October 5, 2011 – Open Yourself, Be Modest

Because God is invincibly great, He can afford to be weak;
because He is immutably pure, He can indulge with impunity in sin;
He knows eternally all delight, therefore He tastes also the delight of pain;
He is inalienably wise, therefore He has not debarred Himself from folly.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 65)

Open Yourself, Be Modest

What you should do is to throw the doors of your being wide open to the Divine. The moment you conceal something, you step straight into Falsehood. The least suppression on your part pulls you immediately down into unconsciousness. If you want to be fully conscious, be always in front of the Truth- completely open yourself and try your utmost to let it see deep inside you, into every corner of your being. That alone will bring into you light and consciousness and all that is most true. Be absolutely modest- that is to say, know the distance between what you are and what is to be, not allowing the crude physical mentality to think that it knows when it does not, that it can judge when it cannot. Modesty implies the giving up of yourself to the Divine whole-heartedly, asking for help and, by submission, winning the freedom and absence of responsibility which imparts to the mind utter quietness. Not otherwise can you hope to attain the union with the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Will.

The Mother

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