask for anything.
0 1965-10-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the Lord is smiling, so I dont think its serious.
He is smiling. He has taken the opportunity to make a practical and very effective demonstration: a demonstration of the same totality of vibrations (resulting in outer and inner circumstances) with and without the consciousness of His Presenceconscious of His Presence and oblivious of His Presence. And then, its tremendous, incredible! Exactly the same thingstarting with thoughts, feelings, sensations, circumstances and the general state, the totality of vibrationsconscious of this Presence and oblivious of it; not that it is sent far away, nothing like that: simply forgotten (thats the usual state of the world, of course), forgotten. Its incredible, incredible!
It lasted long enough (gesture showing a very swift alternation from one state to the other: conscious of His Presence and oblivious of His Presence), like a demonstration. And with this Smile You know, when I say, the Lord is smiling, it means something; its not that I see a face smiling, but its a a sunny vibration You know, the sun is dull and drab and cold and almost black in comparison. And then with that gone (same alternating gesture) with that here, with that gone. Which means that those who will come and manifest, who will exist when everything is changed, they will lack the sense of wonder at the opposition.
You know, you can only be filled with wonder! (How can I put it?) A sort of laughterof sunny laughterwhich is full of an intensity of love and Yes, this must be the Ananda, the true Ananda.
0 1965-10-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you were in hospital, for several days I was in constant concentration at night so that My own way is a way that intelligent people regard as very childish, but which I find the best: I turn to the Lord and pray to Him with all the ardor of my consciousness; and I asked Him to save your life, which was in danger, with the knowledge of the cause and of what should cure you. And I didnt cease till a sort of certitude came that things would turn out all right.
Not so long ago, maybe a few weeks, I did see something that was wrong, but still I insisted and hoped it was just a memory that had come up again from the subconscient.
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And then, there is in fact all that I have told you lately about this phase in the development because of which, outwardly Yes, thats what I hear from everyone: Why dont you change that? Why dont you free me from this? Why dont you eliminate that? So far, the power to do things instantly hasnt been given to me personally. I dont know why. But every time it is necessary to intervene, I pass everything on to the Lord and tell Him, Do it.
(silence)
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If I am asked, Have you seen the Lord? I cant say humanly that I have seen the Lord. But He is here, oh, yes! He is here and He is perfect love. He is here and He is fantastic power.
And He is here, and He is in fact the very essence of true Love, and without this Vibration, one doesnt know what to love is, one cannot know. And unless one rejects all ones personal egoistic limitations, one cannot love Him.
0 1965-11-15, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you must learn to bear them. Just do this: when you get a shock, stay very quiet and callcall the Lord or call me, it doesnt matter (laughing), it has the same effect! (Dont go about repeating this!) And then say, Give me a widened consciousness, thats all. And then remain quiet. And then the next time the smell comes, youll notice that, oh, its not so unpleasant, and the third or fourth time, you will feel the Ananda behind it.
I know this from experience.
0 1965-11-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And thats why its so difficult to know how one should be. Because in thought you can be in the same constant state, even in aspiration you can be in the same constant state, in the general goodwill, even in surrender to the Divine, it all can be the same thing, in the same stateits in here (Mother touches her body), and this makes the whole difference. I can very well conceive that there may be people in whom this opposition persists in the mind and the vital, but there its so obvious. But I am talking of something absolutely material. Some people say and think, How come? I have such goodwill, such a desire to do the right thing, and then nothing works, everything jarswhy? I am so good (!) and yet things dont respond. Or those who say, Oh, I have made my surrender, I have such goodwill, I have an aspiration, I want nothing but the Truth and the Good, and yet I am ill all the timewhy am I ill? And naturally, one small step more, and you begin to doubt the Justice that rules the world, and so on. Then you fall into a hole. But thats not it, thats not what I mean. Its much simpler and much more difficult at the same time, because it isnt blatant, it isnt evident, its not an opposition from which you can choose, its truly, totally and integrally leaving the entire responsibility to the Lord.
Of all things, this is the most difficult for manits far easier for the plant and even for the animal, far easier. But for man its very difficult. Because there was a whole period in the evolution when in order to progress he had to take on the responsibility for himself. So the habit has formed, it has taken root in the being.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But theres no fault! Its never anybodys fault! (Mother laughs) Its not the Lords fault! the Lord has no faults!
Anyway, its a pity that there wasnt
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But I am telling you: what has affected you is that there was in this letter a very strong vital formation (which was influencing him too), a sort of (excuse my saying so, I dont want to harm your friendship or your memory), but its a sort of drama he was putting on for himselfbesides, all those who commit suicide are like that, WITHOUT ONE EXCEPTION. Its a drama that he was putting on for himself and living very powerfully in the vital, and the formation came on you along with the letter and thats what has troubled you. I know this, because my first reaction while reading the letter was a smile the smile I wear in the face of the dramas of the vital. I am absolutely sure of it, you could swear to me that its not so, it would make no difference. I am absolutely sure. He was the first I might say victim, if you like, the first victim of the drama, but then it came on you, it pounced on you along with the letter. A drama in the vital. And its a drama in the vital, all these things are dramas in the vital. Listen, just these last few days the days between the 5th and the 9th I always relive the minutes I lived in 1950, and I always see them in the light of the knowledge I have acquired, and I SAW, I saw to what extent pain, sorrow, regret especially that regret of not having done what one should have done, which is another absurdity because one NECESSARILY did what one had to doone wasnt what one should have been and one must change, thats why one must change, but one did what one had to do because you cannot do anything but what the Lord makes you do, and He makes you do the thing which is at the same time the best possible for the whole and the best possible for your own progress. There. So all the regrets of I should have I shouldnt have are rubbish.
You understand, I am saying this with all the power of the knowledge lived in all the details. I KNOW this. And this is precisely the time of the year when I know it best, in the most living and concrete way, and the most powerful.
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Truly, even materially and even in the present state of the world, nothing is impossible. All that is needed is the Lords Sanction (sanction in the English sense of the word). And it was He who wanted it, it was He who willed it. I, who cant remain standing for more than ten minutes without my head whirling, stayed there half an hour MOTIONLESS: I didnt feel anything, I was quite beyond all karmas! It took half an hour for everything to come to a stop, and it was clearly a momentary effect, meaning that it could have lasted one hour, two hours, I dont know, but with the inner vibrations of his being (lack of faith and so on) it could only be momentary.
But it happened. And it wasnt through an imposition: it was through a relaxation, with the Force descending like a mass, brrf! Tremendous, mon petit! Two or three times there was a loosening [in the doctor], then it resumed: it was as if driven out of the brain, and it came back into the brain; I drove it out and back it came. And the last time, there was a relaxation. Then I said, Thank You, Lord, I thank You.
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Now we shall see. If the other doctor has trust and he too has trust, its quite possible. But its neither this doctor nor any other that will have done it: its the Lord. Only He can do things. I told Sanyal when he came back from America, Its only the Lord that can cure you, nobody. Then he told me, Oh, yes, but there are means of intervening. I answered him, Any means you like, its all the same to me!
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0 1966-01-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when I concentrate on someone while calling the Lord, then, generally, near the shoulder (gesture between the persons head and shoulder), there is a great golden light, like that, which sparkles and sparkles, shines and shines, very brightly, all the while. And when the light goes, the concentration goes.
But just now, it was amusing, it was quite small like this, moving along with my pen. Now its finished, gone! (Mother laughs)
0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But those who got hold of this experience for some reason or other without having all the philosophical and mental preparation I had (the saints, or at any rate all the people who led a spiritual life) had instead a very acute impression of the unreality of life and the illusion of life. But thats only a narrow way of looking at it. Thats not it thats not it, EVERYTHING is a choice! Everything, everything. the Lords choice, but IN US; not there (gesture above): here. And we are unaware of it, its deep down in ourselves. But when we are aware of it, we can choosewe can choose our choice, thats wonderful!
For instance, when that state was there, I told my body, But see, you clumsy fool, why do you choose to be dramatic? To have pain, to be this and that? And that sort of fate and bond and hardness of existenceall that had vanished. All vanished. It was light blue, light pink, all luminous and clear and (same dancing gesture) buoyant.
0 1966-03-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What the Lord wants is done thats all; it begins there and ends there.
If He told me Whatever He wants the body to do, it can do; it no longer depends on physical laws.
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It reminds me of the words of the Lord of Nations, the great Asura, when he told me, I know that my power is drawing to its close, but you may be sure that before disappearing I will destroy everything I can.
Thats it, thats exactly it.
0 1966-04-16, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body constantly used to ask (not a sign or an assurance or a proof: its all of that together), it used to ask for a sort of sensation (sensation, if it can be called that) that it is the Lord that rules (I am putting it in childlike words because they are the truest), that it is the Lord that rules. It asked for that all the time, the way a child could ask: that in all the innumerable nothings one does all the time, which are the very fabric of the bodys existence. It became so intense. Anything perceived as separate from that becomes inert: ashes. Inert without even the power of inertia: the inertia of dust. I mean that a rock has a power in its existence, a power of cohesion, of durationits not even that: its dust. So then, there was constantly, constantly that prayer in the body. And thats what led me to the experience.
When that is there, everything seems to swell with a golden, luminous, radiating Power: its so intense as to have volume! If that isnt there, everything is dust.
0 1966-05-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That, too, depends on the stand one takes. A complete identification with the play as play, as a self-existent and independent thing, is probably necessary, first in order to play the game as one should play it. But at one point one does in fact reach that detachment, such a complete disgust for the whole falsehood of existence that it becomes intolerable unless one sees it as the inner play of the Lord in Himself, for Himself.
And then, one feels that absolute and perfect freedom thanks to which the most marvelous possibilities become realizable, all the most sublime things that can be imagined are realizable.
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Youll see, there comes a point when you can tolerate yourself and life only if you take the attitude that the Lord is everything. See, that Lord, how many things He possesses: He plays with all thatHe plays, He plays at changing the positions. And then, when you see it, that whole, you feel the limitless marvel, and that whatever the object of the most marvelous aspiration, its all quite possible and will even be surpassed. Then you are consoled. Otherwise, this existence is inconsolable. But that way, it becomes charming. One day, I will tell you.
When you have the sense of the unreality of life the unreality of lifecompared with a reality thats certainly found beyond, but at the same time WITHIN life, then ah, yes, THAT is true at lastTHAT is true at last and deserves to be true. That is the realization of all possible splendors, all possible marvels, all, yes, all possible felicities, all possible beauties that, yes, otherwise
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I lie down on my bed at night, there is an offering of all the cells, which regularly surrender as completely as they can, with an aspiration not only for union but for fusion: let there remain nothing but the Divine. Its regular, every day, every single day. And for some time, these cells or this body consciousness (but it isnt organized as a consciousness: its like a collective consciousness of the cells), it seemed to be complaining a little, to be saying, But we dont feel much. We do feel (they cant say they dont feel: they feel protected, supported), but still They are like children, they were complaining that it wasnt spectacular: It HAS to be marvelous. (Mother laughs) Ah, very well, then! So two nights ago, they were in that state when I went to bed. I didnt move from the bed till about two in the morning. At two in the morning I got up, and I suddenly noticed that all the cells, the whole body (but it really is a cellular consciousness, not a body consciousness; it isnt the consciousness of this or that person: theres no person, its the consciousness of a cellular aggregate), that consciousness felt bathed in and at the same time shot through by a MATERIAL power of a fan-tas-tic velocity bearing no relation to the velocity of light, none at all: the velocity of light is something slow and unhurried in comparison. Fantastic, fantastic! Something that must be like the movement of the centers out there (Mother gestures towards faraway galactic space). It was so awesome! I remained quite peaceful, still, I sat quite peaceful; but still, peaceful as I could be, it was so awesome, as when you are carried away by a movement and are going so fast that you cant breathe. A sort of discomfort. Not that I couldnt breathe, that wasnt the point, but the cells felt suffocated, it was so awesome. And at the same time with a sensation of power, a power that nothing, nothing whatsoever can resist in any way. So I had been pulled out of my bed (I noticed it) so that the BODY consciousness (mark the difference: it wasnt the cells consciousness, it was the bodys consciousness) would teach the cells how to surrender and tell them, There is only one way: a total surrender, then you will no longer have that sensation of suffocation. And there was a slight concentration, like a little lesson. It was very interesting: a little lesson, how it should be done, what should be done, how to abandon oneself entirely. And when I saw it had been understood, I went back to bed. And then, from that time (it was two, two: twenty) till quarter to five, I was in that Movement without a single break! And the peculiar thing was that when I got up, there was in that consciousness (which is both cellular and a bit corporeal) the sense of Ananda [divine joy] in everything the body did: getting up, walking, washing its eyes, brushing its teeth. For the first time in my life I felt the Ananda (a quite impersonal Ananda), an Ananda in those movements. And with the feeling, Ah, thats how the Lord enjoys Himself.
