August 29, 2012 – Follow Your Own Path

There is no sin in man,
but a great deal of disease,
ignorance and misapplication.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 66)

Follow Your Own Path

“Thou must reach thy own summit,” says Sri Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody or does each one have his particular summit

In the last analysis, it is always the same summit – the divine oneness which is behind all things – but everyone will reach his own summit, that is, through his own nature and own way of manifesting the divine unity. This is what we were saying the other day: each one represents a special way of having a relation with the Divine and manifesting the Divine. You don’t need to follow another’s path! You must follow your own path and it is by this path that you will reach the summit, which is one, but found by your own route. The goal is beyond the summits – the goal is one and beyond the summits – but one may attain this summit each by his own road, climbing his own mountain, not the mountains of another.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 29