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Namah The Power of Japa and Affirmations

and organising. We are, therefore, forever Using our power well
employed, and we always have some or
other dusting to do within. In the beginning, I am affirming all the time. Can I use my power
when there are empty pockets of time, I can of affirmation to do some good for myself and
keep a check of the inner sanctuary, and keep the whole existence? We are all affirming, all
rejecting, cleaning, and constantly observing the time, and whatever we affirm, we begin
the inner space. If I am unconscious of the to shape ourselves into! What am I affirming
inner space, then by default only my old right now? Is it expanding, liberating? Or is
patterns have a free play and I am not really it suffocating and limiting? I can choose to
free, but a puppet of those blind patterns. cultivate expansion and openness of heart
and mind. I exercise a choice every moment.
“The unremembering hours repeat the old acts, If we consciously make a choice every time
Our dead past round our future’s ankles clings possible, then, we can make this very world
And drags back the new nature’s glorious stride, a better place for ourselves and others.
Or from its buried corpse old ghosts arise,
Old thoughts, old longings, dead passions live “But, also, the law of right action is a choice, the
again…. (5)” preference of that which expresses the godhead
to that which conceals it. And the choice entails
“You must keep the temple clean if you wish a battle, a struggle. It is not easily made, it is
to install there the living Presence (6).” not easily enforced (7).”

Cultivating a good time pass Right now, if the world doesn’t appear to
be a better place, then we have to know that
When we begin to become, in relative degrees, each one of us, including me, is responsible
more conscious of our inner space, we take for that manifestation. Let us manifest
charge of that inner space, we can now something better, in us, and around us. Let
develop a loftier time-pass for ourselves, us have a simple, uncomplicated good heart,
something that is uplifting and expanding. If and an open, supple and vast mind.
I see myself affirming something or the other
in my head, I can choose — what do I want References
to affirm right now?
1. [Online] Available from:https://thegiftofcancer.
I am believing in all the images in my head wordpress.com/blog/ [Accessed 29 April 2024].
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about myself and situations, and others —
what good are they serving me? Can I choose 2. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
to let them go? Can I choose to do a Japa Volume 5. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
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instead, of any form or name of the Divine Ashram Trust; 1998, p. 386-87.
that resonates with me? Or to think as the
Mother says, that the world will be a better 3. Conversations with Sri Aurobindo by Pavitra (Auro
place, and people will be good, etc. and to e-books); conversation of 20 December,1925.
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pray and visualise that there is peace and
happiness, and progress everywhere? 4. The Mother. The Collected Works, Volume 5, p. 382.

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