The Divine Understanding of Humility

As invited participants in Auroville this City of Dawn, let us repeatedly look very carefully at the Symbol of our founder the Mother and realise where Humility is situated in the progressive Integral Yogic practice towards Divine Perfection:







  • https://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/january-19-1972

  • "The first eight concern the attitude towards the Divine..." (Mother was very specific, that is, Humility is not towards the compromised transitional ego-bound human, but towards the Divine who speaks and works through Her surrendered instruments acting in Sincerity)

  • "...and the last four towards humanity" (upon perfection of the first eight, with Equality as a proactive Samatā¹)

Why do we need this divine understanding of Humility?

Because there is a dark side to using “humility” as a debilitating tool for psychological warfare. This group conditioning phrase "you must be humble, must be quiet" has been deviously used by many religious and false spiritual powerholders and manipulators in history and up to this day to control the weak, suppressed with "stupid humility", like Udar who became ineffectively speechless under this moral hypnosis during a critical life-changing chance to uplift someone’s spirits, and was scolded by the Mother:

“Udar! I put those words into your head and your stupid humility stopped you. Do you know that the lady’s whole life would have been changed just by hearing those words? Really, Udar, you have been very stupid and I am not pleased. You have lost a great opportunity for opening her to me.”²

We can also refer to another of Mother’s Divine Guidance to go beyond these societal enslaving programmings and appearances for anyone aspiring “To Be A True Aurovilian”, from one of our Three Core Ideals³, to discover one’s Soul or Psychic being:

“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 can also always remember that we are now in Mother India, Bharat Mata Herself of the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, invited to participate in the Auroville the City of Dawn of the Supramental revolutionary Kalki Avatar Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the World Redeemer⁴, direct incarnations of the Supreme Divine Ishwara-Shakti. And we are their fearless and courageous torchbearers, willing servitors and Hero Warriors consciously working in our unique roles and capacities to transform or dissolve the adverse and hostile forces and puppets of the past that seeks to endure.

In the Sunlit Path of Bhakti to the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti we courageously continue on towards our specific collectively shared Vision-Goal towards the Supramental Victory!

Om Namo Bhagavate 🙏🏼

ॐ Zech, 2024.08.18

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1. https://renaissance.aurosociety.org/what-is-yogic-samata-sri-aurobindo-explains/

2. More Vignettes of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, p.182 (as shared by a sister Aurovilian)

3. https://auroville.org/page/core-documents

4. https://zechjoya.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-world-redeemer.html

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