Rişhi: Sindhukşhit (RV 10.70.5)
divo
vā sānu spŗshatā varīyaĥ pŗthivyā vā mātrayā vi shrayadhvam,
Touch
either heaven's superior peak or swing wide open with all the
extent of the earth, O doors of aspiration!
Aspiration forges the bridge between the low
and the high, between man and God. From his status in the lower
nature man wants and wills consciously to rise into the higher
consciousness. He seeks intensely to acquire what he has not. This
effort of aspiration is the main-spring of progress. But it is not
enough if this aspiration is an emotional feeling or a perception
of intellect. It has to acquire force, spread out and be active
all over the being. It must reach the highest heights of the
heaven of purified mind. It must also extend itself and occupy the
whole of the materially embodied being, the earth.
Aspiration for the Divine is the gate for
breaking out of the individual confinement in the separative walls
of ego. It opens upwards to the limitless heights of the
Superconscience even as it opens out on the universal wideness
around.
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