What is the esoteric.

Meaning of the above words,

Uttered by the divine Aurobindo,

Founder of Integral Yoga ?

 

 "Transcend Thyself,
Become Thyself !

True nature of Man

Is to be more than himself !

 

Man is a political animal,

He is influenced by factors five,

Education, Environment,

Exposure, Experience and the Genetic.

 

" These are the five intervening variables,

Which intermediate in the causal equation",

Averred the  great Tolman,

Father of Motivational Psychology !

 

Transcend thyself means,

To transcend thy political self,

Political self is Mr Hyde or Diti,

As all men are Machiavellis !

 

Become Thyself means,

To become thy true self,

Self aligned to Conscience,

Self which is wholly Positive !

 

The whole nature of Man,

Is to be more than himself,

Evolution is forward oriented

From amoeba to Man Divine !

 

Man carries cultural baggage,

Ruled as he is by the ego function

Ego is Msn's weakness.

And the  imperfect term in him !

 

Evil continues to be a formidable force,

In Man. Until Evil is destroyed,

And Light invades the inconscient base,

He will have to battle it out within himself !

 

Evil is the hidden foe lodged in humans,

Man has to overcome  this mighty adversary,

Or miss his Fate Divine,

This is the inner war ineluctable !

 

Never think the Way is easy,

Long, difficult, dangerous it is !

Thou shalt be tested,

By both Heaven and Earth !

 

Heaven will subject thee,

To pitiless trials and tribulations.

Hell will open its mouth,

To threaten and wound thee !

 

Spirituality develops only,

Under peculiar adversity

It seems He polishes his jewels

With the diamond dust of Adversity !

 

Like an Aurobindo having Universal Vision,

In the confinesof a jail !

Or like Jesus crying out loud,

" Father, why has thou forsaken me ?"

 

Or like, Melpathur, unable to move,

When he worked on his magnum opus.

Or like, Poonthanam writing Jnanappana,

After the death of his son !

 

Or like Dante, disappointed in love,
When he composed Divina Comedia !

Or like the great TIlak,

When he composed Gita Rahasya in jail !

 

Shloka, verse, arises from Shoka, sorrow,

Tasso's was a sorrowful life.

So was Keats' and all the greats,

Suffered more than commoners !

 

Wise Poets defined it as the Razor's Edge,

Maugham wrote a book about it !

We have to walk on Razor's Edge alone,

Lean is the path and way unknown !

 

Enlightenment is Release,

From Ego's tutelage !

This can only be effected,

By aligning with Self Divine

 

Divine alchemy is Yoga,

Human is transmuted to Divine

From Animal Man to Human Man

And finally to Divine Man.