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A Prayer of Aspiration, Consecration and Peaceful Receptivity to the Divine Impulsion in Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as we focus on outer circumstances and involve
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  ourselves in them, we are participating in what some have
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  called the illusory life of the world.
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  The world is not illusory in an ultimate sense, since it is a
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  manifestation of the divine consciousness, but it is
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  illusory in the sense that achievement of specific societal
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  goals or objectives is an end in itself.
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  The more we are fixated on these external actions and their
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  fruits, the less we are able to aspire.
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  Shift the focus toward the divine and be receptive to the
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  divine impulsion that has its own intention in the
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  manifestation in general and in the individual role in
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  particular. Once an individual is able to
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  shift the standpoint to the psychic being, it is able to
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  focus upon the higher vibratory pattern of the divine
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  consciousness, and all external worldly events take on a lesser
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  significance. They represent at that point the
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  residue of past actions, both individual and within.
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  The setting and time within which the individual lives in
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  acts and the facts they present are the result of those past
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  impulsions. The individual then has choices
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  before him, but none of them need destroy the foundation of
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  peace that the spiritual seeker is cultivating.
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  He can either disregard them entirely and focus fully on
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  spiritual aspiration, or he can try to address the circumstances
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  with his ego, personality and the tools he has at his disposal
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  in his mind. Vital and physical being.
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  Or he can call upon the Divine to guide and lead him to an
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  appropriate line of action in regard to what is occurring.
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  To the extent that he can maintain peace and receptivity,
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  he has a better opportunity to tune himself to the larger
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  Divine manifestation and its action, and thereby both
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  understand his role in the process and the best means he
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  can adopt to accomplish that function.
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  The Mother's prayer embodies the aspiration to become a true
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  servitor of that higher truth and become a true doer of divine
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  works. She embodies aspiration,
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  consecration, peace, and receptivity.
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  In the prayer she expresses here, the Mother writes Quote, O
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  Lord, my one aspiration is to know Thee and serve Thee better
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  every day. What do outer circumstances
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  matter? They seem to me each day more
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  vain and illusory, and I take less and less interest in what
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  is going to happen to us in the outer life.
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  But more and more am I intensely interested in the one thing
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  which seems important to me, to know the better in order to
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  serve the better. All outer events must converge
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  upon this goal and this goal alone, and for that all depends
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  upon the attitude we have towards them.
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  To seek Thee constantly in all things, to want to manifest Thee
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  ever better in every circumstance.
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  In this attitude lies supreme peace, perfect serenity, true
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  contentment. In it, life blossoms, widens,
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  expands so magnificently in such majestic waves that no storm can
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  any longer disturb it. O Lord, Thou art our safeguard,
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  our only happiness. Thou art our resplendent light,
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  our pure love, our hope and our strength.
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  Thou art our life, the reality of our being.
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  In a reverent and joyful adoration.
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  I bow to thee. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within,
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  Chapter 1, Looking at Life and Circumstances, pages 31 to 32.