Its no longer in the foreground (it was in the foreground for an hour or two to make me understand), now its a bit further in the background. But, you understand, previously the body used to feel that its whole existence was based on the Will, the surrender to the supreme Will, and endurance. If it was asked, Do you find life pleasant?, it didnt dare to say no, because but it didnt find it pleasant. Life wasnt for its own pleasure and it didnt understand how it could give pleasure. There was a concentration of will in a surrender striving to be as perfectpainstakingly perfectas possible, and a sense of endurance: holding on and holding out. That was the basis of its existence. Then, when there were transitional periods which are always difficult, like, for instance, switching from one habit to another, not in the sense of changing habits but of switching from one support to another, from one impulsion to another (what I call the transfer of power), its always difficult, it occurs periodically (not regularly but periodically) and always when the body has gathered enough energy for its endurance to be more complete; then the new transition comes, and its difficult. There was that will and that endurance, and also, Let Your Will be done, and Let me serve You as You want me to, as I should serve You, let me belong to You as You want me to, and also, Let there remain nothing but You, let the sense of the person disappear (it had indeed disappeared to a considerable extent). And there was this sudden revelation: instead of that base of enduranceholding on at any costinstead of that, a sort of joy, a very peaceful but very smiling joy, very smiling, very sweet, very smiling, very charmingcharming! So innocent, something so pure and so lovely: the joy which is in all things, in everything we do, everything, absolutely everything. I was shown last night: everything, but everything, there isnt one vibration that isnt a vibration of joy.
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You see, previously, they always felt the Lords support in the power and the force, they felt they existed because of Him, they existed through Him, they existed in Him; they used to feel all that. But to be capable of feeling it, they had to have enduranceabsolute enduranceto endure everything. Now its not that; its not that, there is something that smiles, but smiles so sweetly, so sweetly, and is, oh, extraordinarily amused, behind it all, and its light, light, so lightall the weight of that tension has disappeared.
And its the result of that awesome flow: a flow that carried the cells along; it wasnt that the cells were immobile and it was flowing through them: they were IN the movement, they were moving with that same velocitya fantastic velocity with a dazzling luminosity and unimaginable speed, felt materially, like that. It was beyond all possibility of ordinary sensation. It lasted for hours.
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But anyway, there is good reason to believe that the Lord is enjoying Himself. He must be enjoying Himself a lot, otherwise He wouldnt make me see all those people. He must find it greatly amusing but I think everything amuses Him, even what we dont find amusing because we are too small.
Fatigue is a great sign of weakness; when something tires you or bores you, its really a sign of weakness. It doesnt happen to me very often anymore; I dont even think it happens at all: theres just, somewhere in the mental consciousness (and it doesnt come from me, it comes from others, rather), a suggestion that its really a bit too much. Otherwise
0 1966-06-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why should the Lord repeat Himself?
The forms are different, of course, but the vibrations?
0 1966-06-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, its not a very philosophical way to put it at all, its very childlike, but its much truer than metaphysical sentences: When the Lord became conscious of Himself, that created the world.
So, lets note down your definition for the child.
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When the Lord became conscious of Himself, that created the world.
Now your turn to say!
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are beginning to have that intense joy of being only through the Lord, for the Lord, in the Lord.
When that is established everywhere, it will be fine.
0 1966-09-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had several hours of this very experience: how the body is automatically attached to its precise way of doing things, and how it must receive the light in order to be ready for anything. It must be able to say spontaneously and sincerely, Your Will, Lord, nothing but Your Will. But it accepts this from no one else or nowhere else than the Lord. Otherwise, nothing doing.
To me its very interesting. Once again I note that I always experience what I am going to hear or to be read.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother holds out a rose to Satprem) This is peace, my child. Its peace. (Laughing) Oh, if you knew how peaceful it is here! (gesture to the forehead and above) I say things, but ultimately they are the way the Lord wants them to be. Maybe He enjoys seeing the faces people pull!
(silence)
0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I quite understand a progressive change and that this substance could be made into something capable of renewing itself eternally from within outward. That would be immortality. But it seems to me that between what is now, what we are, and that other mode of life, a lot of stages might be necessary. You see, if for instance you ask these cells, with all the consciousness and experience they now have, Is there something you cannot do?, in their sincerity they will answer, No, what the Lord wills, I can do. Thats their state of consciousness. But the appearance is otherwise. The personal experience is like this: all that I do with the Lords Presence, I do effortlessly, without difficulty, without fatigue, without wear and tear, like that (Mother spreads out her arms in a great, harmonious Rhythm), but its still open to the whole influence from outside and the body is forced to do things that arent directly the expression of the supreme Impulsion, hence the fatigue, the friction. So a supramental body suspended in a world thats not the earth is not the thing!
No.
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When That comes, when the Lord is there, there isnt one in a thousand for whom its not terrifying. And not to the reason, not to the thought: to the flesh, like that. So assumeassume it happens and a being is the condensation and expression, an embodiment of the supreme Power, of the supreme Lightwhat would happen?!
Well, thats the whole problem.
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Multiply a thousand times what very small children feel. (I am talking about those who are exclusively physical, human beings, not those who are reincarnations.) When they are purely physical beings, they cant approach me, mon petit! They start crying and trembling! Yet I love them and welcome them with all my tenderness and as much calm as possible they start trembling and then get frightened, its too strong. With those who carry something else in themselves, the reincarnations, its different: they open out, they are happy; but when theres nothing but this, that is, the external substance Ive seen adults come (I did the experiment: I charge the atmosphere, the Lord is present), well, Ive seen forty-year-old men enter that and brrt! literally run away, disregarding all social courtesy, and after having ASKED to come, you understand! Anyway everything was there to allow them to behave decentlyimpossible, they couldnt.
But even in my case, having the experience of you, knowing you well, at times its fearsome.
0 1966-10-05, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About the financial situation, I have a little story to tell you, which took place on Sunday or Monday. I told you that the situation was quite to ordinary consciousnesses, it was critical. And there was a payment to be made. I dont remember the material details, but something had to be paid very urgently (I think it was to the workers: they were hungry and hadnt been given their money). And I needed a certain amountwhich I didnt have: I had nothing. Then a sort of compassion came into me for those people who didnt have any money. I saw it wasnt right, and I couldnt do anything because there was none. So, in the evening while I was walking (I have an hour of meditation and quiet, of concentration), I presented it all like this (gesture upward), and with an almost childlike attitude I said to the Lord (He was there, of course, I was with Him) something that can be translated (I dont know, I dont speak but it could be translated into words) roughly like this: I know You are with me and behind everything I do and everywhere, but Id like to know whether what I do, the work I do, interests You or not! (Mother laughs) And if it does interest You, well, I must have this money.
It came like that, in a quite childlike form, but very, very pure. And two days later, when it was necessary for the money to come, for me to have money, just as everything seemed quite impossible, Amrita suddenly came in, telling me, Here, so-and-so has sent a cheque for such-and-such an amount.Exactly the amount needed. And I think it was the first time that person had sent money. It was quite unexpected, absolutely a miraclea miracle for children. The required amount, just at the required time, and absolutely unexpected. Then I had a good laugh. And I said to myself, How silly we can be! We dont know that everything happens exactly as it has to.
0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
According to him, there are two paths: the outward path and the return path. The outward path is people going away from the Lord, living the life of the world, being husband, wife, etc. Then the return path is the true path, the path of the return to the Lord, in which all those things are a hindrance. So, to me, thats a falsehood.
Naturally!
Because whats this outward path going far away from the Lord and this return path in which human relationships are merely a hindrance? The return is, on the contrary, when one has gone all the way up
Yes, and one brings the Divine back down.
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But for him the return is climbing back to the Lordand then?
Then its the end of life!
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Its the Lord coming down.
Its the Truth coming down. The return isnt climbing up, its not that; thats the outward path, on the contrary.
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It began with the stone the stone and one sees very clearly the difference between the stone and plants, plants and animals, animals and men. One sees quite clearly all Matter striving and striving and striving towards the Lord thats the outward journey. It has been like that since the beginning. It climbs up with all its errors, all its confusion, all its falsehoods, all its distortions but its EVERYTHING that climbs up. And the return is what is described in the message I am going to give on 4.5.67 [May 4, 1967]: the prison changed into a divine mansion.3
As a matter of fact, in the book I am writing I show that when one has touched that Light, its the turning point before coming back down; that the truth isnt the end up aboveup above, its one half.
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Yes, thats what I am saying. His entire book is like that: the outward path leads away from the Lord, and on the return path, you climb back to the Lord. [Turning to Sujata:] Its put like that in his book, isnt it?
(Sujata:) That book I dont know, I found it a little odd.
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In reality, its a threefold movement: the creation, which was the flight from the Divine (according, of course, to the ordinary conception which says that the creation fell, it wandered away from the Divine and men wandered away from the Divine); that was the first movement. But thats because he sees it too closely; he doesnt see that the Divine plunged to the very bottom of the Inconscient. (And thats the question: Why did He plunge to the very bottom of the Inconscient? Thats to be investigated [Mother laughs], one doesnt yet know how to explain it: everyone explains it differently.) He plunged to the very bottom (as for me, I think I know why, but that will be for later). He plunged to the very bottom of the Inconscient: beneath the stone (Mother makes a gesture of immutability, at the very bottom), beneath the mineral; the mineral is already a first awakening of the consciousness. But you have to see it as a whole to understand that its an ascent. If you see human life as it is, the impression is that men become lost in the fall, but thats the result of the Mind; the Mind needed to go through the whole experience, to go down to the very bottom in order to understand everything and bring everything back towards the ascent. For plants, its really an ascent. Thus, according to this vision, there are three movements. But if you see the whole simultaneously, there are only two movements: the first movement is the descent of the Lord into the Inconscient (we cant say anything about that for the moment; once we have emerged from it, well be able to say); the second (the first we can conceive of) is, very, very slowly, through all possible experiences, even the most complete mental denials of the Divine, the ascent towards the Divine. And then, once we have climbed up (Mother makes a gesture of descent), Come, come here: change this prison into the mansion of the Divine.
That will be very good, a very good message for 4.5.67.
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, it happened several times. And my impression was that when I was tranquil, something (which wasnt human at all) was there, quietly acting through me (I wasnt even occupied with it) and doing it. That was my very clear impression. I even did some experiments at that time. For instance, once, in a bus, there was a man who was tense and weeping; you could see he was utterly wretched. Then without stirring, unnoticed, I saw that Force going out towards that man, and little by little, his face relaxed, everything calmed down, he grew quiet. This also happened several times. And thats how I knew Because at the time I wasnt very well informed yet; I always felt the Power up above, but didnt know what it wasthere was a Force that would come like that and act quietly. Its the same thing now, but fully conscious. Its the same thing: something that takes hold of the body. The body participates (meaning that it doesnt at all feel its acting, it almost doesnt feel itself), its only aware of a oh, so warm, so sweet a vibration, and at the same time so ter-ri-bly powerful! It comes like that, and the body doesnt need to want or try or anything: it doesnt think, doesnt strive, doesnt stir (Mother makes a gesture of bathing wholly in the Lord): its spontaneous and natural.
Sometimes, when its tired or something isnt quite all right or (that always comes from a contact with outside; afterwards I see, I know what the cause was, but while its happening there is simply a discomfort or a disorganization), then, oh, its exactly like a childs trusting abandon in something which is everywhere, around it, inside it, there, like this (enveloping gesture). And the bodys aspiration is just, May That alone exist. All the rest oof! its nothing at all, a nuisance. May That alone exist. If That alone existed, what a marvelous world this would be!
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, lots and lots of things kept coming in that way while I was walking in the afternoon. Then I stayed quiet, still, for five or ten minutes after the walk as usual, and more kept coming and coming. So I said to the Lord, Cant I have five minutes of peace and quiet with You! (Mother laughs) If you knew this atmosphere, this light of laughter, and such a wonderful laughterso wonderfully merciful, in fact, and understanding and tender, oh! So I said to myself, Really, what an imbecile I am!
Its becoming a really interesting life.
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the body itself says, But of course, I certainly accept that, I perfectly understand! Thats not what I want; I dont want this thing or that: I simply want what the Lord wants, nothing elsewhat He has decided will be. When He says its over, it will be over; if He says it is to go on, it will go on. But then, as this Gentleman cant have his way like this, it comes from every side: this or that individual, this or that thing, that circumstance, all of it, all of it is going to be disorganized. Then I start working [to thwart the attack].
