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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 3, 15th October 2021

me restless and at times insane. I have lost you should choose; for here the realisation of
myself in the role, and forgotten my Truth. pure Consciousness and Being is only a first step
Now, the suffering I would feel being in and not the goal. But an inner creative urge from
that space is just a signal, to tell me about within can have no place in an undifferentiated
my mistaken identity. Suffering is trying to Consciousness — all action and creation must
tell me — Hey, you are not truly the villain, necessarily be foreign to it.
you are playing that role, you are the actor,
untouched, untarnished by the role you I do not base my Yoga on the insufficient ground
play, by the scenes you have enacted, by that the Self (not soul) is eternally free. That
the sins you may have committed. All that affirmation leads to nothing beyond itself, or,
is required for me to be rid of suffering is if used as a starting-point, it could equally well
the realisation of my Truth, realisation of who lead to the conclusion that action and creation
I truly am, realisation of my transcendental have no significance or value. The question is
Self beyond the roles I play. Say, I come back not that but of the meaning of creation, whether
home, and while I am stressed, I talk to a close there is a Supreme who is not merely a pure
friend and share with him the vicissitudes of undifferentiated Consciousness and Being, but the
my life. The friend just points to me, reminds source and support also of the dynamic energy
me, in my amnesia, in my forgetfulness, that of creation and whether the cosmic existence has
I am not the role I play. Yes, that too is my for It a significance and a value. That is a question
manifestation, my own expression, but that which cannot be settled by metaphysical logic
is not all of me. Mother says, we are much which deals in words and ideas, but by a spiritual
more than our experiences. experience which goes beyond Mind and enters
into spiritual realities. Each mind is satisfied with
I am still the untouched, pure actor behind its own reasoning, but for spiritual purposes that
the role. This remembrance of my true nature, satisfaction has no validity, except as an indication
this remembrance and realisation of my of how far and on what line each one is prepared
deeper truth, awakens me from the slumber to go in the field of spiritual experience. If your
of mistaken identity. And suddenly, I feel reasoning leads you towards the Shankara idea
liberated from the bondage of the story, of of the Supreme, that might be an indication that
the script, of the character of the role-play, the Vedanta Adwaita (Mayavada) is your way
liberation from the knot of ego, liberation of advance.
from the clutches of ego-consciousness.
This Yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence
Realisation of our true nature and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter
into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine
Realisation of our true nature is the first Supramental Consciousness in which action
step of Integral Yoga, as elaborated by Sri and creation are the expression not of ignorance
Aurobindo very clearly : and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light,
the Divine Ananda. But for that, surrender of
“If Shankara’s conception of the undifferentiated the mortal mind, life and body to that Higher
pure Consciousness as the Brahman is your Consciousness is indispensable, since it is too
view of it, then it is not the path of this Yoga that difficult for the mortal human being to pass by

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