"Transfigured are the fixed schemes of reasoning thought, arousing consciousness in things inert". Mother explains how our use of reason creates our world and why we should get beyond it. She speaks of the need to have true Will to have real power in life.
Tag: Spiritual Teaching
Tamas will become a divine calm; rajas a sheer Will of the spirit; sattwa becomes the self-existent light of the divine being, jyotih. The integral perfection will aim at this greatest triune unity.
Fate - Must fire always test the great of soul ? Savitri tells her parents she has chosen to marry Satyavan. They worry that this marriage has an adverse fate. Narad, the all-knowing Divine Messenger says no cry or prayer can turn Savitri from her path.
To be at one with God is to be at one with oneself, the universe and all beings. ... the secret of a right and divine existence.
Control of oneself means the mastery of certain vibrations. Control of others means transmitting that vibration to another and replacing the bad vibration with the true vibration. A successful teacher has to be a yogi, a saint, and a hero.
The positive sense of freedom is to be universal in soul ... one in spirit with God ... one with him in the law of our being; this is the integral freedom of the spirit.
Narad, the Divine Messenger speaks of Savitri's beauty, changed by love. He shows that he knows what has happened to her and what will happen to her. He gives a covert warning of doom. The King asks for the blessing of a sorrowless life for his daughter.
Spirit is infinite and in the spirit all is true, but nothing in the mind can give the whole truth of the spirit.
Mother's Q And A, 7/11/56, 7/14/56, Part 1
Mother explains that the thoughts we believe are ours have their origin in a region much higher than universal mind and individual mind. They are carried into our mind by the action of universal mind. Mother also speaks on conquering the need for approval.
What we are physically is a soul asleep in matter, partially wakened, of a body pervaded by external consciousness, attentive to outward impacts of the external world ...in which we try to develop our conscious being.