Today it was really very cleververy clever. He is very clever.
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There, the problem comes up again. Because there are various detailed experiences (in tiny details), detailed experiences of different attitudes of consciousness to find out which of them is effective. Its a whole field of study. Its microscopic, of course, but extremely interesting. And then, the answer is always the same; its so lovely: When you forget that you are, when there only remains the Lord, all difficulties instantly disappear. Instantly: the previous second, the difficulty was there; the next second, gone. But its not something that can be done artificially; its not some mental or personal will to take this attitude: it must be spontaneous. And when its spontaneous, then all difficulties INSTANTLY disappear.
Stop existing the Lord alone exists.
And its the only remedy.
But how to do this? You understand, surrender, self-giving, acceptance, all that is really being done more and more, better and better, but its not enoughits not enough. Thats the point. Even the attempt of the consciousness to center on the Lords existence and to try and forget, even that isnt enough. It has some effect, but a mixed one: thats not it. But when you succeed in ceasing to exist the Lord aloneinstantly theres a glory, thats what is marvelous!
But its difficult. There is a very old habit that makes it be otherwise.
Yet its the only remedy, there is no other. Its not even a surrender (the word surrender isnt the true one because there is still something surrendering, and thats not it), its not even an annihilation because nothing is annihilated. I cant explain: only the Lord exists, nothing else. And then, what a marvel! Instantly a marvel.
And in microscopic details, you know; its not a question of important or interesting things, nothing of the sort: it applies to a cellular action. And its the only remedy.
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Inwardly its easy, but outwardly There is all of a sudden, especially in the brains matter, here (gesture to the temples), that movement of descent, of the Lord taking possession, and then outwardly you feel as if youre fainting. Thats why you cant remain standing and have to lie down; but when you lie down, its almost instantaneous, everything disappears: the sense of time, of difficulty, absolutely everything there only remains a luminous immensity, peaceful and so strong!
Thats the days lesson.
0 1966-11-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, a great many. I have been told this several times, but naturally There are a great many of those so-called swamis and sadhus who are quite simply tricksters, but they have a rudimentary occult knowledge in a field where, unfortunately, it takes very little knowledge to be able to do a lot of mischief. There are lots of themnot one or two, but lots. And I know people who went and saw them, who begged them and tried to make them intervene [against Mother]. They have turned either against people around me or against myself. Not many against myself, but one or two of them think they are the Lords of the world, and therefore completely immune, so they have tried, but It can cause a little friction, thats all, its nothing. But when its directed towards people around me, its more difficult to counter because there is always theres always a slight response. They arent pure enough. Then it gives me a lot of trouble. Thats what happened last time, it was towards all those around me: it gave me a lot of work.
With C. [Mothers attendant, who had fallen sick] I did think it was something of the sort, because two days beforeh and I was warned about a formation: a formation which came with a grimacing face and told me, Its over and done with all C.s fine work. You know, they are very small consciousnesses with a big spitefulness, and also some rage or otherwhy? Towards something they dont understand. And then, they use a rather rudimentary occult knowledge. I did what had to be done, but in the beginning I didnt think it was exactly magic: there were lots of reasons. Then, yesterday, C. himself had a dream in which someone was chasing after him (someone or something, he didnt know exactly what), and he ran and ran to escape. He ran till he woke up, and he woke up completely out of breath, as exhausted as if he had really run. Then I said to myself that what I had thought was correct.
0 1966-12-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I told him Because I looked, I immediately looked at it from THAT angle. For my part, I see things very differently, never in that way. I am always surprised at the way people see things. To me, its completely different, its the Lords Vibration crystallizing. Thats all. And always, alwaysat all times. So theres no why, no howits very simple, elementary in its simplicity. But I couldnt tell him that, he wouldnt have understood. So I looked at it from his standpoint, and all of a sudden I saw; I said, Yes indeed, how did this come about? (Mother laughs) So I answered him (I dont remember the words I used, but in substance): The protection acts on the entire group when it works in a coordinated and disciplined way, but if individuals in it have an action INDEPENDENT of the group, then they fall back into their own determinism, which means that the protection acts according to their personal faith, not at all as something collective: according to their personal state and faith, the action of the protection is greater or lesser.
I saw it was clearly that. I saw how it had happened (because his question made me look at it, so I saw). There is an interesting point, its that the mental initiative in swimming across that pond was P.s and anothersso, humanly speaking, they are the ones who are responsible (but thats not true, its not like that!). But anyway, they were outside the group, it was an action that had nothing to do with the group, and they did it because they were to rejoin the group at a precise time and they were late. So it was clearly an individual outgrowth. Walking round the pond would have taken three hours while there were hardly two hours left before nightfall, and they were in a jungle, without any light or anything. That was another impossibility. So with his reason and human common sense, he said, The best is to swim across. But he hadnt foreseen (that was the reckless part) that the water would be icy.
0 1966-12-20, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am a little sad, naturally, because I tried to write with the best of my soul, but I am not attached and am ready to make the offering of this failure at your feet, with the certainty that all is well, even if I do not yet see the Lords design. I would only like you to tell me the deeper truth about the bookif it must be, I am ready to make an effort and patiently correct or redo what has to be redone. But must it be?
Mother, That alone exists. That consoles me for everything.
0 1966-12-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once he knows this, one who puts himself at the service of one of these aspects will know (its translated in life, in Time, in the movement of time), he will know every moment what the Truth is thats very interestingor he will know every minute what Consciousness is, or he will know every minute what Power is, or he will know every minute what Love is. And its a multiform Power, Love, Consciousness, Truth, which express themselves innumerably in the manifestation, just as the Lord expresses himself innumerably in the manifestation.
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0 1967-01-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We should always laugh, always. the Lord laughs. He laughs, and His laughter is so good, so good, so full of love! A laughter that envelops you in an extraordinary sweetness.
This too, men have distorted(laughing) theyve distorted everything!
0 1967-01-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are billions of elements in the body, so its a mixture of receptivity and non-receptivity. Its still mixed. And that mixture is why the appearance2 remains what it is. Well then, to make everything receptive in every element is a work, you understand, a formidable work. If it had to be done in detail, it would be impossible, but through the pressure of the Force it can be done. So then, the trance would be made necessary precisely so that its done quickly (relatively quickly). This work is BEING DONE (I am conscious of it), you understand (laughing), only it may stretch over hundreds of years! Thats what Sri Aurobindo said: a state of consciousness has to be established in which the collective life of the cells can be preserved for as long as desired; that means the Lords Will must be sufficiently active to keep the balance between all those elements for as long as necessary for all of them to change. And always, it has always been said that the most external form would be the last to change; that the whole internal, organic functioning would be changed before the external form, the appearance (its only an appearance, of course); that the appearance would be the last to change.
It seems to me to be the legacy of primordial habits the habits of Matter. This Matter, of course, comes from total unconsciousness, and throughout the ages and all the ways of being, it returns to total consciousness it goes from one extreme to the other; well, its these habits of static immobility that give this need for trance. It shouldnt be necessary. Only (how can I explain?), logically, as things are, it depends on the balance between the bodys capacity of receptivity and its external activity: its obviously far more receptive when it is immobile, because its energies are occupied with the transformation.
0 1967-01-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lord has unsuspected splendours which He reveals progressively to our too limited understanding.
Its a whole category of a way of thinking. Those who think they have superior intelligence and scorn what they dont understand are countlesscountless. And thats the very sign of stupidity! On the other hand, there are many (they are generally regarded as simple-minded, but for my part, I appreciate those simple-minded people, they have a warmth of soul), they admire everything they cannot understand. They have a sort of dumb admiration, which is looked upon as silly, for anything they dont understand. But they at least have goodwill. While the others on the lofty heights of their so-called intelligence, anything they dont understand is worthless. This man came here and said, One cant work with these people, they are Indians! (Mother laughs) And he says it quite naturally.
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To tell the truth, the Lord makes use of everything! One is always on the way towards something.
There comes a point when you go beyond indignation.
0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thon, for his part, insisted very much on adverse forces, while Sri Aurobindo didnt talk about them. So when I came here I asked him, But do hostile beings and adverse forces exist? He said to me, Yes, they exist, but in order to master them its easier to regard them as being outside, rather than inside as a part of your nature. He insisted on the One: everything is the One distorted to a greater or lesser extent, even the adverse forces. What we call adverse forces are, at bottom, distortions of consciousness. When those distortions predominate in a being, that is to say, when his nature obeys distorted influences and no longer responds to the divine influence, we may call it a hostile being (they do exist, God knows!). But here in India, they have insisted above all on the notion of Oneness. Of course, at the origin of the worlds a separation took place, but its mainly the Tantrics who have insisted on that; they say that in order to re-form Godhead, the two poles must be reunited. All this is words, a manner of speaking that fills the gaps and complements each other. And depending on the individuals, the times and countries, there were manners of speaking more or less pure, some closer than others. But all said and done We could say that the Lord enjoys narrating Himself in all possible ways.
And when you are on the very lowest rung of the ladder of consciousness, those manners of speaking become increasingly concrete, absolute, hard, and exclusive of all that isnt themselves: those are religions. Oh, by the way, it seems the Pope was approached about Auroville and he asked if there would be a Catholic church! They put the question to me. I said, No. No churches, no temples.
0 1967-03-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding Sri Aurobindo's Aphorism 126: "The most binding law of Nature is only a fixed process which the Lord of Nature has framed and uses constantly; the Spirit made it and the Spirit can exceed it, but we must first open the doors of our prison-house and learn to live less in Nature than in the Spirit.")
That was precisely the subject of (can we call it meditation?) of this mornings work. It came so clearly. But the experiences arent literary, they cant be expressed.1
0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The soul is a spark of the Supreme Divine, I do not see how the Lord needs a body in order to be conscious of being.
Its nothing very new, but its a broadening of the consciousness. And all these questions have in fact been coming into the atmosphere lately, giving at first the impression that man knows nothing about deathhe doesnt know what it is, doesnt know what happens, he has built all kinds of hypotheses but has no certainties. And by pressing onby insisting and pressing on I have reached the conclusion that there is really no such thing as death.
0 1967-03-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At times it is rather difficult. For instance, here in the mornings, when there are three or four sources of confusion at the same time, it becomes acute. I have only one solution, that is to be alone somewhere or other and stay like this (gesture of withdrawal into absolute stillness), until everything is back to normal again. Then everything is back to normal, the Lords Presence is there again its always there, but it can express and manifest itselfwhile it cant get through that (confusion)! So I stay still and all goes well. And there, I can face any fresh disorders that come (provided they dont rush in too close on each others heels!), but anyway, I pull through. To tell the truth, I always pull through, but there are disorders that shouldnt be, that are useless. I always feel like telling people, Oh, I beg you, be quiet! But not the quiet of an apathetic quietude, not slumped in a corner and you dont move anymore (while anyway it keeps going like this inside (gesture of seething), no: quiet, quiet, like this (vast gesture) in the consciousness, then everything becomes limpid. And in that limpidity you see very clearly, decide very clearly, everything works out, things organize themselves, you dont even need to intervene.
All difficulties I see that, Ive seen it lately with regard to political organizations, relations between nations and all that, all the problems to be solvedits all the same thing: people are like this (same gesture of trepidation), all the time, all the time, all the time one wave of restlessness, then another and yet another wave of restlessness coming on top of itand you dont see anything anymore! You cant see anything anymore! While if one can stay quiet for a while.
0 1967-03-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats interesting is to follow this kind of change in the consciousness of the cells: there are still many of them with a sense of wonder that the Truth exists. Thats the form it takes: a sense of wonder. Ah, so thats what it is! A wonder. A wonder at the existence, the UNIQUE existence of the Lorda joy! Such an intense joy and a child-like wonder, you know: Oh, so its really like that! And this goes on in one part of the body after another, one group of cells after another. Truly charming. And then, when the mantra comes spontaneously, oh! There is an adoration: Its like that, like that! That is true, it is THAT which is trueall the disorder, all the ugliness, all the suffering, all the misery, all of that isnt true! Its not true, it is THAT which is true. And not with words (words trivialize it): with an extraordinary sensation, extraordinary! And then its the beginning of that sort of glorious, marvellous life. Its still at the stage of wonder; that is, something unexpected in its sublimity.
At the same time, there is an overall vision which becomes more and more total, in which each thing has its own purpose, its own place, and which excludes nothing. That need to exclude the mind in order to surpass it no longer exists. Now the mind is perfectly tranquil, peaceful, and it sets itself in motion only when it receives a command, an imperative command. It receives a command, then it does something precise for a precise reason, a very precise action, and then silence and calm.
