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has specialised. the ego-individuality and the temporary
personality built by nature for one brief life.
This may be fine with those looking for a A luminous vastness, a stable permanence is
door of escape, but it is certainly not for the felt behind the flux and flow of nature. But
one engaged in the Yoga of transformation. there are also unique aspects of relationship
The seeker on the path of an integral yoga is with the Divine. After all, the world was
called upon to discover the Divine everywhere not created for sameness. Unity in diversity
and in everything. Not only is he to discover, and not unity in uniformity is the purpose
but also to express, to eventually manifest of existence.
the Divine in each and every activity. Surely
the first contact with the Divine may be It is here that there is a great need for caution.
conditioned by our unique constitution, When we force or impose one aspect of the
faith and approach. That is why we Divine, either as the highest or worse still as
see that there are differences even among the only exclusive truth of the Divine, then
those who have realised the Divine in one we open the doors to fanaticism and bigotry.
aspect or the other. There are common Even with regard to the Guru in whom the
elements of the life-changing experience, a ancient traditions demand absolute fidelity
reversal of consciousness which completely should not be turned into a war of sects and
changes our way of looking, understanding cults to prove one’s Master as the highest
and responding to life. The contact with or the only one. It is this narrowness which
the Divine in any of His many aspects turns a great truth into dangerous falsehood.
invariably brings a deep inner peace and The great truth is that one must see the
a state of felicity. It is often accompanied Supreme in one’s Master and be faithful and
by an opening to the doors of knowledge surrendered to him. The dangerous falsehood
that transcend our ordinary reason. One is to want all others to believe that your
is freed from the false identification of Master is the sole Representative of God
and the one and only human image of the
Supreme. The revelation of the Supreme in
a human form is an inner truth which can
easily turn into falsehood by misapplying
this into a doctrine to be imposed formally
and through outer means. It is what turns
spiritual teaching into a formal organised
religion that traps the human soul into fixed
belief systems from which an escape in one
life is often difficult.

References

1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri
Aurobindo, Volume 23. Pondicherry: Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust; 1999, pp. 5-6.

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