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Namah Preparing and Opening the Being to the Higher Force

from the limitations of the ordinary personal “...That is why in this Yoga we insist always
mind, vital and physical and become aware on an “opening” — an opening inwards of the
of a wider consciousness in which you can be inner mind, vital, physical to the inmost part
more capable of the needed transformation. of us, the psychic, and an opening upwards to
But that is necessarily a matter of time and long what is above the mind — as indispensable for
working and you are only taking the first steps the fruits of the sadhana.
in this way (15).”
“The underlying reason for this is that this little
Continuing the long journey mind, vital and body which we call ourselves
is only a surface movement and not our ‘self’
at all. It is an external bit of personality put
forward for one brief life and for the play of
the Ignorance. It is equipped with an ignorant
mind stumbling about in search of fragments of
truth, an ignorant vital rushing about in search
of fragments of pleasure, an obscure and mostly
subconscious physical receiving the impacts of
things and suffering rather than possessing a
resultant pain or pleasure. All that is accepted
As we begin to become aware of ourselves as until the mind gets disgusted and starts looking
not just the limited person that we think we about for the real Truth of itself and things,
are, we can see that there is no end as if, to the vital gets disgusted and begins wondering
the letting go, knowings and the realisations, whether there is not such a thing as real bliss
and we can keep opening further and further and the physical gets tired and wants liberation
to the wideness and vastness of our infinite from itself and its pains and pleasures. Then it
True being. This journey of self-realisation is possible for this little ignorant bit of surface
or self-exploration is indeed an adventurous personality to get back to its real Self and with
one, which opens us up to true Delight, it to these greater things — or else to extinction
independent of the little wants and willings of itself, Nirvana. The real Self is not anywhere
of our ordinary life. on the surface but deep within and above.
Within is the soul supporting an inner mind,
We can open ourselves to a life that can inner vital, inner physical in which there is a
be lived in openness, vastness, receptivity, capacity for universal wideness and with it for
plasticity, force, love and light. This, it seems, the things now asked for, — direct contact with
is the best social service we can do for our the Truth of self and things, taste of a universal
own self and other beings and gives perhaps bliss, liberation from the imprisoned smallness
the best possible meaning to this precious and sufferings of the gross physical body (16).”
human life.
References
Let us conclude then this little initiation and
invocation with the uplifting words of Sri 1. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
Aurobindo: Volume 30. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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