Page 6 - More Light from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Receptivity

Aspiration and Receptivity

. . . there is a moment when the two—aspiration and

passivity—can not only be alternate but simultaneous.

You can be at once in the state of aspiration, of

willing, which calls down something —exactly the will

to open oneself and receive, and the aspiration which

calls down the force you want to receive—and at the

same time be in that state of complete inner stillness

which allows full penetration, for it is in this

immobility that one can be penetrated, that one

becomes permeable by the Force.

Well, the two can be simultaneous without the one

disturbing the other, or can alternate so closely that

they can hardly be distinguished. But one can be like

that, like a great flame rising in aspiration, and at the

same time as though this flame formed a vase, a large

vase, opening and receiving all that comes down.

~ The Mother, CWM 6: 113