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Hobson's Choice of Enjoyment

 

  • Man's choice is endless, and exists at all points of action.
  • Life was murky, it crucified Jesus and destroyed its saints.
  • Mind was born in Greece before the time of Jesus, represented by Socrates. That was mind in the Individual. He was killed.
  • Mind was born in the collective during the 16th century.
  • Hamlet represented that collective individual.
  • In the play, he dies along with six others.
  • Truths of life could be spoken by Shakespeare only through tragedies.
  • Truths of life were there all along, but as social life was dark and cruel, these great truths could be expressed only in tragic circumstances.
  • After the advent of Sri Aurobindo, the earth's atmosphere is fast losing its negative intensity.
  • Its strongest aspect is the abolition of wars.
  • Its social aspect is discovery of the value of the common man, particularly the invalids.
  • This is how the world is discovering its own spiritual values.
  • Brett, the 18 year old boy who took to silence for a year has given a message that one should discover oneself. Though this is a simple and known theory in the world since a long time, coming from USA, it is of the greatest significance. He follows Tom Peters who pleaded for freedom in work.
  • Life accomplishes through six aspects successively, which are - Unity, Truth, Goodness, Knowledge, Power and Love.
  • Sri Aurobindo and The Mother worked for the earth, removed the atmosphere of suffering and tragedy from the vital atmosphere of life.
  • The world apes the Amish culture and turns a deaf ear or a blind eye to the splendour Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have opened in life.
  • The wave of prosperity the world saw was not the one for which the world worked, especially in USA.
  • An unprecedented number of jobs were created in a period when unemployment was growing.
  • It was in spite of humanity, not because of their work. Man then received grace unconsciously.
  • Now he is resisting grace consciously, destroying what Clinton built up.
  • In every period that society advances, we see the retrograde forces subsiding for a while and reasserting themselves later.
  • That is the physical vital part of man.
  • Church organised the Love of Jesus into a religion whose spirit died at birth.
  • Protestantism gave birth to democracy and survives by its extension into politics.
  • The ushering in of communism was usurped by the state which changed it into tyranny of the police.
  • Sri Aurobindo has brought down Love and protected it by Power preceding it.
  • He expanded the borders or frontiers of existence, abolishing Ignorance from the Mind, the Vital and the Physical consciousness. He and She suffered intolerably working in the physical substance.
  • The Yoga or Life They had crossed is full of Joy, only Joy.
  • Man has the Hobson's choice of Joy, choosing Them.
  • To be true to Them we must work where They have left.
  • The Boon He spoke of, is there in life for us to take.
  • By doing so our bodies become the Delight of Existence, seeking the secret Godhead, if only our hidden consciousness is sufficiently tempted.



story | by Dr. Radut