{"id":1210,"date":"2013-07-13T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:33:17","slug":"21-the-perfection-of-equality-vol-21-the-synthesis-of-yoga-volume-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/21-the-synthesis-of-yoga-volume-21\/21-the-perfection-of-equality-vol-21-the-synthesis-of-yoga-volume-21","title":{"rendered":"-21_The Perfection of Equality.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span>Chapter XI<\/span><\/font><\/b><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;<\/font><b><font size=\"4\"><span>The<br \/>\nPerfection of Equality<\/span><\/font><\/b><b><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:1in;line-height:150%'><b><font size=\"4\">T<\/font><\/b><font size=\"2\">HE<\/font><br \/>\nvery first necessity for spiritual perfection is a perfect equality. Perfection<br \/>\nin the sense in which we use it in Yoga, means a growth out of a lower undivine<br \/>\ninto a higher divine nature. In terms of knowledge it is a putting on the being<br \/>\nof the higher self and a casting away of the darker broken lower self or a<br \/>\ntransforming of our imperfect state into the rounded luminous fullness of our<br \/>\nreal and spiritual personality. In terms of devotion and adoration it is a<br \/>\ngrowing into a likeness of the nature or the law of the being of the Divine, to<br \/>\nbe united with whom we aspire, \u2013 for if there is not this likeness, this<br \/>\noneness of the law of the being, unity between that transcending and universal<br \/>\nand this individual spirit is not possible. The supreme divine nature is<br \/>\nfounded on equality. This affirmation is true of it whether we look on the<br \/>\nSupreme Being as a pure silent Self and Spirit or as the divine Master of<br \/>\ncosmic existence. The pure Self is equal, unmoved, the witness in an impartial peace<br \/>\nof all the happenings and relations of cosmic existence. While it is not averse<br \/>\nto them, \u2013 aversion is not equality, nor, if that were the attitude of the Self<br \/>\nto cosmic existence, could the universe come at all into being or proceed upon<br \/>\nits cycles, \u2013 a detachment, the calm of an equal regard, a superiority to the<br \/>\nreactions which trouble and are the disabling weakness of the soul involved in<br \/>\noutward nature, are the very substance of the silent <span class=\"SpellE\">Infinite&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\npurity and the condition of its impartial assent and support to the many-sided<br \/>\nmovement of the universe. But in that power too of the Supreme which governs<br \/>\nand develops these motions, the same equality is a basic condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>The Master of<br \/>\nthings cannot be affected or troubled by the reactions of things; if he were,<br \/>\nhe would be subject to them, not master, not free to develop them according to<br \/>\nhis sovereign will and wisdom and according to the inner truth and necessity of&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 671<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>what is behind their relations,<br \/>\nbut obliged rather to act according to the claim of temporary accident and<br \/>\nphenomenon. The truth of all things is in the calm of their depths, not in the<br \/>\nshifting inconstant wave form on the surface. The supreme conscious Being in<br \/>\nhis divine knowledge and will and love governs their evolution \u2013 to our<br \/>\nignorance so often a cruel confusion and distraction \u2013 from these depths and is<br \/>\nnot troubled by the clamour of the surface. The divine nature does not share in<br \/>\nour <span class=\"SpellE\">gropings<\/span> and our passions; when we speak of the<br \/>\ndivine wrath or favour or of God suffering in man, we are using a human<br \/>\nlanguage which mistranslates the inner significance of the movement we <span class=\"SpellE\">characterise<\/span>. We see something of the real truth of them<br \/>\nwhen we rise out of the phenomenal mind into the heights of the spiritual<br \/>\nbeing. For then we perceive that whether in the silence of self or in its<br \/>\naction in the cosmos, the Divine is always Sachchidananda, an infinite<br \/>\nexistence, an infinite consciousness and self-founded power of conscious being,<br \/>\nan infinite bliss in all his existence. We ourselves begin to dwell in an equal<br \/>\nlight, strength, joy \u2013 the psychological rendering of the divine knowledge,<br \/>\nwill and delight in self and things which are the active universal outpourings<br \/>\nfrom those infinite sources. In the strength of that light, power and joy a secret<br \/>\nself and spirit within us accepts and transforms always into food of its<br \/>\nperfect experience the dual letters of the mind&#8217;s transcript of life, and if<br \/>\nthere were not the hidden greater existence even now within