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| Yet pure and bright from the Timeless was her birth, A lost world-rapture lingers in her eyes, Her moods are faces of the Infinite: Beauty and happiness are her native right, And endless Bliss is her eternal home. Sri Aurobindo Savitri, Book II, Canto III, page 118 |
To throw out unwanted thingsHere Sri Aurobindo says: “As for the things in our nature that are thrown away from us by rejection but come back, it depends on where you throw them. Very often there is a sort of procedure about it.” What is this procedure, Sweet Mother? It is what he describes later. He explains afterwards that what is in the mind is thrown out into the vital, what is in the higher vital is thrown out into the lower vital, and what is in the lower vital is thrown out into the physical, and what is in the physical is thrown out into the subconscient. He says it – all this. But I thought there was a procedure for rejection? No, this is the procedure, to reject always into a lower part of the being, and finally the last refuge, he says, is in the inconscient; and in order to get rid of something, to tell the truth, you must go right into the inconscient; if one pursuesit there, it cannot go lower down. So there is only one solution for it, to transform itself. Can’t one transform it without going further? One can. But it is quite difficult. But one can do it, because rejecting is not the best method. You see, to do this (gesture) is the easiest way; something troubles you, you do this (gesture), as you do for flies; but it is a little as with the flies, it takes a round and then comes back. But what is necessary is what I explained to you last time in detail: to find out why it comes, why it is there, and change it – the cause itself. Then it no longer returns, there is no affinity any longer. Things come to you because they have an affinity. There is something to which they can cling, a kind of sympathy somewhere, which may not be very conscious or very open, but there is one. And if it were not there, the thing would no longer come. There is a whole set of things which never come to bother you any longer, once you have changed the essential points in your nature. The Mother Questions and Answers 1955, CWM vol 20, pages 94 – 95 |
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