A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
June 30, 2023

Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine

Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine
Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pg. 6


This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/unifying-the-entire-being-around-the-aspiration-for-the-divine/

0:01 A spiritual Seeker identifies with his aspiration and the focus and actions that come about as a result of that aspiration. It may be acts of prayer acts of giving acts of consecration acts of meditation or dedicated works. During the moments that he is engaged in these acts, he feels like the spiritual purpose of his life is being carried out. Yet when he turned to the other times of his life, the times when devotion and consecration are not at the very Forefront and he is asked to carry out the needs of living in the world of responding to the opportunities, pressures concerns and temptations of the external life. He often finds that he is carried away by desires. He experiences greed or jealousy? Or anger or lust, or any number of other feelings that reside in his untransformed and not yet transformed physical vital, or mental nature.

1:18 There are Tales of Yogi's who spend years in silent meditation in a cave or forest retreat who come into the world. At some point, they believe they have achieved Liberation and then they see an object of desire and give in to that Force. There are Tales of yogic practitioners who are enticed at some point by money wealth, fame or sex. The verdict is, that they are outright Hypocrites, but that may not be. In fact, the actual case somewhere within them there is a true aspiration, a true consecration, But they have not done the work of identifying modifying and unifying their entire nature around that aspiration.

2:11 So when the circumstances arise, the seeds of Desire Sprout and grow the mother writes quote, your being is full of innumerable, Tendencies at war with one another almost different personalities. We may say, When one of them gives itself to the Divine, the others come up and refuse their allegiance, we have not given ourselves. They cry and start clamoring for their independence and expression, then you bid them, be quiet and show them the truth patiently who have to go around your whole being exploring each Nook and Corner facing. All those anarchic elements in U, which are waiting for their Psychological moment to come up and it is only when you have made the entire round of your mental, vital and physical nature, persuaded everything to give itself to the Divine and thus achieved an absolute unified. Consecration that you put an end to your difficulties then indeed.

3:23 Yours is a glorious. Walk towards transformation for you. No longer go from Darkness to now. knowledge, but from knowledge to knowledge, light to light, happiness to happiness and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many selves practical yogic psychology chapter one, our manifold being paid six