Otherwise, will the body perish? What was The Mother’s Consciousness? Sri Aurobindo’s Consciousness? Are they always in Divine Consciousness?
Finding the soul or the Divine does not inevitably lead to a constant living in the Divine. Much depends also on what one means by the Divine, for there are many ways, levels and statuses of the Divine. Unless one has found the Divine in His totality, samagram mam, as the Gita says, the contact is anyways limited and conditioned by the approach and the discovery. It is only as the contact grows stronger and there is this clear identification with the Divine that one starts living in the Divine. If the goal be personal Mukti, then this is enough. But if one wants to participate in the Divine Manifestation upon earth, then the mind, body cannot be ignored and neglected. These are the instruments of the soul. A writer or a musician may have all the inner knowledge of music, but it will be perfectly useless for the world if they have no knowledge of languages or cannot speak or write. Being attached to the body is one thing, and trying to make it a beautiful and perfect instrument of the Divine is quite another.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
