Divine Unity and Freedom

We continue on with the Auroville Drama that is plastered all over social media.

The problem with some of these 'self-professed Aurovilians" is their alliance with selfishness and greed, hypocritically shouting to the whole world "Human Unity!" and "Freedom!" but are themselves not acting to create the social conditions necessary for Divine Unity and Freedom to truly manifest, that which our very Charter states as "a living embodiment of an actual human unity". They only want their own comfort and control lured by the egoistic desire for either money, power or sex or all of it, blind to the sufferings of their fellow humans and continues to abuse and pauperise them. Thus the karmic pushback of the abused that is done in corruption or to simply serve the needs of the untrue and undivinely corrupted, or worst, a walk-out or suicide in disillusionment. For the living dead, attachments and addictions ensue, feeding the vicious cycle of greed and corruption continuously until it becomes a festering cancer. At this point the full Self-correcting nature of the Cosmos kicks in and starts obliterating the very causes of the disharmony and disease to bring back the inherent Harmony and Balance and Joy of Conscious Existence, of Satchitananda Itself. Of course the proponents of the past that seeks to endure start squirming and complaining and shouting all the way to the courts, with the lawyers happily assisting with their hefty professional fees. What head-splitting hair-pulling troubles silly humans get themselves into. Anyway, as even Nike says, "no pain, no gain".

If only all that effort and wealth and energy were used for the development of Auroville the City of Dawn as per the Core Ideal Vision-Goals¹ of its Avatar founders Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, then the hammerings of the gods would have been a little bit more gentle.

Here are the Avatar's continuing Divine Guidance for anyone who has had enough of the egotistical aspect of humans and who now wish to mend their ways and sincerely and joyfully work as Conscious Willing Servitors and Hero Warriors of the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti for the spiritual and material betterment and well-being of their dear brothers and sisters:

“Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: servitude is the law of love in the being voluntarily giving itself to serve the play of its other selves in the multiplicity.”

Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386

"At a superficial glance these two things appear absolutely contradictory and incompatible. Outwardly one cannot conceive how one can be at once in freedom and in servitude, but there is an attitude which reconciles the two and makes them one of the happiest states of material existence.

Freedom is a sort of instinctive need, a necessity for the integral development of the being. In its essence it is a perfect realisation of the highest consciousness, it is the expression of Unity and of union with the Divine, it is the very sense of the Origin and the fulfilment. But because this Unity has manifested in the many—in the multiplicity—something had to serve as a link between the Origin and the manifestation, and the most perfect link one can conceive of is love. And what is the first gesture of love? To give oneself, to serve. What is its spontaneous, immediate, inevitable movement? To serve. To serve in a joyous, complete, total self-giving.

So, in their purity, in their truth, these two things—freedom and service—far from being contradictory, are complementary. It is in perfect union with the supreme Reality that perfect freedom is found, for all ignorance, all unconsciousness is a bondage which makes you inefficient, limited, powerless. The least ignorance in oneself is a limitation, one is no longer free. As long as there is an element of unconsciousness in the being, it is a limitation, a bondage. Only in perfect union with the supreme Reality can perfect freedom exist. And how to realise this union if not through a spontaneous self-giving: the gift of love. And as I said, the first gesture, the first expression of love is service.

So the two are closely united in the Truth. But here on earth, in this world of ignorance and inconscience, this service which should have been spontaneous, full of love, the very expression of love, has become something imposed, an inevitable necessity, performed only for the maintenance of life, for the continuation of existence, and thus it has become something ugly, miserable—humiliating. What should have been a flowering, a joy, has become an ugliness, a weariness, a sordid obligation. And this sense, this need for freedom has also been deformed and has become that kind of thirst for independence which leads straight to revolt, to separation, isolation, the very opposite of true freedom.

Independence!… I remember having heard an old occultist and sage give a beautiful reply to someone who said, “I want to be independent! I am an independent being! I exist only when I am independent!” And the other answered him with a smile, “Then that means that nobody will love you, because if someone loves you, you immediately become dependent on this love.”

It is a beautiful reply, for it is indeed Love which leads to Unity and it is Unity which is the true expression of freedom. And so those who in the name of their right to freedom claim independence, turn their backs completely on this true freedom, for they deny Love.

The deformation comes from constraint.

One cannot love through compulsion, you cannot be compelled to love, it is no longer love. Therefore, as soon as compulsion intervenes, it becomes a falsehood. All the movements of the inner being must be spontaneous movements, with that spontaneity which comes from an inner harmony, an understanding—from a voluntary self-giving—from a return to the deeper truth, the reality of being, the Origin and the Goal."²

"It becomes a falsehood..."

That is why The Lord of Falsehood³ aka The Lord of the Nations⁴ is still well alive at play and kicking together with its horde of gross mental and vital beings so attracted to and provocateurs of the animal-human desire for money-power-sex, and has promised to unleash the worst havoc and chaos on Earth before he is destroyed. Their play is becoming more obvious with extreme soullessness with all these "right in your face" adharmic influences enslaving and devouring the pitiful humans.

Well, they have no qualms in playing their "falsehood, adverse and hostile" roles to compel enough humans through difficulties, pains and sufferings to search within for their psychic being as preparation for the Supramental Solution.⁵ "Mirror, mirror on the wall."

Anyway, the Great Cosmic Battle continues...

We consciously march on in the Sunlit Path of Bhakti to the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti⁶ until the Divine Manifestation of the Supramental being that will have the Direct Will to dissolve all these adverse and hostile forces.

Om Namo Bhagavate 🙏🏼