Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Courage required in the Spiritual Evolution

Sri Aurobindo
The work of the seeker is therefore not so much a negative work of scouring the Subconscient, as a positive one of calling down the Light; he precipitates down the vibrations of the Future to accelerate the cleansing process; the depth cease to be the depths.

The conditions of the age of Truth may seem severe - the perilous descent into the Inconscient, the battle against the Shadow, the ominous Death. But have we not risked our lives for more futile endeavours? Man's greatness is not in what he is, but in what he makes possible.
If we conquer here, we conquer everywhere, we are the deliverers of the dead, we are the deliverers of life.
By becoming conscious, each of us becomes a builder of heaven and redeemer of the earth.

Our shadows and declines are always the gestation of a greater light, which needed to descend in order to break the limits, through an excess of light or an excess of shadow; but the one precipitates our darkness into the light dissolves it, while the other precipitates the light into our darkness and transmute it.
The one delivers a few individuals, while the others liberates the whole earth.

It is not our materialism that is the bronze door ; but it is the huge spiritual carapace under which we have buried the Spirit.

The real device of the devil is not to lay hold of falsehood or hatred and sow them throughout the world - he is much to clever for that. - but to lay hold of a bit of true truth and to twist it a little. Nothing is harder than perveted truth: the falsehood inherits all the power of the truth it imprisons. We have been told again and again that salvation is in heaven - and that is true, there is no salvation for man so long as he has his nose buried in Matter.

His salvation is in the superconscious heaven and we probably need to be preached heaven so as to be pulled out of our first evolutionary matrix, animal and economic - but that is only a first stage evolution, which we unfortunately has turned into a final goal, as hard as stone. And now this goal is turning against us. We have denied the Divinity in Matter to confine it in our holy places.
We have swing from one pole to the other - from material enjoyment to spiritual austerity, without ever finding our plenitude.
We have replaced true power with devices and true wisdom with dogmas. This the reign of the gnomes, on every plane. And it will continue, unless we give up those mortifying half truths, from above or below and plunge into the true source, Within to recoverr the pratical secret of the Spirit in Matter.

Humanity has to descend the dark curve of the age of reason and religions, so that all grown human beings may recover the Secret in themselves, and the light everywhere, under all the darkness, all the misery, all the pettiness, instead of a high brazier in some Vedic or Iranian sanctuary.

We are at the beginning of Time.
The course of evolution is not to shoot up, increasingly sublime and dissolving, it is spiral : It is NOT a tortuous path leading us back, a little battered, to the starting point : it is, on the contrary, to teach the whole creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the greatness n perpetual development of being. Then everything has being.

Soul - Thanks for giving me back my faith. For a time before yoga kriya, I thought I was back to square 1.

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