Does more work, makes less fuss.
The lower vital aspires by offering all its
small movements in the fire of purification, by calling for the light and power
to descend into it and rid it of its little greed, jealousies, resistances and
revolts over small matters, angers, vanities, sexualities etc. to be replaced
by the right movements governed by selflessness, purity, obedience to the urge
of the Divine Force in all things.
***
It is evident that the lower vital has
received the Divine Consciousness when even in the small movements of life
there is an aspiration to the Divine, a reference as it were to the Divine
Light for guidance or some feeling of offering to the Divine or guidance by the
Divine. The lower vital commands the little details of emotion, impulse,
sensation, action—it is these that, when converted, it offers to the Divine
control for transformation.
***
Happiness in the
ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital with or without cause.
Contentment is less than happiness—joy of peace or being free from difficulty is
rather a state of joyful śānti.
Happiness ought not to be a state of self-satisfaction or inertia, and need not
be, for one can combine happiness and aspiration. Of course there can be a
state of happy inertia, but most people don’t remain satisfied with that long,
they begin to want something else. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a
happy calm immobility, but that is because the happiness is a form of Ananda
and in the immobility they feel the Self and its eternal calm and want nothing
more.
-
Sri Aurobindo
(CWSA, Volume 31, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)
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