Still Undivine

Still undivine... thus the proactive aspiration To Be a True Aurovilian.

https://auroville.org/page/a-true-aurovilian (the acknowledgement and solution to humanity's existential problems declared in crystal clarity to all invited participants since 1970, integrally inseparable with A Dream and The Auroville Charter)

Auroville is no utopia, before, now nor in any coming transitional human generation.

Here's Sri Aurobindo to remind us of our still quite obvious undivine human nature, the "humanity in the mass (that) is still a hard, crude and vile ore":

"The universe is a manifestation of an infinite and eternal All-Existence: the Divine Being dwells in all that is; we ourselves are that in our self, in our own deepest being; our soul, the secret indwelling psychic entity, is a portion of the Divine Consciousness and Essence.

This is the view we have taken of our existence; but at the same time we speak of a divine life as the culmination of the evolutionary process, and the use of the phrase implies that our present life is undivine and all the life too that is below us.

At the first glance this looks like a self-contradiction; instead of making a distinction between the divine life we aspire for and a present undivine existence, it would be more logical to speak of an ascent from level to higher level of a divine manifestation.

It may be admitted that essentially, if we look at the inner reality alone and discount the suggestions of the outer figure, such might be the nature of the evolution, the change we have to undergo in Nature; so it would appear perhaps to the impartial eye of a universal vision untroubled by our dualities of knowledge and ignorance, good and evil, happiness and suffering and participating in the untrammelled consciousness and delight of Sachchidananda.

And yet, from the practical and relative point of view as distinguished from an essential vision, the distinction between the divine and the undivine has an insistent value, a very pressing significance.

This then is an aspect of the problem which it is necessary to bring into the light and assess its true importance.

The distinction between the divine and the undivine life is in fact identical with the root distinction between a life of Knowledge lived in self-awareness and in the power of the Light and a life of Ignorance,—at any rate it so presents itself in a world that is slowly and with difficulty evolving out of an original Inconscience.

All life that has still this Inconscience for its basis is stamped with the mark of a radical imperfection; for even if it is satisfied with its own type, it is a satisfaction with something incomplete and inharmonious, a patchwork of discords: on the contrary, even a purely mental or vital life might be perfect within its limits if it were based on a restricted but harmonious self-power and self-knowledge.

It is this bondage to a perpetual stamp of imperfection and disharmony that is the mark of the undivine; a divine life, on the contrary, even if progressing from the little to the more, would be at each stage harmonious in its principle and detail: it would be a secure ground upon which freedom and perfection could naturally flower or grow towards their highest stature, refine and expand into their most subtle opulence.

All imperfections, all perfections have to be taken into view in our consideration of the difference between an undivine and a divine existence..."

Sri Aurobindo . The Divine and the Undivine

https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-and-the-undivine

“The whole earth must prepare itself for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to work consciously to hasten this advent.”

To Be a True Aurovilian…

That is the aspiration and the solution.

No pretensions.

Om Namo Bhagavate 🙏🏼