Power
(Sri Aurobindo:) “Our confused and embarrassed ego-centred small-motived will and action must cease and make room for the total working of a swiftly powerful, lucidly automatic, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force.”[1]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “When I speak of feeling Force or Power, I do not mean simply having a vague sense of it, but feeling it concretely and consequently being able to direct it, manipulate it, watch its movement, be conscious of its mass and intensity and in the same way of that of other perhaps opposing forces; all these things are possible and usual by the development of Yoga.”[2]”
(Mother to Mona Sarkar following the cyclone of 1 May 1966:) “There is in man something which he always denies – it is the spiritual power. With this power he can become the master of the universe, he can conquer everything, become the master of Nature. This force is hidden within him but he does not want to take the trouble to find it. He is not even conscious of this enormous force which resides in him. I am sure that there is not one in a million who is conscious of this force. All the same, man has the key to know and to possess this spiritual force. But he is much too occupied with his material dreams; he wants to become something. He has need of so many things for his prosperity and so on... endlessly. This is because man does not want to know this great miracle of his inner existence. And each time Nature does something to show him his material insignificance, instead of turning within to find the answers he continues stupidly to make some scientific constructions to defy Nature. Each time Nature shows that this is not the way, yet each time he remains ignorant. Nature shows him that he is nothing, that all that he has done is nothing but a puff of air before the immensity of Nature. But man never understands. That is why I am telling you to find this spiritual force which resides there (indicating the heart) and which, moreover, has the key to all the mysteries of Nature. Find it. This is the work.”[3]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “There are Asuric Forces, rajasic Forces, all sorts of Forces. Apart from that one can use a mental or vital Force which may not be the right thing.”[4]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “A hidden Power is the true Lord and overruling Observer of our acts and only he knows through all the ignorance and perversion and deformation brought in by the ego their entire sense and ultimate purpose. There must be effected a complete transformation of our limited and distorted egoistic life and works into the large and direct outpouring of a greater divine Life, Will and Energy that now secretly supports us. This greater Will and Energy must be made conscious in us and master; no longer must it remain, as now, only a superconscious, upholding and permitting Force. There must be achieved an undistorted transmission through us of the all-wise purpose and process of a now hidden omniscient Power and omnipotent Knowledge which will turn into its pure, unobstructed, happily consenting and participating channel all our transmuted nature.”[5]
(Medhananda:) “In the early stages of his integral yoga Sri Aurobindo was still dreaming of contacting a power with which it would become possible, so to say, to impose the truth. At that time, the search for that power was his sole aim. In the end he found it, and he saw that aspiration was the number one power in the universe.”[6]
(Udar Pinto:) “Once I said to the Mother, in Her room on the second floor, that I knew very clearly that whenever She asked us to do something, She gave us the power and the means to do it. The Mother replied that it was exactly so. Then I said, “Mother, if you asked me to jump out of this window I would do it without a moment's hesitation as I know that if you asked me to do so, I will not fall but float in the air.” The Mother replied that surely it would be so and then I said, “Please ask me to jump, Mother! I want to do it now!” She laughed and said, “Wait till the right time and I will ask you.” So I am waiting.”[7]
- ↑ The Synthesis of Yoga, p.91, “Self-Surrender in Works – The Way of the Gita”
- ↑ Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.479
- ↑ Mona Sarkar, Throb of Nature: Conversations with the Mother on Flowers and Nature, p.105
- ↑ Ibid., p.487
- ↑ Ibid., p.92
- ↑ On the threshold of a new age with Medhananda, p.84
- ↑ “Udar Remembers”, The Golden Bridge (compilation), Auropublications, August 1978, p.101
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