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Namah Neutrally positive positively neutral

ego ruling? Yet, this is the call to reach the a quiet, calm and silent mind, and as is the
Goal… and in the journey, the very surrender Biblical exhortation, “Be still and know that
becomes thus the Goal too, holding the key, I am God” (13)?
holding one to the “central will”.
That is, as much can the words describe, what
A Positive without any negative do we ascribe to the Divine, the Opposite-less
Positivity and Neutrality, Its non-judgmental
But as the flash stated that the nucleus is akin nature?
to the Centre, and though cannot explain
the experienced truth in it, it is followed by Present themselves these words, tumble
those queries which, too, couldn’t ignore or in sequence, arranging and rearranging
challenge, though interestingly, they in no themselves, joyously and yet tentatively:
way challenged the flash! Simply prompted The Nucleus, the Centre, akin to the combination
and prompts an exploration. of proton and neutron (with electrons being our
varied thoughts, emotions, feelings, words, actions,
The Divine, the Absolute, has no duality. So and varying according to the orbit, the layer and level
but if it is likened to the positively charged nucleus, of consciousness), could be hailed as ‘Neutrally
it is bound to have a negative counterpart. But Positive, Positively Neutral’.
the Divine is bound to nothing, the relative not
Its ‘relative’. The Mother soothes that Truth is found in
diversity and not in uniformity. “The truth
Anything positive is deemed as the attribute of is neither in separation nor in uniformity. The
the Divine, positivity accessed and embodied truth is in unity manifesting through diversity
divinity redeemed, the Realisation calling for (14).”
the moment-to-moment living of the Divine’s
attributes, solely identifying with and finding The Nucleus is neutral and is Positive without
one’s identity in the Divine through absolute a negative. This cannot be denied. So is
surrender. it with the atom — its nucleus formed of
neutral neutron and positive proton! As to
“If man surrenders totally to the Divine, he whether these words that describe the Centre,
identifies himself with the Divine (12).” ‘Neutrally Positive, Positively Neutral’, are
only intellectual reflection and reception or
So, ‘logically’ and essentially, all that is negative intuitive, one cannot definitely vouch and as
is undivine. But nothing exists which is counsels Sri Aurobindo, that can be discerned
not the Divine — could be the distorted, only when the Light is invoked and sheds
misinterpreted, ignorant and misrepresented Itself on it.
expression of the Divine, as and through the
Inconscient. Then, this Centre — our Nucleus, “In the first place we have seen that intellectual
the Positive without any polar counterpart thought is in itself inadequate and is not the
— how do we describe It, which calls to highest thinking; the highest is that which
equanimity, and call the Mother and Sri comes through the intuitive mind and from
Aurobindo to be ever “vigilant”, having the supramental faculty. So long as we are

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