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Lord as electric vibration! (Mother laughs)
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0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This one, the Lord of Falsehood.
To the human consciousness, those things are terrible, but seen from up above, they make you smile. I remember, when I met him during the war (I had ruined his work with Hitler, then I met him), I told him, You know quite well that your time is over. He said, I know it, but until I disappear I will wreak as much havoc as I can.
0 1967-08-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And in the evening (at the balcony), there was a crowd (I think it was the largest crowd weve ever had, it filled all the streets; the streets were full of people as far as the eye could see), so I came out. And when I came out, there arose from that whole crowd a sort of something in between an entreaty, a prayer and a protest, for the worlds condition, and particularly the countrys. And it rose up in waves. I looked at it (it was extremely insistent), then said to myself, Today isnt my day, its Sri Aurobindos day, and I did like this (gesture of withdrawal) and put Sri Aurobindo in front. Then, when he came to the fore, while bringing himself to the fore, he simply said, very simply, the Lord knows better what He is doing. (Mother laughs) I immediately started smiling (I didnt laugh, but started smiling), and there came the same peace as in the morning.
Thats all.
the Lord knows better what He is doing with his most perfect sense of humour. And everything calmed down right away.
I felt like laughing, but I smiled.
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is from the universal and spiritual point of view that, not exactly good as people understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the final word, that is well known. In other words, the Divine will eventually be victorious. That is what has been said, what all those who have lived a spiritual life have said and it is an absolute fact. When people transpose it, they say, I am a good boy, I live according to what I think to be true, consequently life should be a bed of roses for me! (Mother laughs) To begin with, self-appreciation is always dubious, and then, in the world as it now is, everything is mixed and what openly manifests to the half-blind human consciousnesses is not the Law of pure Truththey wouldnt even understand it. To put it more precisely, what is constantly realized is the supreme vision, but its realization in this mixed material world isnt seen by the ignorant human vision as the triumph of good (of what men call good and true). Butto put it humorouslyits not the Lords fault, its mens fault! That is, the Lord knows what he is doing, but men dont understand it.
In a true world, everything would perhaps be the same as now, but it would be seen differently.
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, when I go there (to the music room) to see people, I simply concentrate and there is a sort of invocation to the Lords Presence. And when He is there, when I feel the whole room full of Him, then its good. That is the sole will (immobile, passive gesture turned upward). I expressed this when I said to someone, I give them a bath of the Lord! And thats indeed how it is: His Presence, His Action His Presence, His Action Thats all. And when I look at them, there is no more person: there is only His Presence and His Action.
So there we are, it has a different effect on each one!
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now it has become that way FOR THE BODY: when it hurts, when it gets disorganized, when it threatens to fall apart. And then, there is always that Consciousness inside, straight as a sword, that says, Now, will you stand firm? And the cells are really touchingly good willed: Oh, is it like that? Well, very well. So you remain very quiet, very peaceful, and then you callyou call the Lord. And you repeat the mantra, which comes automatically, and Peace establishes itself. And after a while the pain has disappearedeverything, just everything, all the threats disappear one after the other Thats how it is: Lord, You are there And you know, such dazzling, indisputable proof of this Presence, which is so wonderful and so simple, so simple, so total, in all that comes, all that happens, down to the smallest detail, so as to lead you as fast as possible to the transformation.
And all that comes nearcomes near at a greater or lesser distance, but that comes near, is borne along in the Movement, without even knowing it.
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But what I wanted to say is that if she comes materially, you shouldnt try to fight or convince her or change her, you should be a manifestation: you know, the shining Light, WITHOUT INTENTION. Then the work will be done in order. To be the shining Lightwithout intention. Simply the shining Light. Then you quite spontaneously say what you have to say, but without intention, without mental intention. You do what you have to do, say what you have to say the Lord is there.
Its interesting.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are two things. There is all this crowd I see constantly, and since long (a long time, that is in human terms), as soon as I am there, as soon as the body is there to see the people, it becomes no more than a channel, a kind of (gesture showing the Force flowing down through Mother to the people), for the Consciousness of the Lord to flow through it and go. There isnt even, or there is as little need to receive as possible: its an Action like this (same gesture through Mother), the Force passing through. And when it happens in that room over there which is reserved exclusively for seeing people, the room fills with the Presence, and its as if that Presence opened its arms to receive people, took them, enveloped them, and then let them go out.
But as regards the things personal to this body, like all that has to do with bathing, food, all that now no longer takes place in the same way. I dont know how to explain Here, its an activity; over there, its simply like that, a Presence. Here, its an activity: you have to fill a glass with water, put toothpaste, brush your teeththey are all activities. And, well there are no more memories, no more habits; things arent done because you learned to do them that way: they are done spontaneously by the Consciousness. In the transition between the old and the new movement there is a difficult little moment when the old habit is no longer there, and the new consciousness is not there permanently, so For example, it results in apparently clumsy gestures, movements that are not exactly what they should be. But it doesnt last, it happens once in a while for a particular thing, just for the lesson to be learned there is always a lesson waiting to be learned.
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So, between the moment when you act like everyone and the moment when you actwhen its the Lord that acts, between the two, theres a little transition: you no longer quite know this, and dont yet quite know that, so this poor body has moments of uncertainty and awkwardness. But its learning its lesson very fast.
Really interesting.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One thing I know. Its that I deliberately (I dont know if this is what she understood), I deliberately wanted her mothers departure to take place in the most harmonious possible conditions, with the least possible wastage, so she may retain the COMPLETE fruit of her passage in life here, and What I did in reality (but this I didnt tell her), from the moment I heard the news of her stroke (it was an apoplectic seizure), from the moment I heard the news I put her in a bath of the Lord. I kept her like this (gesture of enfolding). So, for me, first of all I knew that if she was to be cured, she would recover fairly quickly, and that if she didnt recover, it would show it was really time for her to go, but then she would go with her body benefiting, so to speak, the substance benefiting from all the good of physical life, and with her inner being in the best conditions. Of course, the inner being in the best conditions is the case for everyone, for all those who pass away here (but I generally dont have the opportunity to let the inner being go out slowly, you understand4). I saw you know that when Sri Aurobindo left, we kept him for five days; I saw how it happened. I told you, while I stood beside him, it came out of his body and entered mine, and it was so material that there was a friction the body felt the friction of the Force entering. And I saw (of course, in that case it was quite different, tremendous, but for everybody its like that), I saw this: for the departure to be as harmonious as possible, it should take place like that, according to an inner RHYTHM, with the Presence (which is both a protection and a help), the Presence of the divine Force. So I put her in that Presence. And even (I dont know if she told you), when her brother, who is a doctor came, he declared with their usual presumptuousness, Oh, shell be gone before tomorrow noon. I didnt say anything, I remained quiet. Naturally, three more days went by. And even he was forced to acknowledge that there was something there he didnt understand.
What did she tell you?
0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Oh, but they arent the only ones to do that. As a matter of fact, all the old things seem to be swelling up as much as they can so as not to disappear. I received today a greeting card from a former disciple. (Mother looks for the card) His name was A.C., an Israelite who was here and then went to England. In England he belonged for a long time to the Sri Aurobindo Group, then when the war between Israel and Egypt broke out (or a little before), he became fanatical, a fanatical Israelite: I want to work for Israel alone. And as he had been contacted about Auroville, he answered, Can Auroville help Israel? Things of that sort. And right now, its the New Year there, so he sent me this (Mother shows a card with seven candles illuminating the world, and wheat sheaves). In the past, he called me The Divine Mother, and Sri Aurobindo was the Lord. Then in his last letter, it was Guru (I have become the guru!), and, I want to inform you that I have left the group. And now he sends me this card: To the Mother God bless You (Mother laughs). And its the same thing, of course! Over there, few people are religious, they have a much more practical mind, but he has the religious temperament, so now it has become like this (Mother puffs out her cheeks), his Judaism is swelling up. The seven lights and the sheaves of prosperity. I found it touching: God bless You (Mother laughs).
I remember, long ago, right at the beginning (I think I had just moved into Sri Aurobindos house), someone, I forget who (did Tagore have a sister?1), she was a tall and strong woman, rather awe-inspiring, who had come to spend a day in the Ashram, and she said to me, Why dont you keep some rooms and rent them out to visitors? You would get ten rupees a day. (Mother laughs) I stared at her, I was flabbergasted (she was teaching me to be practical!). And at the end, she said, God bless you. At that point I couldnt restrain myself, and I answered her, Its already done! (Mother laughs)
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for me, I said, Very well! (Mother laughs) I said, What the Lord wants will be. But since then, I have been treating her as (what should I say?) more than an equalas a superior, and with assertions that are crushing for her. And I never miss an opportunity to tell her that in order to do this or that, or to manifest That or one must SPONTANEOUSLY AND DEFINITIVELY be above all desires, all ambitions, all preferencesevery time, like this (Mother makes a hammering gesture).
Nothing in her apparently budges, but Very well (laughing), if she stands the test, well see.
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the Lord makes use of everything, and He has no fear. He makes use of everything.
Its interesting, very interesting.
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, I dont know very well, I read the Gospel long ago, but I dont remember, I didnt know a great battle was announced in it. I know they announced the Last Judgment when all the people who were buried will rise and appear before the Lord God seated in his armchair (Mother laughs), who will tell them whether they are (Laughing) He will put some on one side and others on the other side! I am not exaggerating, thats how its written.
(Then Mother gives flowers) This is my delight. My delight in life.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now there is integrally, even for the most material consciousness, the body consciousness, this: to leave the entire responsibility to the Lordwhat He wants will be, and thats all. When He wants us to do something, we do it, but after all We do it simply because He tells us to do it. And what will happen will happen. Then, if you want to know, you put yourself in the attitude of the Witness and look on. And thats very amusing! As soon as you are in the attitude of the Witness, it becomes very interestingvery interesting and you smile.
Thats how it is.
0 1967-10-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not me looking here: its when I give a bath of the Lord.
Even in the photo, the light in the eyes can be seen.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From time to time, some of the cells scold the others, thats very funny! They scold them, they catch hold of them, make silly remarks (in their own way) to those which want (Mother draws a tiny circle) to go on with the old habits: digestion must be done in a certain way, absorption must be done in a certain way, circulation must be done in a certain way, breathing must all the functions have to be done according to Natures method. And when it isnt like that, they are worried. Then those which know catch hold of them and give them a good bombardment of the Lord, its very funny!
There is something that renders into words (its wordless, but something in there renders into words), and so there are conversations between the cells (Mother laughs): You fool, why are you afraid? Dont you see its the Lord doing this to transform you? Then the other: Ah! And then it falls quiet, opens out, and waits. And the pain goes away, the disorder goes away, and then everything works out.
Its admirable.
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Never mind. Never mind, everything is seen like this (gesture from above). In reality, its the Lord having fun! (Mother laughs)
What quite disarmed me was that I had become a disciple that was delightful! After that, all you can do is laugh.
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There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The so-called left-hand Tantrics (of the Vama Marga) are to true Tantrism what Boccaccios tales are to Christianity, or what the sodden Roman Bacchus is to Dionysos of the Greek mysteries. I know Tantrism, to say the least. As for the Cathars, whom I hold in the highest esteem, it would be doing them little honor to believe that they followed a sort of yoga of sexuality. Through my own experience I have often had the feeling of reliving the Cathars experience, and I see plainly that if some of them attempted to mix sexual relations into the true relationship between man and woman, they soon realized their error. It is a dead-end road, or rather its only end is to show you that it leads you nowhere forward. The Cathars were too sincere and conscious men to persist in a burdening experience. For ultimately, and that is the crux of the matter, the sexual experience in its very nature (whether or not there is backward flow or whatever its mode) automatically fastens you again to the old animal vibrations there is nothing you can do about it: however much love you may put into it, the very function is tied to millennia of animality. It is as if you wanted to plunge into a swamp without stirring up any mudit cannot be done, the milieu is like that. And when one knows how much transparency, clarification and inner stillness it takes to slowly rise to a higher consciousness, or to allow a higher light to enter our waters without being instantly darkened, one fails to see how sexual activity can help you attain that still limpidity in which things can start happening??? The union, the oneness of two beings, the true and complete meeting of two beings does not take place at that level or through those means. That is all I can say. But I have seen that in the silent tranquillity of two beings who have the same aspiration, who have overcome the difficult transition, something quite unique slowly takes place, of which one can have no inkling as long as one is still stuck in the struggles of the flesh, to use a preachers language! I think the Cathars experience begins after that transition. After it, the man-woman couple assumes its true meaning, its effectiveness, if I may say so. Sex is only a first mode of meeting, the first device invented by Nature to break the shell of individual egosafterwards, one grows and discovers something else, not through inhibition or repression, but because something different and infinitely richer takes over. Those who are so eager to preserve sex and to mystify it in order to move on to the second stage of evolution are very much like children clinging to their scootersit isnt more serious than that. There is nothing in it to do a yoga with, nothing also to be indignant about or raise ones eyebrows at. So I have nothing to criticize, I am merely observing and putting things in their place. All depends on the stage one has reached. As for those who want to use sex for such and such a sublime or not-so-sublime reason, well, let them have their experience. As Mother told me on the very same subject no later than yesterday, To tell the truth, the Lord makes use of everything. One is always on the way towards something. One is always on the way, through any means, but what is necessary is, as much as possible, to keep ones lucidity and not to deceive oneself.
