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are on that side everything is very simple; you
understand, you know, you are, you live, and
then you see clearly the unreality of the rest,
and this is enough.

You see, one may have to wait for days, months,
years, centuries, lives, before this moment comes.
But if one intensifies his aspiration, there is a
moment when the pressure is so great and the
intensity of the question so strong that something
turns over in the consciousness, and then this sole reality, to turn within and get to know
is absolutely what one feels: instead of seeing the sole Reality. Without that, we may keep
from outside and seeking to see within, one is looking in darkness for God’s particle, and
inside; and the minute one is within, absolutely yet miss the God’s Light, which in the very
everything changes, completely, and all that first place is making us able to ‘look.’ There
seemed to him true, natural, normal, real, is something more concrete and real than
tangible, all that immediately, — yes it seems the particles that we look at. Let’s look at
to him very grotesque, very queer, very unreal, who’s looking.
quite absurd; but one has touched something
which is supremely true and eternally beautiful, References
and this one never loses again.
1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
Once the reversal has taken place, you can Volume 1. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
nd
glide into an external consciousness, not lose Ashram Trust: 2003, pp. 1-2.
the ordinary contact with the things of life, but
that remains and it never moves. You may, 2. Ibid., p. 20.
in your dealings with others, fall back a little
into their ignorance and blindness, but there 3. Ibid., p. 30
is always something there, living, standing
up within, which does not move anymore, 4. Ibid., p.38.
until it manages to penetrate everything, to
the point where it is over, where the blindness 5. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
disappears for ever. And this is an absolutely 19. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
tangible experience, something more concrete 1970, p. 857.
than a blow on your head, something more real
than anything whatever (7).” 6. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 9; 2003,
p. 430.
So, all that is needed of us is a humility to look
at the one who is looking. Rather than taking 7. The Mother. Collected Works , Volume 7; 2003,
the sense-objects and perceptions to be the p. 194.

Monica Gulati, a learner and a seeker, is based in Gurgaon, India and an editor of NAMAH.

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