May 8, 2013 – To Fall Back Into Error

To observe the law we have imposed on ourselves rather than the law of others is what is meant by liberty in our unregenerate condition. Only in God & by the supremacy of the spirit can we enjoy a perfect freedom.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 165)

To Ball Back Into Error

To fall back into an error which one knows to be an error, to make a mistake once again which one knows to be a mistake, this seems to me fantastic! It is a long time – well, at least relatively, by human reckoning – it is a long time I have been on earth, and I have yet not been able to understand that. It seems to me – it seems to me impossible. Wrong thoughts, wrong impulses, inner and outer falsehood, things which are ugly, base, so long as one does them or has them through ignorance – ignorance is there in the world – one understands, one is in the habit of doing them; it is ignorance, one does not know that it ought to be otherwise. But the moment the knowledge is there, the light is there, the moment one has seen the thing as it is, how can one do it again? That I do not understand!

Then what is one made of? One is made of shreds? One is made of goodness knows what, of jelly?…. It can’t be explained. But is there no incentive, no will, nothing? Is there no inner dynamism?

The Mother

The Great Adventure 84