Edit expanded in April 2024:
The Divine Spirit/Universal Teacher within my fully awakened eternal self-Soul has been my most trusted guiding Principle because I submitted my will to its Will. Sri Aurobindo discovered within his innermost being same Truth: "God's Will is Consciousness applying itself to a work and results" & "That which is immortal in mortals is a God established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers." How do I know this statement about "God's energy' within my interiority is true? In 1994 'by fluke' *with open eyes and spiritualized consciousness* I discovered I had a vast aura-field 'knitted' by golden Light and a narrow band of blue light next to my skin. Gopi Krishana perfectly described what this 'means':
"The *immortal* body made of the fire of Yoga, refers to the mantle around the Knowing Self, which in case of accomplished Yogi, encircles his inner being day and night. This is the divadeha of the divine body, inside the gross body of flesh, in which one finds oneself unsheathed. when Kundalini irradiates and opens the new channel of perception in the brain."
What we bear witness to is written from the post-enlightenment stages. . . and a 'cloistered lifestyle', due to the 'imperative demand of the soul'. This 'happened' to Aurobindo, this is why he wrote:
"There are many who pursue inwardly the spiritual life and keep family duties, not as social duties but as a field for the practice of karmayoga, others abandon everything to follow the spiritual CALL or line and they are justified if, that is necessary for the yoga they practice or if that is the imperative demand of the soul within them." -Excerpt from: Letters On Yoga.
In letter to his brother, Aurobindo's words describe what this type of 'lifestyle' demands of us:
"My coming to meet you on the fourth January was settled, but I could not come; this did not happened of my own accord. I had to go where the Lord led me. This time I did not go for my own work, I had gone for for His work. . .hence-forward I am no longer my own master; I will have to go like a puppet wherever the Divine takes me; I shall have to carry out like a puppet whatever he makes me do. . .all that I do does not depend on my own will, but its done according to the command of the Divine."
I most definitely resonate with this becoming like a 'puppet' assertion because from day one (early 90's) I was "literally* Soul-directed to become Vibrational Healer.
Aurobindo's body of work is immense and I doubt I will ever read everything he's written, but what I have read so far, is verifying to me. Recently I chanced upon his description of the 'Divine', and agree that:
The Divine is everywhere on all planes of consciousness seen by us in different ways and aspects of His being. But there is a Supreme which is above all these planes and ways and aspects and from which they come. +
These two sets of three names each mean the same thing. Visva or Virat = the Spirit of the external universe, Hiranyagarba or Taijasa (The Lumnious) = the Spirit in the inner planes, Prajna, or Ishwara = the Superconscient Spirit, Master of all things and the highest Self on which all depends. The Mental cannot be Ishwara. +
Virat is the outer manifestation and if we take all that as Brahman without knowing what is behind the manifestation we shall fall into the intellectual error of Pantheism, not realising that the Divine is more than this outer manifestation and cannot be known by it alone. In the vital we may fall into the error of accepting what is dark and imperfect on same terms as that which makes for the light and divine perfection. There maybe many other consequent errors also.
intyoga.online.fr/ppb2.htm
One whose Essence 'becomes LOVE without boundaries', knows that our/this 'great change' is Grace-bestowed by the Law of Ordained Inevitability at the apex-point of one's Soul's evolution. . . and 'used' for the benefit of all beings in all domains of creation. The River of Light post, scribbled in May 2010, describes visible to the eye of contemplation and felt in every fiber of my being Divine/Shakti-Light's flow out of my Crown chakra into world's hologram via subtle planes. I don't know if Aurobindo knew/experienced this *flow*, but am glad to say when I chanced upon his brilliant word-elaboration about the 'Divine Worker', I was a happy camper: Excerpts from: Volume B, Essays on the Gita.
So too this God-lover will be the divine worker, not for the sake of works or for self-regarding pleasure in action, but because in this way God expands the power of his being and in his powers and their signs we find him, because the divine Will in works is the outflowing of the Godhead in delight of his power, of divine Being in the delight of Divine Force. He will feel perfect joy in works and acts of the Beloved, because in them too he finds the Beloved. +
A work like ours has not only to bring down and represent and embody the Divine, but to represent too the ascending element in humanity and to bear the burden of humanity to the full and experience, and not in a mere play or Lila, but in grim earnest, all obstruction, difficulty, opposition, baffled and hampered and only slowly victorious labour which are possible on the Path. +
Therefore the liberated man is not afraid of action, he is a large and universal doer of all works, not as others do them in subjection to Nature, but poised in the silent calm of the soul, tranquity in Yoga with the Divine. The Divine is the lord of his works, he is only her channel through the instrumentality of his nature, conscious of and subject to her Lord. By the flaming intensity and purity of this knowledge all his works are burnd up as in a fire and his mind remains without any stain or disfiguring mark from them, calm, silent, unperturbed, white and clean and pure. To do all in this liberation knowledge, without the personal egoism of the doer, is the first sign of the divine worker.
Divine Labor, or Cosmic Tonglen Duty doesn't 'supposed' to make sense to the intellect and its logic. . .Only one whose eternal self-Soul attains Erotic Union with the Essence of the Supreme Beloved, can know what the 'Ultimate Consummation' is about, and knows what 'Self-generating Bliss' means/signifies.
In this blog, I'm attemppting to the best to my non-academic ability to unpack decades worth of actual/direct contact with the Universal Mind/God and Descends of its 'more ruthless than love and sweeter than heaven' (Aurobindo) Supramental Forces into my bodlily being. . .in order to carry out its Work. . .
Soul-level Initiations includes: descriptions of vibratory sensations when my spiritual eye penetrated the subtle, causal domains; description of sensations in the Crown chakra when someone's towards-me-directed rage and thought forms I felt and saw in all its uncouth glory; and made a note of something so sweet but puzzling and persistent with right ear perceived 'flute-like' cosmic chant melody that lasted about two years... all this and much more! It is impossible to describe what Cosmic Tonglen Duty is And besides, it would be foolish of me to disclose everything, because some things are definitely for my ears and eyes only, but can add:
Because I am in permanent bhava Samadhi state, during the day I hear all types of hertz vibrations encoding themselves into my stretched to infinity Universal Body. The Shabd master in me knows that rage and fear of the collective energy feels very 'spiky', and during the hours I'm in bed (10-12hr) the blazing white Divine Radiance of Shakti Light burns to ash the 'spikeness'.
This is the hardest job on the planet because I don't get any 'down time'.
Edit-adding link to Contemplative Science
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2017/09/contemplative-science.html