us, we could not<br \/>\nbear the pressure of the universal force or subsist in this great and dangerous<br \/>\nworld. A perfect equality of our spirit and nature is a means by which we can<br \/>\nmove back from the troubled and ignorant outer consciousness into this inner<br \/>\nkingdom of heaven and possess the spirit&#8217;s eternal kingdoms, <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>r&#257;jyam<\/i><\/span><i> <span class=\"SpellE\">sam&#343;ddham<\/span><\/i>,<br \/>\nof greatness, joy and peace. That self-elevation to the divine nature is the<br \/>\ncomplete fruit and the whole occasion of the discipline of equality demanded<br \/>\nfrom us by the self-perfecting aim in Yoga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>A perfect<br \/>\nequality and peace of the soul is indispensable to change the whole substance<br \/>\nof our being into substance of the self out of its present stuff of troubled<br \/>\nmentality. It is equally indispensable if we aspire to replace our present<br \/>\nconfused and ignorant action by the self-possessed and luminous works of a<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 672<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>free spirit governing its nature<br \/>\nand in tune with universal being. A divine action or even a perfect human<br \/>\naction is impossible if we have not equality of spirit and an equality in the motive-forces<br \/>\nof our nature. The Divine is equal to all, an impartial sustainer of his<br \/>\nuniverse, who views all with equal eyes, assents to the law of developing being<br \/>\nwhich he has brought out of the depths of his existence, tolerates what has to<br \/>\nbe tolerated, depresses what has to be depressed, raises what has to be raised,<br \/>\ncreates, sustains and destroys with a perfect and equal understanding of all<br \/>\ncauses and results and working out of the spiritual and pragmatic meaning of<br \/>\nall phenomena. God does not create in obedience to any troubled passion of<br \/>\ndesire or maintain and preserve through an attachment of partial preference or<br \/>\ndestroy in a fury of wrath, disgust or aversion. The Divine deals with great<br \/>\nand small, just and unjust, ignorant and wise as the Self of all who, deeply<br \/>\nintimate and one with the being, leads all according to their nature and need with<br \/>\na perfect understanding, power and justness of proportion. But through it all<br \/>\nhe moves things according to his large aim in the cycles and draws the soul<br \/>\nupward in the evolution through its apparent progress and retrogression towards<br \/>\nthe higher and ever higher development which is the sense of the cosmic urge.<br \/>\nThe self-perfecting individual who seeks to be one in will with the Divine and<br \/>\nmake his nature an instrument of the divine purpose, must enlarge himself out<br \/>\nof the egoistic and partial views and motives of the human ignorance and mould<br \/>\nhimself into an image of this supreme equality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>This equal<br \/>\npoise in action is especially necessary for the sadhaka of the integral Yoga.<br \/>\nFirst, he must acquire that equal assent and understanding which will respond<br \/>\nto the law of the divine action without trying to impose on it a partial will<br \/>\nand the violent claim of a personal aspiration. A wise impersonality, a<br \/>\nquiescent equality, a universality which sees all things as the manifestations<br \/>\nof the Divine, the one Existence, is not angry, troubled, impatient with the<br \/>\nway of things or on the other hand excited, over-eager and precipitate, but<br \/>\nsees that the law must be obeyed and the pace of time respected, observes and<br \/>\nunderstands with sympathy the actuality of things and beings, but looks also<br \/>\nbehind the present appearance to their inner significances and <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 673<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>forward to the unrolling of their<br \/>\ndivine possibilities, is the first thing demanded of those who would do works<br \/>\nas the perfect instruments of the Divine. But this impersonal acquiescence is<br \/>\nonly the basis. Man is the instrument of an evolution which wears at first the<br \/>\nmask of a struggle, but grows more and more into its truer and deeper sense of<br \/>\na constant wise adjustment and must take on in a rising scale the deepest truth<br \/>\nand significance \u2013 now only underlying the adjustment and struggle \u2013 of a<br \/>\nuniversal harmony. The perfected human soul must always be an instrument for<br \/>\nthe hastening of the ways of this evolution. For that a divine power acting<br \/>\nwith the royalty of the divine will in it must be in whatever degree present in<br \/>\nthe nature. But to be accomplished and permanent, steadfast in action, truly<br \/>\ndivine, it has to proceed on the basis of a spiritual equality, a calm,<br \/>\nimpersonal and equal self-identification with all beings, an understanding of<br \/>\nall energies. The Divine acts with a mighty power in the myriad workings of the<br \/>\nuniverse, but with the supporting light and force of an imperturbable oneness,<br \/>\nfreedom and peace. That must be the type of the perfected soul&#8217;s divine works.