(Flame of
Aspiration - A flame that illuminates but does not burns)
Aspiration is like an arrow.... So you
aspire, you want very earnestly to understand, to know, to enter into the
Truth. Yes? And then with that aspiration you do this (gesture upwards). Your
aspiration rises, rises, rises, rises straight up, very strong and then it
strikes against a kind of— how to put it? — a lid which is there, hard like
iron and extremely thick, and it does not pass through. And then you say,
"See, what's the use of aspiring? It brings nothing at all. I meet with
something hard and cannot pass!" But you know about the drop of water
which falls on the rock, it ends up by making a chasm: it cuts the rock from
top to bottom. Your aspiration is a drop of water which, instead of falling,
rises . . . and when it makes the hole suddenly it springs up out of this lid
and enters an immensity of light.
(Aspiration in the Physical – Manifold, simple and joyous)
When I speak of aspiration in the physical I mean that the very
consciousness in you which hankers after material comfort and well-being should
of itself without being compelled by the higher parts of your nature, ask
exclusively for the Divine’s Love. Usually you have to show it the Light by
means of your higher parts; surely this has to be done persistently, otherwise
the physical would never learn and it would take Nature’s common round of ages
before it learns by itself. Indeed the round of Nature is intended to show it
all possible sorts of satisfactions and by exhausting them convince it that
none of them can really satisfy it and that what it is at bottom seeking is a
divine satisfaction. In Yoga we hasten this slow process of Nature and insist
on the physical consciousness seeing the truth and learning and to recognise
and want it.
(Excerpts from ‘Flowers and their Messages’, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry)
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