What are the steps one can take to become more sincere and bring a greater alignment in life? In this video, Shivakumar talks about how one can cultivate sincerity by getting in touch with a deeper aspect of ourselves and eventually progress towards a perfect sincerity. This video is a part of the tiny newsletter series of Integral Education (IE) Portal.
Here are a few select quotes from the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram - one of the pioneers of Integral Education -, which give a deep insight into cultivating Sincerity:
“And this is something-an experience that one can have daily, or almost... when one has those movements of great enthusiasm, great aspiration, when one suddenly becomes conscious of the divine goal, the urge towards the Divine, the desire to take part in the divine work, when one comes out of oneself in a great joy and great force... and then, a few hours later, one is miserable for a tiny little thing; one indulges in so petty, so narrow, so commonplace a self-interestedness, has such a dull desire... and all the rest has evaporated as if it did not exist. One is quite accustomed to contradictions; one doesn’t pay attention to this and that is why all these things live comfortably together as neighbours. One must first discover them and prevent them from intermingling in one’s consciousness: decide between them, separate the shadow from the light. Later one can get rid of the shadow.”
“The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the origin of all one’s movements-those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood-in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others."
"With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and consciousness comes from the Truth. This is only a hint, nothing more, about how to take the first steps on the path.”
“… there is something in the depths of all of us which has a feeling of a perfection, a greatness, a truth, and is painfully contradicted by all the movements opposing this truth.”
“The first condition of inner progress is to recognize whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature,- wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action,-and by wrong is meant what departs from the Truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine.”
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8 окт 2024
