Does it call us to participate through service, our everyday work, or in some other way? How can we recognize that an action is truly aligned with the Divine Will, rather than arising from our own ideas, emotions, or desire to do something meaningful? If we do not receive a clear inner indication, how should we act?
The final goal of the Integral Yoga is the transformation of human nature into the Divine Supernature.
It includes, as an indispensable first step, liberation from Ignorance through a progressive union of the individual soul with the Divine. It implies that the first focus should be to find the soul and through its door, the Divine within and in the world. Bhakti, Karmayoga, Meditation and Gyana are all means for this discovery. But the best and swiftest way is through works wherein the importance of becoming a channel and instrument of the Divine.
To become an instrument of the Divine means to open to the Divine Forces, the Divine Shakti embodied in the Divine Mother. The opening comes best through love and bhakti, inner remembrance of the Mother, offering our works, all works, to Her and do them in the spirit of nishkama karma. This means not to act under the impulsion of desire or be pushed by the ego.
It is only as one opens more and more to the Divine Mother through this inner process that She begins to transform our nature.
Act from the highest you can conceive at a given moment. Offer the action to the Divine Mother. Do not be attached to preferred results.
This, in nutshell is the basic process. The key lies in opening oneself to the Divine Mother with the psychic attitude. Here is what Sri Aurobindo himself has advised.
‘If one remains in full confidence in the Mother and psychically open, then the Mother’s force will do all and one has only to give consent and keep oneself open and aspire.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/receptivity-and-openness-to-the-mothers-force#p16)
‘By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work or sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the sadhana.’
(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/opening-to-the-mother-and-the-integral-yoga#p22)
Affectionately,
Alok da
