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    All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration: Aspiration - The Call for the Divine
    All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration: Aspiration - The Call for the Divine
    All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration: Aspiration - The Call for the Divine
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    All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration: Aspiration - The Call for the Divine

    By Sri Aurobindo and The (d.i. Mira Alfassa) Mother

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    "Aspiration is the call of the being for higher things – for the Divine, for all that belongs to the higher or Divine Consciousness." (Sri Aurobindo)

    This taste for supreme adventure is aspiration – an aspiration which takes hold of you completely and flings you, without calculation and without reserve and without a possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the divine discovery, the great adventure of the divine meeting, the yet greater adventure of the divine Realisation." (The Mother)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSri Aurobindo Digital Edition
    Release dateSep 23, 2019
    ISBN9783963870491
    All Life Is Yoga: Aspiration: Aspiration - The Call for the Divine

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      All Life Is Yoga - Sri Aurobindo

      ASPIRATION

      THE CALL FOR THE DIVINE

      Chapter I

      Aspiration and Rejection

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers....

      There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that still rule the earth-Nature....

      If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you.

      If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to install there the living Presence....

      If you call for the Truth and yet something in you chooses what is false, ignorant and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack and the Grace will recede from you. Detect first what is false or obscure in you and persistently reject it, then alone can you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you.

      Do not imagine that truth and falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to dwell together in the house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands

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