Sarva arambha Parithyagi
By Karmayogi
Man thinks and acts, sometimes
acts on impulse. In either case, he initiates an act. To allow the Spirit to
act through him, he has to sacrifice his capacity for initiation – arambha. One
who sacrifices – thyagi – all his initiatives – Sarva arambha – is a yogi. The Rishis
sought moksha, the most arduous work man knows. Living in the forest, starving
for days, protecting himself from poisonous reptiles and ferocious animals, the
Rishi had to concentrate on his Spirit which is tapas. Nowhere has Man
discovered a more dangerous adventure. Literally thousands after thousands of Rishis
attained their goal of moksha. Hence their spiritual light is in our bodies. Those heroes saw it would be a greater hazard to
transform the body or even life.
Our lives are lives of involuntary impulses. We do not initiate these acts. They
initiate themselves. How can you sacrifice thirst or hunger or any impulse for
that matter? Sri Aurobindo's yoga requires it in toto and in full
perfection. As I am addressing the grahasta, let me confine myself to mental
impulses. The life and body are for the yogi. We know the mental urge to
interrupt another's speech. To sacrifice that urge is to be civilised.
Should one achieve it, he will be popular overnight at home and at the office. A good listener is a successful executive.
This capacity is one of fifty mental urges. I wish our householder who invokes
the Spirit sacrifices all those fifty urges. Should he succeed, he will become
a national celebrity in his profession or maybe an international celebrity.
Immediately if the reader seriously tries to sacrifice – thyaga – half a dozen
mental impulses, he will be catapulted into permanent LUCK. Each urge, to be explained, needs two
or three articles of this length. If the URGE
to dominate children, wife, subordinates, submissive friends is sacrificed to
perfection, one's inner life will be one of spiritual Peace, and his
outer life will be saturated with what may be termed Spiritual opulence. One version of it will be the rise in
income ten-fold. As long as you get it, do two things: 1. Don't argue how
it was possible, and 2. Discover your own mental state that brought about that
LUCK. If you discover it, please write to me. It will be self-explanatory and
will enable you to make it a permanent faculty. With that individual, I
consider, any relationship is a privilege.