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Namah Transmuting the emotions

by detailed observation that more clarity comes. because humanity is just not ready. Love
When connected inside, in a relaxed, persistent as a force, as it exists on this planet, is still
and unhurried way, by scanning the body from uneasily split between opposing states. At
top to bottom and by disinterested enquiry, best, it persists in a tarnished way and gets
the face of knowledge invariably appears. traded between like-minded individuals. The
The answer surfaces always on the body. emotion is always prone to sink to the most
It’s an answer I can rarely put into words. depraved depths.
The Light defies all mental comprehension.
Sometimes though, a single word might The Mother distinguished frequently between
‘nail’ it entirely. One is working sometimes divine love and human love. I believe that love
through tangled and ill-lit domains; one can comes in many gradations. It is like a ladder
only endure and carry on and plough through reaching up to a sky of bliss. The demands are
all the confusion. Gradually the probe gets very high if one intends reaching the summit.
deeper and over time the light moves more Love, the positive, can easily get subtracted
downwards. To my eyes, the subconscious into a negative. So to rely solely on love for
is a vast region and one I should put aside a one’s passage of growth can be extremely
lifetime to resolve. Trust in the Mother and precarious indeed.
trust in the process is the key.
First of all, it needs to be grounded as much as
Love possible in the Truth to expand in a continuous
way. What we translate from love, along
The greatest contribution our emotions can with every other emotion, needs to be
make to growth and well-being is through the referred constantly back to this foundation. It
diffusion of love. Love heightens the being is the soil from which all our nobler feelings
and puts it on an entirely new frequency. But germinate and bloom. Secondly, it needs to
love is neither a sentiment nor an emotion. be broadened. It helps to extend it beyond our
It is an absolute and sovereign power. It is immediate periphery. Love is not something
a whole plane of consciousness, too rarefied we should just sprinkle on a selected handful.
to be absorbed by us in anything like an For most people this is probably too difficult;
entirety. The heart simply translates love being human, we cling to our chosen few.
into an emotion along with everything else Love is not really something we can switch
it processes. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on and off; it is a vibration we can aspire to
often used to say it was not time for the reign carry around continuously with us. There can
of Love to arrive. Truth had to consolidate be no surer way to well-being and emotional
fully first . Much time has passed since They contentment than this.
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were physically amongst us, but I don’t
believe the situation has changed much at Attachment
all. If anything, resistance has intensified.
This full power is holding itself still back If we don’t broaden our horizons there is a

1 1968 Message: “Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the
Divine Love. (3).”

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