What will turn the tide?

Old habits die hard, especially old habits of thinking

The doors of possibility beckon, and dying intellectual dogmas dig in their heels

The Heart of the One Beloved pours love on us like rain, nourishing the tender seeds of our awakening

We stay hunched over our calculators and spreadsheets, adding and subtracting an endless round of figures


Each soul cries to express, to embody its eternal radiant essence

Every heart aches to be seen and to sing its own notes in the universal harmony

Truth gleams like a jewel inside all beings

We ignore it all, fixated and fascinated by our dissections and inspections, our rubrics and rearrangements


Throughout time, people have dallied with realities beyond the material

Mystics and poets, seers and saints have traversed unseen worlds and come back to us with tales of wonders beyond imagining

We call their experiences myths, archetypes, interesting symbols, fanciful imaginings

We call them unreal, insubstantial, fictional


What will turn the tide?

What will finally awaken in us enough curiosity to overcome the "faithful repetition of the formulas left to us from a bygone century"? 

What will break down the doors and free the "minds shut up in the brilliant shell of the past"?

- Matthew Andrews (AVI USA)

 

(Quotes from Sri Aurobindo)

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  1. Thakur Prasad25 January 2024 at 12:42

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  2. Thakur Prasad25 January 2024 at 12:42

    Old habits die hard, especially old habits of thinking, very true, but each soul cries also at the same time to express, to embody its eternal radiant essence because the soul is a pure reflection of that eternal radiance. As for old habits to die, sincerity, purity, patience and aspiration are necessary. Everything becomes manifest at proper time then. The proof of it was tangibly experienced in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024 when the Lord swept the whole universe with His cute smile. The radiance of that Smile still lingers in our hearts and in the soul since then. कर्मन्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेशु कदाचन as the Lord says.

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  3. Thakur Prasad25 January 2024 at 13:24

    कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन as the Lord says. He also warned, "क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ!"

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  4. Thakur Prasad25 January 2024 at 13:28

    In the same way, the Mother commands us to "Cling to Truth".

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  5. Thakur Prasad25 January 2024 at 13:29

    That will turn the tide.

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  6. Anonymous26 January 2024 at 17:59

    a delight to read, thanks for sharing.

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  7. Anonymous29 January 2024 at 11:12

    Nice narrative in Poetic manner of challenges to change Habit .. True Habits die hard as Habits are Auto response to a given situation and habits are imprint of tendencies ( preferred response to a stimuli) formed over extended period of time ... Habits do change with a conscious effort to connect with Psychic self and Practice of improved response ( Reactive to Pro active mode) to given stimuli or external situation . few Life coaches say Practice over 21 days as fixed time of the day does help in improvement process ...period could vary based on individuals as to how deeply engrained is a Habit which is aimed to improve... Pranav srivastava ( Ahmedabad )

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