No joy is comparable to the feeling of the eternal Presence in one’s heart.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p182
I am speaking of a joy which is perfect peace, shadowless light, harmony, total beauty and an irresistible power, that joy which is the divine Presence itself, in its essence, in its Will and its Realisation.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol. 7, p397
Joy of integral peace: calm and tranquil, a smile which does not disappoint.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p182
A little gift comes from the Immensitudes,
But measureless to life its gain of joy;
All the untold Beyond is mirrored there.
Sri Aurobindo – Savitri: CWSA, Vol. 33, Book Two, p237
Joy comes when you take the right attitude.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p182
To want what the Divine wants in all sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy.
Only by giving oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires.
The psychic being knows this definitely. Thus, by uniting with our psychic being, we can know it, too. But the first condition is not to be the slave of personal desires and mistake them for the truth of one’s being.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 13, p54
But Sri Aurobindo wants us to have the same simple joy as a blossoming rose: Be simple, be simple, be simple. And when I hear it or see it, it’s like a rivulet of golden light, like a fragrant garden—all, all, all is open. Be simple.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 2, p331
This is thy work and the aim of thy being and that for which thou art here, to become the divine superman and a perfect vessel of the Godhead. All else that thou hast to do, is only a making thyself ready or a joy by the way or a fall from the purpose. But the goal is this and the purpose is this and not in the power of the way or the joy by the way but in the joy of the goal is the greatness and the delight of thy being. The joy of the way is because that which is drawing thee is also with thee on thy path and the power to climb was given thee that thou mightest mount to thy own summits.
Sri Aurobindo – Essays Divine and Human : CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 150
There is no joy more perfect than to give oneself totally to that which is greater than oneself. God, Supreme Origin, Divine Presence, Absolute Truth―it doesn’t matter what name we give Him or what aspect we most easily approach Him through―to forget oneself totally in an integral consecration is the surest path towards Realisation.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p102
…Three typical modes of total self-giving to the Divine:
(1) To prostrate oneself at His feet, giving up all pride in perfect humility.
(2) To unfold one’s being before Him, open one’s whole body from head to foot, as one opens a book, exposing one’s centres so as to make all their movements visible in a complete sincerity that allows nothing to remain hidden.
(3) To nestle in His arms, to merge in Him in a loving and absolute trust.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p102
That [feeling the Mother’s Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty] is one part of the psychic experience—the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience, unselfishness, fidelity to the true perception, true impulse etc. that comes from the Mother or leads to the Mother. When this side grows, then the other, the Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty, can develop and be permanently there.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol. 30, pp338-39
Yesterday I made a great effort to get back into the light and joy, but I failed.
It is very good that you made an effort, but you must not get discouraged so quickly, just because you fail to succeed immediately. On the contrary, you must persevere in your effort until you do succeed.
My help will always be with you.
The Mother – More Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 17, p102
As soon as the presence of the psychic consciousness is united with the aspiration, the intensity takes on quite a different character, as if it were filled with the very essence of an inexpressible joy. This joy is something that seems contained in everything else. Whatever may be the outer form of the aspiration, whatever difficulties and obstacles it may meet, this joy is there as though it filled up everything, and it carries you in spite of everything.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol. 8, p249
Keep the quietude and do not mind if it is for a time an empty quietude; the consciousness is often like a vessel which has to be emptied of its mixed or undesirable contents; it has to be kept vacant for a while till it can be filled with things new and true, right and pure. The one thing to be avoided is the refilling of the cup with the old turbid contents. Meanwhile wait, open yourself upwards, call very quietly and steadily, not with a too restless eagerness, for the peace to come into the silence and, once the peace is there, for the joy and the presence.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol. 29, p145
…. For the life in its progress, for the soul in its ascendance, grief and suffering should be only an incident on the way and the vision look always and steadily to a joy and a glory beyond it—let the gloom pass and look beyond it towards Light.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol.31, p196
My little Mother,
Give me peace. Give me joy in work. Make me your instrument.
My dear child,
I am very happy to know that you want to be my instrument. To be able to be my instrument, you must be regular, energetic, courageous, enduring and always good-tempered. I have no doubt that you can acquire these qualities.
With you always.
The Mother – Some Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 16, pp128-29
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol. 29, p59
There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion—indeed so deep, so intense—that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol. 8, p40
There are two conditions, one of Ananda, another of great calm and equality in which there is no joy or grief. If one attains the latter, afterwards a greater more permanent Ananda becomes possible.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol. 29, p157
Joy of Beauty
Beauty is the joyous offering of Nature.
Ipomoea Nil ‘Scarlet O’Hara’
Morning glory
Large striking bright magenta funnelform flower; borne singly or in small clusters. An annual climber.
