Will: power of consciousness turned towards effectuation.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – II : CWM, Vol. 14, p. 158
The energy which dictates the action or prevents a wrong action is the Will.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 718
There are always two elements in spiritual success—one’s own steady will and endeavour and the Power that in one way or another helps and gives the result of the endeavour.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 720
There must be a fixed will for the spiritual life—that alone can overcome all obstacles.
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There must first be the will to change firmly conceived and held—then to open the consciousness to the Force and let it work with the inner assent to its working. When there is the psychic opening, then even the things most obstinate in the nature can change.
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Develop the will—the will grows by a steady use, like the muscles, and grows strong.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 715
By development it [the will] becomes fit to merge into the Mother’s will. A will that is not strong is a great hindrance to sadhana.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 717
I suppose it must be because you have not been in the habit of using the will to compel the other parts of the nature—so when you want it done, they refuse to obey a control to which they are not accustomed and it also has not any habitual hold upon them.
The will is a part of the consciousness and ought to be in human beings, the chief agent in controlling the activities of the nature.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 716
Peace is not a necessary precondition for the action of the will. When the being is troubled, it is often the business of the will to impose quiet on it.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 718
The Force produces no definite and lasting fruit unless there is the will and the resolution to achieve in the sadhak.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 720
One must have an unvarying will to acquire what one does not have in one’s nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able to do what one cannot yet do.
One must progress constantly in the light and the peace which come from the absence of personal desire.
If one has a strong will, he has only to orient it properly; if he has no will, he has first of all to build one for himself, which always takes long and is sometimes difficult.
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Even the most beautiful thoughts will not make us progress unless we have a constant will for them to be expressed in us through nobler feelings, more exact sensations and better actions.
The Mother – Words of the Mother – II : CWM, Vol. 14, p. 158
The conditions for following the Mother’s will are to turn to her for Light and Truth and Strength, to aspire that no other force shall influence or lead you, to make no demands or conditions in the vital, to keep a quiet mind ready to receive the Truth but not insisting on its own ideas and formations,—finally, to keep the psychic awake and in front, so that you may be in constant contact and know truly what her will is; for the mind and vital can mistake other impulsions and suggestions for the Divine Will, but the psychic once awakened makes no mistake.
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How can the will be made one with the Mother’s Will?
The will can be made one with the Mother’s by establishing a constant contact of the consciousness with hers.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother with Letters on The Mother : CWSA, Vol. 32, p. 255
The only way to do it [develop the true will-power] is (1) to become aware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) to learn by practice to direct that Force towards its object….
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 716
This is the change that happens when, the mental will approximating more and more to the divine, Agni burns out in us. It is that increasing knowledge and force which carries us finally into the straight or good path out of the crookedness. It is the divine Will, one with the divine knowledge, which leads us towards felicity, towards the state of Immortality. All that belongs to the deviations of the ego, all that obscures and drives or draws us into this or that false path with its false lures and stumblings are put away from us by it. These things fall away from the divinised Will and cease to find lodging in our consciousness.
Therefore the sign of right action is the increasing and finally the complete submission of the individual to the divine Will which the illumination of Surya reveals in him. Although manifested in his consciousness, this Will is not individual. It is the will of the Purusha who is in all things and transcends them. It is the will of the Lord.
Sri Aurobindo – Isha Upanishad : CWSA, Vol. 17, p. 81
If there is a constant use of the will the rest of the being learns however slowly to obey the will and then the actions become in conformity with the will and not with the vital impulses and desires. As for the rest (the feelings and desires etc. themselves) if they are not indulged in action or imagination and not supported by the will, if they are merely looked at and rejected when they come, then after some struggle they begin to lose their force and dwindle away.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga – IV : CWSA, Vol. 31, p. 716
Will Manifested in Life
Concentrated and precise.
Episcia cupreata
Flame violet
Bright coral pink flower with a yellow throat and petals with fringed edges; horizontal corolla tube and a limb divided into five rounded oblique lobes; borne singly or in pairs. A creeping perennial herb dark greenish brown leaves and with olive green midribs.
The Mother – Spiritual significance of flowers