I will try to find one or two passages from Sri Aurobindo to give you his point of view.
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had a few times that experience with people: you know that when they come, I always want to give them a bath of the Lord, as I call it, but some respond and pull; and at such times (it has happened once or twice), all the cells seem to swell, like something growing very, very big, huge like this, and there is such a an almost awesome vibration, you know. And when it comes, when I look, some people melt (not many, very few), but others are terrified! They get up and run away. And there are those who are struck with awe, as they say in English they get dazed. Ive noticed that several times. I simply used to think, the Lord is doing his action but its not that! Its its that there really is something changing in the body.
But now it has become clear, conscious, and the body I just have to stop my activities even two or three seconds, one or two minutes at the most, for the body to feel as if its floating, floating like that, floating. You see an immensity, like an ocean of this vibrating, luminous, golden, powerful Consciousness, and the body floats in it. I tell you, its still somewhat like a piece of bark, but some parts are crumbling away. Its like a piece of bark that clumsily covers certain spots: they are the things that still feel the identification; its not perfect identification because its still felt but felt in such a bliss!
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, theres only one thing stronger than they, only one: the Lords peace. I dont know if you understand what I mean (I speak with words that sound like their own language), but its (immense gesture above) That, there, they cant touch. But its the only thing. Few people know how to shield themselves from that [magic].
(Mother goes into a long contemplation)
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other thing is about R., who had had an attack of filariasis a few years ago. He had told me about it and it had passed. Then it came back. It came back after some three or four years, very strongly, and he couldnt get rid of it. He wrote to me complaining. I told him there was a drop in his faith. It appears it was the third time Id written that to him (I knew nothing about it I never know either why or how I write things). So he wrote back to ask me, Its the third time youve told me that, what does it mean? I explained it to him. But while receiving his letter and explaining it to him, I did what I always do (I always do it, all the time), I put him in contact with the Lord and asked for his intervention. He got my letter, and today he writes to me that while he was reading it, in the space of about ten minutes, he actually saw (his foot had grown twice as big, his leg was swollen, you know how it is with elephantiasis), he actually saw it shrink and shrink, and in ten or fifteen minutes it was gone! He wrote it to me this morning. I had told him that the Force was the same, it was his faith that was no longer the same, and that was why the Force no longer had the same effect. And he writes in his letter, I was simply reading your letter, and it went away before my very eyes!
And this body, if you ask it, the only thing There are two things its conscious of: a more and more intense adoration in the cells, oh, like this (gesture like a rising flame), and at the same time, such an acute sense of the extent to which the cells are not what they should be, of the unworthiness of their condition. Those two things are constant and constantly together. And thats all. And when I am told of cases like this one, of disease or something else (I am told three, four, five such cases every day, things like that constantly happen I gave you this one as a very concrete example because its happened just now and you know R.), the body isnt even aware of being used as an intermediary, because its too conscious of its infirmity, of what it should be and isnt yet. Its like that cure [of the swelling of Mothers face], it was a cure like R.s, almost spontaneous: it happened all of a sudden and went away. But of course, the body is perfectly conscious of the splendor of a Marvel a Marvel beyond all understanding.
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Most of the time, its a sort of laziness, something unwilling to make an effort, to make a resolve: it prefers to leave the responsibility to others. In English I would call it the remnant, the residue of the Inconscient. Its a sort of spinelessness (gesture of groveling) which accepts a general, impersonal law: you paddle about in illness. And in response to that, there is inside, every minute, the sense of the true attitude, which in the cells is expressed with great simplicity: There is the Lord, who is the all-powerful Master. Something like that. It depends entirely on Him. If a surrender is to be made, its to Him. I make sentences, but for the cells its not sentences. Its a tiny little movement that expresses itself by repeating the mantra; then the mantra is fullfull of force and there is instantly the surrender: May Your Will be done, and a tranquillitya luminous tranquillity. And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for the disequilibrium to occur.
The phenomenon recurs HUNDREDS of times a day, for very small things.
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Thats the sort of work being done at present, these last few daysconstantly, constantly. The only moment when its not done is when I see people, because when I see people, theres only one thing left: the Lords Presence, and plunging them in that bath of the Lord. That goes on, its always there. So that even if, before [seeing people], there was a difficulty or struggle or conflict between the two states, and a will to hold on, at such times it goes away, because thats not the work then: the work is to plunge all those coming near into the Presence the immutable Presence, constant, active close.
(silence)
0 1968-08-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have been many times in direct contact with Mother, and I feel her force enveloping me. Yesterday I began reading Mothers Prayers and Meditations. It is a splendor. Every day P.L. and I talk about the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Every day. the Lord has taken you by the hand to this oasis of peace and light: bless him. I envy you! Together with P.L., we form an invincible team. We have great plansand will realize them. I thought I was old, but P.L. has revealed to me that you become old when you stop progressing.
Its good.
0 1968-10-05, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, the other day, on Durgas day,2 I went over there [to the music room where Mother sees people]. I told you last year that she had come and made her surrender. This time, I went there (it was the first time Id come out); as soon as I entered the room, I felt there was something, an impending attack. So I sat down, kept very still, and called the Lord as usual so He would fill the room with his light. And it was She who came in a golden lighta glory of adoration and consecration! She stood there (immense gesture). It was magnificent! Magnificent. And the whole morning was very good. Then, in the afternoon, things went wrong again.
Couldnt you strike at these people a little?
0 1968-11-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has had several experiences of this Presence. Spontaneously, for the body, its a conscious Light; a conscious Light it sees everywhere, feels everywhere, whose presence it constantly feels. But once or twice it saw a figure. That surprised it a lot and it wasnt too reassured (!), it wondered if it wasnt an imposture or But a great Presence (gesture like a human figure). The details of shape werent there, but It was like a concretization meant for the physical, of this conscious Light which was there, you see, and was as if concretized (gesture of gathering) into a shape which was luminous, too, which could be seen, and with such power! Above all, it was like the Power of the Lordit was awesome. And the bodys impression was that That could do anything. There was nothing That couldnt do. I cant say arms or hands or legs could be seen; it wasnt that, it was a shape, but as if with a head and shoulders: a shape, you understand. And to begin with, as I said, the first time the body saw it, it was slightly alarmed: Whats this? Is it an imposture? Then, as always, the Thing came over it and said, Quiet, quiet, quiet. Not words: like waves. So it kept very still, and it felt an awesome Power. It came when the body was very still and had stopped worrying, and That seemed to be telling it, This is how I act on people. And it was a sort of concretization or materialization of this conscious Light. You couldnt see any eyes or a nose or a mouth or anything of the sort: it was an immense figure (immense, anyway the part that was like a head was touching the ceiling).
I saw it twice, and both times it was when I was calling the Lord so He might act; for some reason I was calling the Lord onto someone or for something, and the body was like this (gesture of aspiration or call). And once I saw it behind someone. It was like (Mother clenches her two fists) like condensed Power.
Two cases (but one was especially clear) in which things didnt seem to be as they should have been; there seemed to be a disorder to set right, and as always, I was making contactsimply making contact.1 And that was when I felt it became that Power. I didnt say anythingdidnt say a word, didnt make a gesture, didnt say anything and the circumstance changed. It wasnt here: it was something physically happening elsewhere. And it was changed in that way. There was another case in which it was someones will and thought that needed to be changed but that I dont know, I havent any news yet, I dont know.
--
Just today, I saw a German lady who worked for a while in N.s dispensary. Naturally, she noticed he lacked everything he needed from a modern viewpoint; and for a reason I dont know, she has to go back to Germany, but she wants to come back with the full equipment. And she asked to see me before leaving. Id never seen her before. She came, I told her a few words about what she should do, then she didnt want to leave anymore! She was sitting. So I simply did as I usually do, that is, the body (I dont know how to explain) seems to disappear, then the Lord (gesture of Descent) And then a thing which has happened, I dont know, maybe hundreds of times: poff! she got up and (laughing) did a pranam and left. Hundreds of times its happened! And you know its a Supergoodness (I dont know how to explain it to you), something so marvelously loving and good and but its awesomely powerful! I think what terrifies them is the power. It happens all the time. The body goes like this (gesture of standing back or disappearing), and the Presence is there. And I simply look. But nine times out of ten, they take flight!
Some are used to it and are on the contrary very happy, but they arent many.
0 1968-11-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the theories, all the explanations, all the stories that are at the root of every religion, it all seems to me like a distraction. So then, you wonder, you wonder (I am going to say something) whether the Lord hasnt been putting on an act for Himself!
But its difficult to express. Ive spent days when I really lived all the horrors of the creation (and in the consciousness of their horror), then that brought about this experience, and the whole horror vanished.
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But this notion of the descending Supermind, of a permeating Consciousness, is OUR translation. The experience came as the experience of an eternal fact: not at all something just now taking place. That its all the result of states of consciousness is certain (whether there is something beyond, I do not know, but at any rate I have the positive experience of that). Its movements of consciousness. Why, how? I dont know. But looking at it from the other side, the fact that something belonging to this terrestrial region as it is has become conscious, is what gives the impression that something has taken place. I dont know if I can make myself understood. I mean that this body is just the same as all the rest of the earth, but for some reason or other, it happens to have become conscious in the other way; well, that normally should be expressed in the earth consciousness as a coming, a descent, a beginning. But is it a beginning? What has come? You understand, theres NOTHING but the Lord (I call it the Lord for the convenience of language, because otherwise), theres nothing but the Lord, not anything elsenothing else exists. Everything takes place within Him, consciously. And we are like grains of sand in this Infinity; only, we are the Lord with the capacity of being conscious of the Lords consciousness. Thats exactly it.
(silence)
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Its here that this consciousness is (Mother touches Satprems chest). This (gesture pointing to the mind and above) is just light, light (immense gesture). But in this body, this consciousness is here (same gesture to the chest). I mean the consciousness that we are within the Lord.
I know, the consciousness thats here knows that this way of speaking is quite childish, but it prefers this childish way to one that would try to be precise and would be mental.
0 1968-12-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body is very simple, it has a childs simplicity. This morning it was assailed with visionsnot visions, I dont know what to call them they werent exactly recollections, but things coming and all of them expressing hatred, violence (all that side, you know), and the body saw, it saw and felt, and said so spontaneously (it continues to be in this constant communion with the divine Presence), it said to the Lord, Why do You carry all that in Yourself? With a childs candor and simplicity: Why do You carry all that in Yourself? And just when it said that, there was a sort of vision, a vision extended over the whole earth of all the horrors constantly committed on it: Why do You carry? So then, the Answer is always, always the same (its like this, its here like this [gesture around the head]): In my Consciousness, things are different. Or, In my Consciousness, things have a different appearance. And there was this insistence: Work to have the true consciousness. The TRUE consciousness that contains everything.
And this morning, the body understood: the problem was very clearly understood. (None of this is thought out, I dont know how to explain its not positively sensations, but its perceptions I dont know [Mother feels the air with her fingers].) But the body clearly understood why division is, for a while, for the growth of the being, necessary. Because if there were from the start the perception it now has of everything within the Lord, absolutely everything, for instance all the things that even not so long ago (though in a different way) were still giving it a sort of horrorcertain kinds of cruelty, certain things were really giving the body a sense of horror Now its no longer like that, but it still cant be happy with such things; it can be indifferent (gesture of a Witness),but it cant be happy. And it has understood why that horror was necessary; why there was a time when the manifested world, the world of manifestation, needed to appear outside and separate from the Lord. (After a silence) One must one must have that immutable Peace, one must be as vast as the universe to be able to bear the idea that EVERYTHING is the supreme Lord.
