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Whether you seek Him outside, whether you seek Him
within, whether you seek Him in a form or without form, if
your aspiration is sincere enough and your resolution sincere
enough, you are sure to reach the goal.
But if you want to make the complementary movement
of which Sri Aurobindo speaks, that is to say, to return to
the outer consciousness and world after having realised this
union in yourself, and transform this outer consciousness and
world, then in this case you cannot limit yourself in any way,
for otherwise you will not be able to accomplish your work.
Essentially, you must be able to find this oneness with the
Divine in all forms, all aspects, in every way that has been used
to reach Him. And you must go beyond that and find a new
way.
So, the first point to clear up in your thought — and it is
a point of capital importance: you must not confuse the inte-
gral yoga with other spiritual realisations, which may be very
high but cover a very limited field, for theirs is a movement
only in depth.
You may pierce a hole, you see, with your aspiration and
make a movement in depth through anything at all. All de-
pends on the intensity and sincerity of your aspiration — on
the sincerity, that is to say, on how far your self-giving is com-
plete, integral, absolute. But it does not depend on the form
you have chosen: necessarily, you will have to pass through in
order to find what is behind.
But if you want to transform your nature and your being,
and if you want to participate in the creation of a new world,
then this aspiration, this sharp and linear point is no longer
enough. One must include everything and contain everything
in one's consciousness.
Naturally, that is much more difficult.
CWM 8: 243-45

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