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Offering all to the Divine

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Obeying the Divine Will
07/19/2018
Sri Aurobindo
Neglect nothing
07/21/2018
Published by The Mother on 07/20/2018
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

I think it would be better to say that there is a certain state of consciousness – which one can acquire by aspiration and a persistent inner effort – in which joy is unmixed and light shadowless, where all possibility of fear disappears. It is the state in which one does not live for oneself but where whatever one does, whatever one feels, all movements are an offering made to the Supreme, in an absolute trust, freeing oneself of all responsibility for oneself, handing over to Him all this burden which is no longer a burden.
It is an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think of oneself. It is so dull and monotonous and insipid to be thinking of oneself, to be worrying about what to do and what not to do, what will be good for you and what will be bad for you, what to shun and what to pursue – Oh, how wearisome it is! But when one lives like this, quite open, like a flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries – that is the ideal condition.

Ref: Questions and Answers (1929-1931)

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