{"id":4495,"date":"2013-07-13T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:24","slug":"02-25-march-53-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/05-questions-and-answers-volume-05\/02-25-march-53-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-02_ 25 March 53.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n25 March 1953 <\/font> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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You have said: \u201cYou must be vigilant and
\nsee that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your
\ndesires.\u201d <\/span> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Questions and Answers 1929 (14 April)<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Many people
\naccept certain theories, some of which are very convenient, and they say,
\n\u201cEverything is the result of the divine Will\u201d; others say, \u201cThe Divine is
\neverywhere and in everything and does everything\u201d; yet others say, \u201cMy will is
\none with the divine Will, it is He who inspires me.\u201d Indeed, there are many
\ntheories and they say that. Naturally, their ego is as alive. They do all that
\nthey want to do, saying, \u201cIt is the Divine who is doing it in me.\u201d Whatever is
\nsupplied by their brain is the \u201cdivine Will\u201d. It is not a personal inspiration:
\n\u201cEverything is the result of the divine Will.\u201d \u201cIt is not I who am acting, it
\nis the Divine who is acting through me.\u201d They do all that they wish to do.
\nThere are many people like that. Therefore I said, \u201cDo not use the Divine as a
\npretty cloak to hide your desires.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe question is to be sincere. If you are
\nnot sincere, do not begin Yoga.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ibid.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerity
\nis perhaps the most difficult of all things and perhaps it is also the most
\neffective. <\/span><\/p>\n

If
\nyou have perfect sincerity, you are sure of victory. It is infinitely
\ndifficult. Sincerity consists in making all the elements of the being, all the
\nmovements (whether outer or inner), all the parts of the being, all of them,
\nhave one single will to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to
\nwill only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no
\nother source of energy than that of the Divine.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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And
\nyou find that there is not a day, not an hour, not a minute when you do not
\nneed to intensify, rectify your sincerity a \u2013 total refusal to deceive the
\nDivine. The first thing is not to deceive oneself. One knows one cannot deceive
\nthe Divine; even the cleverest of the Asuras cannot deceive the Divine. But
\neven when one has understood that, one sees that quite often in one\u2019s life, in
\nthe course of the day, one tries to deceive oneself without even knowing it,
\nspontaneously and almost automatically. One always gives favourable
\nexplanations for all that one does, for one\u2019s words, for one\u2019s acts. That is
\nwhat happens first. I am not speaking of obvious things like quarrelling and
\nsaying, \u201cIt is the other one\u2019s fault\u201d, I am speaking of the very tiny things of
\ndaily life. <\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nknow a child who knocked against a door and he gave a good kick to the door! It
\nis the same thing. It is always the other one who is in the wrong, who has
\ncommitted the mistake. Even when you have passed the stage of the child, when
\nyou have a little reason, you still give the stupidest of all excuses: \u201cIf he
\nhad not done that, I wouldn\u2019t have done this.\u201d But it should be just the other
\nway round! <\/span><\/p>\n

This
\nis what I call being sincere. When you are with someone, if you are sincere,
\ninstantaneously your way of reacting should be to do the right thing, even when
\nyou are with someone who does not do it. Take the most common example of
\nsomeone who gets angry: instead of saying things that hurt, you say nothing,
\nyou keep calm and quiet, you do not catch the contagion of the anger. You have
\nonly to look at yourself to see if this is easy. It is quite an elementary
\nthing, a very small beginning to know whether you are sincere. And I am not
\nspeaking of those who catch every contagion, even that of coarse joking nor of
\nthose who commit the same stupidity as the others. <\/span><\/p>\n

I
\ntell you: if you look at yourself with sharp eyes, you will catch in yourself
\ninsincerities by the hundred, even though you are trying to be sincere in your
\ngeneral attitude. You will see how difficult it is. <\/span>
\n
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I
\ntell you: If you are sincere in all the elements of your being, to the very
\ncells of your body and if your whole being integrally wants the Divine, you are
\nsure of victory but for nothing less than that. That is what I call being
\nsincere. <\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nam not speaking of glaring things like obeying your impulses, your caprices and
\nthen saying: \u201cI do not belong to myself any more, I belong to the Divine; it is
\nthe Divine who is doing everything in me, who is acting in me\u201d, that indeed is
\ncrude enough. I am speaking of more refined people, a little more noble, who
\nput on a pretty cloak to cover their desires. <\/span><\/p>\n

How
\nmany things in the course of the day, how many thoughts, sensations, gestures
\nare turned exclusively towards the Divine in an aspiration? How many? I believe
\nif you have a single one in the whole day, you may mark that in red letters. <\/span><\/p>\n

When
\nI say, \u201cIf you are sincere, you are sure of victory\u201d, I mean true sincerity: to
\nbe constantly the true flame that burns like an offering. That intense joy of
\nexisting only by the Divine and for the Divine and feeling that without Him
\nnothing exists, that life has no longer any meaning, nothing has any purpose,
\nnothing has any value, nothing has any interest, unless it is this call, this
\naspiration, this opening to the supreme Truth, to all that we call the Divine
\n(because you must use some word or other), the only reason for the existence of
\nthe universe. Remove that and everything disappears. <\/span>
\n
\n <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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