In the path I find that the attention gets carried away to the disparities in Auroville almost mirroring the inner fragments – the question that came was – How to discern in the moment that which needs to be transformed and that which needs to be abolished within to grow closer to Thee🤔?

“… that part of humanity, of the human consciousness, capable of uniting with the Supermind and of liberating itself, will be completely transformed. This humanity is moving towards a future reality not yet expressed in its outer form. Whereas the part of humanity nearer to the simplicity of the animal or of Nature will be reabsorbed by Nature and entirely reassimilated. The possibility of a mental consciousness that allows for perversion—that makes mental perversion such an excruciating thing—will be abolished. It will disappear. These things will no longer be.” source: https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/february-1958-1#p2

Everything needs to be transformed and can be transformed. What we call as perversion is the distortion of a Truth. Let’s say physical pleasure which leads to so much perversion. It is because the body and senses do not know the right way and being under the spell of falsehood and ignorance run after objects moved by crude desires.

Now if we learn to refine desires and refuse gross pleasures by steadily applying the will, if we offer all that the senses transmit with an aspiration that they become conduits of Her Light and Beauty and Peace and Joy and of course keep invoking the Grace, then slowly they turn away from stale, rotten stuff and begin to feel a new rush of joy in them.

So it is the perversion arising due to forces of ignorance such as lust, greed, fear, anger, ambition, egoism, etc that has to be abolished thoroughly (tyaga) and not the activity or object. This inner rejection is preliminary to the transformation.

Affectionately,

Alok Da