A Prayer of Aspiration, Consecration and Peaceful Receptivity to the Divine Impulsion in Life

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As long as we focus on outer
circumstances and involve

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ourselves in them, we are
participating in what some have

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called the illusory life of the
world.

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The world is not illusory in an
ultimate sense, since it is a

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manifestation of the divine
consciousness, but it is

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illusory in the sense that
achievement of specific societal

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goals or objectives is an end in
itself.

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The more we are fixated on these
external actions and their

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fruits, the less we are able to
aspire.

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Shift the focus toward the
divine and be receptive to the

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divine impulsion that has its
own intention in the

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manifestation in general and in
the individual role in

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particular.
Once an individual is able to

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shift the standpoint to the
psychic being, it is able to

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focus upon the higher vibratory
pattern of the divine

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consciousness, and all external
worldly events take on a lesser

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significance.
They represent at that point the

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residue of past actions, both
individual and within.

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The setting and time within
which the individual lives in

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acts and the facts they present
are the result of those past

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impulsions.
The individual then has choices

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before him, but none of them
need destroy the foundation of

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peace that the spiritual seeker
is cultivating.

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He can either disregard them
entirely and focus fully on

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spiritual aspiration, or he can
try to address the circumstances

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with his ego, personality and
the tools he has at his disposal

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in his mind.
Vital and physical being.

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Or he can call upon the Divine
to guide and lead him to an

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appropriate line of action in
regard to what is occurring.

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To the extent that he can
maintain peace and receptivity,

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he has a better opportunity to
tune himself to the larger

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Divine manifestation and its
action, and thereby both

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understand his role in the
process and the best means he

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can adopt to accomplish that
function.

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The Mother's prayer embodies the
aspiration to become a true

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servitor of that higher truth
and become a true doer of divine

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works.
She embodies aspiration,

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consecration, peace, and
receptivity.

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In the prayer she expresses
here, the Mother writes Quote, O

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Lord, my one aspiration is to
know Thee and serve Thee better

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every day.
What do outer circumstances

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matter?
They seem to me each day more

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vain and illusory, and I take
less and less interest in what

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is going to happen to us in the
outer life.

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But more and more am I intensely
interested in the one thing

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which seems important to me, to
know the better in order to

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serve the better.
All outer events must converge

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upon this goal and this goal
alone, and for that all depends

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upon the attitude we have
towards them.

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To seek Thee constantly in all
things, to want to manifest Thee

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ever better in every
circumstance.

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In this attitude lies supreme
peace, perfect serenity, true

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contentment.
In it, life blossoms, widens,

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expands so magnificently in such
majestic waves that no storm can

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any longer disturb it.
O Lord, Thou art our safeguard,

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our only happiness.
Thou art our resplendent light,

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our pure love, our hope and our
strength.

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Thou art our life, the reality
of our being.

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In a reverent and joyful
adoration.

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I bow to thee.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother, Looking from Within,

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Chapter 1, Looking at Life and
Circumstances, pages 31 to 32.