The Mother reads Her New Year Message and Sri Aurobindo's letters. A slide show produced by University of Human Unity in 2009, based on The Mother's photographs and Her voice, recorded at the Playground on Dec. 31, 1954.
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“No human will can finally prevail against the Divine’s Will. Let us put ourselves
deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is
ultimately certain.”
Now I shall read to you two questions which were asked and Sri Aurobindo’s answers.
It’s not that the questions express a very high state of mind, but I am afraid many
people let themselves fall into this kind of mental state. And so I think the answers
will be very useful to many people also.
Here’s the first question:
“It seems to me that the number of people in the world accepting the truth of
our Yoga of Transformation would not be as large as those who accepted
Buddhism, Vedanta or Christianity.”
Here is Sri Aurobindo’s answer. Notice his humour. I draw your attention to his humour.
“Nothing depends on the number. The numbers of Buddhism or Christianity
were so great because the majority professed it as a creed without its making
the least difference to their external life.
“If the new consciousness were satisfied with that, it could also and much
more easily command homage and acceptance by the whole earth. It is because
it is a greater consciousness, the Truth Consciousness, that it will insist on a
real change.”1
The second one:
“You have said that the aim of our Yoga is to rise beyond the Nirvana, but in
the Ashram there are extremely few who have reached or have tried to reach
even the Nirvana. To reach even the Nirvana one has to give up ego and
desire. Could it be said that even a few sadhaks in the Ashram have succeeded
in doing so? Surely everybody must be making some effort to do this. Why then
are they not successful? Is it that after some effort they forget the aim and live
here as in ordinary life?”
The answer:
“I suppose if the Nirvana aim had been put before them, more would have
been fit for it, for the Nirvana aim is easier than the one we have put before us
- and they would not have found it so difficult to reach the standard. The
sadhaks here are of all kinds and in all stages. But the real difficulty even for
those who have progressed is with the external man. Even among those who
follow the old ideal, the external man of the sadhak remains almost the same
even after they have attained to something. The inner being gets free, the outer
follows still its fixed nature. Our Yoga can succeed only if the external man too
changes, but that is the most difficult of all things. It is only by a change of the
physical nature that it can be done, by a descent of the highest light into this
lowest part of Nature. It is here that the struggle is going on. The internal
being of most of the sadhaks here, however imperfect still, is still different from
that of the ordinary man, but the external still clings to its old ways, manners,
habits. Many do not seem even to have awakened to the necessity of a change.
It is when this is realised and done, that the Yoga will produce its full results in
the Ashram itself, and not before.”
[Russian translation can be found here: • Голос Матери: Её посла... ]
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