January 25, 2012 Perfect Sincerity

Neither do thou inflict pain, O man, on thy fellow;
God alone has the right to inflict pain;
or those have it whom He has commissioned.
But deem not fanatically,
as did Torquemada, that thou art one of these.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 503)

Perfect Sincerity

Do you know what perfect sincerity is?…

Never to try to deceive oneself, never let any part of the being try to find out a way of convincing the others, never to explain favourably what one does in order to have an excuse for what one wants to do, never to close one’s eyes when something is unpleasant, never to let anything pass, telling oneself, “That is not important, next time it will be better.”

Oh! it is very difficult. Just try for one hour and you will see how very difficult it is. Only one hour, to be totally, absolutely sincere. To let nothing pass. That is, all one does, all one feels, all one thinks, all one wants, is exclusively the Divine.

“I want nothing but the Divine, I think of nothing but the Divine, I do nothing but what will lead me to the Divine, I love nothing but the Divine.”

The Mother

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