12-12-12 To Help Humanity – I

Sannyasa has a formal garb and outer tokens;
therefore men think they can easily recognise it;
but the freedom of a Janaka does not proclaim
itself and it wears the garb of the world;
to its presence even Narada was blinded.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 106)

To Help Humanity – I

The Divine is everywhere. So if one serves humanity, one serves the Divine, isn’t that so?

That’s marvellous! The clearest thing in this business is to say: “The Divine is in me. If I serve myself, I am also serving the Divine!” In fact, the Divine is everywhere. The Divine will do His own work very well without you.

see quite well that you do not understand. But truly, if you do understand that the Divine is there, in all things, with what are you meddling in serving humanity? To serve humanity you must know better that the Divine what must be done for it. Do you know better that the Divine how to serve it?

…As for me, I see only one solution: if you want to help humanity, there is only one thing to do, it is to take yourself as completely as possible and offer yourself to the Divine. That is the solution. Because in this way, at least the material reality which you represent will be able to grow a little more like the Divine.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 32

All extracts and quotations from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry -605002 India
This entry was posted in Weekly Messages. Bookmark the permalink.