Sri Anirvan on Buddhiyoga and the Good

In the last analysis, it may seem that the whole scheme of nature is amoral, because, as the orthodox Sankhyist would have it, Nature herself is inconscient and her only purposiveness (pararthya) lies in an indifferent provision of positive and negative experiences to the soul.

But apart from this objective view of things, there is also possible an insight into a deeper subjective experience, which in the thick of the blind and maddening rush of events reveals to the heart the unfolding of a secret purpose that can be measured only in the terms of the silent joy of the spiritual blooming of the individual to which the whole cosmic process is made subservient.

This spiritual intuition of the good, variously called lila, anandam, or the perfect self-poise of the liberated soul, is the ultimate basis of all ethical standards. But as is usually the case, this supernormal vision at one step further becomes warped by the partial vision of the tendentious mind and gives rise to the current norms of morality, which always contain a seed of violence to the real svabhava of the jiva. The mental limitation thus imposed on the integral perception of the spirit can be done away with only when we can live in the higher altitudes beyond mind in the stratosphere of the cosmic buddhi, where the conflict between the universal moral order (rita) and its perversions on the mental plane (anrita) can be so resolved as to secure for the action of the individual a sanction, not of the code of traditional morality but of the direct vision of the divine purpose behind it.

It is the vision which reveals to the discerning spirit the mysterious ways of the divine action (divya karma) which are evolving the eternal good through apparent evils, the abiding values through the vicissitudes of circumstances, first in the crystal-clear inner vision of the realized man, and ultimately in the totality of the world movement which, however, always remains an enigma to the surface mind. (pages 80-81)

 Excerpt taken from Inner Yoga: Selecvted writings of Sri Anirvan, Morning Light Press 2007, pages 80-81.

The first thing to remember is that you must not allow any will to arise in you. Will nothing. These days it is a great obsession with us to do good for the world.This notion has to be eliminated completely. Yes, even this must be given up. Before you ever thought of doing good for the world, He to whom the whole world belongs must surely have thought of it and surely due to His Truth-Will, the world is moving toward its good. Is it not overdoing it a bit on your part to suddenly be so concerned about it? Does this mean that you will do nothing? Of course not. But before doing, you ought to learn to recognize His Will and accept it.

Ibid, page 50.