{"id":4054,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:06","slug":"31-power-of-imagination-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\/31-power-of-imagination-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-31_Power of Imagination.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nPower of
\nImagination <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/b>
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\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/b> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nT<\/font><\/span>he imagination is really the power of mental formation. When this
\npower is put at the service of the Divine, it is not only formative but also
\ncreative. There is, however, no such thing as an unreal formation, because every
\nimage is a reality on the mental plane. The plot of a novel, for instance, is
\nall there on the mental plane existing independently of the physical. Each of
\nus is a novelist to a certain extent and possesses the capacity to make forms
\non that plane; and, in fact, a good deal of our life embodies the products of
\nour imagination. Every time you indulge your imagination in an unhealthy way,
\ngiving a form to your fears and anticipating accidents and misfortunes, you are
\nundermining your own future. On the other hand, the more optimistic your
\nimagination, the greater the chance of your realising your aim. Monsieur Cou<\/span>\u00e9 got hold of this potent truth and cured
\nhundreds of people by simply teaching them to imagine themselves out of misery.
\nHe once related the case of a lady whose hair was falling off. She began to
\nsuggest to herself that she was improving every day and that her hair was
\nsurely growing. By constantly imagining it her hair really began to grow and
\neven reached an enviable length owing to still further auto-suggestion. The
\npower of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind is put in
\ncommunication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend
\nthrough the layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if,
\non reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily
\nbecomes embodied and stays as a creative force in you. Therefore I say to you
\nnever be dejected and disappointed but let your imagination be always hopeful
\nand joyously plastic to the stress of the higher Truth, so that the latter may
\nfind you full of the necessary formations to hold its creative light. <\/span><\/p>\n

The imagination is like a knife which may
\nbe used for good or evil purposes. If you always dwell in the idea and feeling
\nthat <\/span>
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you are going to be transformed, then you will help the process of
\nthe Yoga. If, on the contrary, you give in to dejection and bewail that you are
\nnot fit or that you are incapable of realisation, you poison your own being. It
\nis just on account of this very important truth that I am so tirelessly
\ninsistent in telling you to let anything happen but, for heavens sake, not to
\nget depressed. Live rather in the constant hope and conviction that what we are
\ndoing will prove a success. In other words, let your imagination be moulded by
\nyour faith in Sri Aurobindo; for, is not such faith the very hope and
\nconviction that the will of Sri Aurobindo is bound to be done, that his work of
\ntransformation cannot but end in a supreme victory and that what he calls the
\nsupramental world will be brought down on earth and realised by us here and
\nnow?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 157<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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