<br \/>\nAnd equality is the condition of the being which makes possible this changed<br \/>\nspirit in the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>But even a<br \/>\nhuman perfection cannot dispense with equality as one of its chief elements and<br \/>\neven its essential atmosphere. The aim of a human perfection must include, if<br \/>\nit is to deserve the name, two things, self-mastery and a mastery of the<br \/>\nsurroundings; it must seek for them in the greatest degree of these powers<br \/>\nwhich is at all attainable by our human nature. Man&#8217;s urge of self-perfection<br \/>\nis to be, in the ancient language, <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>svar&#257;&#355;<\/i><\/span> and <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>samr&#257;&#355;<\/i><\/span>, self-ruler and king. But to be self-ruler<br \/>\nis not possible for him if he is subject to the attack of the lower nature, to<br \/>\nthe turbulence of grief and joy, to the violent touches of pleasure and pain,<br \/>\nto the tumult of his emotions and passions, to the bondage of his personal<br \/>\nlikings and <span class=\"SpellE\">dislikings<\/span>, to the strong chains of<br \/>\ndesire and attachment, to the narrowness of a personal and emotionally<br \/>\npreferential judgment and opinion, to all the hundred touches of his egoism and<br \/>\nits pursuing stamp on his thought, feeling and action. All these things are the<br \/>\nslavery to the lower self which the greater \u201cI\u201d in man must put under his feet<br \/>\nif he is to be king of his own<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 674<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>nature. To surmount them is the<br \/>\ncondition of self-rule; but of that surmounting again equality is the condition<br \/>\nand the essence of the movement. To be quite free from all these things, \u2013 if<br \/>\npossible, or at least to be master of and superior to them, \u2013 is equality.<br \/>\nFarther, one who is not self-ruler, cannot be master of his surroundings. The knowledge,<br \/>\nthe will, the harmony which is necessary for this outward mastery, can come<br \/>\nonly as a crown of the inward conquest. It belongs to the self-possessing soul<br \/>\nand mind which follows with a disinterested equality the Truth, the Right, the universal<br \/>\nLargeness to which alone this mastery is possible, \u2013 following always the great<br \/>\nideal they present to our imperfection while it understands and makes a full<br \/>\nallowance too for all that seems to conflict with them and stand in the way of<br \/>\ntheir manifestation. This rule is true even on the levels of our actual human<br \/>\nmentality, where we can only get a limited perfection. But the ideal of Yoga<br \/>\ntakes up this aim of Swarajya and Samrajya and puts it on the larger spiritual<br \/>\nbasis. There it gets its full power, opens to the diviner degrees of the<br \/>\nspirit; for it is by oneness with the Infinite, by a spiritual power acting<br \/>\nupon finite things, that some highest integral perfection of our being and<br \/>\nnature finds its own native foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>A perfect<br \/>\nequality not only of the self, but in the nature is a condition of the Yoga of<br \/>\nself-perfection. The first obvious step to it will be the conquest of our<br \/>\nemotional and vital being, for here are the sources of greatest trouble, the<br \/>\nmost rampant forces of inequality and subjection, the most insistent claim of<br \/>\nour imperfection. The equality of these parts of our nature comes by<br \/>\npurification and freedom. We might say that equality is the very sign of<br \/>\nliberation. To be free from the domination of the urge of vital desire and the<br \/>\nstormy mastery of the soul by the passions is to have a calm and equal heart<br \/>\nand a life-principle governed by the large and even view of a universal spirit.<br \/>\nDesire is the impurity of the Prana, the life-principle, and its chain of<br \/>\nbondage. A free Prana means a content and satisfied life-soul which fronts the<br \/>\ncontact of outward things without desire and receives them with an equal<br \/>\nresponse; delivered, uplifted above the servile duality of liking and<br \/>\ndisliking, indifferent to the urgings of pleasure and pain, not excited by the<br \/>\npleasant, not troubled and overpowered<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 675<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>by the unpleasant, not clinging with<br \/>\nattachment to the touches it prefers or violently repelling those for which it<br \/>\nhas an aversion, it will be opened to a greater system of values of experience.