November 9, 2011 – Allow the Lord to do Everything

Practical knowledge is a different thing;
that is real and serviceable, but it is never complete.
Therefore to systematise and codify it is necessary but fatal.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 74)

Allow the Lord to do Everything

This smile, this joy, this alughter are there, and such peace! such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony – and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.

There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all; you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!

He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: “There, be quiet, don’t stir, don’t bother me, I don’t need you.” Then a door opens – you don’t even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are taken over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.

The Mother

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