{"id":451,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:05","slug":"03-the-hour-of-god-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17\/03-the-hour-of-god-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"-03_The Hour of God.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

 I 
\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n


\nThe
\nHour of God <\/font> <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\n                       
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n                   
\nT<\/b>HERE
\n<\/b>
\nare moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is
\nabroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men
\nare left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first
\nare periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes
\ndestiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a
\nlittle result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the
\nlittle smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God\u2019s
\nbounty.<\/p>\n

<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

    Unhappy
\nis the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is found
\nsleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for
\nthe welcome and the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are
\nstrong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is
\nirreparable loss or a great destruction.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

   
\nIn
\nthe hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain
\nself-flattering that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that
\nwhich summons it. All insincerity of nature, once thy defence against the eye of
\nthe Master and the light of the ideal, becomes now a gap in thy armour and
\ninvites the blow. Even if thou conquer for the moment, it is the worse for thee,
\nfor the blow shall come afterwards and cast thee down in the midst of thy
\ntriumph. But being pure cast aside all fear; for the hour is often terrible, a
\nfire and a whirlwind and a tempest, a treading of the winepress of the wrath of
\nGod; but he who can stand up in it on the truth of his purpose is he who shall
\nstand; even though he fall, he shall rise again; even though he seem to pass on
\nthe wings of the wind, he shall return. Nor let worldly prudence whisper too
\nclosely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the unexpected.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage
\n– 1<\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nCertitudes<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                        IN
\n<\/b>THE
\n<\/font>
\n<\/b> deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner
\nshall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fullness of his own
\nbeing. For that being is infinity, is God.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

    I aspire to infinite force, infinite
\nknowledge, infinite bliss. Can I attain it ? Yes, but the nature of infinity is
\nthat it has no end. Say not therefore that I attain it. I become it. Only so can
\nman attain God by becoming God.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

    But before attaining he can enter into
\nrelations with Him. To enter into relations with God is Yoga, the supreme object
\nand the noblest utility. There are relations within the compass of the humanity
\nwe have developed. These are called prayer, worship, adoration, sacrifice,
\nthought, faith, science, philosophy. There are other relations beyond our
\ndeveloped capacity, but within the compass of the humanity we have yet to
\ndevelop. Those are the relations that are attained by the various practices we
\nusually call Yoga.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

We may not know Him as God, we may
\nknow Him as Nature, our Higher Self, Infinity, some ineffable Goal. It was so
\nthat Buddha approached Him; so approaches Him the rigid Adwaitin. He is
\naccessible even to the Atheist. To the Materialist He disguises Himself in
\nmatter. For the Nihilist He waits ambushed in the bosom of Annihilation.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYe yathā mām prapadyante tānstathaiva bhajāmyaham.<\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage
\n– 2<\/p>\n

\n

\nHymn
\nto the Mother of Radiances<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                        A<\/b>N INNER fullness has come in like the coming in of light in
\ndark caves. It fills, it illumines, it vibrates the multiple strings of life; it
\nhas found the contact with the forgotten achievements of the past to enable me
\nto start the new ones of the future on the basis of the changing formations of
\nthe present. The currents of life well up to meet the descending rays light from
\nthe upper heavens for transmutation of the base end the dark into the luminous
\nand the true, for transmutation of the ugly and the wrong into the beautiful and
\nthe right. <\/font><\/p>\n

    O Mother of Radiances, you have dawned in the narrow horizons of my mind.
\nOut of its depthless rigidities, in the midst its walled-up spaces you have
\ncreated a heart-like something that will live its eternal life. You have revealed to
\nme a chamber alive and warm within the mind’s substanceless polar regions and there I
\ncan safely retire and find in you my refuge. <\/font><\/p>\n

    The lower network of moving forces
\nremains, but I feel your presence in its midst. The higher network of moving
\nforces remains, and here you have stepped in also shedding a warmth of live that
\nwas not there before, you have turned the dull grey luminosity into a brilliance of
\nliving waters. Your active and living presence is everywhere; you have heeded my
\nwords of aspiration, the fire of my demand for your omnipresence. More than I
\nignorantly sought for, you have revealed to me. You are intimate and one with me when
\nin truth and law and yet away and far off from me when in error and in falsehood. <\/font><\/p>\n

    When there are no more darkening shadows about me; when you see me bared of all
\nshams and shows in every part of the being; when you see in every cell of my body
\nan eternal home for you and an eternal temple; when you see me one with you in
\nidentity and still worshipping you; when you melt the compact gold of knowledge in the
\nliving and running waters of devotion; when you break my earth and release the
\nenergies; when you turn my pride into power in your hands and my ignorance into<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 3 <\/p>\n

\n

light, my narrowness into
\nwideness, my selfishness into a true gathering together of forces in one centre,
\nmy greed into a capacity of untiring search after the truth for the attainment
\nof its substances, my egoism into the true and conscious instrumental centre, my
\nmind into a channel for you to descend, my heart into your hearth of pure fire
\nand flame, my life into a pure and translucent substance for your handling, my
\nbody into a conscious vessel for holding what of you is meant for me; then, 0
\nMother of Radiances, my aim in life now and hereafter will be fulfilled in the
\ntrue and right and vast way. Aspiration wakes in me! Achieve in me all that I
\nflame for!<\/font>
\n<\/P>
\n


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