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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