{"id":84,"date":"2013-07-13T01:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:46","slug":"62-stray-thoughts-and-glimpses-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03\/62-stray-thoughts-and-glimpses-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-62_Stray Thoughts and Glimpses.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nStray Thoughts and Glimpses<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nT<\/font>RUE <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b>heroism findeth not its symbol in the
\nsplendour and majesty of the shining armour and accoutrement,
\nnor seeth its glory in the trophies of a thousand victories; for its
\nsymbol is the Holy War in which the might and puissance of the
\nEternal plays through its willing hands, and its glory the
\nlaurel-wreath of Delight wherewith God crowns all doughty
\nchampions of His Cause.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nNot he the philosopher that achieves marvels in ratiocination and winneth the applause of an intellectual age, but he whose
\norganon is a sharply whetted instrument which God pierces into the closed
\nstrongholds of prejudice, pedantry, error and obscurantism.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\nGuruhood shall attain its apex, only when it turns the disciple’s eye towards the beacon light of his own godhead; for not in
\nthe borrowed lights of a single aureola, but in the original effulgence of all points in a shining galaxy of pioneers is to be heralded
\nthe dawn of the coming age.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe true reformer is no mere compassionate fighter of evils,
\ndashing upon the fenced ramparts of society and directing from
\nwithout the might of his assault upon stereotyped customs and
\nusages; but he who has realised the Collective Soul in the
\nprofundities of his being, and with an unerring sureness of aim
\nborn of an inner illumination and with the conscious omnipo-<\/font><\/p>\n

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\ntence of an intense Will, sendeth forth mighty currents reverberating from the centre of society’s life to its outer surface,
\ndethroning and annihilating the distorted and ugly usurpers of
\nthe Throne of God.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage <\/font>
\n\u2013 441<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nII<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe glories of the cross attract more than the laurel of victory.
\nStill the laurel, and not the cross, must be our end.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMan runs after the good, but incurs the evil, for the two
\nare intertwined. He that sits in the Self beyond both, enjoyeth
\nboth; for the two are the extreme notes of a single gamut.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nRenunciation impoverisheth materially, materialism impoverisheth spiritually. Integral richness cometh from a divine living
\nwhich consecrates itself to the Indwelling Deity and becometh
\na dynamic centre and instrument of God’s creative power.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nMere devotion maketh an intellectual pigmy, and mere
\nknowledge an imperfect actor in God’s drama. It is only
\ninto surrendered minds that God pours forth both devotion
\nand knowledge, making these the twin bases of a mighty action.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nIn every age man has awaited the advent of a Messiah
\nor a Teacher, and found his highest glory in discipleship. But
\nthe Coming Teacher shall point out the Messiah and the follower, the Teacher and the disciple, in every man and reveal to
\nhis gaze the sempiternal glory of a perfect godhead.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nGod is equally in joy and in suffering, in victory and in
\ndefeat. And the warrior in His cause shrinketh not before the<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nsuffering, nor is afraid of the defeat; for he seeth the Divine
\nstrategy which sometimes retires into ignominy and ridicule to
\nexhaust the Satanic force of its exulting opponents, then rushes
\nforward with immense vehemence and conquers.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\nIII<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\nMankind hath hitherto placed God too far above man for each
\nto approach the other. But on the identity of the human
\nwith the divine shall rest the foundation of the coming ages<\/font>
\n<\/font>of humanity.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nIn His ascent of evolution God moveth not only from success to success, for he often useth victory and defeat, honour
\nand dishonour as the twin processes of an efflorescent movement.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe New Yoga begins where all efforts at personal salvation
\nend, where the self of the individual consecrates itself to the self
\nof Humanity and proceedeth to realise an individual life.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe Pentecostal showers of inspiration descend upon him
\nwho worketh unceasingly for God, not upon him who waiteth
\nactionless for inspiration to come and move him to action.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nOnly when the gorgeous temples of the Earth have ceased
\nto monopolise our God, and He is realised in the flight of the
\nsparrow and the mattock of the labourer that leavening of humanity shall begin.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNot in the eager rushing of the senses towards the objects of
\nthe earth but in the spiritual enjoyment of sense objects, consisteth the bhoga<\/i> of the integral Yogin.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

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\nRenunciation is cowardice only when it evadeth the objects
\nof sense and taketh refuge in the lonely forest or in the meditation room, but it surpasseth the highest intrepidity when moving
\namong the objects of sense it showeth a high-seated and divine
\nindifference to the beatings of waves of desire and passion.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 445<\/font><\/p>\n

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