It is useless to talk of consciousness, knowledge, equality of soul, universality, infinity, eternity, supreme truth, the divine presence and … of all sorts of things like that, if you make no effort yourselves to live these things and feel them concretely within you….
.. to understand the supreme truths you must put them into practice in your daily life
The Mother
A Presence wrought behind the ambiguous screen:
It beat his soil to bear a Titan’s weight,
Refining half-hewn blocks of natural strength
It built his soul into a statued god.
The Craftsman of the magic stuff of self
Who labours at his high and difficult plan
In the wide workshop of the wonderful world,
Modelled in inward Time his rhythmic parts.
Then came the abrupt transcendent miracle:
The masked immaculate Grandeur could outline,
At travail in the occult womb of life,
His dreamed magnificence of things to be.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book I, Canto III, page 25.
How can one know whether the psychic being is in front or not?
Who? Oneself?… It is not felt, no? You don’t feel it? I am not speaking of a small child, for it has no means of control and observation, it lacks the capacity of observation. But then, when one is no longer a baby, doesn’t one feel it? It doesn’t make a difference?… (The child nods in assent.) Ah!… There is not one of you who will dare to tell me that it makes no difference when the psychic is there, when one feels better within oneself, when one is full of light, hope, goodwill, generosity, compassion for the world, and sees life as a field of action, progress, realisation. Doesn’t it make a difference from the days when one is bored, grumbling, when everything seems ugly, unpleasant, wicked, when one loves nobody, wants to break everything, gets angry, feels ill at ease, without strength, without energy, without any joy? That makes a difference, doesn’t it?
The Mother,
Questions and Answers 1954, CWM volume 6, page 6.
On the 17th of November the Auromira Centre commemorated the 47th anniversary of the Mother’s Mahasamadhi with a virtual Darshan.
Please click here for the individual readings and meditations.
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI ARAVINDAYA