<br \/>\nAll that comes to it from the world with menace or with solicitation, it will<br \/>\nrefer to the higher principles, to a reason and heart in touch with or changed<br \/>\nby the light and calm joy of the spirit. Thus quieted, mastered by the spirit<br \/>\nand no longer trying to impose its own mastery on the deeper and finer soul in<br \/>\nus, this life-soul will be itself spiritualised and work as a clear and noble<br \/>\ninstrument of the diviner dealings of the spirit with things. There is no question<br \/>\nhere of an ascetic killing of the life-impulse and its native utilities and<br \/>\nfunctions; not its killing is demanded, but its transformation. The function of<br \/>\nthe Prana is enjoyment, but the real enjoyment of existence is an inward<br \/>\nspiritual Ananda, not partial and troubled like that of our vital, emotional or<br \/>\nmental pleasure, degraded as they are now by the predominance of the physical<br \/>\nmind, but universal, profound, a massed concentration of spiritual bliss<br \/>\npossessed in a calm ecstasy of self and all existence. Possession is its<br \/>\nfunction, by possession comes the soul&#8217;s enjoyment of things, but this is the<br \/>\nreal possession, a thing large and inward, not dependent on the outward seizing<br \/>\nwhich makes us subject to what we seize. All outward possession and enjoyment<br \/>\nwill be only an occasion of a satisfied and equal play of the spiritual Ananda<br \/>\nwith the forms and phenomena of its own world-being. The egoistic possession,<br \/>\nthe making things our own in the sense of the ego&#8217;s claim on God and beings and<br \/>\nthe world, <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>parigraha<\/i><\/span>,<br \/>\nmust be renounced in order that this greater thing, this large, universal and perfect<br \/>\nlife, may come. <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>Tyaktena<\/i><\/span><i> <span class=\"SpellE\">bhu\u00f1j&#299;th&#257;h<\/span><\/i>,<br \/>\nby renouncing the egoistic sense of desire and possession, the soul enjoys divinely<br \/>\nits self and the universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>A free heart is<br \/>\nsimilarly a heart delivered from the gusts and storms of the affections and the<br \/>\npassions; the assailing touch of grief, wrath, hatred, fear, inequality of<br \/>\nlove, trouble of joy, pain of sorrow fall away from the equal heart, and leave<br \/>\nit a thing large, calm, equal, luminous, divine. These things are not incumbent<br \/>\non the essential nature of our being, but the creations of the present make of<br \/>\nour outward active mental and vital nature and its transactions with its<br \/>\nsurroundings. The ego-sense which in-&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 676<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span class=\"SpellE\">duces<\/span> us<br \/>\nto act as separate beings who make their isolated claim and experience the test<br \/>\nof the values of the universe, is responsible for these aberrations. When we<br \/>\nlive in unity with the Divine in ourselves and the spirit of the universe,<br \/>\nthese imperfections fall away from us and disappear in the calm and equal<br \/>\nstrength and delight of the inner spiritual existence. Always that is within us<br \/>\nand transforms the outward touches before they reach it by a passage through a<br \/>\nsubliminal psychic soul in us which is the hidden instrument of its delight of<br \/>\nbeing. By equality of the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on<br \/>\nthe surface, open the gates of this profounder being, bring out its responses<br \/>\nand impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A<br \/>\nfree, happy, equal and all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is the outcome<br \/>\nof this perfection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>In this<br \/>\nperfection too there is no question of a severe ascetic insensibility, an aloof<br \/>\nspiritual indifference or a strained rugged austerity of self-suppression. This<br \/>\nis not a killing of the emotional nature but a transformation. All that<br \/>\npresents itself here in our outward nature in perverse or imperfect forms has a<br \/>\nsignificance and utility which come out when we get back to the greater truth<br \/>\nof divine being. Love will be not destroyed, but perfected, enlarged to its<br \/>\nwidest capacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture, the love of God, the love<br \/>\nof man, the love of all things as ourselves and as beings and powers of the<br \/>\nDivine; a large, universal