Last Link is the Missing Link
- Those who seriously try to take to consecration are thwarted by a thought that defies consecration.
- One has to start with the mind, that is, thought.
- What do we do when the thought defies the effort?
- Each time mankind came to a halt, it sought fresh knowledge.
- We do not have that difficulty as Sri Aurobindo has already given us all the knowledge needed. Then we must see what is missing.
- That which defies consecration can be anything. Here, it is thought.
- We begin to think what to do next.
- Thinking will not yield the result when thought defies.
- That which thinks is mind and ego, both of which are to be overcome. Yes, but how?
- His explanation is that the Subject and Object are separated by analysis and ego.
- Object is thought, Subject is Psychic, Analysis is the intervening mental person.
- Thinking keeps us in the mind.
- Not thinking will lead to Silence.
- Consecration cannot be done by the ego or the mind. It can be done by the spiritual element in the thinking, which is its being.
- Knowing thinking is a bar and trying to wake up in the spiritual element of thinking, leads to a Silence.
- That Silence will be rich and heavy in the mind.
- To will from inside that the psychic of thought should consecrate to the psychic of mind, is to overcome the defiance of thought.
- To break that resistance is possible by instruction.
- To maintain it is possible only by perseverance.
- Concentration in the mind will not complete consecration.
- Consecration needs all-inclusive concentration.
- The issue here is to overcome the defying thought that defies consecration.
- We suggested the solution that only the spiritual being in the physical consciousness can do it. It is true.
- It can be differently stated that the mental concentration needs to be replaced by all-inclusive concentration.
- All-inclusive concentration in thought is concentration in its thinking, feeling, and sensational parts.
- Obviously to such a concentration, a part of it, the thinking is subordinate.
- The moment the mind conceives of this wider idea, there is a calm and silence that is rich.
- The conception can mature into perception.
- This perception has greater power and we see our thought that so far defied us is now overpowered.
- Finally, this perception can ripen into sensation of the body.
- Now ‘we' are capable of consecrating the thought or if we choose, to surrender it.
- Still the choice before man is real, if it does not loom large.
- One who is earnest about consecrating the thought now knows the key, and the three stages by which he can dominate it.
- For the consecration of vital feelings the process is again the same, but the effort, the required energy and the determination of the will are needed in a far greater measure.
- For the last step, not only strength and energy are called for, but the alertness needed is absolute.
- To be able to spot the impulses of subtle thought in the physical consciousness and physical substance when they are seen as movements, the needed alertness is greatest.
- To install Mother there is the yogic version of this consecration.
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