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Harmony with Others in the Spiritual Life

... for the spiritual life the harmony with others must be founded
not on mental and vital affinities, but on the divine conscious-
ness and the union with the Divine. When one feels the Divine
and feels others in the Divine, then the real harmony comes.
Meanwhile what there can be is the goodwill and unity founded
on the feeling of a common divine goal and the sense of being
all children of the Mother. Real harmony can come only from
a psychic or a spiritual basis.
CWSA 31: 310-11

Mistakes come from people bringing their ego, their personal
feeling (likes and dislikes), their sense of prestige or their con-
venience, pride, sense of possession, etc, into the work. The
right way is to feel that the work is the Mother’s — not only
yours, but the work of others — and to carry it out in such a
spirit that there shall be general harmony. Harmony cannot be
brought about by external organisation only, though a more
and more perfect external organisation is necessary; inner har-
mony there must be or else there will always be clash and dis-
order.
CWSA 32:446

Q: You have written “Harmony cannot be brought about by
external organisation only ... inner harmony there must be...”
What is that inner harmony ?

A: Union in the Mother.
CWSA 32: 433 Sri Aurobindo

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