This bright perfection of her inner state
Poured overflowing into her outward scene,
Made beautiful dull common natural things
And action wonderful and time divine.
Even the smallest meanest work became
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament,
An offering to the self of the great world
Or a service to the One in each and all.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book VII, Canto VI, page 532.
Offering
I saw a fire in my heart and my offering falling into it like bits of paper. I heard someone say: “Offer everything into the fire!” But when obscurities and resistance arise, I feel a hesitation to offer them to the Mother. The thought comes: offer the best things to the Mother, not ugly things.
The fire is the purifying psychic fire. Offering to the psychic fire is not contrary to the worship of the Mother. To purify all in the psychic fire rather than throw the obscurities and resistance on the Mother is obviously the right way.
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on the Mother, CWSA volume 32, page 137.
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Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.
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The only offering that truly enriches is the one made to the Divine.
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Offering: the placing of your entire being, with all its movements true and false, good and bad, right and wrong, before the Divine for transformation.
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Offer sincerely to the Divine your obscurities and you will be able to receive the light.
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The offering of our being we make to the Divine must be integral and effective.
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Integral offering: the surest road to realisation.
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Unconditional integral offering: the joy of offering oneself without asking for anything in return.
The Mother, Words of the Mother II, CWM volume 14, pages 98 – 99.