{"id":117,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:02","slug":"34-the-delight-of-works-vol-16-the-supramental-manifestation-volume-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/16-the-supramental-manifestation-volume-16\/34-the-delight-of-works-vol-16-the-supramental-manifestation-volume-16","title":{"rendered":"-34_The Delight of Works.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nThe Delight of Works<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>I<\/span><\/b>N THY
\nworks there are always these three, the Master, the Worker and the Instrument.
\nTo define them in oneself rightly and rightly to possess them is the secret of
\nworks and of the delight of works.<\/p>\n

 
\n           
\n<\/span>Learn thou first to be the instrument of God and to accept thy Master.
\nThe instrument is this outward thing thou callest thyself; it is a mould of
\nmind, a driving force of power, a machinery of form, a thing full of springs and
\ncogs and clamps and devices. Call not this the Worker or the Master; it can
\nnever be the Worker or the Master. Accept thyself humbly, yet proudly,
\ndevotedly, submissively and joyfully as a divine instrument.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n           
\n<\/span>There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of
\nthe Master.\n<\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>Learn thou first absolutely to obey. The sword does not choose where it
\nshall strike, the arrow does not ask whither it shall be driven, the springs of
\nthe machine do not insist on the product that shall be turned out from its
\nlabour. These things are settled by the intention and working of Nature and the
\nmore the conscious instrument learns to feel and obey the pure and essential law
\nof its nature the sooner shall the work turned out become perfect and flawless.
\nSelf-choice by the nervous motive- power, revolt of the physical and mental tool
\ncan only mar the working.<\/p>\n

 
\n           
\n<\/span>Let thyself drive in the breath of God and be as a leaf in the tempest;
\nput thyself in His hand and be as the sword that strikes and the arrow that
\nleaps to its target. Let thy mind be as the spring of the machine, let thy force
\nbe as the shooting of a piston, let thy work be as the grinding and shaping
\ndescent of the steel on its object. Let thy speech be the clang of the hammer on
\nthe anvil and the moan of the engine in its labour and the cry of the trumpet
\nthat proclaims the force of God to the regions. In what- ever way do as an
\ninstrument the work that is natural to thee and appointed.\n<\/p>\n

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The sword has a joy in the
\nbattle-play, the arrow has a mirth in its hiss and its leaping, the earth has a
\nrapture in its dizzy whirl through space, the sun has the royal ecstasy of its
\nblazing splendours and its eternal motion. <\/p>\n

O thou self-conscious 
\n<\/span>instrument, take thou too the delight of thy own appointed workings.<\/p>\n

 
\n           
\n<\/span>The sword did not ask to be made, nor does it resist its user, nor lament
\nwhen it is broken. There is a joy of being made and a joy of being used and a
\njoy of being put aside and a joy too of being broken. That equal joy discover.\n<\/p>\n

             
\nBecause thou
\nhast mistaken the instrument for the worker and the master and because thou
\nseekest to choose by the ignorance of thy desire thy own state and thy own
\nprofit and thy own utility, therefore thou hast suffering and anguish and hast
\nmany times to be thrust into the red hell of the furnace and hast many times to
\nbe reborn and reshaped and retempered until thou shalt have learned thy human
\nlesson.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n And all these
\nthings are because they are in thy unfinished nature. For Nature is the worker
\nand what is it that she works at? She shapes out of her crude mind and life and
\nmatter a fully conscious being.\n<\/p>\n

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Know thyself next as the Worker.
\nUnderstand thy nature to be the worker and thy own nature and All-Nature to be
\nthyself.<\/p>\n

             
\nThis
\nnature-self is not proper to thee nor limited. Thy nature has made the sun and
\nthe systems, the earth and her creatures, thyself and thine and all thou art and
\nperceivest. It is thy friend and thine enemy, thy mother and thy devourer, thy
\nlover and thy torturer, the sister of thy soul and an alien and a stranger, thy
\njoy and thy sorrow, thy sin and thy virtue, thy strength and thy weakness, thy
\nknowledge and thy ignorance. And yet it is none of these things, but something
\nof which they are attempts and imperfect images. For beyond all these it is an
\noriginal self-know- ledge and an infinite force and innumerable quality.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n But in thee
\nthere is a special movement, a proper nature and an individual energy. Follow
\nthat like a widening river till it leads thee to its infinite source and origin.\n<\/p>\n

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Know therefore
\nthy body to be a knot in Matter and; thy mind to be a whirl in universal Mind
\nand thy life to be an eddy of life that is forever. Know thy force to be every
\nother being\u2019s force and thy knowledge to be a glimmer from the light that
\nbelongs to no man and thy works to be made for thee and be delivered from the
\nerror of thy personality.<\/p>\n

 
\n When that is
\ndone, thou shalt take thy free delight in the truth of thy individual being and
\nin thy strength and in thy glory and in thy beauty and in thy knowledge; and in
\nthe denial of these things thou shalt take delight also. For all this is the
\ndramatic mask of the Person and the self-image of the self-Sculptor.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n Why shouldst
\nthou limit thyself? Feel thyself also in the sword that strikes thee and the
\narms that embrace, in the blazing of the sun and the dance of the earth, in the
\nflight of the eagle and the song of the nightingale, in all that is past and all
\nthat is now and all that is pressing forward to become. For thou art infinite
\nand all this joy is possible to thee.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n The Worker has
\nthe joy of her works and the joy of her Lover for whom she works. She knows
\nherself to be his consciousness and his force, his knowledge and his reserving
\nof knowledge, his unity and his self-division, his infinity and the finite of
\nhis being. Know thyself also to be these things; take thou also the delight of
\nthy Lover.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n There are those
\nwho know themselves as a workshop or an instrument or the thing worked, but they
\nmistake the Worker for the Master; this too is an error. Those who fall into it
\ncan hardly arrive at her high, pure and perfect workings.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n The instrument
\nis finite in a personal image, the worker is universal with a personal trend,
\nbut neither of these is the Master, for neither are the true Person.\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Know last the Master to be
\nthyself; but to this self put no form and seek for it no definition of quality.
\nBe one with That in thy being, commune with That in thy consciousness, obey That
\nin thy force, be subject to That and clasped by it in thy delight, fulfil That
\nin thy life and body and mentality. Then<\/p>\n

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before an opening eye within
\nthee there shall emerge that true and only Person, thyself and not thyself, all
\nothers and more than all others, the Director and Enjoyer of thy works, the
\nMaster of the worker and the instrument, the Reveller and Trampler in the dance
\nof the universe and yet hushed and alone with thee in thy soul\u2019s silent and
\ninner chamber.<\/p>\n

             
\nThe joy of the
\nMaster possessed, there is nothing else for thee to conquer. For He shall give
\nthee Himself and all things and all creatures\u2019 gettings and havings and doings
\nand enjoyings for thy own proper portion, and He shall give thee that also which
\ncannot be portioned.\n<\/p>\n

 
\n Thou shalt
\ncontain in thy being thyself and all others and be that which is neither thyself
\nnor all others. Of works this is the consummation and the summit.\n<\/p>\n

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