January 11, 2012 – Offer Up Wrong Movements

Call not everything evil which men call evil,
but only that reject which God has rejected;
call not everything good which men call good,
but accept only what God has accepted.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 246)

Offer Up Wrong Movements

Instead of driving the wrong movement underground, it is to be offered. It is to place the thing, the movement itself, to project it into the Light.

…If we can project out sensation- or our activity or our perception- into that Light, that will bring the cure. Instead of suppressing or rejecting it as something to be destroyed (it cannot be destroyed!), it has to be projected into the Light… Instead of seeking to throw away far from oneself certain things (which one does not accept, and which produce an imbalance in the being), instead of doing that, to accept them, take them as part of oneself and… (Mother opens her hands) offer them up. They do not want to be offered, but there is a way of compelling them: the resistance is diminished in the proportion as we can diminish in us our sense of disapprobation; if we can replace this sense of disapprobation by a higher understanding, then we succeed. It is much more easy.

The Mother

The Great Adventure, P 67