Today's focus is to underline the importance of not only having trust, or faith that the Soul's intelligence is unfolding her own evolution, but also highlight why it is wise to surrender to her will. She is the Spirit-fire which burns bright when our hearts and minds are on fire . . . are filled with the energy of compassionate concern for other beings -- because we now see that there is no 'other', in principle.
If selfish concerns are on the main burner , be most certain that she won't get much traction. Feeding starving children opens our heart center. This is her / God's will because at the Soul level, we are connected....we are all God's children, our original Divine Parent before our parents were born (as the Buddhist would say).
No heart-energy, no soul-traction. No problem -- just don't claim "Liberation", because as soon as you do....
The Shakti in her workings will strike ruthlessly at all forms of ignorance and blindness and all even that trusts wrongly and superstitiously in her, and we must be prepared to abandon a too persistent attachment to forms and cling to reality alone. - Sri Aurobindo
The Soul's Blissananda-consciousness - which some call Divine Shakti-bliss-Light, or in Christian speak, the Holy Spirit -- is our guiding light-principle...is what guides and gives us the strenght to carry out our inspired actions in the world of form.
Pretty much all of my life I lived what Sri Aurobindo describes as the "four part of perfection" , this explains why I always had this uncanny trust that I was always "in good hands". And even when I didn't believe in 'God', my inner-promptings, mystical Visions and other intuitions gave me the courage to trust this process.
Had I been filled with self-importance and had ambitions of becoming a great enlightened being with megalomaniac dreams of being 'very important' in other's eyes....I would never get plugged to the Essence of the Divine Beloved, and most importantly, I would lack the empirical data on high Archetypes, and no knowledge what they represent.
Aurobindo's four part perfection:
I - "the perfection of the intelligence, heart, vital consciousness and body.
II - "the perfection of the fundamental soul powers".
III - " the perfection of the surrender of our instruments and action to the divine Shakti"
IV - "depend at every moment to their progression on a fourth power that is covertly and overtly the pivot of all endeavour and action, faith, shraddha."
"The perfect faith is an assent of the whole being to the truth seen by it or offered to its acceptance, and its central working is a faith of the soul in its own will to be and attain and become and its idea of Self and things and its knowledge, of which the belief of the intellect, the heart's consent and desire of the life mind to possess and realise are the outward figures". (...)
The heart's faith, emotional beliefs, assents are also needed upon the way, but cannot be always sure guides until they too are taken up, purified, transformed and are eventually replaced by the luminous assent of a divine Ananda which is at one with the divine will and knowledge. http://intyoga.online.fr/ysp_18.htm
