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March 22, 2025

The Soul's Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation

The Soul's Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation
The Soul's Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Soul's Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 1, Looking at Life and Circumstances, pp.30-31This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/the-souls-aspiration-for-adherence-to-the-divine-will-in-manifestation/

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0:01 The most direct way to align oneself with the divine will is to treat the soul, the psychic being, as the standpoint from which the being takes its stance. This is not a mental analysis, a desire of the vital, or a physical need or impulsion. Rather, it takes the form of an aspiration, a prayer, a consecration which recognizes the Divine as the focus, driver and director of all one's actions. The Mother observes quote Every morning my aspiration rises ardently to Thee, and in the silence of my satisfied heart I ask that Thy law of love be may be expressed, that Thy will may manifest.

0:56 And in anticipation I adhere with joy and serenity to those circumstances which will express this law and this will. Oh, why be restless and want that for oneself things should turn out in one way and not another? Why decide that a particular set of circumstances will be the expression of the best possibilities, and then launch into a bitter struggle so that these possibilities may be realized? Why not use all one's energy solely to will, in the calm of inner confidence that thy law may triumph everywhere and always over all difficulties, all darkness, all egoism. How the horizon widens as soon as one learns to take this attitude.

1:54 How all anxiety vanishes, giving place to a constant illumination, to the omnipotence of disinterestedness to will. What Thou willest, O Lord, is to live constantly in communion with Thee, to be delivered from all contingencies, to escape all narrowness, to fill one's lungs with pure and wholesome air, to get rid of all useless weariness, be relieved of all cumbrous loads, so as to run briskly towards the only goal worth attaining the triumph of Thy Divine Law.

2:39 O Lord, with what joy and trust I greet Thee this morning. End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 1, Looking at Life and Circumstances, pages 30 to 31.