{"id":5445,"date":"2013-07-13T02:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:01:46","slug":"15-december-1914-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/02other-editions\/01-prayers-and-meditations\/01-prayers-and-meditations-1948\/15-december-1914-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-1948","title":{"rendered":"-15_December 1914.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDecember<\/i> 4, 1914 <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAFTER long days of silence, wholly occupied
\nwith external work, it has at last been given
\nto me to resume these pages and continue with Thee,
\nO Lord, this conversation which is so sweet to me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut Thou hast broken all my habits, for Thou
\nwouldst prepare me for a liberation from all mental
\nform. Some mental forms, more particularly powerful
\nor adapted to the temperament, are sure guides
\nto sovereign experiences. But once the ‘experiences
\nare made. Thy will is that they should be free in
\nthemselves from the slavery of any mental form,
\nhowever high or pure it may be, so that they can
\nexpress themselves in the new form which is the
\nmost true, that is to say, the most in conformity with
\nthe experience. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThen Thou hast broken all my thought-forms and
\nI found myself before Thee destitute of all mental
\nconstruction, as ignorant in this respect as the child
\nthat has just been born; and in the darkness of this
\nvoid was recovered the sovereign peace of Something
\nwhich is not expressed in words, but which Is. And
\nI wait without impatience and fear for Thee to
\nconstruct again, from the heart of the unfathomable <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 214<\/font><\/p>\n

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\ndepths, the intellectual form which will appear to
\nThee the most suited to manifest Thee in this
\ninstrument moulded of submission and ardent faith. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd before this immense night full of promise,
\nI feel, more than I have ever felt before, infinitely
\nfree and vast. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd in the supreme beatitude, I thank Thee,
\nO Lord, for the marvellous favour Thou has bestowed
\nupon me: that of being before Thee like a child that
\nhas just been born! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nDecember<\/i> 10, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/p>\n

\nLISTEN, O Lord,… in the silence of a profound
\ninwardness, my prayer rises ardently towards
\nThee.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIs it not a great folly to identify oneself with a
\nform of thought, a mental construction, however
\nvast and powerful it may be, to such an extent as
\nto make it the vital centre of one’s being, one’s
\nexperience and activity? Truth is eternally outside
\nall that we can think or say of it. To try to find an
\nexpression, the most conformable and best adapted
\nto this truth, is certainly a work useful or even
\nindispensable for the integrality of one’s own development and the development of the whole of humanity,
\nbut one must always feel free in front of this expression, keep one’s centre of consciousness above it, in <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 215<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nthe reality which, inspite of the greatness, beauty and
\nperfection of a mental formula, will always elude all
\nformula. The world is not what we think it to be. The
\nimportance of the idea we have of it lies in its result
\non our attitude towards action, and this attitude can
\ndepend on an inspiration much more profound, true
\nand unchanging than that which comes from a mental
\nconstruction, however powerful it may be. To feel
\nin oneself the will to translate for men the eternal
\nTruth in a form more complete, higher, more exact
\nthan all the forms that have preceded it, is good,
\nbut on the condition that we do not identify our
\n"I" with this work to such an extent as to become
\nits slave and lose in the face of it all independence
\nand self-control. It is an activity and nothing more,
\nwhatever may be its importance from the earthly
\npoint of view; but we must not forget that it is, like
\nall activities, relative, and we should not let it trouble
\nour profound peace and the changeless calm which
\nalone enables the divine forces to manifest themselves
\nthrough us without deformation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, my prayer is not formulated, but it is
\nheard by Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nDecember 12,<\/i> 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/p>\n

\nAT every moment we must know how to lose <\/i>everything in order to gain everything, to <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 216<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nshed the past as a dead body and be reborn into a
\ngreater plenitude… It is thus that expresses itself the
\nconstant aspiration of the inner being which, turned
\ntowards Thee, would reflect Thee as in an ever
\npurer and purer mirror; and Thy immutable Beatitude
\nis translated in it by an impelling force of progress
\nof an incomparable intensity; and this force is
\ntransformed in the most external being into a calm
\nand assured will which no obstacle can overthrow. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO divine Master, with what an ardent love I am
\nThy servant! With what a pure immobile and
\ninfinite joy I am Thyself in all that is beyond
\n<\/b>all <\/b>formed existence! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd the two consciousnesses become one in an
\nunequalled plenitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\nDecember<\/font><\/i><\/b> 15, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b> <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nLORD, Thou hast given me peace in strength,
\nserenity in action and an unchanging happiness
\nin the midst of all circumstances. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nDecember<\/i> 22, 1914<\/a> <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is for the Truth, O Lord, that I implore
\nThee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 217<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nRestore to activity this mind which made itself
\ndumb that it might surrender to Thee; give to it
\nthe knowledge of Thy will. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt was receptive and allowed all possibilities to
\ntake form in it; then to put a stop to the conflict
\nof their contrary tendencies, it refused to admit
\nthese importunate visitors; it said, "I do not need
\nto live an active life, to know what is Thy will, O
\nLord, provided that I let the ray of Thy eternal light
\npass through me without deforming it." Even so
\nit was done; the will became submissive, straight-
\nforward, precise and strong. But now Thy will is
\nthat the mind should know, and Thou hast said to
\nit, "Awake and be conscious of the Truth." The
\nmind responded with joy and now it turns towards
\nthe resplendent sun of sovereign Truth, calling it
\ninto itself in order to manifest it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is Thy will to throw down all barriers, one
\nafter another, for the being to put on the integral
\namplitude of all its possibilities of manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet all earthly desires assemble in me, O Lord,
\nthat Thou mayst consider them, and Thy will apply
\nitself in a way, precise, clear and definitive, to the
\nleast detail as well as to the whole. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThus the advent of the time expected will be
\nhastened. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe whole being exults in an intense joy and an
\nunequalled plenitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 218<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHOME<\/span><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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