love, not at all incapable of various relation, will<br \/>\nreplace the clamant, egoistic, self-regarding love of little joys and griefs<br \/>\nand insistent demands afflicted with all the <span class=\"SpellE\">chequered<\/span><br \/>\npattern of angers and jealousies and satisfactions, <span class=\"SpellE\">rushings<\/span><br \/>\nto unity and movements of fatigue, divorce and separation on which we now place<br \/>\nso high a value. Grief will cease to exist, but a universal, an equal love and<br \/>\nsympathy will take its place, not a suffering sympathy, but a power which,<br \/>\nitself delivered, is strong to sustain, to help, to liberate. To the free<br \/>\nspirit wrath and hatred are impossible, but not the strong <span class=\"SpellE\">Rudra<\/span><br \/>\nenergy of the Divine which can battle without hatred and destroy without wrath<br \/>\nbecause all the time aware of the things it destroys as parts of itself, its<br \/>\nown manifestations and unaltered therefore in its sympathy and understanding of<br \/>\nthose in whom are embodied these <span class=\"SpellE\">manifesta<\/span>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 677<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span class=\"SpellE\"><br \/>\ntions<\/span>.<br \/>\nAll our emotional nature will undergo this high liberating transformation; but<br \/>\nin order that it may do so, a perfect equality is the effective condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>The same<br \/>\nequality must be brought into the rest of our being. Our whole dynamic being is<br \/>\nacting under the influence of unequal impulses, the manifestations of the lower<br \/>\nignorant nature. These urgings we obey or partially control or place on them<br \/>\nthe changing and modifying influence of our reason, our refining aesthetic<br \/>\nsense and mind and regulating ethical notions. A tangled strain of right and<br \/>\nwrong, of useful and harmful, harmonious or disordered activity is the mixed<br \/>\nresult of our endeavour, a shifting standard of human reason and unreason,<br \/>\nvirtue and vice, <span class=\"SpellE\">honour<\/span> and <span class=\"SpellE\">dishonour<\/span>,<br \/>\nthe noble and the ignoble, things approved and things disapproved of men, much<br \/>\ntrouble of self-approbation and disapprobation or of self-righteousness and<br \/>\ndisgust, remorse, shame and moral depression. These things are no doubt very<br \/>\nnecessary at present for our spiritual evolution. But the seeker of a greater<br \/>\nperfection will draw back from all these dualities, regard them with an equal<br \/>\neye and arrive through equality at an impartial and universal action of the<br \/>\ndynamic Tapas, spiritual force, in which his own force and will are turned into<br \/>\npure and just instruments of a greater calm secret of divine working. The<br \/>\nordinary mental standards will be exceeded on the basis of this dynamic<br \/>\nequality. The eye of his will must look beyond to a purity of divine being, a<br \/>\nmotive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected<br \/>\nnature will be the engine, <span class=\"SpellE\"><i>yantra<\/i><\/span>. That must remain impossible in entirety as long as<br \/>\nthe dynamic ego with its subservience to the emotional and vital impulses and<br \/>\nthe preferences of the personal judgment interferes in his action. A perfect<br \/>\nequality of the will is the power which dissolves these knots of the lower<br \/>\nimpulsion to works. This equality will not respond to the lower impulses, but watch<br \/>\nfor a greater seeing impulsion from the Light above the mind, and will not<br \/>\njudge and govern with the intellectual judgment, but wait for enlightenment and<br \/>\ndirection from a superior plane of vision. As it mounts upward to the<br \/>\nsupramental being and widens inward to the spiritual largeness, the dynamic<br \/>\nnature will be transformed, spiritualised like the emotional and pranic, and<br \/>\ngrow into a power<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 678<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>of the divine nature. There will<br \/>\nbe plenty of stumblings and errors and imperfections of adjustment of the<br \/>\ninstruments to their new working, but the increasingly equal soul will not be<br \/>\ntroubled overmuch or grieve at these things, since, delivered to the guidance of<br \/>\nthe Light and Power within self and above mind, it will proceed on its way with<br \/>\na firm assurance and await with growing calm the vicissitudes and completion of<br \/>\nthe process of transformation. The promise of the Divine Being in the Gita will<br \/>\nbe the anchor of its resolution, \u201cAbandon all <span class=\"SpellE\">dharmas<\/span><br \/>\nand take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not<br \/>\ngrieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>The equality of<br \/>\nthe thinking mind will be a part and a very important part of the perfection of<br \/>\nthe instruments in the nature. Our present attractive self-justifying<br \/>\nattachment to our intellectual preferences, our judgments, opinions, imaginations,<br \/>\nlimiting associations of the memory which makes the basis of our mentality, to<br \/>\nthe current repetitions of our habitual mind, to the insistences of our<br \/>\npragmatic mind, to the limitations even of our intellectual truth-mind, must go<br \/>\nthe way of other attachments and yield to the impartiality of an equal vision.