March 28, 2012 – An Exceptional Hour

When I had the dividing reason,
I shrank from many things;
after I had lost it in sight,
I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent,
but I could no longer find them.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 20)

An Exceptional Hour

People sleep, they forget, they take life easy – they forget, forget all the time….

But if we could remember…. That we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.

So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn’t have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.

We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake.

The Mother

The Great Adventure pg 4