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Mother and Sri Aurobindo on Peace


To want what the Divine wants, in all sincerity, is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that men are nearly always convinced that they know better than the Divine what they need and what life ought to give them. Most human beings want other human beings to conform to their expectations and circumstances to conform to their desires- therefore they suffer and are unhappy.

The Mother

 Perfect Peace of Mind


 "I am not a jnani, for I have no knowledge except what God gives me for His work. How am I to know whether what I see be reason or folly? Nay, it is neither; for the thing seen is simply true and neither folly nor reason."
                       -Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms)

CWC Vol. 10

The Mother's comments:
  I am not a jnani " The jnani is one who follows the path of Knowledge, one who wants to realise Yoga exclusively through Knowledge, and who follows a purely intellectual path with the will to go beyond it and attain Knowledge, which is no longer intellectual, but spiritual. And Sri Aurobindo says: I am not a jnani I do not seek knowledge. I have given myself to the Divine to accomplish His work and, by the divine Grace, at every moment I know what must be known in order to accomplish this work.
    It is an admirable state; it is perfect peace of mind. There is no longer any need to accumulate acquired knowledge, received ideas which have to be memorised ; it is no longer necessary to clutter one's brain with thousands and thousands of things in order to have at one's command, when the time comes, the knowledge that is needed to perform an action, to impart a teaching, to solve a problem. The mind is silent, the brain is still, everything is clear, quiet, calm; and at the right moment, by divine Grace a drop of light falls into the consciousness and what needs to be known is known. Why should one care to remember- why try to retain that knowledge~ On the day or at the moment that it is needed one will have it again. At each second one is a blank page on which what must be known will be inscribed -in the peace, the repose, the silence of a perfect receptivity .
    One knows what must be known, one sees what must be seen, and since what must be known and seen comes directly from the Supreme, it is Truth itself; and it completely eludes all notions of reason or folly. What is true is true -that is all. And one has to sink very low to wonder whether it is folly or reason.
    Silence and a modest, humble, attentive receptivity; no concern for appearances or even any anxiety to be- one is quite modestly, quite humbly, quite simply the instrument which of itself is nothing and knows nothing, but is ready to receive everything and transmit everything.
    The first condition is self-forgetfulness, a total self- giving, the absence of ego.
    And the body says to the Supreme lord: "What You want me to be, I shall be; what You want me to know, I shall know; what You want me to do, I shall do."

   

In peace and silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence.

The Mother

All extracts and quotations from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the Photographs of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry -605002 India.