June 27, 2012 – Someone Who Knows Very Little

When I was asleep in the Ignorance,
I came to a place of meditation full of holy men
and I found their company wearisome and the place a prison;
when I awoke,
God took me to a prison and turned it into a place of meditation
and His trysting-ground.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 47)

Someone Who Knows Very Little

It is not necessarily someone with experience who is most advanced. He lacks an element of simplicity, modesty, and the plasticity that comes from the fact that one is not yet totally developed. As one grows, something crystallises in the head; it gets more and more fixed and unless you try very hard you finish by becoming fossilised. This is what usually happens to people, particularly those who have tried for some realisation and succeeded in it or those who have come to believe they have reached the goal… For me personally, I admit I prefer for my work someone who knows very little, has not laboured too much, but who has a great deal of aspiration, a great goodwill and who feels in himself this flame, this need for progressing. He may know very little, may have realised still less, but if he has that within him, it is good stuff with which one can go very far, much further.

The Mother

The Great Adventure P 55