September 14, 2013

Desire

"Desire too can only cease rightly by becoming the desire of the infinite and satisfying itself with a supernal fulfilment and an infinite satisfaction in the all-possessing bliss of the Infinite.
Meanwhile it has to progress from the type of a mutually devouring hunger to the type of a mutual giving,
of an increasingly joyous sacrifice of interchange;

- the individual gives himself to other individuals and receives them back in exchange; 

the lower gives itself to the higher and the higher to the lower so that they may be fulfilled in each other; 
the human gives itself to the Divine and the Divine to the human;
the All in the individual gives itself to the All in the universe and receives its realised universality as a divine recompense. 
Thus the law of Hunger must give place progressively to the law of Love,
the law of Division to the law of Unity,
the law of Death to the law of Immortality.
Such is  the necessity, such the justification, such the culmination and self-fulfilment of the Desire that is at work in the universe."

from the book "The Live Divine" by Sri Aurobindo

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