Collection of Thoughts from Hindu Mystics - Part IV (standard:non fiction, 2552 words) [4/4] show all parts
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Collection of thoughts from Sri Aurobindo and Mother

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In its origin and in its true action, Money belongs to the Divine.
Conquer money for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for 
the Divine Life. Any perturbation of mind with regard to Money and its 
use, any claim, any grudging is a sure index of some imperfection 
bondage. 

All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are trustees not
possessors. 

WORK: 

If you want to be true doer of Divine works, there must be no demand for
fruits and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the 
pleasure of Divine and fulfillment of its work, your only reward, a 
constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and 
bliss. 

The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through work is the
sufficient re-compensation of selfless worker (This thought of 
Aurobindo and Mother are close to the description of a Karma-Yogi 
stated in Vedas). 

DIVINE LIFE 

If one wants to consecrate oneself to the Divine life, one must do it
truly, that is, give oneself entirely, no longer do anything for one's 
own interest, depend exclusively upon the Divine Power to which one 
abandons oneself. 

But in Yoga, one should no longer care for what people think or says, it
is absolutely indispensible starting point. You must be absolutely 
immune to what the world may say or think of you and to the way it 
treats you. 

When you act you only object is to serve, that is instead of acting for
your personal good, you act with the feeling of serving, or receiving 
the Divine Force, not from outside but from within you, 

Never seek satisfaction elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek
satisfaction of your needs in any one except the Divine, never, for 
anything at all. All your needs can be satisfied by the Divine. 

As soon as the little “I” comes in, that means a deformation and
degradation. In fact all that you do not value come with your “I”. You 
remove the “I” and all that disappears at the same time. (Sri Ramana 
Maharshi also discovered this truth through his yoga during the same 
time period.) 

Truly, a being who is very conscious, who is mentally, intellectually
very developed talks only when it is necessary. He does not utter 
useless words. 

To judge from appearances and apparent success is precisely an act of
complete ignorance. 

First one must become a conscious, well knit, individualized being, who
exists in himself, by himself, independently of all his surroundings, 
who can hear anything, read anything, see anything without changing. 

The fist condition is a healthy humility which makes you realize that
unless you are sustained, nourished, helped, enlightened, guided by the 
Divine, you are nothing at all. 

Inner growth is a process of conscious evolution also called Yoga. 

The normal state of consciousness is a state of continual disquiet and
agitation due to its constant distractibility and dispersion. As the 
consciousness grows, one becomes more and more aware of a deeper 
consciousness which is felt as a substratum of quiet and peace. The 
normal or ordinary consciousness is afflicted by the “pair of 
contraries” – heat and cold, pleasure and pain, attraction and 
repulsion, which are an inherent characteristics of physical, vital and 
mental nature. Therefore, ordinarily, consciousness is a more or less 
constant state of disturbance and disequilibrium. 

A fundamental characteristic of the normal consciousness is the sense of
being a separate self or ego, that is, of being an individual who 
exists a part from the rest of the universe. 

In contrast, the higher consciousness is unmoved, fixed or steady (in
Sanskrit language called Sthira.) 

Greater consciousness is unitary, universal and transpersonal, devoid of
separation and division. In super consciousness, one begins to feel 
others too as part of oneself or varied repetition of oneself. The 
higher perfection is the spiritual perfection, integral union with the 
Divine, identification with the Divine, freedom from all the limitation 
of the lower world. That is the spiritual perfection, the perfection 
that comes from Yoga. 

Psychology of Inner Growth 

In order to come out of the state of the original inconscience, desire
was indispensible. But once you are born into consciousness, the desire 
prevents you liberating yourself from the matter and rising to a higher 
consciousness. 

It is the same thing for the ego the self. In order to pass on to a
higher plane, one must exist, and to exist one must become a conscious, 
separate individual, and to become a conscious separate individual, the 
ego is indispensible. But once individual is formed, and if one wants 
to rise to a higher level and live a spiritual life, the limitation is 
ego and the worst obstacle and the ego must be surpassed in order to 
enter the true consciousness. 

It is through unconsciousness that the undivine forces enter into us and
make us their slaves. You are to be conscious of yourself. Once you are 
conscious, one can see which are the forces that pull down and which 
help you. 

Collective thought, collective suggestions are formidable influences
which act constantly on individual thought. To escape this there is but 
one means, that is to become conscious of oneself, more and more 
conscious. 

What is spirituality? Spirituality is not high intellectuality, not
idealism, not ethics or moral purity or austerity, not religiosity. 
Spirituality is in its essence an awakening to the inner realty of our 
being, to a spirit, self, soul which is other than mind, life and body. 


All Yoga is in its nature a new birth, it is birth out of the ordinary,
neutralized material like of man into a higher spiritual consciousness 
and a greater and divine being. 

