THE LIFE DIVINE

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THE LIFE DIVINE

 

Sri Aurobindo

 

All spiritual life is in its principle a growth into divine living.

It is difficult to fix the frontier where the mental ceases and the

divine life begins, for the two project into each other and there is

a long space of their intermingled existence. A great part of this

interspace – when the spiritual urge does not turn away from earth

or world altogether – can be seen as the process of a higher life in

the making.

As the mind and life become illumined with the light of the Spirit,

they put on or reflect something of the divinity, the secret greater

Reality, and this must increase until the interspace has been

crossed and the whole existence is unified in the full light and

power of the spiritual principle. But, for the full and perfect

fulfillment of the evolutionary urge, this illumination and change

must take up and recreate the whole being, mind, life and body; it

must be not only an a inner experience of the Divinity but a

remoulding of both the inner and outer existence by its power; it

must take form not only in the life of the individual but as a

collective life of gnostic beings established as a highest power and

form of the becoming of the Spirit in the earth-nature. For this to

be possible the spiritual entity in us must have developed its own

integralised perfection not only of the inner state of the being but

of the outgoing power of the being and, with that perfection and as

a necessity of its complete action, it must have evolved its own

dynamics and instrumentation of the outer existence. (The Economic

Times)

 

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.