August 17, 2016 – Do not “Pull”

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A spirit hid in forces and in forms
Was the spectator of the mobile scene:
The beauty and the ceaseless miracle
Let in a glow of the Unmanifest:
The formless Everlasting moved in it
Seeking its own perfect form in souls and things.
Life kept no more a dull and meaningless shape.

Savitri: Book I, Canto III, p 42-43

Do not “Pull”

The surest means [to get out of the ego] is to give oneself to the Divine; not to try to draw the Divine to oneself but try to give oneself to the Divine. Then you are compelled at least to come out a little from yourself to begin with. Usually, you know, when people think of the Divine, the first thing they do is to “pull” as much as they can into themselves. And then, generally, they receive nothing at all. They tell you, “Ah! I called, I prayed and I did not have the answer. I had no answer, nothing came.” But then, if you ask, “Did you offer yourself?”—“No, I pulled.”—“Ah, yes, that is why it did not come!” It is not that it did not come, it is that when you pull you remain so shut up in your ego… it raises a wall between what is to be received and yourself. You put yourself in prison and then you are astonished that in your prison you feel nothing…

Throw yourself out (Mother opens her hands), give yourself without holding back anything, simply for the joy of giving yourself. Then there’s a chance that you may feel something.

The Mother

The Great Adventure – A Diary for All Times. Page 208.

All extracts and quotations from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry -605002 India
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