The talks and readings only strengthen this Aspiration. But the understanding comes only if they have the Inner Thirst. Also I feel, since this yoga is already commenced by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, wherever one may be, even if they don’t know Sri Aurobindo or The Mother; still if they have love and longing to serve the Divine, they will be shown the Way Within their heart, which will eventually connect them to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Force, whether they know Them or not. People will be taken into the Integral yoga by the Supramental Consciousness directly. I think that the Evolution will become automatic, like Daksha Prajapathi started Human Srishti. Am I right in my thoughts?
Yes, your thoughts are flowing in quite the right direction. Copying something from the Mother which resonates.
‘If one can be like this, open—truly open in a simplicity… you know, the simplicity of ignorance that knows it’s ignorant… like this (gesture, hands open), ready to receive all that comes… then, perhaps, something will happen.
Naturally, the thirst for progress, the thirst to know, the thirst to transform yourself, and above all the thirst for Love and Truth—if you can keep that, then you go faster. Really a thirst, a need, you know, a need…. All the rest doesn’t matter, what you need is THAT.
(silence)
To cling to what you think you know, to cling to what you feel, to cling to what you like, to cling to your habits, to cling to your so-called needs, to cling to the world as it is, that’s what binds you hand and foot. You must undo all that, one thing after the other. Undo all the bonds.
This has been said thousands of times, but people go on doing the same thing…. Even those who are, you know, very eloquent, who preach this to others, they CLING—they cling to their own way of seeing, their own way of feeling, their own habit of progress, which to them is the only possible one.
No more bonds—free, free, free, free! Always ready to change everything, except ONE thing: to aspire. That thirst.
I quite understand: some people don’t like the idea of a “Divine” because it immediately gets mixed up with all the European or Western conceptions (which are dreadful), and so it makes their lives a little bit more complicated—but we don’t need that! The “something” we need, the Perfection we need, the Light we need, the Love we need, the Truth we need, the supreme Perfection we need—and that’s all. The formulas… the fewer the formulas, the better. A need, a need, a need… that THE Thing alone can satisfy, nothing else, no half measure. That alone. And then, move on! Move on! Your path will be your path, it doesn’t matter; any path, any path whatever, even the follies of today’s American youth can be a path, it doesn’t matter.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-7-1964#p41)
Affectionately,
Alok Da