And the body has understood that its only now it has the experience because its only now it is sufficiently conscious and surrendered (surrendered in the true sense; I might almost say identified, but thats too high-sounding a word, it doesnt want to use it, it knows its not like that and identification will be something else), but quite simply that its now capable and ready to bear the idea that everything is the Lord, that there is NOTHING but the Lord. Previously, for quite a long time, it still needed to feel that all these movements (gesture forward) lead to the Lord, while all those movements (gesture backward) lead away from the Lord. For a long time, the choice was necessary. And now, now its doing its tapasya to be able to bear this idea but without admitting or accepting movements of degradation and cruelty. That is, with the nascent impression that things are not what they seem to be; that we only see the appearance and they are not what they seem to be.
But the brain cannot understand. The Mind can speculate on anything, but this is something else, the mind isnt there. The brain, its capacity (Mother remains gazing).
--
Why, why is this world like this, why? Why all these horrors, why? Thats how the body was this morning. And it has the impressionjust as it has that very strong, very strong sensation of being within the Lordit has the impression of what that leads to, of what is to come. And then, with TOTAL trust, total. But it doesnt yet know.
Its all the timeconstantly, unceasinglyall the time brought face to face with this experience that when you are like this (Mother tips two fingers on one side), that is, turned to the Divine, things work out miraculouslymiraculously its unbelievable; and being like that (Mother tips two fingers on the other side) is enough for everything to be disgusting, to go wrong, to grate: a TINY LITTLE movement either of trusting opening, or of the ordinary consciousness (not at all a consciousness of revolt or negation, not at all: merely the ordinary consciousness, the consciousness of life as people have it the ordinary consciousness), and its enough things become appalling; and then, like this (gesture in the other direction): miraculously marvelous. For microscopic, unimportant things, you understand, that is to say, for EVERYTHINGno question of important or unimportant things, nothing of that sort for everything it becomes simply miraculous, yet its the same thing! In one case you are in pain, you suffer, you are miserable, you even fall ill, and in the other case And its the same thing.
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But its absolutely certainabsolutely certain that if the world, if the creation were as it appears to be to this bodily consciousness as it now is, there would be only one thing to doto blot it out! Thats obviously the explanation of, and justification for, all nihilistic religions and philosophies. It takes a thoroughly unconscious insensitiveness to be able to live happily and contentedly in this horror that is the world. And all this IS the Lord, and not only IS the Lord but is WITHIN the Lord; that is to say, its not as we imagine itthings that were driven away, rejectednot at all, not at all: all this is there WITHIN the Lord. So there.
You see, the body has this experience of being completely disorganized, of having a cold, a pain here, a pain there and when its in a certain attitude (we may call it an attitude, I dont know), at any rate in a certain state of consciousness: vanished! All that no longer exists, theres not a tracetheres no cold anymore, no pain anymore, nothing anymore, its all gone! Though its ready to come back. And not only gone (which would be a psychological phenomenon), but the CIRCUMSTANCES of people and things around CHANGE! They become different: in one case, everything is like thatstubborn, twisted and in the other
0 1968-12-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember the time when I used to speak of a bath of the Lord which I gave [people]that business seems to me quite outdated, its not that! Its the Lord is there, everywhere and always! (I say the Lord so as to avoid making lengthy sentences, but sometimes I say the supreme Consciousness to be lesswhat shall I say?less childish, because all that is childish, everything we say.) But the experience is becoming more and more wonderful.
How far away I was when I spoke like that [the 1953 talk]! How far away I was. It was a mental transcription. Well, it doesnt matter; it amuses people. They understand that; what I may do now, they dont understand. And then
0 1968-12-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt say it with those words [I am with you] because I never say I am, but the consciousness was like this: the Lord is with you. Only, I cant say it with words, because for them, as soon as you speak about God, their whole religion comes back. It was the FACT of consciousness that I put on him. But you can tell him that its exactly what I wanted to say to him. It took that expression in him because, in him, I represent the other side of life.
Its good, its exactly what I wanted to make him feel.
0 1969-04-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Strangely, as soon as theres the slightest slackening in the attitude, for instance, a second of forgetfulness (what I might call forgetfulness, that is, the former old habit, the old terrestrial habit of being), the body instantly feels about to be dissolved. And that, strangely, is something The body is now aware that it can hold together, exist together ONLY through the Lords Power, not through any natural law that it knowsand so, at such times, brr! there can come two or three seconds like that: you feel everything, but everything is about to be dissolved.
Strange.
0 1969-04-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That serpent, you know Why this vision suddenly? I dont know. I was in a state in which I was trying to establish a general harmonyprobably it was too limited or incomplete or And then that serpent came.1 You understand, the universe is the Lord manifested, and so for this body, anyhow, its perfection, but of course its unable to understand; and all of a sudden this serpent came, and came in such a way that the body said to itself, Well! Id never thought of that (which isnt true, of course). There are all the theories that explain evil as the action of adverse forces in the universe, but that seems quite childish. And as always it showed something VERY subtle in the play of forces (and how, to try and make it [evil] understood, the notion was born of a succession in time, which is absurdin other words, successive creations). And there was something very subtle to show that those poisoned fangs are a defense, not an attack; this consciousness gave proof that the poisoned fangs are a defense, because they existed AFTER the attack but how to explain that I dont know.
(Mother seems to gaze at a world of simultaneous things, and gropes for words)
0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A sort of identification with everything, which is far from being too pleasant (its not unpleasant either), but it gives a bizarre impression of life. Everything is like that. One moment, the impression that you dont depend on anything, that you are an expression (how could I put it? [Mother smiles]) an expression of the Lord, and that you depend on nothing; the next minute, that you are nothing at all, merely a sort of semiconscious movement in the middle of a general semiconsciousness very unpleasant. Its like that, and all the time like that. At one time, things become so (what should I say?) repugnant, almost, that you feel like screaming and in fact, if you dont keep a check on yourself, you do start screaming. Another time everything is so peaceful that you feel as if you are entering an eternity So you understand All that you can do in the middle of all that is to be still!
Then, it comes along with an awareness (not a mental perception: an awareness) of all that people think, all that people feel, all that its all oh, so pitiful! Its so pitiful. As I said, one minute, suddenly theres something absolutely marvelous; and the next minute, its So the body, one cant say it finds that very amusing, no, but it It doesnt rebel in the least, not in the least, it says, Since its like that, it has to be like that. Sometimes, now and then, it aspires to get somewhere.
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As a result, I can no longer, I can no longer even for instance, previously, when someone told me he had difficulties or was unhappy or it was very simple, spontaneously I would say, But just think of something else, think of the yoga, and youll find peace I cant even say that any longer! Because I cant tell people, Do as I do and youll be in peace! Its true that I dont have a single carenot one care. One day (it was yesterday or the day before, I dont remember), everything seemed to go haywireeverything everywhere: everybody, all circumstances, all thingsevery thing, on the scale of the earth. Not on a small scale, on the scale of the earth. On a small scale: complete disorder; on a general scale: complete disorder. But even that the body can still see and smile at. But you see, it cant eat anymore, or it throws up all that it eats, or Complete disorder. I cant say it finds that perfectly all right, but it doesnt find it unbearable; it says, Its like that, so its like that. Because theres always, always this, this which doesnt budge (gesture above the head, like an unshakable will), there is always the consciousness of reaching, reaching the Lord, the Supreme Consciousness reaching the Lord. This is stable. This is durable. And then: If all this still has to dissolve, it will dissolve; if it can evolve, it will evolve; if it has to go through all these troubles, which really arent very pleasant, it will go through them. This doesnt budge (same gesture above the head). And it even comeswhen things begin to be troublesome enough, it comes like this: To be what the Lord wills. What You will.
There.
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I always think of Buddha and all of them: well go and merge with the Lord, and then therell be nothing left! (Mother takes her head in her hands)
So then, for their theory to be credible, they say (laughing) that its all an error. And they dont see the stupidity of their theory: that the Supreme Lord should have been capable of an error and then should have repented and withdrawn from it!
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a silence) I cant say (its inexpressible), it was something that contained horror, dread, sorrow and a compassion, oh, intense! Never, never had the body felt things like that. Besides, that put it in a rather critical state for a few hours. Afterwards, it was as if everything, everything cameevery single thingwith a Smile and a resplendent Light; as if (to put it into childrens words), as if the Lord were saying, See, I am everywhere. See, I am in all things. It was unbelievableunbelievable. But theres no communication between the two.
You understand, that was when the body said, What? Shall we have to go on and on with that? Must we go on and on with that? The world, people, the whole creationgo on and on with that? It seemed I suddenly understood: Ah! Thats what they expressed as perpetual hell. Thats it. It was someone who had that perception.
0 1969-08-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All that to teach the world to go back towards the Lord, into his Consciousness Why? Is that why there has been a creation?
(silence)
0 1969-08-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, I had an experience like that (I dont know if it was this morning or yesterday morning or in the night, but anyway). For some time, I was in a consciousness in which the separate individuality no longer existed, but the principle (how should I Put it?) the particular principle of each individual persisted in the universal Consciousness. And then, mon petit, everything became so marvelous! It lasted maybe for an hour, a little more or a little less, I dont know, but anyway long enough to (Mother smiles), I mean, to lounge in it. There was no more, NO MORE separation, that had disappeared, but a certain (how to explain?), almost like an outlook; each individuals outlook (not just the outlook, but at the same time the stand in actionstand, that is, the part of the action initiated by that outlook), that persisted. It persisted in the Oneno separation. And then, each thing has its own placewith the whole marvelously effective. At the same time I cant say, words are impotent. At the time of the experience, I remembered a sentence of Sri Aurobindo in which he said that in the end, the Lord is only a child at play (you know it, he put it in a certain way4), and I understood WHY he used those words, it was it was something which our language obviously cant formulate, but to LIVE in that, to live that is you understand, its the impression of so, so perfect an omnipotence, so harmonious, and at the same time, yes, so harmonious that its all smiling. Its inexpressible. Inexpressible. I had the experience, then it went away It got mixed up with the daily work.
And I remember Its interesting because while I was in that state, I remembered the question youd asked me about Pavitra, whether the principle of individuality persists; so something in me said to you, Now you see, its like this! (Mother laughs) I remembered your question, I said, Its like this, there is NO MORE separation, but but this marvel of complexity remains the marvel of a complexity. And the impression is that everything, but everything that is has its own place, but when its in its place, then its perfectly harmonious.
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you can see: if you are impelled to be very brutal but feel no (what should I say?) no displeasure or repugnance or of course no anger, and on the contrary, a constant feeling of unchanging goodwill, even, like this (immutable gesture), with a will for the best. When its like that, when within your consciousness there is that thing which is really to work for the Lord alone (to put it as simply as possible), not, Oh, what an idiot! or What a fool! What a wicked thing to say!, nothing of all that, but the same even goodwill, then if one is compelled to say something stem, its good. Its if there were some vital STIR at the same time that one should beware, but when theres nothing
(silence)
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That is to say, for the entire old Indian yoga, the body is something untransformable, and therefore its a momentary necessity that will disappear; while for Sri Aurobindo, the body is transformable, and the minute its transformable, instead of thinking of itself as an individual, it thinks of itself as the Lord. And, you know, I guarantee that its spontaneous, natural, and blissful. While the idea of a separate person is a painful calamity.
I was with A.R. when he meditated here his body is still ONE body.
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must be that. There are innumerable layers of consciousness. The development (the universal development) has progressively enabled us to become conscious of each layer; the more developed one is, the more one perceives the differences between layers. And its only when one is conscious of ALL the layers of consciousness and when they form nothing but a unity (but a unity conscious of its multiplicity), its only then that whats in the deepest depths the Supreme Consciousness can manifest fully. And in bodies, there are still layers that arent fully conscious; there are still layers that remain as a residue of all that preceded: the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, all that. So the whole fully conscious part of the cells is fully illumined, but Besides, one just has to see (Mother shows the skin of her hands, visibly untransformed). It has become EXTREMELY sensitive, the slightest shock causes a It has become extremely sensitive. It appears not to have the same density but the appearance is exactly the same. Those who have an inner vision see something [another form of Mother], but thats only because they have the capacity of inner vision. So thats it [i.e., the residue]. You understand, in the consciousness of the cells, there is the consciousness which is internal to the cells, so to speak, and which is fully, fully conscious, but theres something that remains like this (Mother gestures to show a crust-like covering the residue). So then, that work a man like A.R. hasnt done, you see: its a sort of hazy general consciousness. He himself is conscious of something stronger than his body, and which uses his body, it seems to me. In the world, its very useful and can give birth to all sorts of things. But he isnt ready for the transformation, you understandhimself, his body. He has a sort of inner certitude that it CAN be, but I dont know unless the Lord wants it to take place that way; that would be amusingreally, I would find it very amusing!
