January 31, 2018 – The Most Useful Work to be Done

 

A being stood immortal in transience,
Deathless dallying with momentary things,
In whose wide eyes of tranquil happiness
Which pity and sorrow could not abrogate
Infinity turned its gaze on finite shapes:
Observer of the silent steps of the hours,
Eternity upheld the minute’s acts
And the passing scenes of the Everlasting’s play.
In the mystery of its selecting will,
In the Divine Comedy a participant,
The Spirit’s conscious representative,
God’s delegate in our humanity,
Comrade of the universe, the Transcendent’s ray,
She had come into the mortal body’s room
To play at ball with Time and Circumstance.

Sri Aurobindo

Savitri, Book VII, Canto V, Page 526

The Most Useful Work to be Done

What is the most useful work to be done at the present moment?

The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony.

The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One.

In other words, — to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all.

This, therefore, is the most useful work to be done:

  1. For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it.
  2. To individualise the states of being that were never till now conscious in man and, by that, to put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of universal force that are still sealed to it.
  3. To speak again to the world the eternal word under a new form adapted to its present mentality. It will be the synthesis of all human knowledge.
  4. Collectively, to establish an ideal society in a propitious spot for the flowering of the new race, the race of the Sons of God.

The Mother

7th May 1912, Words of Long Ago, page 49

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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