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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 3, 15th October 2023

This profound statement, uttered from the transformation of the human being. It is not
lips of two of the greatest yogis of all times, personal Ananda, but the bringing down of
Sri Krrssnna and Sri Aurobindo, are such the divine Ananda — Christ’s kingdom of
an antidote to the quarrel and fight we see heaven, our Satyayuga attracting us upward
in different religions over the superiority to Itself and securing from her by good grace
of one scripture over the other. The true or by force her consent to the individual
purpose of a scripture is not debating about ascension upon the earth. Of mokssa we have
it but in living it. Life is the mirror that no personal need; for the soul is nityamukta
reveals what we have understood about it. It and bondage is an illusion. We play at being
is the mirror that does not lie. The worth of bound but we are not really bound. We can
a man or the religion he professes does not be free when God wills; for he, our supreme
lie in a book or many books but in his way Self, is the master of the game, and without
of life, his approach towards circumstances, his grace and permission no soul can leave
his understanding about himself and others, the game. It is often God’s will in us to take
not only in terms of what one is but what through the mind the bhoga of ignorance, of
one can become with or without a scripture. the dualities, of joy and grief, of pleasure
The greatness of man is not so much in what and pain, of virtue and sin, of enjoyment
he is or in his systems of beliefs and ability and renunciation: for long ages, in many
to win in an argument and his belief systems countries, he never even thinks of the yoga
but in what he has faith in and wills to be. It but plays out this play century after century
is these two psychological powers, faith and without wearying of it. There is nothing evil
will, that determine what we can become. in this, nothing which we need condemn or
Where we may find ourselves presently in from which we need shrink, — it is God’s
terms of our constitution and capacities is play. The wise man is he who recognises this
the result of our past but what we yet can truth and knowing his freedom, yet plays
become is the result of our faith and will in out God’s play, waiting for his command to
ourselves, in our destiny and in the Divine change the methods of the game….
Power that moves all things. It is these two
central powers that all yoga utilises to the “The first process of the yoga is to make the
maximum to accelerate our evolution. sannkalpa of aatmasamarpana. Put yourself
with all your heart and all your strength into
The universal Path God’s hands. Make no conditions, ask for
nothing, not even for siddhi in the yoga, for
“The Yoga that we practise is not for nothing at all, except that in you and through
ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim you his will may be directly performed. To
is to work out the will of the Divine in the those who demand from him, God gives
world, to effect a spiritual transformation what they demand, but to those who give
and to bring down a divine nature and a themselves and demand nothing, he gives
divine life into the mental, vital and physical everything that they might otherwise have
nature and life of humanity. Its object is not asked or needed and in addition he gives
personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary himself and the spontaneous boons of his
condition of the yoga, but the liberation and love.

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