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The Meaning of True and Complete Sincerity in the Spiritual Path · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Just about every individual, including those practicing, a
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  spiritual discipline of some sort creates an image of himself
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  that he then projects out into the world.
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  This image is something of a stylized and idealized version
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  of himself that attempts to present the highest and best of
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  his aspiration, whether it be mental development, expressions
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  of Faith compassion, Goodwill purity.
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  And an abstain Mia's nature. Not given over to
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  overindulgence. To a certain degree.
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  If someone has been called to the spiritual path.
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  There is a truth to this presentation at the same time.
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  The complex elements of human nature and the different parts
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  of the being are not generally unified around this highest and
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  best self. And thus, there are moments when
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  the other element assert themselves in Cloud over the
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  aspiration, the faith, the devotion.
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  The compassionate nature in many instances, the individual does
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  not recognize the chinks in the image and remains quite ignorant
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  of his own weaknesses and failings or else.
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  If he is aware of them, he may try to justify their existence
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  on some basis, this is, especially the case where the
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  vital nature convinces. The mind to justify some
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  expression of Desire. This leads to the question of
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  what is sincerity and how it can be achieved by the spiritual
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  Seeker. A disciple inquires.
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  What does sincerity mean? Exactly?
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  The mother notes quote, there are several degrees of
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  sincerity. The most Elementary degree is
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  not to say, one thing and think another claim, one thing.
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  And want another, for example, what happens quite often to say,
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  I want to make progress, and I want to get rid of my defects
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  and at the same time to cherish ones defects in the
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  Consciousness, and take great care to hide them, so that
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  nobody intervenes and sends them off.
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  This is indeed a very common phenomenon.
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  This is already the second degree.
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  The first degree you see is when someone claims for example, to
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  have a very great aspiration and to want the spiritual life and
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  at the same time, those completely how to put it
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  shamelessly things, which are most contradictory to the
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  spiritual life. This is indeed a degree of
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  sincerity rather of insincerity, which is most obvious.
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  But there is a second degree which I have just described to
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  you which is like this. There's one part of the being
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  which has an aspiration and says even thinks even feels that it
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  would very much like to get rid of defects imperfections and
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  then at the same time other parts which hide these defects
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  and Imperfections very carefully.
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  So as not to be compelled to expose them and get over them,
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  this is very And finally, if we go far enough, if we push the
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  description far enough so long as there is a part of the being
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  which contradicts the central aspiration for the Divine one is
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  not perfectly sincere, that is to say a perfect, sincerity is
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  something extremely rare and most commonly very, very
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  frequently. When there are things in one's
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  nature, which one does not like one takes the greatest care too
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  high. Hide them from oneself.
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  One finds favorable explanations were simply, makes a little
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  movement like this gesture. You have noticed that when
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  things move like this, you can't see them clearly, well, where
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  the defect is seated, there is a kind of vibration which does
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  this. And so your site is not clear,
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  you no longer see your defects, And this is automatic.
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  Well, all these are insincerity, 's and perfect.
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  Sincerity comes when at the center of the being, there is
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  the consciousness of the divine presence, the consciousness of
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  the Divine will. And when the entire being like a
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  luminous, clear transparent whole expresses this in all its
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  details. This is indeed true sincerity.
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  When it any moment, whatever may happen.
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  The being has given itself to the Divine and wants only the
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  Divine will when no matter what is going on in the being at any
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  moment, whatever, always the whole being in perfect unanimity
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  can say, to the Divine and feels for the Divine, let thy will be
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  done when it is spontaneous total integral.
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  Then you are sincere but until this is established, it is a
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  mixed sincerity more or less mixed right up to the point
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  where one is not at all sincere. One must never pretend that one
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  is one must be spontaneously. This is sincerity in reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness, basic requisites pages, 39 to 41,