If
you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be
totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an
offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to
serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine
Shakti in her works. You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no
motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action
in you and through you.
Until
you are capable of this complete dynamic identification, you have to regard
yourself as a soul and body created for her service, one who does all for her
sake. Even if the idea of the separate worker is strong in you and you feel
that it is you who do the act, yet it must be done for her. All stress of
egoistic choice, all hankering after personal profit, all stipulation of
self-regarding desire must be extirpated from the nature. There must be no
demand for fruit and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the
pleasure of the Divine Mother and the fulfillment or her work, your only reward
a constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and bliss.
The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient
recompense of the selfless worker.
But
a time will come when you will feel more and more that you are the instrument
and not the worker. For first by the force of your devotion your contact with
the Divine Mother will become so intimate that at all times you will have only
to concentrate and to put everything into her hands to have her present
guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indication of the thing to be
done and the way to do it and the result. And afterwards you will realise that
the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out
your works; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers,
mind, life and body are conscious and joyful instruments of her action, means
for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe. There can
be no mere happy condition than this union and dependence; for this step
carries you back beyond the border-line from the life of stress and suffering
in the ignorance into the truth of your spiritual being, into its deep peace
and its intense Ananda.
While
this transformation is being done it is more than ever necessary to keep
yourself free from all taint of the perversions of the ego. Let no demand or
insistence creep into stain the purity of the self-giving and the sacrifice.
There must be no attachment to the work or the result, no laying down of
conditions, no claim to possess the Power that should possess you, no pride of
the instrument, no vanity or arrogance. Nothing in the mind or in the vital or
physical parts should be suffered to distort to its own use or seize for its
own personal and separate satisfaction the greatness of the forces that are
acting through you. Let your faith, your sincerity, your purity of aspiration
be absolute and pervasive of all the planes and layers of the being; then every
disturbing element and distorting influence will progressively fall away from
your nature.
The
last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with
the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being,
instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her
consciousness and force. Always she will be in you and you in her; it will be
your constant, simple and natural experience that all your thought and seeing
and action, your very breathing or moving come from her and are hers. You will
know and see and feel that you are a person and power formed by her out of
herself, put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her, being of her
being, consciousness of her consciousness, force of her force, ananda of her
Ananda. When this condition is entire and her supramental energies can freely
move you, then you will be perfect in divine works; knowledge, will, action
will become sure, simple, luminous, spontaneous, flawless, an outflow from the
Supreme, a divine movement of the Eternal.
SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM
PONDICHERRY
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