Auromira Centre

In our sorrowful age, almost withered by the excessive domination of the intellect,
nothing can be at once more necessary and more precious than Divine Love.
In former times there was a noble form of asseveration for souls compact merely of force and action,
“As surely as God liveth.”
But for our modern needs another asseveration would suit better,
“As surely as God loveth.”

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 503)

What is one to do to prepare oneself for the Yoga?

To be conscious, first of all. We are conscious of only an insignificant portion of our being; for the most part we are unconscious. It is this unconsciousness that keeps us down to our unregenerate nature and prevents change and transformation in it. It is through unconsciousness that the undivine forces enter into us and make us their slaves. You are to be conscious of yourself,you must awake to your nature and movements, you must know why and how you do things or feel or think them; you must understand your motives and impulses, the forces, hidden and apparent, that move you; in fact, you must, as it were,take to pieces the entire machinery of your being. Once you are conscious, it means that you can distinguish and sift things, you can see which are the forces that pull you down and which help you on. And when you know the right from the wrong, the true from the false, the divine from the undivine, you are to act strictly up to your knowledge; that is to say, resolutely reject one and accept the other. The duality will present itself at every step and at every step you will have to make your choice. You will have to be patient and persistent and vigilant—“sleepless”, as the adepts say; you must always refuse to give any chance whatever to the undivine against the divine

The Mother

CWM VOL 3, page 2

Neither do thou inflict pain, O man, on thy fellow;
God alone has the right to inflict pain;
or those have it whom He has commissioned.
But deem not fanatically,
as did Torquemada, that thou art one of these.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 503)

Perfect Sincerity

Do you know what perfect sincerity is?…

Never to try to deceive oneself, never let any part of the being try to find out a way of convincing the others, never to explain favourably what one does in order to have an excuse for what one wants to do, never to close one’s eyes when something is unpleasant, never to let anything pass, telling oneself, “That is not important, next time it will be better.”

Oh! it is very difficult. Just try for one hour and you will see how very difficult it is. Only one hour, to be totally, absolutely sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is exclusively the Divine.

“I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine.”

The Mother

The Great Adventure P 61

What men call knowledge,
is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances.
Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 7)

Pay Attention

If one does not pay attention, things slide very easily into a hole: one takes a false step, then slips and suddenly bumps against the bottom of the hole. Then one asks oneself, “But how did this come about? What happened?” Simply a false step: you did not take care, you allowed that part of the being to draw you into its own field; because you did not pull it out of its way, did not compel it to follow you, it now drags you back instead.

If one wants to lead the spiritual life, one must not be three-fourths asleep. It is necessary to be wide awake and very attentive, otherwise you are like a little boar upon a river or a great sea with terrible currents, and if you are not alert, if you do not pay close heed to these currents, if you relax, relax your vigilance, all of a sudden you find that you are at the other end from where you wanted to go! You are carried away, just like that, quite naturally. “Why, yes, I wanted to go there and I find myself here!”

The Mother

The Great Adventure

Call not everything evil which men call evil,
but only that reject which God has rejected;
call not everything good which men call good,
but accept only what God has accepted.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 246)

Offer Up Wrong Movements

Instead of driving the wrong movement underground, it is to be offered. It is to place the thing, the movement itself, to project it into the Light.

…If we can project out sensation- or our activity or our perception- into that Light, that will bring the cure. Instead of suppressing or rejecting it as something to be destroyed (it cannot be destroyed!), it has to be projected into the Light… Instead of seeking to throw away far from oneself certain things (which one does not accept, and which produce an imbalance in the being), instead of doing that, to accept them, take them as part of oneself and… (Mother opens her hands) offer them up. They do not want to be offered, but there is a way of compelling them: the resistance is diminished in the proportion as we can diminish in us our sense of disapprobation; if we can replace this sense of disapprobation by a higher understanding, then we succeed. It is much more easy.

The Mother

The Great Adventure, P 67