Resumo de The Mother - Sri Aurobindo

The Mother. (Part-1).

Complete Surrender.

An aspiration, a craving from below asks and a supreme
Grace from above answers the eternal question. But
conditions of Light and Truth are the prerequisites for the
answer to come from top. Falsehood and ignorance act as
deterrent for the answers. There must be a total surrender
to the divine power to descend. Any deviation will drive
the divine Grace away. The gates to desires, egoistic
demands and vital insistences must be closed to allow
divine Grace to operate. One must reject the false
expectation that even surrender will be arranged. It must
be spontaneous. A distinction has to be made between inert
passivity and true surrender as the former keeps one
susceptible to bad influence while the later acts as a
shield.

Veil of Yoga Maya.

Anything that happens in this universe is through the
veiled Shakti (Power) of the divine, Yoga Maya, which is
shrouded with the veil that acts through the ego of humans.
So long as the lower nature is prevalent, personal efforts
are necessary. But what does an effort comprise of? There
are three parts integral to the effort. They are aspiration
that is the mind?s will, rejection ? which is shedding off
of desires and the third is complete surrender. As the
surrender progresses, the conscious process is replaced by
man?s own effort. It is important to remember that an
imperfect surrender is a deception and cannot bring the
desired result.

Grace of the Mother

To conduct oneself through the travails of life without any
fear only two things are required, the Grace of the Divine
Mother and an unflinching faith. The more complete is the
faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and
protection be with the person. The touch of grace can turn
difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and
weakness into unfaltering strength. The grace of the Divine
Mother is decreed, inevitable and irresistible for those
who can repose complete faith in Her.

Money

Money is an essential force. It is one of the vital three
that are power, wealth and sex. These have the strongest
appeal. But the problem with money is that its seekers or
keepers turn more possessed than possessors. Wealth should
be regarded as a power to be won back for the Mother and
placed at her services. Any perturbations of mind regarding
money and its use or any grievance regarding money are a
sure indication of some imperfection and bondage. One
should be impervious to poverty as much as to riches and
treat these as mere means of livelihood.

Perfection

An ideal doer of divine work must be free from all desire
and self-regarding ego. He must grow in the divine
consciousness till there is no difference between his will
and that of the Mother. There must be no attachment to the
work or result. The last stage of perfection will come when
the person will completely identify himself with the Divine
Mother as if there is no longer another separate being. The
man will feel that he has been formed out of her by her.
This is perfect synchronism ushering in flawless, luminous,
spontaneous outflow from the supreme.

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