Greater Mastery of Human Life
Karmayogi
When the ancient authority of the Upanishads
had refused us the right to question the ONE, which Sri Aurobindo endorses, a
question arises in our minds about how He answers that question. The highest
instrument of Man is mind, whose vision is partial. Mind can see the ONE. It can
also see the Many. Mind has no faculty to see both simultaneously. He rose above
the Mind, reached Supermind, which is capable of a total vision. In The Life
Divine, Sri Aurobindo explains His spiritual vision describing how the ONE
evolved into the Many by the instrumentation of Supermind.
Let me try to
catch the essence of it that directly applies to human life through an analogy.
We human beings live in Time which is bound by the laws of Karma. Hence our life
at every turn faces a limitation. The Rishi moves into the plane of Timelessness
which is limitless on all sides. But the Rishi is one who gives up life. Sri
Aurobindo explains that there is one more dimension of Time apart from Time and
Timelessness. He calls it the co-existence of Time and Timelessness. To us it
means living our human life by the high standard of the Rishi. To put it simply,
Man choosing to live by utter truthfulness will be in that third dimension of
Time.
People in business are practical persons readily adjusting to the
changing social environment. How can they ever dream of a TRUTHFUL life. A few
took to the idea and tried their very best. One has a small business submerged
in debts and harassed by every circumstance. The other has a business of a few
crores beset with all the possible problems of business. It was not easy for me
to give this idea to them. Nor did they readily take to it. Weeks passed into
months After so many frustrating messages one day I learnt the small businessman
had received a big order of one crore of rupees. A week earlier, the other had
received an order about ten times his turnover. It gives immediate relief from
unbearable pressure and opens up faith in the practical power of TRUTH. Truth is
no mere concept, but a POWER to lift man out of the morass he is in when he
cherishes it.