<br \/>\nThe equal thought-mind will look on knowledge and ignorance and on truth and<br \/>\nerror, those dualities created by our limited nature of consciousness and the<br \/>\npartiality of our intellect and its little stock of reasonings and intuitions,<br \/>\naccept them both without being bound to either twine of the skein and await a<br \/>\nluminous transcendence. In ignorance it will see a knowledge which is<br \/>\nimprisoned and seeks or waits for delivery, in error a truth at work which has<br \/>\nlost itself or got thrown by the groping mind into misleading forms. On the<br \/>\nother side it will not hold itself bound and limited by its knowledge or<br \/>\nforbidden by it to proceed to fresh illumination, nor lay too fierce a grasp on<br \/>\ntruth, even when using it to the full, or tyrannously chain it to its present<br \/>\nformulations. This perfect equality of the thinking mind is indispensable<br \/>\nbecause the objective of this progress is the greater light which belongs to a<br \/>\nhigher plane of spiritual cognizance. This equality is the most delicate and<br \/>\ndifficult of all, the least practised by the human mind; its perfection is impossible<br \/>\nso long as the supramental light does not fall fully on the upward looking<br \/>\nmentality. But an<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br \/>\nPage \u2013 679<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>increasing will to equality in<br \/>\nthe intelligence is needed, before that light can work freely upon the mental<br \/>\nsubstance. This too is not an abnegation of the <span class=\"SpellE\">seekings<\/span><br \/>\nand cosmic purposes of the intelligence, not an indifference or impartial <span class=\"SpellE\">scepticism<\/span>, nor yet a stilling of all thought in the<br \/>\nsilence of the Ineffable. A stilling of the mental thought may be part of the<br \/>\ndiscipline, when the object is to free the mind from its own partial workings,<br \/>\nin order that it may become an equal channel of a higher light and knowledge;<br \/>\nbut there must also be a transformation of the mental substance; otherwise the<br \/>\nhigher light cannot assume full possession and a compelling shape for the<br \/>\nordered works of the divine consciousness in the human being. The silence of<br \/>\nthe Ineffable is a truth of divine being, but the Word which proceeds from that<br \/>\nsilence is also a truth, and it is this Word which has to be given a body in<br \/>\nthe conscious form of the nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>But, finally,<br \/>\nall this <span class=\"SpellE\">equalisation<\/span> of the nature is a preparation<br \/>\nfor the highest spiritual equality to take possession of the whole being and<br \/>\nmake a pervading atmosphere in which the light, power and joy of the Divine can<br \/>\nmanifest itself in man amid an increasing fullness. That equality is the<br \/>\neternal equality of Sachchidananda. It is an equality of the infinite being which<br \/>\nis self-existent, an equality of the eternal spirit, but it will mould into its<br \/>\nown mould the mind, heart, will, life, physical being. It is an equality of the<br \/>\ninfinite spiritual consciousness which will contain and base the blissful<br \/>\nflowing and satisfied waves of a divine knowledge. It is an equality of the<br \/>\ndivine Tapas which will initiate a luminous action of the divine will in all<br \/>\nthe nature. It is an equality of the divine Ananda which will found the play of<br \/>\na divine universal delight, universal love and an illimitable aesthesis of<br \/>\nuniversal beauty. The ideal equal peace and calm of the Infinite will be the<br \/>\nwide ether of our perfected being, but the ideal, equal and perfect action of<br \/>\nthe Infinite through the nature working on the relations of the universe will<br \/>\nbe the untroubled outpouring of its power in our being. This is the meaning of<br \/>\nequality in the terms of the integral Yoga.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 680<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter XI&nbsp; &nbsp;The Perfection of Equality&nbsp; &nbsp; THE very first necessity for spiritual perfection is a perfect equality. 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