If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting experience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures. Sri Aurobindo.
Within the Grand Abstraction, which is the one Concrete Reality,
there is a silent Communion, wordless thoughtless, utterly formless;
yet within it I barely discern, like the dim paling that heralds a new
dawn, the silent Voices of Others, separated here by both space and time---even
distant time.
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
There are other Communities beyond this. There are far more satisfying Companionships than are possible within the veil of gross matter.
In addition to the inmost and grandest State of all, there are other Worlds, more subtle than this outer field of life, where Consciousness is also embodied, and the Life There is immeasurably richer than all life here below.
All old pleasures and activities have their higher correspondences in that Beyond, but with an inconceivably greater richness of value.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that........not respect...not admire...not acknowledge...not fear...but LOVE him.
What is a horizon without mountains?
The spirit of humankind is inseparable
from the Infinite,
and can be satisfied with nothing short of the Infinite,
and the burden of pain will continue to weigh each persons heart,
and the shadows of sorrow continue to darken their pathway until,
ceasing from wanderings in the dream world of matter,
he or she comes back to their home in the reality of the Eternal.
You are destined for great happiness, for great fulfillment. You are destined for more than you could have believed possible. You have but to acquiesce to the dreams and desires of Spirit, of your higher Self, and to allow that to work through you and to transform you.
The human mind's picture of heaven is the incessant repetition of an eternal monotone. But this is a misconception; for an entry into the gnostic consciousness would be an entry into the Infinite. It would be a self-creation bringing out the Infinite infinitely into form of being, and the interest of the Infinite is much greater and multitudinous as well as more imperishably delightful than the interest of the finite. The evolution in the Knowledge would be a more beautiful and glorious manifestation with more vistas ever unfolding themselves and more intensive in all ways than any evolution could be in the Ignorance. The delight of the Spirit is ever new, the forms of beauty it takes innumerable, its godhead ever young and the taste of delight, rasa of the Infinite eternal and inexhaustible. The gnostic manifestation of life would be more full and fruitful and its interest more vivid than the creative interest of the Ignorance; it would be a greater and happier constant miracle. Sri Aurobindo.
I saw them cross the twilight of an age,
The sun-eyed children of a marvelous dawn, . . .
The massive barrier-breakers of the world, . . .
The architects of immortality. . . .
Bodies made beautiful by the Spirit's light,
Carrying the magic word, the mystic fire,
Carrying the Dionysian cup of joy. Sri Aurobindo, Savitri.
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