This divine possibility is not just a nirvanic silence but the full flowering of the Divine Nature, the Divine Qualities, the Divine Power, Divine Gnosis, Divine Peace and Bliss, in one word the Divine Perfection within us.
Spiritual life is likened to a New Birth, a birth out of the mental, vital, physical consciousness and its endless round of desires and ego and suffering into the psychic and spiritual life. It is also a shift of the center of one’s consciousness from the ego-self to the Divine.
Why did the soul get buried in the soil of earth nature full of dirt and slush and mud? An even greater question would be as to what really is the soil or Nature so to say.
Today's reflection is about the purpose of creation which is essentially a progressive manifestation of the divine through name and finite form so that the One may become Many in the highest sense of the phrase.
... All of his friends were connected with the Ashram but at that time he was not interested nor did he ever visit the Ashram. ... His friends came to his home for sumptuous dinners and whisky and sodas and “all kinds of things”, The Mother would say, “That Pinto fellow is spoiling my children and I will catch him one day.” “Finally, she did,” Udar said.
Creation is a mystery, one of the most fascinating mystery. The very fact that anything exists at all implies that there must be a Source of all this existence. It is this Source that is called God.
Aswapati experiences the nearness of the wonderful Presence of the Divine Mother who takes into Herself world and nature and soul. She is the key to resolving the enigma of the Night and the paradox of creation.
The Mother: “A world war may destroy civilisation, but it won’t destroy the Divine’s work. Sri Aurobindo once told me that he had so arranged things that nothing would interfere with his work.”
It is a place for meditation and for receiving the Vibration of the Truth which it emits. It is charged. The presence of Sri Aurobindo is palpably felt by one who is sincere.
A world of beauty and bliss awaits our discovery in the secret heart. This path of love climbs through the inmost heart and opens upon the supramental world passing through worlds of beauty and bliss.
A film, based on Sri Aurobindo's Independence Day Message of 15 August 1947. This video film illustrates five dreams from this message. Other texts by Sri Aurobindo are also used.