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to listening to my kids argue without getting 2. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri
triggered. As Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri: Aurobindo, Volume 31. Pondicherry: Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust; 2014. p. 456.
“Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage
For through small joys and griefs thou mov’st 3. Ibid., p. 450.
towards God (7).”
4. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 30; 2014
I need not fall back into unconscious patterns p. 17.
and reactions that can take me a few steps
a
a
behind in my sadhana, but continue to strive 5. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 7, p. 67.
for wakeful communion with the Mother in the
daily pilgrimage of my life. Such a regression 6. Kalsched, D. [Online] Trauma and the Informed
doesn’t have to be full of self-recrimination Heart, This Jungian Life podcast. August 25,
— only a realisation that I haven’t been 2022. Available from: https://thisjungianlife.
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of myself, a determination and will not to get February 2025].
caught up in the lower movements again.
In order to get back to that place where the 7. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works, Volume 33-34;
things of my life flow from above with ease 1997, p. 451.
and grace, an effort is required to reject the
habitual circuitry.

That is the herculean effort of saadhanaa. But
when the dreams are quite clear, when you
can feel the sense of victorious progress
happening within them, that is a very good
motivation to keep your days awake,
centred on the Divine, detached from
stress and drama and with the continuous
knowledge that, beyond this life, this very
meaningful yet also quite ephemeral human
action, is the permanent Eternal, of which
we immutably belong to.

References

1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
Volume 7. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
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Ashram Trust, 2003, p. 70.

Jenny Gillespie Mason is a writer and musician, who is devoted to the path of Integral Yoga. She lives
with her family in northern California.

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