{"id":3932,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:17","slug":"16-december-1914-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01\/16-december-1914-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-16_December 1914.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\tDecember 4, 1914<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>After long days of silence, entirely occupied by outer work, it is at
\nlast given to me to resume these pages and continue with Thee, Lord, this
\nconversation which is so sweet to me…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But Thou hast broken all my habits, for Thou wouldst prepare me for
\nliberation from every mental form. Certain mental forms, more particularly powerful
\nor adapted to the temperament, are sure guides to supreme experiences. But once
\nthe experiences are over, Thou wouldst have them free in themselves from
\nbondage to any mental form, however high or pure it may be, so as to be capable
\nof expression in the new, most true form, that is, the one most suitable to the
\nexperience.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>So Thou didst break all my forms of thought, and I found myself before
\nThee stripped of all mental constructions, as ignorant about this as a new-born
\nchild; and in the darkness of this void lay once again the sovereign peace of
\nsomething which is not expressed in words but which IS. And I wait without
\nimpatience and without fear, for Thee to construct once again from the heart of
\nthe unfathomable depths the intellectual form which seems to Thee the most
\nsuitable for manifesting Thee in this instrument
\nmoulded out of surrender and ardent faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n<\/span>And before this immense night full of promise, I feel, more than I have
\never felt before, free and vast, infinitely…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>276<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>And in a supreme beatitude I offer Thee thanks, O Lord, for the
\nmarvellous favour Thou hast bestowed upon me: that of being before Thee like a
\nnew-born child. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – <\/span>
\n277<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n
\nDecember 10, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
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\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Listen, O Lord… in the silence of deep meditation my prayer rises
\nardently to Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Is it not a great folly to become identified with one form of thought,
\none mental construction, however vast and powerful it may be, to the point of
\nmaking it the living centre of one’s being, one’s experience and activity?
\nTruth is eternally beyond all that we can think or say of it. To endeavour to
\nfind the most suitable expression, the one best adapted to this truth, is of
\ncourse a useful task, even an indispensable one for the integrality of one’s
\nown development and that of all humanity; but one must always feel free in
\nfront of this expression, have one’s centre of consciousness above it, in the
\nreality which, despite the grandeur, the beauty, the perfection of a mental
\nformula, always eludes every formula. The world is not what we think it to be.
\nThe importance of the idea we have of it lies in its effect on our attitude
\ntowards action; and this attitude may come from a much deeper, truer, more
\nunchanging inspiration than that resulting from a mental construction, however
\npowerful it may be. To feel in oneself the will to express for men the eternal
\nTruth in a completer, higher, more exact form than all those which have
\npreceded it, is good; but on condition that one does not identify one’s \u201cself\u201d
\nwith this work to the point of being its slave and losing before it all
\nindependence and self-control. It is just an activity and nothing more, whatever
\nmay be its importance<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>278<\/p>\n

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from the earthly point of view; but it must
\nnot be forgotten that it is relative like all activities and that we should not
\nallow it to disturb our deep peace and that immutable calm which alone lets the
\ndivine forces manifest through us without any deformation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, my prayer is not formulated, but Thou hearest it.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – <\/span>
\n279<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n
\nDecember 12, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>We must know at each moment how to lose everything that we may gain
\neverything; we must be able to shed the past like a dead body that we may be
\nreborn into a greater plenitude…. It is so that the constant aspiration of
\nthe inner being expresses itself; turned to Thee, it wants to reflect Thee in
\nan ever purer mirror; and Thy unchanging Beatitude is translated in it into a
\npropelling force of progress of an incomparable intensity; and this force is
\ntransformed in the most external being into a calm and assured will which no
\nobstacle can vanquish. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O divine Master, with what an ardent love I serve Thee! With what a
\npure, still and infinite joy I am Thyself in all that is and beyond all
\nexistence in form. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And the two consciousnesses unite in an unequalled plenitude.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>280<\/p>\n

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\n
\nDecember 15, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>\n<\/p>\n

\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, Thou hast given me peace in power, serenity in action, immutable
\nhappiness in the heart of all circumstances.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>281<\/p>\n

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\n
\nDecember 22, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is for the Truth, O Lord, that I implore
\nThee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Once again make active this mind which fell mute in order to surrender
\nto Thee, give it the knowledge of Thy will. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It welcomed and allowed all possibilities to take form in it; then in
\norder to stop the conflict of their contrary tendencies, it closed the door to
\nthese unwelcome visitors, saying: \u201cI don’t need to live actively, to know what
\nThy will is, Lord, provided that I can transmit the ray of Thy eternal light
\nwithout distorting it.\u201d So it was done and the will became submissive,
\none-pointed, precise and strong. But now Thou wouldst have the mind know, and
\nThou hast said to it: \u201cAwake and become aware of the Truth.\u201d Then the mind has
\nanswered with joy, and now it turns to the resplendent sun of sovereign Truth,
\ncalling it to itself in order to manifest it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou wouldst break down all barriers, one after another, that the being
\nmay take on the integral amplitude of all its possibilities of manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let all earthly desires come together in me, O Lord, so that Thou mayst
\nconsider them, and Thy will be able to work precisely, clearly,
\ndefinitively upon the smallest detail as upon the whole. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thus the advent of the awaited time will be hastened…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>All the being exults in intense joy and unequalled plenitude.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>282<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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