All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration. Sri Aurobindo

must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands it.

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      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.

      In Yoga also it is the Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary.

      The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender, –

      an aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing – the mind’s will, the heart’s seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature;

      rejection of the movements of the lower nature – rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind, – rejection of the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being, – rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine;

      surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti.

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      Words of the Mother

      If in man the seed of aspiration is watered with the true spirituality then he will grow into Divinity.

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      Words of the Mother

      To live within, in constant aspiration towards the Divine – that renders us capable of regarding life with a smile and remaining in peace whatever the external circumstances.

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      Words of the Mother

      When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal.

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      Words of the Mother

      Aspiration is always good, and if some demand is mixed up with it, you can be sure that it will not be granted.

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