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- 0:02The time and effort needed to overcome.
- 0:04The numerous impediment along the way for those seeking, the
- 0:07Divine realization imply that the Seeker must have an intense
- 0:13inner drive to carry on through all difficulties and delays
- 0:18encountered. This inner Drive is known as
- 0:22aspiration. It is called the flame of
- 0:25aspiration because of the sense of a burning need deep within
- 0:30the being. And because obstacles are burned
- 0:33up through the intensity of the seeking imagery that attempts to
- 0:38describe the experience of the Divine seeking frequently refers
- 0:43to the Mystic fire in spiritual Traditions, throughout the
- 0:47world. The rishi's of the rigveda
- 0:51understood the Central and essential role, Role of
- 0:54aspiration, the rig Veda has hundreds of hymns to ugly.
- 0:58The Mystic fire which focused on the ability of the flame of
- 1:03aspiration to bring forth the experiences, the powers of
- 1:08knowledge, and action, and the eventual breakthrough in
- 1:12Consciousness to a new status of spiritual realization.
- 1:17SRI aurobindo is translation of the first Hymn of the rig Veda,
- 1:22illustrates the importance of the flame of aspiration quote, I
- 1:28adore the flame, the vicar, the Divine route, Vic of the
- 1:32sacrifice, the Summoner, who most found the Ecstasy, The
- 1:39flame adorable. By the ancient sages is adorable
- 1:43to buy the new. He brings here the Gods.
- 1:48By the flame. One enjoys.
- 1:49A treasure that verily increases day by day.
- 1:52Glorious. Most full of hero power.
- 1:57Oh, Flame the pilgrim, sacrifice on every side of which thou art
- 2:03with the environment. Being that truly goes among the
- 2:07gods, the flame, the Summoner, the sphere will true and most
- 2:14full of richly, varied listenings may he come a god
- 2:19with the Gods. Oh, Flame.
- 2:23The happy good. Which Thou shalt create for The
- 2:26Giver. Is that truth and verily?
- 2:29Thy no. Enjolras.
- 2:31To the O flame. We day by day in the night.
- 2:35And in the light come carrying by our thought, the obeisance to
- 2:42the who Reign is over. Our Pilgrim, sacrifices luminous
- 2:47guardian of the truth increasing in thy own home, Therefore, the
- 2:54easy of access to us as a father unto his son cling to us for our
- 3:00happy State. And quote, the central role of
- 3:05the flame of aspiration is reinforced in the final verse of
- 3:08the Isha. Open shot translated by SRI
- 3:12aurobindo quote. Oh God acne knowing all things
- 3:17that are manifested lead us by the good path to the Felicity.
- 3:22I moved from us. The devious attraction of sin to
- 3:26the completest speech of submission.
- 3:29We would dispose and quote, SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the
- 3:37development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the
- 3:41intensity, and power of its result.
- 3:45Depends primarily in the beginning of the path and long
- 3:49after on the aspiration and personal effort of the Sadiq.
- 3:55The process of yoga is a turning of the human soul.
- 3:59From the egoistic State of Consciousness, absorbed in the
- 4:03outer appearances, and attractions of things to a
- 4:07higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can
- 4:11pour itself into the individual mold and transform it.
- 4:16The first determining element of the city is therefore, the
- 4:20intensity of the turning the force which directs the sole
- 4:24inward. The power of aspiration of the
- 4:28heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the Mind,
- 4:34the perseverance and determination of the Applied
- 4:37Energy are the measure of that intensity.
- 4:41The ideal saw deck should be able to say in the biblical
- 4:45phrase. My Zeal for the Lord has eaten
- 4:48me up? It is this Zeal for the Lord
- 4:53Hoots, aha, the Zeal of the whole nature for its Divine
- 4:56results. The oculata, the hearts
- 5:00eagerness for the attainment of the Divine. it devours the ego
- 5:07and breaks up the limitations of its Petty and narrow mold for
- 5:12the full and wide reception of that, which it seeks that which
- 5:17being Universal exceeds and being Transcendent, surpasses,
- 5:24even the largest and highest individual self and nature and
- 5:30quote, reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother growing Within in
- 5:35the psychology of inner development, chapter 3 growth of
- 5:40Consciousness basic requisites page, 33, and hymns to the
- 5:46Mystic fire pages 39 to