The Pressing Question

The pressing question for each invited participant to ask oneself is "Why am I in Auroville?"

Here's our founder the Mother, especially for the ones experiencing difficulties in understanding that this City of Dawn is a multi-generational project with a distinct purpose of hastening the progress of the individual and the collectivity, both spiritually and materially. Thus:

"(About certain individuals and groups willing to aid Auroville’s development)

They may not practise themselves, but if they do not know about Yoga, how can they understand the purpose of Auroville?"

https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/finance

That is quite clear enough. Invited participants and goodwilled collaborators must know about Yoga, or must be made aware that this is a necessity prior to participating in Auroville. Even our educational systems for all ages must be geared for this, preparing and nurturing the new generation to fully discover their innate divinity. It is fortunate that we are already blessed with the Integral Supramental Yoga of our Avatar founders Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Yoga has three fundamental inseparable legs: Bhakti-Jnana-Karma, Devotion-Knowledge-Action.

For those who already have some yogic experience, we were invited here not only to practice the old Yogas towards a Nirvanic escape or a Moksha. That is only the ascending path, the first necessity of being a True Aurovilian. And upon that Self-realisation, we descend back to the terrestrial Play to divinise Matter. This Integral Supramental Yogic process has been concisely and clearly outlined in our Three Core Ideals in the following order: A Dream, The Auroville Charter and To Be a True Aurovilian.

The first necessity of finding one's soul, one's psychic being is the basis of Yoga. Thus with those participating in Auroville without this basic yogic aspiration or experience, instead of harmoniously collaborating with the collective psycho-spiritual-supramental-material progress, the result is disharmony due to the persistence of the tamasic forces within them resisting progressive change. This tamasic attitude is one of the more tenacious negative aspects of the adverse and hostile cosmic forces influencing unconscious individuals that our Kalki Avatar founders Sri Aurobindo and the Mother label as "the past that seeks to endure."

Here are Sri Aurobindo and the Mother elucidating on the meaning and progressive stages of Yoga:

"One must first find one’s soul, this is absolutely indispensable, and identify oneself with it. Later one can come to the transformation. Sri Aurobindo has written somewhere: “Our Yoga begins where the others end.” Usually yoga leads precisely to this identification, this union with the Divine — that is why it is called “yoga”. And when people reach this, well, they are at the end of their path and are satisfied. But Sri Aurobindo has written: we begin when they finish; you have found the Divine but instead of sitting down in contemplation and waiting for the Divine to take you out of your body which has become useless, on the contrary, with this consciousness you turn to the body and to life and begin the work of transformation—which is very hard labour. It’s here that he compares it with cutting one’s way through a virgin forest; because as nobody has done it before, one must make one’s path where there was none. But to try to do this without having the indispensable directive of the union with the Divine within, within one’s soul, is childishness. There.

I am speaking of yoga. I am not speaking of your life, of you all, you children here. That’s different. You are here to develop yourselves. And when you are developed and have a precise thought of your own, a vision of your own, when you have enough knowledge to be able to choose freely what life you want to lead, then at that time you will take a decision.

But those who have already taken the decision, well for them it is first of all indispensable to find their soul and unite with their psychic being, and with the Divine who is within it. This is an absolutely indispensable beginning. One can’t leap over that bridge; it is not possible. It can be done very quickly if you know how to use the help that’s given to you (the Bhakti part); but it has to be done."

https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/2-november-1955 (carefully read it all and understand)

All this progressive mindful understanding is part of the Jnana, the Knowledge part of the triune Bhakti-Jnana-Karma Yoga.

I write this for the proper understanding of this Divine Play, this Lila, this existence that we call Life that we are all engaged in, especially here in Auroville. It will continue on regardless of anyone's non-understanding or Ignorance of the Play. Either one progresses on in surrendered devotion, in Bhakti to the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti who has the effective Power to open us up to be more and more conscious, leading to the inner yogic harmony and joy in collaborating with the ever-hastening and unstoppable push of evolution towards the supremely decreed Life Divine here on Earth, or one learns through the long and hard egoistic path of disharmonious pain and suffering that will intensely compel the individual to change.

Thus so, again, the need for Yoga:

"The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances.

At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville."

We continue on...

ॐ 2024.07.01