It is no part of the Yoga to suppress taste, rasa, altogether.... What is to be got rid of is vital desire and attachment, the greed of food...
At the Feet of The Mother
Dilip Kumar Roy
Yoga means union with the Divine, but it also means awaking first to your inner self and then to your higher self, — a movement inward and a movement upward.
Never mind the lower vital, it is not so dreadful as you think, if one can take hold of it by both ends and keep it in its place. It is the same as with the other instruments, body, mind, higher vital, even the overmind powers, — they are good as instruments, but bad as masters.
Congratulations on the sparkles and the dreams. ... I think I have told you that the sparkles usually indicate an opening of the doors of the inner consciousness.
Keep always confidence in the Mother’s care and love — trust in them and distrust every suggestion, every appearance that seems to contradict.
Poetry can start from any plane of consciousness, although like all art — or, one might say, all creation — it must always come through the vital if it is to be alive.
It is precisely this predominance of the vital in us that makes the necessity of passing through the desert. If the psychic were always there in front, the desert would be no longer a desert and the wilderness would blossom with the rose.
I am certainly not going to pronounce you unfit because you want the Ananda; on such grounds I would have to pronounce myself unfit, because I have myself wanted it and many other things besides.
The presence whose fading he regrets can only be felt if the inner being continues to be consecrated, and the outer nature is put into harmony or at least kept under the touch of the inner spirit.
The idea is that, being Omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, supreme, the Divine does not scorn to descend even into the lowest forms, the obscurest figures of Nature and animate them with the divine Presence, — that shows his Divinity.
Remember that an inner quietude, caused by the purification of the restless mind and vital, is the first condition of a secure sadhana.
Cast away from you these movements of doubt, depression and the rest which are no part of your true and higher nature. ... Be faithful and you will conquer.
The Divine gives itself to those who give themselves without reserve and in all their parts to the Divine.
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22nd January is Shri Dilip Kumar Roy’s birthday. His has been an interesting and tumultuous journey. But what one finds most interesting and striking through his journey is Sri Aurobindo’s Compassion and the Mother’s Love. On this day we share some of the letters exchanged between him and the Master.
"[If] you can’t bring yourself to accept a guru unless he signs a contract with you and gives you in advance some delightful experiences, if this be your approach — that is, if you start by bargaining with the Lord — then you shall never arrive."
"It was in January, 1924, that I saw Sri Aurobindo for the first time. I enjoyed the rare privilege of having a long talk with him on the 24th. The next day the duration of the talk was shorter. I kept an elaborate record of all that had passed and this report I sent him subsequently for revision. He approved of it substantially and made only a few minor corrections. Here is the report..."