Because he speaks of a work of transformation of the cells.
0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right. But recently (quite recently, once yesterday, and once last Friday), I had that sort of (whats the word? I dont know what they call it, but he thinks1 its a disease I said, I have no diseases!) its the nerves, the nerves which are nervously attacked by others nervous atmosphere it results in almost intolerable sufferings. Since I settled here, I had never had that, it was Sri Aurobindo who took it away from me (I had explained it to him: it had happened to me when I went back from India to France, and it was rather serious). But since I came here, never. And it came back the other day through someone who was here and who caused it. Yet that someone doesnt know at all and has no CONSCIOUS ill will. And yesterday again, with someone else, it was the same thing. So I had to put the Lord on the nerves forcefullyit took me more than half or three quarters of an hour to succeed in restoring order. Then I said to myself, Goodness! The battle is getting serious.
Its a disease. They call it a disease of the nerves: all the nerves are sensitized and suffer terribly. When I first had it, I could no longer eat, no longer sleep, no longer move, no longer And that was because2 I had done something mad: I went back to France after leaving my psychic being here; so it seized me as soon as I was far enough from the atmosphere; as soon as I entered the Mediterranean, it began. And it was very serious.
0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, those things were obviously identical in the Lord. And especially this: the simplicity of that identity. But now, its nothing but words.
Stability and change
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in your case its your mission, you understand. I dont know how to explain. I always, always see you in direct and constant contact with with this Consciousness expressing itself; so when it reaches the mental level, youre as if arranging pawns on a chessboard. Ive looked very, very often: its indispensable, its an indispensable work, and extremely useful. Naturally, my body, too, might say, If instead of seeing all these people I were all the time like this (gesture huddled in the Lord), working to hasten the transformation, it would be very pleasant! For you too, its like that, but were here to do something. Thats it. And its a certainty, a certainty because several times when things became critical, I have told the Lord, There, its for You to decidewhe ther to stay on or to go and rest blissfully. And the answer has ALWAYS, always been the same: Theres work to be done.
We are here because we were sent to do the work, and as long as work is necessary, we must do it. When its time for the work to stop, we will be free to go and rest blissfully
0 1969-12-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are some amusing things . This Consciousness which is at work, it seems to be constantly teasing the body; it constantly tells the body, See, you have this sensation; well, what is it based on? You think you know, but do you really know whats behind? With all the small things of life, every minute. So then, the body is like this (Mother opens her eyes wide with astonishment), saying to itself, Its true, I dont know anything! But its reply is always the same, it says, I dont pretend to knowlet the Lord do as He pleases. Thats the way it is. And then, there is this (if we could get hold of it permanently, it would be fine): the nonintervention in the Lords work (to put it quite simply).
(silence)
0 1970-03-13, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I do not believe what Udar tells me, nor what anyone whosoever tells me. the Lord has given me the power to see things as they are; and I do not judge.
Our relationship is of such a nature that it cannot be altered by such childishness.
0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The cells are quite, absolutely convinced that (Ill put it in the simplest way) the Lord is all-powerful, you understand? Only, what theyre not convinced of is whether He WANTS (laughing) it to be this way or that, that is to say, whether He wants the transformation to be done in an already existing body, or in stages.
But then, in stages means centuries and centuries.
0 1970-03-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body was happy, very happy! It says, Yes, this is it, this is it! As if the Lord had told it its secret. It said, Now I know, now I know this is it. And everyoneeveryone and everythingeveryone, each of these billions all of it. But they dont know! (Mother laughs)
The body is amusing, you know! As an experience, it was amusing.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I forget how it started, but I was very ill, seriously ill, and my body wasnt asleep, yet wasnt awake (thats a fairly normal state now: Ill be absorbed in a consciousness, which I think is the consciousness of the subtle physical; at least I was there last night). So then, I was very ill, but I knew it wasnt this body (but it was this bodys consciousness), it was a family at the Ashram, and the father was seeking help, looking for a doctor (all the details with such precision!). And while that was going on, the body said to itself, So I am identified with this person, since he is treating this person (me, that is); and since I am identified, I must do in this person what needs to be done. Then I concentrated and called the forces of the Lord, and treated the person. All that down to the last detail. It lasted for two hours. At the same time, I saw people who were extraordinarily interested in the event, looking on; for instance, among them, not to name him, there was Nolini, bent over like that and looking (Mother opens her eyes wide) to try and understand what was going on. Which means it was taking place in a world that had the full appearancefull appearanceof the material world, but in which people were conscious.
Im not recounting all the details, but my body FELT the battle of the illness. And at the same time it knew it wasnt its own body, you understand? It was like that, a very complex, very precise consciousness, with a great force. And all of it going on at the same time I wasnt asleep.
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not in a form. I had an impression Just when he left, I had (I didnt know anything about it, I was in my bed I dont sleep, of course), but I had a strange vision. I was someone (and afterwards I thought it was he, I was with him I say I because thats how it presented itself in the night, but I knew it wasnt me: I knew it was someone else). the Lord had asked me to come and meet Him atop a mountain; so I went there, but I didnt want others to know (let me add one thing: it was in the night, just when the thing was taking place, which means that even physically, materially I didnt know anything). I went to the meeting place, but I didnt want others to see me, so I went to the top of the mountain and I couldnt see the Lord. I said, How? He is there and I dont see Him, how? He is hiding well. And finally: Now its time, I can no longer see Him. And I went back down I went back down, I met people and didnt want them to stop me; then I had some difficulties, I saw people, and then I felt as if those people, the mountain and everything were fading away, fading away more and more.4 And then, when the thing had faded away, it was time for me to get up, which means it was 4:30.
I was very preoccupied by that vision. Preoccupied, I wondered, What can it be? What can it be, someone whom the Lord had asked to come and meet Him but who could not see Him? Then a few hours later, they told me (told me with the usual brutality),
Rishabhch and killed himself last night.
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I didnt say anything, I strongly felt, ITS NOT TRUE. Then afterwardslong afterwards they told me about the police and how, finally, he was half in the water, half on the shore, and with a blow to the head. Then I understood. I understood that the Lord had asked him to come and meet Him (Mother gestures as if taking Rishabhch and by the hand), had him leave his house. But in his consciousness (my dream must have stopped at the point where he physically lost consciousness), in his PHYSICAL consciousness, he could not see Him. Then it became clear!
You know, I found that so marvelous! Because the experiences I have now I never had such precise and concrete experiences, because these are experiences of the body. I had that experience, and when I got up in the morning, I wondered, What on earth can this mean? I knew it wasnt me, but I couldnt know who it was. I knew it wasnt me. the Lord asked me to come and meet Him, I went to meet Him, and I could not see Himhis body left, and he saw Him.
Very interesting! I havent told anyone, I am only telling you.
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the Lord asked him to come and meet Him, and he got uphe got up, feeling it was the Lord calling him; he left his room and went to bang his head on the rocks the Lord led him. Its pretty, no?
And as I was identified with his physical consciousness, I felt the anguish he must have felt: the Lord asked me to come and meet Him, but I cannot see Him. And he didnt want to be seen: People must not see me, people must not see me.
And then (this is something I havent said to anyone), on the darshan day, at ten oclock, I gave the meditation lying on my bed. I did the meditation, but lying down, because the doctor had come and (laughing) he looked rather frightened, he said, Oh, the heart is weak, the heart is very weak and fanciful! So it was he who told me, You must lie down and keep still. So I lay down and gave the meditation. But after meditation brrr! there were a few very, very difficult hours. Only, I asked, I wondered, Why just today, when I have to go to the balcony [for darshan]? And it was like this: But youll go! Youll go. Just when I was to go, it was the thing [the attack] was so strong that the sight too was blurred and I no longer knew whether I was standing or where I was (it wasnt too great). Then I went to the balcony: I stayed for ten minutes I didnt even know it! I didnt even know I had stayed for ten minutes, I thought I had just gone and come back. So there.
0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The second vision was more personal. Then I understood: its because the very body, the very consciousness (physical consciousness) is full of all those falsehoods and all those illusions and all those preconceived ideas, and when that is gone, then the Lord can manifest in there.
It was it was LIVED, and it was a stunning realization, mon petit!
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What has the Lord decided will be? I dont know. The body doesnt know. It will be as He wants.
(Mother goes into a contemplation)
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"Lord, when You want the image to change into your likeness, what do You do?" The next day, the disciple to whom Mother had sent this reply wrote back: "I did not understand what you wrote yesterday." Mother replied again (on the 9th): "What Sri Aurobindo calls 'image' is the physical body. So I asked the Lord what He does when He wants to transform the physical body, and last night He answered me by giving me two visions. The one was about the liberation of the body consciousness from all conventions regarding death; and in the other. He showed me what the supramental body will be. As you can see, I did well to ask Him!"
Still, in the afternoon, the doctor did a checkup which showed a blood pressure of 120 and a pulse rate of 70.
0 1970-05-13, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its almost a constant state now for my body. Only at very rare moments does it suddenly Aah! (gesture filled with wonder). When those moments come, its wonderful. But theyre very rare. Sometimes a day goes by without even one. That state [of discomfort] used to be more frequent during the day, but now its beginning to happen at night. Last night, a good part of the night I spent like that, and then I was able to be in peace only because my whole body was (gesture of surrender) saying to the Lord, Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will. Like that.
(silence)
0 1970-07-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The impression I get is as if people have big scissors, and they always want to cut out pieces of the Lord! (laughter)
An old disciple, author of several books about Sri Aurobindo and editor of one of the Ashram's magazines.
0 1970-07-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I answered. This morning I presented that question [to the Lord], and it was as if it was waiting for the occasion. I received a reply simple, as always, but explaining the WHOLE, entire functioning. When I saw that, it was such an illumination that everything became so simple! (I wrote it down, but its nothing, it looks like a commonplace.) But it puts an end to all questions. It was absolutely wonderful!
So instead of sending the notebook back to him, I kept it to show it to you, because it looks like nothing at all, but if it gives others the experience it gave me, its something! For several hours I lived in a Peace nothing can disturb. Its so simple, so simple!
0 1970-09-12, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me, this life in the body is almost a torture, in the sense that it has no interest in itself, you understand. I had stopped enjoying it physically long ago. To such a point that people dont understand why I suffer: I dont look ill, except for this short breath which isnt that serious. I have nothing that may really be called a sufferingnothing. Its a sort of At any rate, the least I may say is a complete lack of interest: whether I eat or not The only thing is that I cant rest, in fact I cant (Mother gestures as if withdrawing from her body) go into a [higher consciousness]. Thats something For SO MANY years, so many years, more than twenty years maybe, I would lie down in bed and phew! (gesture of withdrawal) I would go into the Lord. And I am now forbidden to do this thats probably what is the greatest suffering.
Its likely that its likely that I couldnt have borne this work, I would have left my body; it was too natural to (gesture of going out above). But (Mother brings her two fists down as if she were forcibly pushed down or held in Matter). But I didnt take the precaution of really pulling the Force into the body. I might say that my body had too much (probably the way of seeing and reacting to the material world), too much1 Extremely rarely in my lifeextremely rarely did I have Ananda in the physical body. Its only when I would see beautiful things (Mother lifts her eyes as if to look at the coconut tree near the Samadhi, which she can no longer see), that it, certain moments of contact with Nature then I had it but otherwise all my life there was never (how can I put it?) an occasion for Ananda, you understand.
0 1971-05-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Me, I dont say anything. I mean if the Lord wants success for us, it can be BREATHTAKING. There is the possibility of a breathtaking successnot in the sky: here. The only thing is to know whether the time for success has come.
(long silence)
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I tell you, everywhere theres a possibility for an extraordinary success. Has the moment come? I dont know. Personally, I make myself like this (tiny gesture), physically very small, and I let (gesture open to the Lord).
I would like. You see, the Will comes, but then all the formations come in and decay its execution I would like I would like my atmosphere to be a limpid transmitter, utterly limpid. I dont even try to know what it is, because that too introduces an ordinary human element. A limpid, limpid transmitter: let it come like this (gesture of direct descent), pure, in all its purityeven if it is overwhelming.
0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres something I feel very deeply. (silence) Words words (Mother shakes her head). But to say it as simply as possible, I could say, the Lord loves Satprem. And thats something profound, profound, profound. the Lord loves Satprem. Thats all.
