Road to the Divine
Always long, apparently dry at times, but always abundant in its results.
Reveal, who know, the road that I must tread…
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri - II: The Entry into the Inner Countries
What I call "being on the path" is being in a state of consciousness in which only union with the Divine has any value—this union is the only thing worth living, the sole object of aspiration. Everything else has lost all value and is not worth seeking, so there is no longer any question of renouncing it because it is no longer an object of desire.
As long as union with the Divine is not the thing for which one lives, one is not yet on the path.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 21 April 1965
It is true that the path is very long, but for one who follows it with sincerity, it is really very interesting.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 16 March 1968
This is what we mean by "Divine": all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we have to manifest in light and joy, all the new and unknown splendours that have to be realised.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: "The Divine" and "Man"
Whatever we see of this Divine and fix our concentrated effort upon it, that we can become or grow into some kind of unity with it or at the lowest into tune and harmony with it. The old Upanishad put it trenchantly in its highest terms, "Whoever envisages it as the Existence becomes that existence and whoever envisages it as the Non-existence, becomes that non-existence;" so too it is with all else that we see of the Divine,—that, we may say, is at once the essential and the pragmatic truth of the Godhead. It is something beyond us which is indeed already within us, but which we as yet are not or are only initially in our human existence; but whatever of it we see, we can create or reveal in our conscious nature and being and can grow into it…
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Delight of the Divine
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