Karma
- (Student:) “You have said here that we are ‘tied to the chain of Karma’, but then sometimes when the Divine Grace acts, that contradicts...
(Mother:) Completely, the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that’s put in the sun.”[1]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “The Law of Karma is not mathematical or mechanical. The Law of Karma simply put is: when certain energies are put forward then certain results tend to be produced. Karma is not the fundamental law of consciousness. The basic law is spiritual. Karma is a secondary machinery to help the consciousness to grow by experience. The laws of being are primarily spiritual. It is quite possible to eliminate the Karmic force – it is not absolute. It is the mind that formulates these laws; and the mind always tries to put them as absolute.”[2]
(Sri Aurobindo:) “It is a concept necessary at a given moment of evolution to prevent people from being in a completely unconscious egoism, in a total unconsciousness of the consequences of what they do. There is no lack of people who are still like that, I believe it is the majority; they follow their impulses and do not even ask themselves whether what they have done is going to have any consequences for them and for others. So it is good that someone tells you straight, with a severe look: “Take care, that has consequences which will last for a very long time!” ”[3]
(Satprem to Mother, January 1959:) “Sweet Mother,
This is to tell you that a knot has very perceptibly come undone in me, for no apparent reason; suddenly, I was breathing easily.
And it happened just as I was despairing of ever getting out of it. I seemed to be touching a kind of fundamental bedrock, so painful, so suffering, and full of revolt because of too much suffering. And I saw that all my efforts, all the meditations, aspirations, mantras, were only covering up this suffering bedrock without touching it. I saw this fundamental thing in me very clearly, a poignant knot, ever ready for an absolute negation. I saw it and I said to you, “Mother, only your grace can remove this.” I said this to you in the temple that morning, in total despair. And then, the knot was undone. Panditji's action contributed a lot, with your grace acting through him. But truly, I have traversed a veritable hell this last while.
Panditji continues his work on me daily; it is to last 41 days in all. He told me that he wants to undo the things of several births. When it is over, he will explain it all to me.”[4]
- ↑ Questions and Answers 1953, p.90
- ↑ Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p.210, 25 December 1939
- ↑ Ibid., p.91
- ↑ Mother's Agenda 1951-1960, 6 January 1959
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