retain and thus being unburdened of everything- it wins all.
The wind coming from over the infinite ocean touches it!
In this investiture of fleshly life A soul that is a spark of God survives . And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine. Savitri, Book 11, Canto V
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Monday, November 17, 2008
the ascetic
retain and thus being unburdened of everything- it wins all.
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Let us be that.
"...For at the gates of the Transcendent stands that mere and perfect Spirit described in the Upanishads, luminous, pure, sustaining the world but inactive in it, without sinews of energy, without flaw of duality, without scar of division, unique, identical, ... the pure Self of the Adwaitins, the inactive Brahman, the transcendent Silence. And the mind when it passes those gates suddenly,...receives a sense of the unreality of the world and the sole reality of the Silence which is one of the most powerful and convincing experiences of which the human mind is capable. Here ... we have the starting- point for a second negation - ...the refusal of the ascetic.
...As we have seen how greatly Materialism has served the ends of the Divine, so we must acknowledge the still greater services rendered by Asceticism to Life."
Sri Aurobindo
The Life Divine
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