{"id":3997,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:46","slug":"39-true-humility-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/39-true-humility-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-39_True Humility.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nTrue
\nHumility \u2013 Supramental Plasticity \u2013 <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\nSpiritual
\nRebirth <\/font><\/span><\/i>
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\nA<\/font><\/span>s I have often been questioned about it, I shall touch briefly on
\nthe meaning of true humility, supramental plasticity and spiritual rebirth.
\nHumility is that state of consciousness in which, whatever the realisation, you
\nknow the infinite is still in front of you. The rare quality of selfless
\nadmiration about which I have spoken to you is but another aspect of true
\nhumility; for it is sheer arrogance that refuses to admire and is complacent about
\nits own petty achievements, forgetting the infinite which is always ahead of
\nit. However, you need to be humble not only when you have nothing substantial
\nor divine in you but even when you are on the path of transformation.
\nParadoxical though it may sound, the Divine who is absolutely perfect is at the
\nsame time absolutely humble \u2013 humble as nothing else can ever be. He is not
\noccupied in admiring Himself: though He is the All, He ever seeks to find
\nHimself in what is not-Himself \u2013 that is why He has created in His own being
\nwhat seems to be a colossal not-Himself, this phenomenal world. He has passed
\ninto a form in which He has to discover endlessly in time the infinite contents
\nof that which He possesses entirely in the eternal consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the greatest victories of this
\nineffable humility of God will be the transformation of Matter which is
\napparently the most undivine. Supramental plasticity is an attribute of finally
\ntransformed Matter. The supramental body which has to be brought into being
\nhere has four main attributes: lightness, adaptability, plasticity and
\nluminosity. When the physical body is thoroughly divinised, it will feel as if
\nit were always walking on air, there will be no heaviness or tamas<\/i> or unconsciousness in it. There
\nwill also be no end to its power of adaptability: in whatever conditions it is
\nplaced it will immediately be equal to the demands made upon it because its
\nfull consciousness will <\/span>
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drive out all that inertia and incapacity
\nwhich usually make Matter a drag on the Spirit. Supramental plasticity will
\nenable it to stand the attack of every hostile force which strives to pierce
\nit: it will present no dull resistance to the attack but will be, on the
\ncontrary, so pliant as to nullify the force by giving way to it to pass off.
\nThus it will suffer no harmful consequences and the most deadly attacks will
\nleave it unscathed. Lastly, it will be turned into the stuff of light, each
\ncell will radiate the supramental glory. Not only those who are developed enough
\nto have their subtle sight open but the ordinary man too will be able to
\nperceive this luminosity. It will be an evident fact to each and all, a
\npermanent proof of the transformation which will convince even the most
\nsceptical. <\/span><\/p>\n

The bodily transformation will be the
\nsupreme spiritual rebirth–an utter casting away of all the ordinary past. For
\nspiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations
\nand circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were
\nstarting life anew. It is to be free of what is called Karma, the stream of our
\npast actions: in other words, a liberation from the bondage of Nature’s common
\nactivity of cause and effect. When this cutting away of the past is
\ntriumphantly accomplished in the consciousness, all those mistakes, blunders,
\nerrors and follies which, still vivid in our recollection, cling to us like
\nleeches sucking our life-blood, drop away, leaving us most joyfully free. This
\nfreedom is not a mere matter of thought; it is the most solid, practical,
\nmaterial fact. We really are free, nothing binds us, nothing affects us, there
\nis no obsession of responsibility. If we want to counteract, annul or outgrow
\nour past, we cannot do it by mere repentance or similar things, we must forget
\nthat the untransformed past has ever been and enter into an enlightened state
\nof consciousness which breaks loose from all moorings. To be reborn means to
\nenter, first of all, into our psychic consciousness where we are one with the
\nDivine and eternally free from the reactions of Karma. Without becoming aware
\nof the psychic, it is not possible <\/span>
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to do so; but once we are securely conscious of the true soul in
\nus which is always surrendered to the Divine, all bondage ceases. Then
\nincessantly life begins afresh, then the past no longer cleaves to us. To give
\nyou an idea of the final height of spiritual rebirth, I may say that there can
\nbe a constant experience of the whole universe actually disappearing at every
\ninstant and being at every instant newly created!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 177<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/font><\/span>H<\/a><\/font><\/span>OME<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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