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The Soul's Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The most direct way to align oneself with the divine will is
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  to treat the soul, the psychic being, as the standpoint from
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  which the being takes its stance.
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  This is not a mental analysis, a desire of the vital, or a
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  physical need or impulsion. Rather, it takes the form of an
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  aspiration, a prayer, a consecration which recognizes
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  the Divine as the focus, driver and director of all one's
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  actions. The Mother observes quote Every
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  morning my aspiration rises ardently to Thee, and in the
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  silence of my satisfied heart I ask that Thy law of love be may
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  be expressed, that Thy will may manifest.
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  And in anticipation I adhere with joy and serenity to those
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  circumstances which will express this law and this will.
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  Oh, why be restless and want that for oneself things should
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  turn out in one way and not another?
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  Why decide that a particular set of circumstances will be the
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  expression of the best possibilities, and then launch
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  into a bitter struggle so that these possibilities may be
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  realized? Why not use all one's energy
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  solely to will, in the calm of inner confidence that thy law
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  may triumph everywhere and always over all difficulties,
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  all darkness, all egoism. How the horizon widens as soon
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  as one learns to take this attitude.
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  How all anxiety vanishes, giving place to a constant
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  illumination, to the omnipotence of disinterestedness to will.
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  What Thou willest, O Lord, is to live constantly in communion
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  with Thee, to be delivered from all contingencies, to escape all
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  narrowness, to fill one's lungs with pure and wholesome air, to
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  get rid of all useless weariness, be relieved of all
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  cumbrous loads, so as to run briskly towards the only goal
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  worth attaining the triumph of Thy Divine Law.
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  O Lord, with what joy and trust I greet Thee this morning.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 1, Looking at Life and
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  Circumstances, pages 30 to 31.