"I will dance for God!" - declared my indignant four year old self, when Gran tried to teach me prayer. This story my Gran told me when I was a sweet teen-child who loved singing religious hymns in the (Catholic) church . In my chruch, (in Poland) I never heard priests talk about hell's brimstone and fire and such. I heard beautiful stuff about Jesus. . .and when the Crucifix disappeard from the classrom wall, I felt compelled to do something about it. At recess (our school property had several mature trees) found two sticks, and with grass tied/fashioned a very respectable looking symbol of the Christian faith. . .After school (when alone) managed to hang it beneath some political dignitaries portrait.
That same fiesty-independent energy comes alive now when folks who worship at the feet of the artificial intelligence, insist their lord's "logic" overrides my/our empirically verified Depth data's conclusions about the nature of the transcendent Reality . . . because 'it can't be scientificly verified'.
"We don't understand mind better by blowing it up to cosmic proportion", insists the academic with extremely impoverished view of Reality (Facebook group).
Some confuse peak experiences with spiritual maturity, or in some cases final Enlightenment - and when called out . . .? Only one who can't be bullied into submission, knows what the hostile forces do when challenged.
Many years ago I found myself in the same as Aurobindo's, "The inner guide, the Universal Teacher, showed me my path entirely", boat long before I knew his name. And, like him - due to the many types of descents of Supramental Forces into my being I described in, The Path Ordained by God, Solar Heart Initiation & Confirmation, Epiphany Day, and others - his statement in a letter to his brother resonates with me to a Tee: "All that I do does not depend on my own will, but is done according to the command of the Divine."
When I began having unsolicited Kundalini Shakti awakening experiences, I had no reference point to begin to understand what was happening to me - and (therefore) am all the more grateful for my inner guide's prompting to check out Sri Aurobindo's work. And when I did - despite my, 'his work is way above my head, so what's the point?', stance - I realized that, 'I already know this, because this happenend to me!'
I had zero ambition of being 'spiritual', never thought about it - still it 'happened' because I was born with unbroken continuity of awareness and destined to fulfill my Soul's final or last conversion. . .A type of conversion that enables the transformation of a common being into Gnostic/Divine being who rocks the Supramental body. . .
The 'Supramental body' of the fully liberated Soul. . .She whose veil no mortal has ever lifted sing the Song of His Truth from the source of its Nature in service to the Divine.
Aurobindo confirmed for me that the 'Supramental Truth glided into the lotus of my heart and woke in it the Force that alters fate ' (line from Savitri), because I was already 'on the threshhold of divinity' and rocking this developmental line/intelligence with 'great patience, calm, sobriety, balance, and impersonal detachment and sincerity free from all taint of ego or personal human desire without attachment to any idea of one's own, to any experience, to any kind of imagination, mental building or vital demand - without which the Truth would have no chance establishing itself in its purity in the nature' - Sri A words - paraphrased - from Letters on Yoga.
I am uniquely qualified to confirm for Aurobindo that: "An incarnation is destined, is chosen for you; the human person cannot chose or create an incarnation for himself by his own personal will. To attempt this is to invite a spiritual disaster."
Aurobindo's biographer, Satprem, wrote that: 'He was the first to be baffled by his own experience and . . . it took him some years to understand exactly what had happened.' . . .'And it was on this experience that later on I founded my philosophy not on ideas themselves'.
He studied the Upanishad's and the Gita, was familiar with European psychology, but didn't find explanation for certain psychological experiences. And, only after his contact with Vivekanada all the Kosmic puzzle pieces fell into place.
Including few snippets from intyoga.online.fr/viveka.htm
"Vivekananda came and gave me the knowledge of the intuitive mentality. I had not the least idea about it at the time. + He too did not have it when he was in the body. He gave me detailed knowledge illustrating each point. The contact lasted about three weeks and then he withdrew. + He explained to me in detail the work of the Supermind - not exactly of the Supramental. He did not use the word "Supermind," I gave this name afterwords."
This type of confession sounds woo-woo until one discovers within one's innermost being - in every cell of one's body felt - descents of nature-transforming Supramental Forces, the stark truth that the laws of the Supramental Forces and its Will stand above the material world, above the reach of mind.
The Siddha Master reminds us that: "If evolution is a truth and is not only physical evolution of species, but an evolution of consciousness, it must be a spiritual and not only a physical fact. In that case, it is the individual who evolves and grows into a more and more developed and perfect consciousness and obviously that cannot be done in the course of a brief single human life. If there is the evolution of a conscious individual, then there must be rebirth.
Rebirth is a logical necessity and a spiritual fact of which we can have the experience. Proofs of rebirth, sometimes of an overwhelmingly convincing nature, are not lacking, but as yet they have not been carefully registered and brough about." - Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - 2 p.396
In The Life Divine, we read *which the science geek in me seconds*: "In emerging, therefore, out of materialisitc period of human knowledge we must be careful that we do not rashly condemn what we are leaving out or throw away even one little of its gains, before we can summon perceptions and powers that are well grasped and secure, to occupy their place. Rather we shall observe with respect and wonder the work of what Atheism has done for the Divine and admire the services that Agnosticism has rendered in preparing the illimitable increase of knowledge.
In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near its goal."
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