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

May-June Sunday Activities at Centre – A glimpse

27/05/2012



Reading of select lines from ‘Savitri’



We had all gathered at the Centre and started our Sunday session with an Opening Meditation with Sunilda’s Organ music playing in the background. After reading a couple of prayers from ‘Prayers and Meditation’, we formed a small circle to sit and read select lines from ‘Savitri’. We were to read lines from Book Two, Canto Four —‘The Kingdoms of the Little Life’. This was one of those Cantos where the lines seemed so powerful and yet so simple to visualize in our mind’s eye. It ended with these beautiful lines:



A little light in a great darkness born,

Life knew not where it went nor whence it came.

Around all floated still the nescient haze.



Each and every one of us present at the Centre at that point could feel little bits of ourselves float in that haze.



03/06/2012



Guided Meditation



As it was the first Sunday of the Month, we had our Monthly Walk in the morning and were to have a session of Guided Meditation at the Centre in the evening. Meditation is a singular experience. What one feels during Meditation varies from time to time and person to person. Guided Meditation aids in harmonizing our thoughts and reach that stage of quietude required for Meditation easily. The Mother always said that Collective Meditation is a good way of sadhana and the best way to bring about unity in spirit and thoughts. A Guided Collective Meditation is the best way to get all set for the next week ahead.



10/06/2012



‘Elements of Yoga’ by Sri Aurobindo (Meditation)



‘Elements of Yoga’ by Sri Aurobindo was the book we were to read at the Reading Circle this Sunday. ‘Meditation’ was the chosen chapter for the day. After reading the chapter aloud, we used the ‘Commentaries on Elements of Yoga’ by the Mother as a guide to help us understand it better.



There were numerous questions posed to The Mother on the subject of “Meditation” and the various aspects associated with it. The Mother helps in distinguishing between meditation and concentration, the subtle differences between experience, vision and realization and many such complex things have been explained so simply and easily such that each of her children can comprehend it all of it at ease.









17/06/2012



Reading of ‘Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on Themselves’, ‘Vignettes’ followed by OM Choir



We had all gathered at the Centre and started our Sunday session with an Opening Meditation. Absorbing the strong vibrations in the atmosphere around us, we formed a circle. We were to read a very special book that day—‘Sri Aurobindo and The Mother about Themselves’. A book which would give us a peek into the lives of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, that too in their own words! It is one thing to study their work, follow their principles but it is a totally different thing to know them as the people they used to be and the human side to them. After a quick read up, a few of us picked up a page each in ‘Vignettes’ and read the stories aloud. It seemed like it was in logical sequence with the first activity, as these were tales about Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, in other people’s words. After a short discussion, we formed a small circle for the OM Choir around a candle lit gloriously. We had a quick voice exercise session and then began offering our best OMs harmoniously. The music floated beautifully in the room.

- Preethi

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