On the Darshan day of 24th November, we celebrate the anniversary of the descent of the Overmental Consciousness and the founding of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The Card distributed in the Ashram on 24th November this year contains a beautiful letter of Sri Aurobindo on the Godhead immanent and above all disorder, ignorance, and contradictions, which is the basis of all spiritual endeavour.
“To spiritual experience it is not a speculation
but a fact that there is a Godhead immanent
within behind this flawed and imperfect
human nature …. It is also a part of spiritual
experience that there is something Beyond
in which this Divinity ̶ or whatever other
name you may give to it ̶ is above the
contradiction offered to it by this world of
disorder and ignorance; that is the meaning
of the Transcendence. Whatever wide
differences there may be between different
ways of spiritual experience or whatever
names may be put on these things, so
much is fairly universal. If there were not
these certitudes, there could be no assured
spiritual life or endeavour.”
Sri Aurobindo
You can download, for the purpose of printing, the foldable original Card here (PDF, 2.30 MB). For viewing, click here.