“…all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of spirit revivifying the dead and dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life.”

Sri Aurobindo

CWSA/23 The Synthesis of Yoga-p-5

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            The Mother insisted⁵¹ that if writing related to Spiritual truth has to inspire a wider dimension for a long period, it must descend from the very high impersonal and universal plane and must be received by the intellect without the least distortion. For a swiftly evolving developed Soul, all new descent of Knowledge will be obsolete after some time. So, he has to shift his consciousness from mutable time to an immutable timeless state where eternal wisdom is constantly renovated by fresh instreaming knowledge. Again, in the immutable timeless state, there are hierarchies of ascending Consciousness and truth descended from one plane of Consciousness necessitates change when one ascends still higher ranges of Consciousness. ‘The knowledge comes from above like the light and peace and everything else…it comes from a higher and higher level.’¹³¹ All these higher activities of Intuitions are ‘first manifested in the mind itself as descents, irruptions, messages or revelations of a superior power.’¹²³ A Spiritual knowledge from above begins to pour ‘in waves and currents’¹³⁰ and it descends ‘frequently, constantly, then uninterruptedly, and to manifest in the mind’s quietude or silence; intuitions and inspirations, revelations born of a greater sight, a higher truth and wisdom, enter into the being, a luminous intuitive discrimination works which dispels all darkness of understanding or dazzling confusions, puts all in order…’¹³⁰ The Synthesis of Yoga book discourages Sadhaka’s inscription and exceptional oration of ‘the examples of outward acts...of personal⁴¹ character;’²⁵ proposes that to relinquish though ‘these have their place and their utility;’²⁵ but his writings can most stimulate others’ aspiration if he can focus on ‘the central fact of the divine realisation within him governing his whole life and inner state and all his activities.’²⁵ Thus ‘he becomes a light and power of the Truth to which he has climbed and a means for others’ ascension.’⁸⁰ His writing must reproduce the creative and developing part of his own plastic Being which may descend from above as a word, a message, a voice of the Self,⁶³ vani, adesh, instead of an inadequate intellectual thought, ‘repetitive word’⁵³ and ‘an imitation from outside.’²⁵ If the feeling of emotion, thought-power and will-force expressed through the word is entirely purified to recognise intuition, then the power of lonely thought ‘reverses the whole order of the mind’s thinking’⁶⁴ and it rises towards knowledge by identity, Omnipotence, Omniscience and the preservation of the Brahman consciousness. The thought of the intuitive mind proceeds wholly by four powers¹²² that shape the form of the written truth, (1) (truth-touch) an intuition that suggests its idea in the form of the descended word, a direct and illumining inner idea of truth, a bright memory of self-existent truth, (2) (truth-discrimination) an intuition that sets the truth-idea in its right place and exact relation of truth to truth; it discriminates Soul slaying truth and Soul saving truth and rejects the former, (3) (truth-hearing, pratykhya-shruti) an inspiration that brings in its voice of truth word and something of its greater substance, brief lightning lighting up many dark provinces and (4) (truth-sight, pratykhya-dristi ) an inner vision, a revelation that shapes to the sight its very face and body of reality.

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            If the restatement of Their Impersonal and Universalised Teaching or written truth is cast rightly through calling down of fresh immortal thought, then the combined wisdom of past and present descended truths can awake new future immensities and the unfinished integral Yoga can move ahead. If a Power from the chamber of the Soul has interfered, inspired, guided and commanded at every step and in every detail, then he can discover the true Mantra of life or the ‘sole timeless Word.’²⁶ ‘It is as if the eye of the poet and artist had replaced the vague or trivial unseeing normal vision, but singularly spiritualised and glorified, — as if indeed it were the sight of the supreme divine Poet and Artist in which we were participating and there were given to us the full seeing of his truth and intention in his design of the universe and of each thing in the universe.’¹¹⁸

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            A Psychic opening can transform every thought into ‘a sweet burning god’¹²⁹ and every feeling into ‘Eternal’s mighty child.’¹²⁹ A touch of Spiritual or Overmental Truth can immortalise⁹⁰ the momentary actions, thoughts and emotions. By a touch of Supreme Sunlight, a childlike immature thought can richly turn into ‘luminous patterns of’⁵⁷ Soul’s deep truth. Or ‘Even the youngest child-thought of the mind’⁸⁷ can incarnate ‘some touch of highest things.’⁸⁷ Supreme words can pour into the plastic language with Light, Power and Force and this can be easily and freely done by rare gifted Soul whose intellect is completely pacified, separation is affected between intuitive and intellectual elements of thought and physical consciousness, sense organs and mind have been sufficiently purified. The Mother pointed out that all future books carrying the Supreme vibration are ‘not a teaching, not even a revelation’⁴⁷ but they must convey the forceful message and feeling of decisive and ‘formidable action coming direct from the Supreme.’⁴⁷ The Mother further defined that a book carrying the Supreme vibration would be simple and all-embracing and ‘any fool could read it like a story and feel perfectly satisfied – and he wouldn’t even notice it taking hold of him inside and changing him.’⁸⁹

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            It appears that the Mother was not interested in preserving the knowledge⁴⁸ that descended to Her from the Supramental plane but rather She was keen to carry out the mighty Supramental action that could drag ahead the Divine race. If any action has the Supramental support, then even a small beginning moves towards ‘a mighty end’⁷⁸ or ‘In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks…(and) It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.’¹²³ And if writing is limited to teaching only then one can draw profit from it ‘if it is lived while it is being given;’⁵³ and if writing is a descent from the Supreme plane like ‘flame-wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word’⁷⁹ then ‘the glory of its thoughts’⁹⁵ and ‘the grandeur of its dreams’⁹⁵ will ‘never die’⁹⁶ and ‘glow through the centuries’⁹⁶ and 'the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.'⁸⁹ The greatest utility of self-expression and self-fulfillment either through writing or through oration is to utilise it as a means of movement of the ascent of the Soul to travel ‘beyond the world’⁸⁸ and descent of Divine Shakti to ‘save the world.’⁸⁸ The Synthesis of Yoga book proposes that a Sadhak’s action, writing and feeling must be ‘virginally creative at each moment.’¹³²

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OM TAT SAT
 

References are available in the book ‘The Mother’s Manifestation’ (Released on occasion of Sri Prapatti's Birth Centenary, 30.04.2024 (page-260).

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