Author: Beloo Mehra
Date published: November 5, 2026
As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. To Be Simple is our eighth blog published on SAIEN platform.
“One must be spontaneous in order to be divine.
One must be perfectly simple in order to be spontaneous.
One must be absolutely sincere in order to be perfectly simple.
To be absolutely sincere is not to have any division, any contradiction in one’s being.”
(The Mother, CWM, 8: 283)
How simple this all sounds; but is that really simple to walk the path of simplicity, spontaneity and sincerity?
To be constantly on the watch for any little contradiction emerging in one’s being, to be constantly conscious of every little movement in any part of the being, to constantly keep purifying oneself of the numerous little and big imperfections and defects of our nature — this is the path of Integral Yoga that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother invite us to walk with them.
Walking on the path requires that without any regard to any number of failures we may encounter on the way, we never lose faith, never lose trust in the Divine Grace, never lose the remembrance that The Divine is beside us, with us, holding us, in us, and all around us. It requires that we remember that with every tiny step on the way the little spark of the Divine within us, like an upward rising flame, grows in aspiration for the Divine.
This tiny spark within, the psychic entity, evolves through all the outer experiences and circumstances Life throws at us. The growth of this inner flame essentially means to aspire for something beyond the confines, complexities and complications of our ordinary, outer lower nature, nature that we in our ignorance refer to as ‘oh-so-human’. The true aspiration is the aspiration for rising above that ordinary human nature, perhaps to something like the nature of the divine.
Nature of the Divine is simple and spontaneous. Action of the Divine is simple and spontaneous, though we with our all-too-human and extremely limited vision are unable to even perceive it, let alone comprehend any of it.