We must always be ready to abandon the past (as well as desire) and accept more light and truth. The faith of the heart will pass into knowledge; the spirit is omnipotent. Reject any mere intellectual skeptism. A constant faith is indispensable.
Category: Spirituality
Savitri's parents bring her back to the wild forest to marry Satyavan. Her past receded and her future neared. Savitri put behind all her life and welcomed all that would be his life and hers. So close to death, apart with love, she lived for love alone.
Selections par Gangalakshmi 284
Weekly selections of Sri Aruobindo and The Mother by GangaLakshmi in French. Thiw week we have Sri Aurobindo Savitri, Livre VI, Chant Deux Les Voices du Destin, Les Voies du Destin.
Soul faith is indispensable to the action of the being. Without it man cannot move a single pace in life, much less take any step forward. Whatever he has the faith to see as possible in himself and strive for, that he can create and become.
If we go outside time and space we return to the Unmainfest. To be victorious over the world's misery, corruption and falsehood - much harder to do - we need the Supramental Consciousness, the endless Delight which is power, endurance and supreme courage.
"O man, the events that meet thee on thy road, though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief, are not thy fate,- they touch thee awhile and pass: even death can cut not short thy spirit's walk: thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate."
Surrender of ourself to the Shakti is actually a form of real self-surrender to the Divine. ... All our consciousness is his consciousness ... finally there is only the conscious activity in us of the Divine.
Selections par Gangalakshmi 283
Weekly selections of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by Gangalakshmi in French. This week: Sri Aurobindo Savitri, Livre VI, Chnat Deux - Les Voices du Destin et le Pourquoi la Douleur.
Attaining quiet and equanimity decreases all difficulties as we come to comprehend the necessity of a genuine and complete surrender of ourselves to the divine Master.
We have to become aware of the divine Shakti, draw her to us, call her in to fill the whole system, ... she will fill us, preside over us, take up all our inner activities, our outer life, our Yoga.