{"id":4011,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:51","slug":"01-7-april-1929-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\/01-7-april-1929-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-01_7 April 1929.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nQuestions and Answers<\/span><\/font> <\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\n1929<\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0<\/span>7 April 1929<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/font> <\/i> <\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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               Will you say something
\nto us about Yoga? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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What do you
\nwant the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace and calm? To serve
\nhumanity? <\/span><\/p>\n

None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for
\nthe Path. <\/span><\/p>\n

The question you are to answer is this: Do you want the Yoga for
\nthe sake of the Divine? Is the Divine the supreme fact of your life, so much so
\nthat it is simply impossible for you to do without it? Do you feel that your
\nvery raison d’<\/span>\u00ea<\/span>tre is the Divine and without it there is no meaning in your
\nexistence? If so, then only can it be said that you have a call for the Path. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first thing necessary \u2013 aspiration for the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

The next thing you have to do is to tend it, to keep it always alert
\nand awake and living. And for that what is required is concentration \u2013
\nconcentration upon the Divine with a view to an integral and absolute
\nconsecration to its Will and Purpose. <\/span><\/p>\n

Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep and
\nfar, as far as you can. Gather all the strings of your consciousness that are
\nspread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and sink down. <\/span><\/p>\n

A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of the heart. It is
\nthe divinity in you–your true being. Hear its voice, follow its dictates. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are other centres of concentration, for example, one above
\nthe crown and another between the eye-brows. Each has its own efficacy and will
\ngive you a particular result. But the central being lies in the heart and from
\nthe heart proceed all central movements\u00a0
\n<\/span>all dynamism and urge for transformation and power of realisation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What is one to do to
\nprepare oneself for the Yoga?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/i>
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\u00a0<\/span>To be conscious, first of all. We are
\nconscious of only an insignificant portion of our being; for the most part we
\nare unconscious. It is this unconsciousness that keeps us down to our
\nunregenerate nature and prevents change and transformation in it. It is through
\nunconsciousness that the undivine forces enter into us and make us their slaves.
\nYou are to be conscious of yourself, you must awake to your nature and
\nmovements, you must know why and how you do things or feel or think them; you
\nmust understand your motives and impulses, the forces, hidden and apparent,
\nthat move you; in fact, you must, as it were, take to pieces the entire
\nmachinery of your being. Once you are conscious, it means that you can
\ndistinguish and sift things, you can see which are the forces that pull you
\ndown and which help you on. And when you know the right from the wrong, the
\ntrue from the false, the divine from the undivine, you are to act strictly up
\nto your knowledge; that is to say, resolutely reject one and accept the other.
\nThe duality will present itself at every step and at every step you will have
\nto make your choice. You will have to be patient and persistent and vigilant \u2013
\n\u201csleepless\u201d, as the adepts say; you must always refuse to give any chance
\nwhatever to the undivine against the divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Is the Yoga for the sake
\nof humanity? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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No, it is
\nfor the sake of Divinity. It is not the welfare of humanity that we seek but
\nthe manifestation of the Divine. We are here to work out the Divine Will, more
\ntruly, to be worked upon by the Divine Will so that we may be its instruments
\nfor the progressive incorporation of the Supreme and the establishment of His
\nreign upon earth. Only that portion of humanity which will respond to the
\nDivine Call shall receive its Grace. <\/span><\/p>\n

Whether humanity as a whole will be benefited, if not directly, at
\nleast, in an indirect way, will depend upon the condition of humanity itself.
\nIf one is to judge from the present conditions, there is not much hope. What is
\nthe attitude today <\/span>
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of the
\naverage man the \u2013 representative humanity? Does he not rise in anger and revolt
\ndirectly he meets something that partakes of the genuinely divine? Does he not
\nfeel that the Divine means the destruction of his cherished possessions? Is he
\nnot continually yelling out the most categorical negative to everything that
\nthe Divine intends and wills? Humanity will have to change much before it can
\nhope to gain anything by the advent of the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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How is that we have met?
\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

We have all
\nmet in previous lives. Otherwise we would not have come together in this life.
\nWe are of one family and have worked through ages for the victory of the Divine
\nand its manifestation upon earth.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/font>H<\/a><\/font><\/span>OME<\/font><\/a><\/b>
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