{"id":349,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=349"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:29","slug":"126-the-glory-of-god-in-man-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/01-bande-mataram-volume-01\/126-the-glory-of-god-in-man-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-126_The Glory of God in Man.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\nThe
\nGlory of God in Man<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n                       
\n<\/font> WHOEVER<\/font><\/b>
\nis still under the influence of intellectual pride, is shocked when people
\ndepreciate the reason as the supreme guide. He asks how is it posssible for a
\nman of culture to depreciate the reason and exalt some extraneous influence like
\nthat which people call God? But these doubters are under the influence of
\nEuropean materialism which tries to confine man to his material portion and deny
\nhim the possibility of a divine origin and a divine destiny. When Europe left
\nChristianity to the monk and the ascetic and forgot the teachings of the
\nGalilean, she exposed herself to a terrible fate which will yet overtake her.
\nGod in man is the whole revelation and the whole of religion. What Christianity
\ntaught dimly, Hinduism made plain to the intellect in Vedanta. When India
\nremembers the teaching she received from Shankaracharya, Ramanuja and Madhva,
\nwhen she realises what Sri Ramakrishna came to reveal, then she will rise. Her
\nvery life is Vedanta.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n            If anyone thinks that we are merely intellectual beings, he is not a
\nHindu. Hinduism leaves the glorification of intellectuality to those who have
\nnever seen God. She is commissioned by Him to speak only of his greatness and
\nmajesty and she has so spoken for thousands of years. When we first received a
\nEuropean education, we allowed ourselves to be misled by the light of science.
\nScience is a light within a limited room, not the sun which illumines the world.
\nThe aparā<\/font> vidyā<\/font> <\/i>is the sum of science but there is a higher
\nvidyā<\/font><\/i>, <\/i>
\na mightier knowledge. When we are under the influence of the lower knowledge, we
\nimagine that we are doing everything and try to reason out the situation we find
\nourselves in, as if our intellect were sovereign and omnipotent. But this is an
\nattitude of delusion and mā<\/font>yā<\/font><\/i>. <\/i>Whoever has once felt the glory of God
\nwithin him can never again believe that the intellect is supreme. There is a
\nhigher voice, there is a more unfailing oracle. It is in the heart where God
\nresides. He works through the brain, but the brain is only one of His instru-<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nments. Whatever the brain may plan, the heart knows first and whoever can go
\nbeyond the brain to the heart, will hear the voice of the Eternal. This is what
\nSrijut Aurobindo Ghose said in his Bombay speech. But our contemporary, the
\nIndian Patriot<\/i>,
\n<\/i>has lamented his downfall from the high pedestal of culture
\nhe once occupied. Our contemporary has forgotten the teachings of Vivekananda
\nwhich were once so powerful in Madras. What does he think was the cause of the
\ngreat awakening in Bengal?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n            When Lord Curzon thought to rend Bengal asunder, he deprived her of
\nall her old pride and reliance upon her intellectual superiority. She had
\nthought to set her wits against British power; and believed that the intellect
\nof her sons would be a match for the clumsy brains of the English statesmen.
\nLord Curzon showed her that Power is too direct and invincible to be outwitted.
\nThe brains of Bengal did their best to cope with him and they failed. No course
\nremained open to Bengal which her intellect could suggest. But when she was
\nutterly reduced to despair, the time came for her own power to awake and set
\nitself against that of the foreigner. She flung aside the devices of the Greek
\nand took on herself the majesty of Roman strength and valour. When she declared
\nthe Boycott, she did so without calculation, without reckoning chances, without
\nplanning how the Boycott could succeed. She simply declared it. Was the
\nintellect at work when she declared it? Was it her leaders who planned it as a
\nmeans of bringing the British to their knees?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n            Everybody knows that it was not so. It was Kishoregunj, it was
\nMagura, the obscure villages and towns of East Bengal which first declared the
\nBoycott. What brain planned it, what voice first uttered it, history will never
\nbe able to discover. None planned it, but it was in the heart of the nation and
\nGod revealed it. If human brains had thought over the matter, Boycott would
\nnever have been declared. Srijut Bepin Chandra Pal is the most powerful brain at
\npresent at work in Bengal, but Srijut Bepin Chandra has himself often related
\nthat he was opposed to the Boycott in its inception, because his intellect
\nrefused to assent to the economic possibility of Boycott. So with all the men
\nwho were then the recognised brains and voices of Bengal. Only the nation had
\nBoycott in their hearts and the<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nheart of Bengal refused to be silenced by its brain. So Boycott was declared.
\nHad the Indian Patriot <\/i>been the mouthpiece of Bengal it would have asked
\nfor a plan of operations. But what plan of operations could have been given? So
\nwe see from this one great example what Srijut Aurobindo Ghose meant when he
\nsaid that it was God’s work and not man’s. If the Indian Patriot <\/i>can show
\nus who planned the Boycott, or how it has been guided to success by human
\nintellect, we will accept his view of things. Meanwhile, we shall take leave to
\napprove of the view expressed by Srijut Aurobindo Ghose. God is behind this
\nmovement and He does not need anyone to tell Him how to bring it to success. He
\nwill see to that Himself. Whatever plans we may make, we shall find quite
\nuseless when the time for action comes. Revolutions are always full of
\nsurprises, and whoever thinks he can play chess with a revolution will soon find
\nhow terrible is the grasp of God and how insignificant the human reason before
\nthe whirlwind of His breath. That man only is likely to dominate the chances of
\na Revolution, who makes no plans but preserves his heart pure for the will of
\nGod to declare itself. The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one
\nunalterable purpose. If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to
\naccomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer
\nfinds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.<\/font><\/p>\n


\nBande Mataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i>
\n<\/font>
\nFebruary 22, 1908<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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