Thursday, December 18, 2008

Man belonging to the godheads of future.

*[Individual man] is not merely the noble, merchant, warrior, priest, scholar, artist, cultivator or artisan, not merely the religionist or the worldling or the politician. Nor can he be limited by his nationality; he is not merely the Englishman or Frenchman, the Japanese or the Indian; if by a part of himself he belongs to the nation, by another he exceeds it and belongs to humanity. And even there is a part in him the greatest, which is not limited by humanity; he belongs by it to God and to the world of all beings and to the godheads of the future.
[The Human Cycle-page 69]

Non-violence

*There is a truth in Ahimsa, there is a truth in destruction also. I do not teach that you should go on killing everybody everyday as a spiritual dharma. I say that destruction can be done when it is a part of the divine work commanded by the Divine. Non-violence is better than violence as a rule, and still sometimes violence may be the right thing. I consider dharma as relative: unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will, the highest way. ..
[Letters on Yoga-page 491]

Rama and Avatarhood

*As for the Avatarhood , I accept Rama because he fills a place in the scheme –and seems to me to fill it rightly-and because when I read the Ramayana I feel a greater afflatus which I recognise and which makes of its story- mere faery-tale though it seems-a parable of a great critical transitional event that happened in the terrestrial evolution and gives to the main character’s personality and action a significance of the large typical cosmic kind which these actions would not have had if they had been done by another man in another scheme of events.

[Letters on Yoga-page 414]

living in inhabitable system




on earth

*A habitable planet in an inhabitable system

Problems of harmony

*For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. They arise from the perception of an unsolved discord and the instinct of an undiscovered agreement or unity.