EGOISTIC ACTION OF MIND LIFE AND BODY
The members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness, are
too much under the control of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of
an unerring impulse. Always the greater part of the motive and action of these powers clings to the old law, the
deceiving tablets, the cherished inferior movements of Nature and they meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or
obstructing inertia the voices and the forces that call and impel us to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater
being and a wider Nature... At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of the psychic and spiritual
influences and can be detected using the power, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. Afterwards
too, even when the seeker has opened to the Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries
to pour it into life, he meets the power of obscuration and perversion of these lower Nature-forces. Always they
draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture the descending
Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation
for desire and ego. Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light... If that
falsification is permitted, the higher Light and Power and Bliss withdraw, there is a fall back to a lower status;
or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way and mixture or is covered and even submerged by an
inferior exaltation that is not the true Ananda.
Amid a tedious crawl of drab desires
She writhed, a worm mid worms in Nature's mud,
Then, Titan-statured, took all earth for food,
Ambitioned the seas for robe, for crown the stars
And shouting strode from peak to peak,
Clamouring for worlds to conquer and to rule.