(Satprem puts his forehead on Mothers knees)
0 1971-06-05, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All circumstances have been furiously teaching the body to call all the time, all the timeto call the Divine. And so now its got into the habit of repeating its mantra, and it repeats it ALL THE TIME. Its a curious thing: if it repeats it, everything runs smoothly; if it doesnt, it cant even swallow foodeverything seems on the verge of falling apart; so it repeats its mantra, and everything goes quite well. When it thinks of nothing but the Divine, everything is fine. This morning, while I was having breakfast, thats how it was. It was so plain! If the body thinks about eating, everything goes wrong; if it repeats its mantra, it can absorb the food, it doesnt even notice it, everything becomes so easy. Very interesting. The same goes for people: when theyre here, if I think about them, if I think there are difficulties, then (grating gesture), but if I am like this (peaceful gesture, immovable in the Lord), everything goes well, quite naturally.
Its a lesson, but a relentless one.
0 1971-06-09, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a dreadful onslaught of Falsehood. It was as if everyone were lying, even the most unexpected personseverywhere, but everywhere. And to me it was vivid (Mother makes a gesture of seeing it), oh, horrible! You cant imagine. This, a little twisted to the right; that, a little twisted to the left, just a little twistednothing, not a thing was straight. Then the body asked, And where is your own falsehood? It took a look at itself. And it was that old story: You must call the Lord only when its important! (Laughing) You cant expect to be with Him all the time! So it got a good slap.
It wasnt aggressive, it had the appearance of humilityit got a good cuff.
0 1971-08-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not try: only one minute like that is enough (gesture of stepping backward), and time doesnt matter anymore. Its very curious, I make experiments for every little movement of life, like meals, for example; well, when I curl up like this (gesture of interiorization), everything seems instantaneous. There isnt any time. When I am in the outer consciousness (what I call outer is a consciousness that witnesses the creation), then things take more or less time depending on the attention given it. And so everything, everything seems nothing seems to be (whats the word?) absolute, in the sense of realreal, a concrete realitynothing seems to be like that. Except unpleasant things in the body such as, for example, some functioning that goes wrong; that, you recognize as imperfection. The imperfection is what makes you feel the thing, otherwise its like this (same gesture of interiorization, curled up in the Lord). And like this, the Power is tremendous, in the sense that for instance, for some people, a particular illness vanishes (without my doing anything outwardly in fact, without my even speaking to anyone, absolutely nothingits cured); for still another person its the end, he goes over to the other side. But then that other side has become both quite familiar to me and totally unknown.
I remember a time when the memory of past lives, the memory of night activities was so very concrete; the so-called invisible world was totally concretenow now everything is like a dreameverythingeverything is like a dream veiling a Reality an unknown Reality, and yet appreciable. I seem to be talking nonsense.
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So, quite naturally, the most interesting thing is to find That. Quite naturally, whenever I have nothing to do (gesture of interiorization, curled up in the Lord). Thats why I am forever asking you if you have questions or something, because there is no longer any person to be active, its only the things which (gesture indicating the movements and vibrations of people or things triggering Mothers activity). So when thats not there, its (gesture in suspense, silence). Very far, far off quite close, quite close to the other Consciousness, there are moments (Mother speaks in a deep, solemn voice): OM Namo Bhagavateh. Thats the most material thing. Its already it seems so lifeless. It gives the impression that a piece of wood might give us. And yet its. So at one and the same time one can be in a painful and incomprehensible and absurd life and absolutely at the same time unutterably marvelous.
So naturally I cant speak to anyone anymore, I can say it only to you, because people would think I am going nuts.
0 1971-10-06, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Without a miracle, it. But then, the miracle depends on the Lord.
Well. Anyway, we have some time to think about it! (laughter)
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I am fully open to anything the Lord wantsanything, even the most difficult of things. I am fully open like this (Mother opens the palms of her hands upward): what You want, Lord, what You want thats my joy. Thats all.
Its my LIFE. Its the essence of the life in me, in the body. It is like this: what You wantwith a joy, a joy that is unadulterated.
0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But if this new consciousness is not to be found on the peaks of the human, where then, are we to find it? Perhaps, quite simply in that which we have most neglected since we entered the mental cycle, in the body. The body is our base, our evolutionary foundation, the old stock to which we always return, and which painfully compels our attention by making us suffer, age and die. In that imperfection, Sri Aurobindo assures us, is the urge towards a higher and more many-sided perfection. It contains the last finite which yet yearns to the Supreme Infinite. God is pent in the mire but the very fact imposes a necessity to break through that prison.8 That is the old, uncured Illness, the unchanged root, the dark matrix of our misery, hardly different now from what it was in the time of Lemuria. It is this physical substance which we must transform, otherwise it will topple, one after another, all the human or superhuman devices we try to graft on it. This body, this physical cellular substance contains almighty powers,9 a dumb consciousness that harbors all the lights and all the infinitudes, just as much as the mental and spiritual immensities do. For, in truth, all is Divine and unless the Lord of all the universe resides in a single little cell he resides nowhere. It is this original, dark cellular Prison which we must break open; for as long as we have not broken it, we will continue to turn vainly in the golden or iron circles of our mental prison. These laws of Nature, says Sri Aurobindo, that you call absolute merely mean an equilibrium established to work in order to produce certain results. But, if you change the consciousness, then the groove also is bound to change.10
Such is the new adventure to which Sri Aurobindo invites us, an adventure into mans unknown. Whether we like it or not, the whole earth is moving into a new groove, but why shouldnt we like it? Why shouldnt we collaborate in this great, unprecedented adventure? Why shouldnt we collaborate in our own evolution, instead of repeating endlessly the same old story, instead of chasing hallucinatory paradises which will never quench our thirst or otherworldly paradises which leave the earth to rot along with our bodies? Why be born if it is to get out at the end? exclaims the Mother, who continues Sri Aurobindos work. What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, in its outer appearance at least, is so tragic and dramatic, if it is only to learn how to get out of itit would have been better not to start at all. Evolution is not a tortuous course that brings us back, somewhat battered, to the starting point. Quite the contrary, it is meant, says Mother, to teach the whole of creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the grandeur of being, the majesty of a sublime life, and the perpetual development, perpetually progressive, of this joy, this beauty, this grandeur. Then everything has a meaning.11
0 1972-02-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is the Lord taking care of us?
(Laughing) I believe so!
0 1972-04-03, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But honestly, sincerely, it doesnt think anymore. It is here for a certain work; the work must be done, and thats all. What will be will beits true, after all, what will be will be, what does it matter to it! It says, Everything is for the best. It cant stay forever in its present precarious condition; so it must either be transformed, or else lose its form and come undone. Well it neednt worry about it, just leave it to the Lord to decidetruly and sincerely.
If it can abdicate to the point of really becoming a transparent instrument, so much to the good.
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It doesnt really preoccupy me, but. This body is truly very willing, it wants to do its best. Will it be capable? Ultimately, if the Lord has decided this one will be transformed, it will be transformed, thats all!
(Laughing) For the time being, it feels very much alive! That much it can say.
0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for me, the purpose of this body is now simply: the Command and the Will of the Lord, so I can do as much groundwork as possible. But it isnt the Goal at all. You see, we dont know, we dont have the slightest knowledge of what the supramental life is. Therefore we dont know if this (Mother pinches the skin of her hand) can change enough to adapt or notand to tell the truth, I am not worried about it, its not a problem that preoccupies me too much; the problem I am preoccupied with is building that supramental consciousness So IT becomes the being. Its that consciousness which must become the being. Thats whats important. As for the rest, well see (its the same as worrying over a change of clothing). But it must truly be IT, you see. And in order to do that, all the consciousness contained in these cells must aggregate, form and organize itself into an independent conscious entity the consciousness in the cells must aggregate and form into a conscious entity capable of being conscious of Matter as well as conscious of the Supramental. Thats the thing. Thats what is being done. How far will we be able to go? I dont know.
You understand?
0 1972-05-31, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ALL appearances are illusions theres something something which for me is becoming increasingly concrete and tremendously powerful: the Lords Will. This conscious will is not like ours, its something like this (Mother lowers her outstretched arms). Inexpressible. Its unlike anything we know. And it is a formidable willformidable, you understand, in the sense that all appearances, all contradictions, all human wills are zero: THAT alone (same, powerful gesture of lowering both arms). Thats it, THAT is what I feel going through me, as if I bathed in it. Exactly like that.
There isnt any theres nothing here (Mother touches her forehead), its empty, empty, completely emptyhollow. Hollow. I dont think. There isnt any I, or any . Its almost like an empty shell, yet with that formidable Force (vast, powerful gesture, arms outstretched).
0 1972-06-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the Lords presence passing through methrough what people call me. An aggregate of cells which (laughing) took this form pretty long ago!
Yes, but this form is very.
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Personally, for example, before, my tendency was to turn to Sri Aurobindo or to a Force to THE Forceto That, to the Lord, I dont know. Well, but the effect has not at all been the same since I really started to turn to you as a person.
Ahh!
0 1972-06-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body the body itselffeels like a little baby cradled in the arms of the Lord. But if it leaves this attitude only for a few seconds, it feels its like deathinstant dissolution. Thats how it is.
The shortest hours are at night, from 8:30 at night till 6 in the morning I dont sleep, but (immense, silent gesture).
0 1972-07-01, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats left of the personal consciousness feels so stupid! But when I am like this (gesture, immobile in the Lord) then, its nice.
(Mother plunges in)
0 1972-08-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Often, very often I ask the Lord: how can I help now that I cant see so well, cant hear so well, cant speak clearly and need help to get around? This state is. Yet the body doesnt sense any decline! It is convinced that if tomorrow the Lord wanted it to resume its regular activity, it could do so. The Force is there (Mother touches her arms, her muscles), a terrible force sometimes! So why?
This state is intentional so that (smiling) so that people will leave me alone!
0 1972-09-13, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Me, I dont sleep at all anymore, but its its marvelous! The only marvelous moment (immobile gesture, arms and hands open in total surrender). Its absolutely like bathing in the Lord, you know: like this (same gesture). Theres no active sensation, no nothing. Nothing. Nothing but a luminous peace.
This is certainly what will eventually replace sleep. Sleep, the fall into unconsciousness we call sleep, will disappear and be replaced by (same gesture, arms open, smiling).
For the body, its we could say, bathing in the Lord.
Theres not even a trace, not the faintest sensation of an individual personutterly gone. Its a STATE of consciousness.
0 1972-10-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A possible formulation would be: constantly, constantly as if on one hand I were telling the Lord, What do You want me to do?, and on the other hand.
(silence eyes closed, hands opened in total surrender)
0 1972-10-11, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me I mean, for this sort of for this (Mother pinches the skin of her arms), which has lived so many years but doesnt know anything anymore, and cant do anything anymore, theres only (same gesture of surrender, hands offered to the Lord).
Whatever conscious will is left is used to remain attentiveattentive, absolutely still and peaceful (gesture of listening to the above). To try not to obstruct or distort what the Lord (Mother corrects herself) what the Divine wants. Thats all. And not a personal Divine: the Divine Consciousness at work in the world.
We know nothing, we know absolutely nothing, we are totally stupid really, but if we can be like this (gesture, hands open): receptivereceptive in a silence a silence that worships Light, Light a perfect Knowledge and unerring Will.
0 1972-10-18, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Victory we can call it what we like: the Victory of Truth over Falsehood, the Victory of the Lord over his creation.
Which means the creation will now go consciously towards the Divine?
0 1972-11-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother goes where the Lord wants her to go.
(silence)
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Things always work out. I am convinced that whatever happens is willed by the Lord. Its only our impression that gets more or less warped by our ignorance.
Yes, Mother.
0 1973-04-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes I wonder, Does the Lord want me to leave? I am quite quite willing, you know, so thats not the point; but does He want me to stay? No answer. No answer except Transformation. And that is.
I truly, truly sense there is something to be done that would make everything go right but I dont know what it is.
0 1973-04-14, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I know its my body this body. Look, I have accepted the Lord asked me if I wanted to undergo the transformation, and I said yes (I would have said yes in any event), but its to the ordinary human consciousness, I am going mad.3
Yes, I understand, Mother. I understand. Anyone else would have left umpteen times, rather than sit through all this I really understand.
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Did the Lord decide? Well, of course, it is He who decides in any case. But He also uses human instrumentso therwise this world would have never existed and these human instruments have a freedom of choice, they are not mere puppets in the hands of God Or rather, to be more precise, they have a choice between being the Divines puppet or the devilsand maybe BOTH ways conspire to lead us to an unforeseeable goal.
Hence, humans decided They said no to the trance, no to the experience, no to the fairy tale; they could not stand it anymoreit had to stop.
--- Grep of noun the_lord
ascension of the lord