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The Illusion of Constant Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a malady of modern society that we believe we must stay
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  constantly busy. We do not understand nor
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  appreciate the value of quiet time for contemplation and
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  stepping outside of the world of day-to-day activities, to unite
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  our awareness with that of the Consciousness, which manifests
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  in the Universal creation, everyone is busy.
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  While very few are actually accomplish Anything of note.
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  Modern society projects into this Buzz of constant motion.
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  In the end, this activity comes to very little.
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  If anything of serious note in the process of the world and the
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  evolution of Consciousness that is the secret thread that holds
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  together the changing forms and developments in life, one is
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  reminder of Macbeth's plaint in Shakespeare's.
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  Famous play of that name quote life's but a walking Shadow a
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  poor player that struts and frets His hour upon the stage
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  and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot,
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  full of Sound and Fury signifying.
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  Nothing and quote, the mother notes, quote, agitation haste,
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  restlessness lead. Nowhere, it is foam on the see.
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  It is a great fuss that stops with itself.
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  Men have a feeling that if they are not all the but I'm running
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  about and bursting into fits of feverish activity.
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  They are doing nothing. It is an illusion.
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  To think that all these so-called movements change
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  things, it is merely taking a cup and beating the water in it.
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  The water is moving about, but it is not changed for all.
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  Your Beating. This illusion of action is one
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  of the greatest illusions of human nature, it hurts progress
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  because it brings on you. Necessity of rushing, always
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  into some excited movement. If you could only perceive the
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  illusion and see how useless it all is, how it changes.
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  Nothing. Nowhere.
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  Can you achieve anything by it? Those who are thus rushing about
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  are the tools of forces that make them dance for their own
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  amusement and they are not forces of the best quality
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  either. Whatever has been done in the
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  world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the
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  action in silence for his day. Who are the instruments of the
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  divine power? They are Dynamic agents
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  conscious instruments. They bring down the forces to
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  change the world. Things can be done that way, not
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  by a Restless activity, in peace, in silence, and in
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  quietness, the world, Spilt and each time that something is to
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  be truly built. It is in peace and silence and
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  quietness that it must be done. It is ignorance to believe that
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  you must run from morning to night and labor at all sorts of
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  futile things in order to do something for the world.
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  Once you step back from these whirling forces into quiet
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  regions, you see, how great is the illusion, Humanity?
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  Appears to you like, A mass of blind creatures, rushing about
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  without knowing what they do, or why they do it and only knocking
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  and stumbling against each other.
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  And it is this that they call Action in life.
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  It is empty, agitation not action, not true life.
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  I said once that to speak usefully for 10 minutes, you
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  should remain silent for 10 days.
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  I could add that to act usefully for one day.
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  You should keep quiet for a year.
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  Of course, I am. Not speaking of the ordinary
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  day-to-day acts that are needed for the common external life.
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  But of those who have or believe that they have something to do
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  for the world and the silence, I speak of is the inner quietude
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  that those alone have who can act without being identified
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  with their action merged into it.
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  And Blinded and deafened by the noise and form of their own
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  movement. Stand, back from your action and
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  Rise into an Outlook above, these temporal motions, enter
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  into the consciousness of Eternity.
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  Then only you will know what true action is.
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  And quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the vital Oil haste and agitation Pages 61 to
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  63.