{"id":4009,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:50","slug":"32-selfless-admiration-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\/32-selfless-admiration-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-32_Selfless Admiration.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSelfless
\nAdmiration<\/b> <\/font> <\/span>
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\nP<\/font><\/span>eople are so unwilling to recognise anything that expresses the
\nDivine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects
\nand so reduce what is high to their own level. They are simply furious at being
\nsurpassed and when they do succeed in finding superficial \u201cshortcomings\u201d they
\nare greatly pleased. But they forget that if they confront even the Divine,
\nwhen its presence is on the earth, with their crude physical mind they are
\nbound to meet only what is crude. They cannot hope to see what they are
\nthemselves incapable of seeing or unwilling to see. They are sure to misjudge
\nthe Divine if they consider the surface-aspect of its actions, for they will
\nnever understand that what seems similar to human activity is yet altogether
\ndissimilar and proceeds from a source which is non-human. <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The Divine, manifesting itself for the
\nwork on earth, appears to act as men do but really does not. It is not possible
\nto evaluate it by such standards of the obvious and the apparent. But men are
\nutterly in love with their own inferiority and cannot bear to submit to or
\nadmit a higher reality. This desire to find fault, this malicious passion to
\ncriticise and doubt what something in oneself tells one is a higher reality is
\nthe very stamp of humanity \u2013 marks out the merely human. Wherever, on the other
\nhand, there is a spontaneous admiration for the true, the beautiful, the noble,
\nthere is something divine expressed. You should know for certain that it is the
\npsychic being, the soul in you with which your physical consciousness comes in
\ncontact when your heart leaps out to worship and admire what you feel to be of
\na divine origin. <\/span><\/p>\n

The moment you are in front of what you
\nfeel to be such, you should be moved to tears of joy. It is the mean creature
\nwho stops to reflect: \u201cYes, it is something great but it would be worth
\nadmiring if it fell to my lot, if I were the happy possessor of this quality,
\nthe instrument of this superior manifestation.\u201d <\/span>
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Why should you bother about your ego when the main concern is that
\nthe Divine should reveal itself wherever it wants and in whatever manner it
\nchooses? You should feel fulfilled when it is thus expressed, you should be
\nable to burst the narrow bonds of your miserable personality, and soar up in
\nunselfish joy. This joy is the true sign that your soul has awakened and has
\nsensed the truth. It is only then that you can open to the influence of the
\ndescending truth and be shaped by it. I remember occasions when I used to be
\nmoved to tears on seeing even children, even babies do something that was most
\ndivinely beautiful and simple. Feel that joy and you will be able to profit by
\nthe Divine’s presence in your midst.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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