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Weakness of Limitation or the Power of Omnipotence Depends on the Status of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we are feeling weak or limited, we become unhappy.
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  We react with frustration and are discontented with our lot.
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  We feel, in many cases, oppressed by circumstances.
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  We can become depressed if things are not going the way we
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  expect or want them to go. We can become angry with
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  ourselves, with others, with circumstances, with a general
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  lack of what we desire to see or achieve.
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  A shift of our standpoint to the divine standpoint, while it does
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  not imply a change in what actually takes place in the
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  world, is able to provide us the wider context and the peace that
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  comes with understanding how the ego, personality and its
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  existence fits into that larger picture.
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  And it is certainly possible that with this new viewpoint and
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  understanding, the individual can actually mitigate what
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  otherwise would have happened while he was immersed in the ego
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  standpoint and thus unable to conceptualize the bigger picture
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  and understand the larger forces at play, their momentum,
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  trajectory, and potential impact.
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  The 1st result is thus a sense of contentment or peace, knowing
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  that the struggles of the individual, ego personality are
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  part of a larger universal movement of which one is a
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  participant. The 2nd result is one that
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  focuses on how to use the Nexus of the individual to aid in the
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  changes needed and the possible transformation of energies.
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  This can provide the individual with a sense of purpose and at
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  the same time and understanding from a wider perspective of the
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  complexity, time and necessary steps involved, so that the
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  individual can act with a sense of strength and not become
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  discouraged or upset by the steps along the way, any
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  obstacles or temporary setbacks, the mother writes.
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  Quote basically. Disgust, revolt, anger.
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  All these movements of violence are necessary movements of
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  ignorance and limitation, with all the weakness that limitation
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  represents. Revolt is a weakness.
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  It is the feeling of an impotent will.
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  You will, or you think you will. You feel, you see that things
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  are not as they should be, and you revolt against whatever does
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  not agree with what you see. But if you were all powerful, if
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  your will and your vision were all powerful, there would be no
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  occasion for you to revolt. You would always see that all
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  things are as they should be. If we go to the highest level
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  and unite with the consciousness of the Supreme Will, we see at
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  every second, at every moment of the universe, that all is
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  exactly as it should be, exactly as the Supreme wills it.
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  This is omnipotence, and all movements of violence become not
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  only unnecessary but utterly ridiculous.
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  Therefore, there is only one solution to unite ourselves by
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  aspiration, concentration, interiorization and
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  identification with the Supreme Will, and that is both
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  omnipotence and perfect freedom at the same time.
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  And that is the only omnipotence and the only freedom.
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  Everything else is an approximation.
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  You may be on the way, but it is not the entire thing.
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  So if you experience this, you realize that with this supreme
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  freedom and supreme power, there is also a total peace and a
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  serenity that never fails. Therefore, if you feel something
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  which is not that, a revolt, A disgust, something which you
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  cannot accept, it means that in you there is a part which has
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  not been touched by the transformation, something which
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  has kept the old consciousness, something which is still on the
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  path, That is all. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother, Looking from Within,
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  Chapter 2. Looking at Oneself and Others,
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  page 52.