Q: Sweet Mother, I would like to have the
explanation of a sentence. Sri Aurobindo has said somewhere, “Materially you
are nothing, spiritually you are everything.”?
A: The
Mother: That means that it is the Spirit, the
spiritual consciousness and the divine Presence which give to life all its
value, that without this spiritual consciousness and divine Presence life has
no value.
The same holds
true for the individual, whatever his material capacities and the material
conditions in which he lives, his only worth is that of the divine Presence and
the spiritual consciousness in him.
And so from the
point of view of the truth of things, a man who has no material possessions and
no remarkable capacities or possibilities, but who is conscious of his psychic
being and united with the Divine in him, is infinitely greater than a ruler
upon earth or a millionaire who possesses considerable material power but is
unconscious of his psychic being.
From the point
of view of the truth, it is like that. This is what Sri Aurobindo means; no
apparent and outer things have any true value. The only thing which is valuable
is the divine consciousness and union with the Spirit..
(CWM Volume
12, ‘On Education’, Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust 1978, Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry)
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