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

January-February Sunday Activities at Centre – A glimpse



                                
10 February 2013: Psychic Transformation – Talk cum Discussion by Jared

This day saw us beginning with Psychic Transformation, a topic that was somehow dear to everyone’s heart, something which we eagerly and lovingly looked forward to hearing about, feeling and thinking about, something that touched us deeper within with a sweet chord and sent us into a deep silent aspiration. Reading the laden lines from ‘The Life Divine’ on the Psychic Being unveiled in us meanings coloured by each of our states of consciousness.  The unfolding of the Psychic entity was referred to as the first step towards spiritual change. Each of us there were in one way or another aspiring for a change in ourselves for the better and this piece of information set the tone for the entire evening of revelations and contemplation. We read on about the nature of the psychic and its description as the “hidden King”.  We concluded with a short meditation session with New Year’s music, allowing the forty-five minutes of exposure to the  lines from ‘The Life Divine’ to sink in and play its part, as much as it was possible.
                          
  17 February 2013: Psychic Transformation – Talk cum Discussion by Jared

We continued with Part 1 of Psychic Transformation. That evening, laid before us was The Childhood of the Flame – a rendering of ways of the psychic unfolding from its infancy. We saw a link and relationship between what was explained in the ‘The Life Divine’ and what was divined in ‘Savitri’ under a canto of the same title. With the following lines, Sri Aurobindo presents to our mind, first, and then appeals to our sense experience in some ways about the Psychic Being, which suddenly became a living entity in us which had to be discovered for all else to proceed in the spiritual awakening we were aspiring for: “On this ignorant surface we become dimly aware of something that can be called a soul as distinct from mind, life or body; we feel it not only as our mental idea or vague instinct of ourselves, but as a sensible influence in our life and character and action. A certain sensitive feeling for all that is true and good and beautiful, fine and pure and noble, a response to it, a demand for it, a pressure on mind and life to accept and formulate it in our thought, feelings, conduct, character is the most usually recognized...” A sweet meditation on New Year’s music meant much and we quietly dispersed for the week.
  24 February 2013 : Savitri Circle - Meditations on Savitri

We had some 6 minutes of meditation on New Year’s music after which Jared briefed us on the day’s activity. We then settled facing the TV for the screening of ‘Meditations on Savitri’ with Huta’s paintings and The Mother’s reading of ‘Savitri’. We commenced with The Book of the Divine Mother, Canto 1, The pursuit of the Unknowable, with one picture to meditate on and moved on to Canto 2, The Adoration of the Divine Mother with four pictures to meditate on. Following the meditations, we sat in a circle to share our experiences, thought and feelings, bearing in mind the need for each of us to spend sometime on our own to meditate on the lines that appealed to us most, in silence and openness. We shared our intrigue with the pursuit of the unknowable – marvelling at the paradoxical language. There was planted in us an idea of pursuing what is unknowable, of meeting it at the unimaginable end. Over to canto two, we pondered aloud over the meaning of the “everlasting No” and all that could mean in this context as opposed to the “everlasting Yes”. It appeared that Aswapathy’s journey thus far had brought him into the environs of the Negative existence, an existence in negation, which in itself appeared a great parody. Now was sought the other pole of existence, where is the “Lover’s everlasting Yes, and immortality in the secret heart, The voice that chants to the creator Fire, The symboled OM, the great assenting Word….” It was time for Aswapathy to seek and realise the Eternal in terms of the positive Existence. Our discussion continued along these lines till we concluded the meditations on ‘Savitri’ with Mother’s voice that began, “At the head she stands …..” It was indeed a blessing to have been a part of that circle, meditating on those lines of ‘Savitri’ and gazing forward into a new week that was to be born.
- Jayanthy

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