Guiding Light of The Month

O Lord, how ardently do I call and implore Thy love! Grant that my aspiration may be intense enough to awaken the same aspiration everywhere: oh, may good- ness, justice and peace reign as supreme masters, may ignorant egoism be overcome, darkness be suddenly illu- minated by Thy pure Light; may the blind see, the deaf hear, may Thy law be proclaimed in every place and, in a constantly progressive union, in an ever more perfect harmony, may all, like one single being, stretch out their arms towards Thee to identify themselves with Thee and manifest Thee upon earth. - The Mother

On Mystic poetry

There are two kinds of mystic poetry: Occult – mystic and spiritual-mystic. That poem of mine about the moon and the star or ‘The Bird of Fire’ is occult mystic. In ‘Nirvana’, for instance, I have put exactly what Nirvana is.

(‘Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Sri Aurobindo’, Compiled by M.P.Pandit, Deepti Publications, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)

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