August 24, 2011 – Opening and Surrender to the Mother

There is no disturbance in the depths of the Ocean,
but above there is the joyous thunder of its shouting and its racing shoreward;
so is it with the liberated soul in the midst of violent action.
The soul does not act;
it only breathes out from itself overwhelming action.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 277)

OPENING AND SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER

THE CENTRAL SECRET OF SADHANA

You have only to aspire, to keep yourself open to the Mother, to reject all that is contrary to her will and to let her work in you – doing also all your work for her and in the faith that it through her force that you can do it. If you remain open in this way, the knowledge and realisation will come to you in due course.

To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother’s force can be felt working in the adhara.

All things are the Divine because the Divine is there, but hidden not manifest; when the mind goes out to things, it is not with the sense of the Divine in them, but for the appearances only which conceal the Divine. It is necessary therefore for you as a Sadhak to turn entirely to the Mother in whom the Divine is manifest and not run after the appearances, the desire of which or the interest in which prevents you from meeting the Divine. Once the being is consecrated, then it can see the Divine everywhere – and then it can include all things in the one consciousness without a separate interest or desire.

Sri Aurobindo

SABCL Volume 25, page122