The 21st millennium appeared across the horizon with much pomp and glamour. It meant much for many around the world to welcome this millennium. Many untold, unexpressed hopes together with those expressed were pinned on this millennium by the yearning hearts of billions hoping for a better future for the whole of humanity. One whole decade has passed since that birth. Today we sit on the threshold of another unfolding, the beginning of the second decade of this significant millennium that has already seen many significant events that serve as definite precursors of change at the world stage as well as at the individual level. Notable events such as the change in leadership of influential nations at the world arena, the rising of new superpowers against the old order, incidents of uprising against the suppression of the free spirit in man, to name a few.
For us in the sweet embrace of the Master and The Mother, 2010 holds the promise of opportunities of growth in consciousness as we live each moment with the view towards an offering of all, if only to have all the belligerent parts of our nature opened to Light and transformed so that this earthly instrument may be more and more perfected to hold something of Him and Her upon this earth. This juncture in time is yet another window opened before us to take a peek of life that can be, a life more and more harmonious and sweet because offered to the Highest and Sweetest and thence to will a different kind of life for ourselves, one more illumined and answering deeper calls and sweeter notes from the cave within.
And for us too, in this circle, two significant events await in 2010. We are approaching the centenary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in Pondicherry following an “aadesh”, on 4th April 1910. This period marks Sri Aurobindo’s retirement from active politics where he planted the seeds of India’s independence from foreign rule and the beginning of a period of intense yoga or sadhana where he plunged into the unknown carrying with him the light from the heights, with The Mother’s collaboration. The remnants of the old jetty upon which he landed on the 4th April 1910 is still visible to this day and will be a point of interest and one centre of invocation on 4th April 2010.
Another event marked on the calendar for 2010 is the Golden Jubilee of Sri Aurobindo Society on 19th September 2010. Although the society was officially registered on the 24th of September 1960, the 19th is observed since The Mother signed the document on this day in 1960.
The Sri Aurobindo Society has initiated some thoughts on how these two events can be best observed by followers and devotees for the best of benefits for inner growth, of how one could open, individually and collectively to the “special spiritual Force” of the events. The preparation is of two folds, one at a personal level and the other, collective. Individually, the preparation rests on an inner tendency to make an offering of oneself to the Divine, more and more an integral offering of all one is, has and does, to always remember and offer, to spend some time everyday reviewing ourselves, our lives as it is lived and offer the self thus seen and understood. At the organizational level, the important aim that can be worked out to greater perfection is the spreading out of Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s teaching as widely as possible, as extensively as well as intensively. This would set the stage for the awakening of consciousness individually and collectively.
It leaves for us now to extend a warm, heartfelt message of goodwill to oneself and to all in one’s consciousness for this special New Year of 2010.
For us in the sweet embrace of the Master and The Mother, 2010 holds the promise of opportunities of growth in consciousness as we live each moment with the view towards an offering of all, if only to have all the belligerent parts of our nature opened to Light and transformed so that this earthly instrument may be more and more perfected to hold something of Him and Her upon this earth. This juncture in time is yet another window opened before us to take a peek of life that can be, a life more and more harmonious and sweet because offered to the Highest and Sweetest and thence to will a different kind of life for ourselves, one more illumined and answering deeper calls and sweeter notes from the cave within.
And for us too, in this circle, two significant events await in 2010. We are approaching the centenary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in Pondicherry following an “aadesh”, on 4th April 1910. This period marks Sri Aurobindo’s retirement from active politics where he planted the seeds of India’s independence from foreign rule and the beginning of a period of intense yoga or sadhana where he plunged into the unknown carrying with him the light from the heights, with The Mother’s collaboration. The remnants of the old jetty upon which he landed on the 4th April 1910 is still visible to this day and will be a point of interest and one centre of invocation on 4th April 2010.
Another event marked on the calendar for 2010 is the Golden Jubilee of Sri Aurobindo Society on 19th September 2010. Although the society was officially registered on the 24th of September 1960, the 19th is observed since The Mother signed the document on this day in 1960.
The Sri Aurobindo Society has initiated some thoughts on how these two events can be best observed by followers and devotees for the best of benefits for inner growth, of how one could open, individually and collectively to the “special spiritual Force” of the events. The preparation is of two folds, one at a personal level and the other, collective. Individually, the preparation rests on an inner tendency to make an offering of oneself to the Divine, more and more an integral offering of all one is, has and does, to always remember and offer, to spend some time everyday reviewing ourselves, our lives as it is lived and offer the self thus seen and understood. At the organizational level, the important aim that can be worked out to greater perfection is the spreading out of Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s teaching as widely as possible, as extensively as well as intensively. This would set the stage for the awakening of consciousness individually and collectively.
It leaves for us now to extend a warm, heartfelt message of goodwill to oneself and to all in one’s consciousness for this special New Year of 2010.
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