April 16, 2015 – Preconceived Ideas

Become & live the knowledge thou hast; then is thy knowledge the living God within thee.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 161)

Preconceived Ideas

The best one can do is not to take sides, not to have preconceived ideas or principles – oh! the moral principles, the set rules of conduct, what one must do and what one must not and the preconceived ideas from the moral point of view, from the point of view of progress, and all the social and mental conventions… no worse obstacle than that. There are people, I know people who have lost decades in surmounting one such mental construction!… If one can be like that, open – truly open in a simplicity, well, a simplicity that knows that it is ignorant – like that (gesture upward, of self abandon), ready to receive whatever comes. Then something can happen.

And naturally, the thirst for progress, the thirst for knowledge, the thirst for transformation and, above all, the thirst for Love and Truth – if one keeps that, one goes quicker. Truly a thirst, a need, a need.

All the rest has no importance; it is that one has need of.

The Mother

The Great Adventure – A Diary for All Times. Page 330