Sept 10, 2014 – The Ideal Attitude

There is always something abnormal and eccentric about
men of genius.” And why not? For genius itself is an abnormal
birth and out of man’s ordinary centre.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 213)

The Ideal Attitude

The simple fact of giving oneself to the Divine so that the Divine takes you and makes of you what He wills, and this in all its purity and constancy, well, there are not many who do that and yet this indeed is the truth; and with this one goes straight to the goal and never risks making mistakes. But all the other motives are always mixed, tainted with ego; and naturally they can lead you here and there, very far from the goal also.

But that kind of feeling that you have only one single reason for existence, one single goal, one single motive, the entire, perfect, complete consecration to the Divine to the point of not being able to distinguish yourself from Him any longer, to be Himself entirely, completely, totally without any personal reaction intervening, this is the ideal attitude; and besides, it is the only one which makes it possible for you to go forward in life and in the work, absolutely protected from everything and protected from yourself which is of all dangers the greatest for you.

The Mother

The Great Adventure – A Diary for All Times. Page 211.