Page 29 - All India Magazine Mar-2025

Sri Aurobindo's Letter to Miss Margaret Wilson

To Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Pondicherry
September 7, 1936

To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiri-
tual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable
and all the rest is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to
manifest Him, — that is, first of all to transform one’s own limited
consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, to live in the infi-
nite Peace, Light, Love, Strength, Bliss, to become that in one’s
essential nature and, as a consequence, to be its vessel, channel,
instrument in one’s active nature. To bring into activity the prin-
ciple of oneness on the material plane or to work for humanity
is a mental mistranslation of the Truth — these things cannot be
the first or true object of spiritual seeking. We must find the Self,
the Divine, then only can we know what is the work the Self or the
Divine demands from us. Until then our life and action can only
be a help or means towards finding the Divine and it ought not to
have any other purpose. As we grow in the inner consciousness,
or as the spiritual Truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and ac-
tion must indeed more and more flow from that, be one with that.
But to decide beforehand by our limited mental conceptions what
they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within.
As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine
Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us,
dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use
of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross,
substituting the pure gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine
Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed,
can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the

All India Magazine, March 2025 29