Kindness of Nature - She is kind when she is loving

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Already a change within and around is noticed. She has awakened two fires for her great work. But why two? Was not one enough?

Thus two fires are indispensable. One is in the heart; it will go on tirelessly putting its pressure upon the unconverted parts, and helping their purification and transformation. The other is in the higher consciousness, the Agni of the Self.

>Sri Aurobindo: Yes, the two are necessary for any complete or rapid transformation.

                            ( complete and <rapid> transformation, a faster approach then).

> Nagin: During the evening meditation, when concentrated above, I felt the Agni [Fire] of the Higher Consciousness coming down and uniting below with the psychic fire. Their oneness was experienced deep down in the heart centre. I have never heard of such a unity of the two fires.

>Sri Aurobindo: If the development of a higher consciousness did not bring things that were not before heard of by the mind, it would not be good for much. The unification of the psychic(here the soul) and the higher consciousness forces(supramental consc.) and activities is indispensable for the sadhana(askesis) at one time or another. (unknown source)

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Tradition has set a number of requirements for enlightenment: stillness of thought, control and sublimation of sexual activity, other kind of control over emotions, body etc.
 I start from the point that nothing of this is necessary.
 Unnecessary, when the aim is awakening the psychic fire, the fire of the soul.

There is a more direct way.

It do not require the stillness of mind, the mind may continue a while with its oscillating thoughts, one may have sex, enjoying life as perceived by the senses in all its beauty. We are alive just for that, for enjoying life.

It is only necessary one movement: to be that Kindness of the Heart. Allowing ourself to be that, because "that" is the Soul.

It is instantaneous, it can be instantaneous.

It is not question of practicing anymore, rather Be.

What meditation try to achieve are that rare moments of "beeing", but that moments are by no means dependent only on sitting in meditation.

The same applies with Mental Kindness.

For years I have observed the oscillating thinking not having any true influence for the workings of the soul (i.e. its association with personality). When the Soul needed the silence of the mind, it produced that silence.The Silence was, without any effort.

It is not accurate that stillness of mind is an indispensable condition, at least at the beginning, and later on the establishement of the silence will be a natural consecuence not needing any action by our side. 

After all, how can the mind, which is the problem, be the solution? Can the noise produce silence out of itself?

The oscillating thinking is the mind, it cannot be the solution.

A mind which stills itself is a contradiction, because it would be a further operation of the mind.

What spiritual researchers have underlined is the silence which follows to the activity of the mind, and we have so accepted it, that we do not inquire if there may be silence even -while- the mind is working. And there is Silence.

Because the Soul, which nature is Silence, is always there behind the veil, so the -silence- objectively exists in ourselves, even while we are thinking.

Would one practice Kindness of the Heart?

Does one practice loving his mother, son, lover?

We don´t need practicing these things, they are natural, it is the natural kindness of the heart that everybody has, because we are means of expression for that Soul. We automatically know what to do, and we love. Even a pet loves its caring animal mother, love is not an exclusivity of the human being, but manifests itself also in the more simple animal souls.

Love is the very stuff of the Soul, there´s no way to "practice" it, it is there or not. 

When we love, there is no difference between the surface personality and the Soul, they automatically converge into one single unity.  

All what we said of the heart, applyes to mind and its kindness, but with you I don´t need to spend any word about, as your very mental attitude -is- that kindness of mind.

Your inclusive vision, your objective mental position as observer, your scrupulosity, are but some of the many qualities you display, which reports us to mental kindness.

Of course, life needs to be cultivated, so the heart and the mind, as our relations and all, because in it we have a proof of our transformation.

Had we such kindness (that we already have), we wouldn´t need sitting in years of practice, with the result, if any, of a little flame that hardly can stand any blow from reality.

The other way, we would grow -through- reality, with the concurs of reality, not at the margin of it. Can you intimately get the difference?

Had we reach such a point, that kindness of heart and mind, (that never were separated but only appeared so), we would progress into a re-unification of the two.(The two fires Sri A. mentioned to Nagin at the beginning).

Without this kindness of heart and mind there is rigidity. Even meditation self-imposed by a rigid mind may be rigidly assumed and became an activity of that rigidity, a vicious circle in which time may be spent before discovering what one is really doing.

I´m not meant here to write a treatise, if you have grasped into my words, if you "see" in it a certain truth, sounds logical and acceptable to your mind and meaningful to your heart, then it is because you are part of it. This Yoga would belong to you.

So you see it do not deeply alters what Sri A. already said, it focuses on bare, objective facts, and certain not absolute activities perhaps unnecessary, re-focusing on a more dynamical approach to Yoga. Were this method to be followed, (which is so simple that is not even a method but mere observation) one would certainly progress rapidly, and would found himself on the point where the Soul starts its ascension path towards OverSoul.

I think you know I´ve been meditating in padmasana previously. I love it.

I even spontaneously sit sometimes in asana.

My words need to be taken with that plasticity which is a characteristic of that mental kindness.

We do not need end meditating, on the contrary, we need to transform our whole life into meditation, but we will do it in a dynamic way.

A dynamic meditation handling any aspect of life.