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The Goal
WHEN
we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge. Reason was the
helper; Reason is the bar.
When we have
passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort
is the bar.
When we have
passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire
is the bar.
When we have
passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the
helper; Ego is the bar.
When we have
passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the
Animal is the bar.
Transform reason
into ordered intuition; let all thyself be
light.
This is thy goal.
Transform effort
into an even and sovereign overflowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be
conscious force. This is thy goal.
Transform
enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let
all
thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.
Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be
the divine. This is thy goal.
Transform the
animal into the Driver of the herds; let all thyself be Krishna.
This is thy goal.
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What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense
of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal
universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it
out of His being.
Impossibility is
only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet
unaccomplished journey.
If thou wouldst
have humanity advance, buffet all preconceived ideas. Thought thus smitten
awakes and becomes creative. Otherwise it rests in a mechanical repetition and
mistakes that for its right activity.
To rotate on its
own axis is not the one movement for the human soul. There is also its wheeling
round the Sun of an in- exhaustible illumination.
Be conscious
first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in
preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists,
because an Idea began to play in divine self-consciousness.
Thought is not
essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I
become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that
thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man’s unshakable faith in
himself, because God dwells in him.
Not to go on for
ever repeating what man has already done is our work, but to arrive at new
realisations and undreamed-of masteries. Time and soul and world are given us
for our field, vision and hope and creative imagination stand for our prompters,
will and thought and labour are our all-effective instruments.
What is there
new that we have yet to accomplish? Love, for as yet we have only accomplished
hatred and self-pleasing; Knowledge, for as yet we have only accomplished error
and perception and conceiving; Bliss, for as yet we have only accom-
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plished pleasure and pain and indifference; Power, for as yet we have
only accomplished weakness and effort and a defeated victory; Life, for as yet
we have only accomplished birth and growth and dying; Unity, for as yet we have
only accomplished war and association.
In a word,
godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.
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