The spiritual progress of most human beings demands an extraneous
support, an object of faith outside us. It needs an external image of 
God; or it needs a human representative: Incarnation, Prophet, or Guru. 
According to the need of human soul, the Divine manifests himself as 
deity. The Hindu discipline of spirituality provides for this need of 
the soul by the conception of the Ishta Devata, the Avatar and the 
Guru. Ishta Devata, the chosen deity is not a inferior Power but a name 
and form of the universal Godhead. 

To be moral from the social viewpoint, one has to pay good attention to
do nothing which is not approved by others, this may be somewhat 
difficult, but not impossible. To be pure from spiritual point of view, 
a vigilance, a consciousness, a sincerity that stands all tests. 

The first step in Karma yoga is to diminish and finally get rid of the
ego-centric position in works and principles of desire. All work done 
in an egoistic spirit, however good for the people of the world of the 
Ignorance, is of no avail to the seeker of the yoga. 

The capacity for enthusiasm which throws you out of your miserable and
mean little ego; and the generous gratitude, the generosity of the 
gratitude which also flings itself thanksgiving out of the little ego. 
These are the two most powerful levers that would allow to enter into 
contact with Divine in one's psychic being. This serves as link with 
the psychic being- the sure link. 

The sense of impossibilities is the beginning of all possibilities.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealized possible. 

Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an
instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that 
thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can 
become. This should be man's unshakable faith in himself. 

What is there new that we have yet to accomplish? Love, for as yet we
have only accomplished hatred and self-pleasing; Knowledge, for as yet 
we have only accomplished error and perception and conceiving; Bliss, 
for as yet we have only accomplished pleasure, pain and indifference; 
Power, for as yet we have only accomplished weakness and a defeat in 
victory; Life, for as yet we have only accomplished war and 
association. 

For what do we mean by Man? An uncreated and indestructible soul and has
housed itself in a mind and body made of its own elements. 

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with
his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our 
nature. 

Man is in love with the bonds of birth; therefore he is caught in the
companion bonds of death. In these chains he aspires after freedom of 
his being and mastery of his self-fulfillment. 

Man is in love with power; therefore he is subjected to weakness. World
is a sea of waves of force that meet and continually fling themselves 
on each other; he who would ride on the crest of one wave, must faint 
under the shock of hundreds. 

Man is in love with pleasure; therefore he must undergo the yoke of
grief and pain. 

Man hungers after calm, but he thirsts also for the experiences of a
restless mind and a troubled heart. For human mind, calm is an inertia 
and a monotony. 

Immortality, unity and freedom are in ourselves and await there for us
to discover. But, for the joy, love God in all of us. 

Those who are poor and ignorant are not common herd. The common herd are
all who are satisfied with pettiness and an average humanity. 

All would change if man could once consent to be spiritualized; but his
nature is rebellious to higher law. He loves his imperfections. 

The world knows three kinds of revolutions. The material has strong
results, the moral and intellectual are infinitely larger in their 
scope and richer in their fruits, but the spiritual are the great 
sowings. 

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased the light of
beauty, the largeness and height of human life. Christianity gave him 
some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble 
way to be wiser, gentler and purer. Judaism and Islam have shown how to 
be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God. 
Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profound spiritual 
possibilities. A great thing would be done if all these God-visions 
could embrace and cast themselves into each other, but intellectual 
dogma and cult-egoism stand in the way. 

All religions have saved a number of souls, but none yet has been able
to spiritualize mankind. For that there is needed not cult and creed, 
but a sustained and all-comprehending effort at spiritual 
self-evolution. 

The changes we see in the world today are intellectual, moral, and
physical in their ideal and intention: the spiritual revolution waits 
for its hour and throws up meanwhile its waves here and there. Until it 
comes, the interpretations of present happenings and forecast of man's 
future are vain things. 

The changes we see in the world today are intellectual, moral, and
physical in their ideal and intention: the spiritual revolution waits 
for its hour and throws up meanwhile its waves here and there. Until it 
comes, the interpretations of present happenings and forecast of man's 
future are vain things. 

Do not allow yourself to be grieved or discouraged. Human beings have
unfortunately the habit of being unkind to each other. But if you do 
work in all sincerity, the Mother will be satisfied and all the rest 
will come afterwards. 

You have to learn to live in yourself with the Mother, in contact with
her consciousness, and meet others only with your exterior surface. 

You must gather yourself within more firmly. If you disperse yourself
constantly, go out of the inner circle, you will constantly move about 
in the pettiness of the ordinary outer nature and under the influences 
to which it is open. Learn to live within and to act only from within. 

One cannot find happiness of a lasting character unless one lives
within. 

The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine 


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