Auromira Centre

I was much plagued by Satan, until I found that it was God who was tempting me; then the anguish of him passed out of my soul for ever.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 458)

One Chooses To Be Weak

It is a choice between your will and accepting submission. There is always a moment when one can decide.

has plenty of time before him, one certainly has several minutes. And it is a choice between weak submission and a controlling will. And if the will is clear, if it is based on truth, if truly it obeys the truth and is clear, it always has the power to refuse the wrong movement. It is an excuse you give yourself when you say,“ I could not.” It is not true. It is that truly you have not wanted it in the right way. For there is always the choice between saying “yes” and saying “no”. But one chooses to be weak and later gives oneself this excuse, saying, “It is not my fault; it was stronger than I.” It is your fault if the thing was stronger than you. Because you are not these impulses, you are a conscious soul and an intelligent will, and your duty is to see that this is what governs you and not the impulses from below.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 35

To observe the law we have imposed on ourselves rather than the law of others is what is meant by liberty in our unregenerate condition. Only in God & by the supremacy of the spirit can we enjoy a perfect freedom.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 165)

To Ball Back Into Error

To fall back into an error which one knows to be an error, to make a mistake once again which one knows to be a mistake, this seems to me fantastic! It is a long time – well, at least relatively, by human reckoning – it is a long time I have been on earth, and I have yet not been able to understand that. It seems to me – it seems to me impossible. Wrong thoughts, wrong impulses, inner and outer falsehood, things which are ugly, base, so long as one does them or has them through ignorance – ignorance is there in the world – one understands, one is in the habit of doing them; it is ignorance, one does not know that it ought to be otherwise. But the moment the knowledge is there, the light is there, the moment one has seen the thing as it is, how can one do it again? That I do not understand!

Then what is one made of? One is made of shreds? One is made of goodness knows what, of jelly?…. It can’t be explained. But is there no incentive, no will, nothing? Is there no inner dynamism?

The Mother

The Great Adventure 84

After offending, He forced me to pardon Him not by reparation, but by committing fresh offences.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 435)

The Value of a Physical Body

This harmonisation and organisation of the being around the divine Centre can only be done in a physical body and on earth. That is truly the essential and original reason for physical life. For, as soon as you are no longer in a physical body, you can no longer do it at all.

And what is still more remarkable is that only human beings can do it, for only human beings have at their centre the diving Presence in the psychic being…

And yet, human beings come into a physical body without knowing why, most of them go through life without knowing why, they leave their body without knowing why, and they have to begin the same thing all over again, indefinitely, until one day, someone comes along and tells them, “Be careful! You know, there is a purpose to this. You are here for this work, don’t miss your opportunity!”

The Mother

The Great Adventure 185

Stride swiftly for the goal is far; rest not unduly, for thy Master is waiting for thee at the end of thy journey.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 313)

A Sort of Total Security

When one has the positive experience of the one and only existence of the Supreme and that all is only the Supreme playing to Himself, instead of being something disquieting or unpleasant or troubling, it is… a sort of total security.

The one reality is the Supreme. And all this is a game He plays to Himself. I find this much more comforting than the opposite view.

And after all, this is the only certitude that all this may become something marvellous…

You will see, there is a moment when one cannot bear oneself or life unless one takes the attitude that it is the Lord who is everything. You see, this Lord, how many things He possesses, He plays with all this – He plays, He plays at changing positions. And so, when one see this, this whole, one feels the illimitable marvel, and that all our most wonderful aspirations, all these are quite possible and will even be surpassed. Then one is comforted.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 358