February 22, 2012 – The Body Needs Activity

There are two allied powers in man;
knowledge and wisdom.
Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted
medium as the mind arrives at by groping,
wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 01)

The Body Needs Activity

The body needs activity: if you keep it inactive, it will begin to revolt by becoming sick and so on. It needs an activity, it really needs an activity like planting flowers, building a house, something really material. You must feel it. Some people do exercises, some ride bicycles, there are countless activities…. Each one can find the activity which suits his temperament, his nature and his need. But not with ideas. Ideas are not much good, ideas give you preconceptions, for example, “That is a good work, that work is not worthy of me,” and all that sort of nonsense. There is no bad work – there are only bad workers. All work is good when you know how to do it in the right way. Everything . And it is a kind of communion. If you are fortunate enough to be conscious of an inner light, you will see that in your manual work, it is as if you called the Divine down into things; then the communion becomes very concrete, there is a whole world to be discovered, it is marvellous.

The Mother

The Great Adventure – Pg 156