In an outburst of heavenly joy and ease
Life yields to the divinity within
And gives the rapture-offering of its all,
And the soul opens to felicity.
A bliss is felt that never can wholly cease,
A sudden mystery of secret Grace
Flowers goldening our earth of red desire.
All the high gods who hid their visages
From the soiled passionate ritual of our hopes,
Reveal their names and their undying powers.
A fiery stillness wakes the slumbering cells,
A passion of the flesh becoming spirit,
And marvellously is fulfilled at last
The miracle for which our life was made
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book II, Canto XII, page 278
Openness & Wideness
Openness is the will to receive and to utilise for progress the force and influence; the constant aspiration to remain in touch with the Consciousness; the faith that the force and consciousness are always with you, around you, inside you and that you have only to let nothing stand in the way of your receiving them.
“To open more to love and to the light.” This is exactly the answer I send to your last letter. Rise higher in the consciousness, love more widely, open to the light — and all divergences will disappear. You must be as vast and comprehensive as the world to do the Yoga.
Widen yourself to the extreme limit of the universe… and beyond. Always take upon yourself all the necessities of progress, and resolve them in the ecstasy of Unity. Then you will be divine.
To widen and open as vastly as one can is more effective than to bring down and to try to push the force into the narrowness of the small human being.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother, CWM volume 16, pages 315 – 316.