What is required on one birthday and always is to be simple as a new born child who has complete trust in the Divine Mother.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
Yoga is about the growing contact, closeness and eventually change of our consciousness by a progressive union with the Divine.
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It is religions that teach fatalism, not yoga. Yoga frees us from fatalism and the fixed scroll of destiny and its wheels under which we find ourselves perpetually crushed.
While Sri Aurobindo didn’t ask disciples to regard themselves as his equals or anything of the sort, at the same time he did not specifically instruct them in a set of dos and don'ts with regard to their relation with him.
Our errors are needed steps upon the evolutionary journey and our repeated mistakes are like exercises to strengthen our will.
All our worship, whether direct or indirect goes to the Supreme whose sanction is there behind the action of the gods.
One of the first things that awakens through yoga is the flame of discernment which is a faculty higher than reason. Its light separates the true from the false, reality from appearances and masks.
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It is only by the progressive awakening of the Body's consciousness to the higher divine forces that it can eventually escape the law and need of illness.