Re: Sri Aurobindo~What Sri Aurobindo represents I

http://barin.gaia.com — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:33:50 GMT

M. Alan has said 4 days back :

hi Barin

I know you are doing great work regarding Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's message; a message we both resonate to and which so few in the world of superficiality (including spiritually superficial as well as materially superficial) know about or show any interest in.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to contribute more, give feedback, etc, but i am busy with my own work, and there is only so much one can do, only so much energy one can commit, and i really need to dedicate more time to my own writing projects. So by not getting involved more or replying to your own extremely worthy messages and initiatives, it is not that I in anyway disagree with anything you say. In fact i agree 100%, and my spiritual path is the same as yours in this regard. But it is just that i need to give priority to writing projects of my own (which, like yours, are inspired by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother), and get more ficus (as it is i am much too disapated already!).

very best regards

alan

Re: Sri Aurobindo~What Sri Aurobindo represents I

http://barin.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:35:04 GMT

Yes, Sean, we are all playing part in this March towards the New World, in the next Evolution...

Barin

26-06-2006

Re: Sri Aurobindo~What Sri Aurobindo represents I

http://ocean.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:45:49 GMT

Keep it coming! :)

We're all paying a HUGE part in this... I'm thankful for and bless your contribution!

Sean (Rock n' Roll Love Ninja)

Peace Love Vision

www.sgclarke.com

Sri Aurobindo~What Sri Aurobindo represents I

http://barin.gaia.com — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:40:14 GMT

Sri Aurobindo :

What Sri Aurobindo represents I

What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's

history is not a teaching, not even a revelation ;

it is a decisive action, direct from the Supreme.

The Mother

Sri Aurobindo is The Leader of the next evolution.

He was the first Person to know and declare that the humanity must go beyond itself, that Man has to evolve beyond himself towards supermanhood, and then towards becoming supramental beings. That is the Will of the Supreme, that is the design of Nature, of what He has termed as Supernature.

Sri Aurobindo has said :

"Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and world-discovery, its half fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature."

While Matter is apparently Inconscient, evolution from Matter to Man is through Ignorance. Though Man has brought in more consciousness and knowledge in his evolution out of various forms of living beings, of Life, he is half-conscious, half-fulfilled, having some incomplete and insufficient and inconclusive knowledge, some more or less ineffective and superficial knowledge. Man has been evolved with Mind, is still being evolved with Mind, but what he carries with him as the Mind, is only a very small and miniature fragment the real principle of Mind, which the humanity as a whole has not yet evolved or used or even conscious of. The higher and deeper ranges of mind is touched and partly used only by a few, handful in numbers. However, these few human beings let us believe that transcendence of the present state is possible. Our endeavor for self-discovery and world-discovery is also only half-fulfilled, partial and inconclusive and insufficient. Our previous Leaders have led some, but the mass still gropes in darkness, and the followers have begun clashes and feuds and wars, and have the journey regressive and backward towards the primitive state of mind, though dressed and decorated with ornaments of modern superficialities.

Sri Aurobindo has said :

Inheritor of the brief animal mind,

Man, still a child in Nature's mighty hands,

In the succession of moments lives;

To a changing present is his narrow right,

His memory stares back at a phantom past,

The future flees before him as he moves;

He sees imagined garments, not a face."

- Savitri: Sri Aurobindo

We can see here how pitiable is our condition! We live only in moments, with an inherited ‘brief animal' mind. We do not know our past, nor do we know our future! And we are proud of this our human superiority!!

Sri Aurobindo further says:

"Armed with a limited precarious strength,

He saves his fruits of work from adverse chance.

A struggling ignorance is his wisdom's mate:

He waits to see the consequence of his acts,
He waits to weigh the certitude of his thoughts,
He knows not what he shall achieve or when;
He knows not whether at last he shall survive,
Or end like the mastodon and the sloth
And perish from the earth where he was king.
He is ignorant of the meaning of his life,
He is ignorant of his high and splendid fate."

- Savitri: Sri Aurobindo

How helpless in the hands of ‘chance' we are! Blessed with an incomplete and imperfect mental consciousness that Nature has bestowed on him, Man lives with Ignorance in all walks of his life and existence. He is uncertain about the results of his actions or about the certainty of his thoughts, of his future achievements and even about his own survival or his purpose on earth or his destiny.

Our history is filled with stories of our repeated bloodsheds and battles and massacres, along with two World Wars. And instead of loving our earth, we have divided and sub-divided and further subdivided it into smaller and smaller regions and fought against each other. We live thus backwards towards a regression.

We are not conscious that there is some higher aim and meaning for this our life. We live with our narrow egoistic choices and more or less selfish activities. WE do not want probe beyond our nose and most of the time shut up our eyes, outer and inner.

We spend our time in search of sensuous and gross satisfactions, not even caring for the well-being and health of our body and life and mind, not to speak of the unknown and unseen soul or psychic being or the Divine.

And we are not sure whether our activities would lead us to an extinction, like that of the Dinosaurs existed during the Mesozoic Era.

This is one side of the picture. The other side is somewhat hopeful. In spite of all the Darkness and Ignorance around us, we have, however, relentlessly endeavored to conquer the situation we are born in on this earth. The results are civilization, science, medicine, philosophy, arts, education, social and economic activities, religion, spirituality and yoga. Though we are imperfect in all our attempts, we have not given up. And to all our endeavors for more than last fifty millennia, the inner askesis and inner necessity and aspiration of the humankind has been answered by the Supreme with the New Possibility, with the New Hope, that Sri Aurobindo has brought for us.

We shall have to transcend ourselves and then transform ourselves, finally with the Light of the Supramental Consciousness. And this is to be done not only as single individuals, but collectively. We shall look into this later on.

In order to transcend and transform ourselves, we shall have to know ourselves, in details. We shall have to know all the parts of our beings and bring in the Light in all the realms of our being.

And for this, we should not have to forsake life and the Society and be recluses. Our aim is no more to merge ourselves into Nirvana, into the Absolute Brahman, relinquishing the earthly evolution and manifestation. We are to participate in the Manifestation of the Divine, of the Supermind here on earth. We no more need to escape into any Nihil or Brahman or Far-off Heaven, we will make this Abode of ours a Heaven, this Earth.

Let us see what Sri Aurobindo has said :

A heavenlier passion shall upheave men's lives,
Their mind shall share in the ineffable gleam,
Their heart shall feel the ecstasy and the fire.
Earth's bodies shall be conscious of a soul;
Mortality's bond slaves shall unloose their bonds,
Mere men into spiritual beings grow

And see awake the dumb divinity.
Intuitive beams shall touch the nature's peaks,
A revelation stir the nature's depths;
The Truth shall be the leader of their lives,
Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,
They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,
As if a little lower than the gods.

- Savitri: Sri Aurobindo

This is the luminous Future Sri Aurobindo has seen for us ! Mere men will grow into spiritual beings, and they will be freed from the slavery of darkness, ignorance, sufferings and death !! ‘Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act.'

[Continued]

Barin

25-06-06

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