7 April
2013 – Readings from The Mother’s Works and OM Choir
In the attempt to
expose ourselves on readings, especially by The Mother, on going within, we
examined the article titled, “The Science of Living” written by The
Mother. This piece was an extract from On Education, by The Mother. After a
brief introduction to the day’s activities by Jayanthy, the group, seated in a
circle, started reading the passages in the article. Some exercises were done
prior to the start of our reading, like breathing and centring of the
consciousness with the inhaling and exhaling process. The reading proceeded
slowly and quietly in a circle till the whole article was completed. Some
silence was observed before the group proceeded on with OM
choir, for another session of experimentation with the voice, while trying to
raise the consciousness to another realm. It was a rather quiet evening and
everyone proceeded home quietly after the session was concluded with meditation
with New Year Meditation Music.
14 April
2013 - Talk by Jared Quek (Psychic Transformation Part II)
We continued with
Psychic Transformation for this week of April. There was unanimous consensus
that this topic should be carried out at a slow pace to allow the essence of
the passages to sink in. Members seated in the circle were involved in the
discussions that followed as well as contemplation. We dwelt on “The Entry
into the Inner Countries” and the danger that await us therein, some of the
pitfalls. But even before the inner countries could be visited, we read that it
was necessary for the outer nature to undergo “a change of poise, a quieting, a
purification and fine mutation of its substance and energy by which the many
obstacles in it rarefy, drop away or otherwise disappear;” (pg. 938, ‘The Life Divine’). The passage
continues to explain that it is then that one is able to reach the depths of
our being where the formation of a new consciousness is possible, a
consciousness that would join the surface to the depths.
21 April
2013 - Talk by Jared Quek (Psychic Transformation Part II)
1. We continued with The Psychic
Transformation. This time round, we diverted our attention to words of The
Mother on the Psychic entity and its several forms. The discussion centred
awhile on the definitions of these phrases that bear the term “psychic”. Then
leaving behind the seeking after meaning-making, the group moved forward by
reading the passages from The Mother compiled in “The Psychic Being”. We began our reading with a focus on the need
for the ego to disappear in order to give way to the psychic being. Any further
progress on the spiritual path called for the finding of one’s psychic being
and uniting with it an be and act according to its dictates. We ended Psychic
Transformation on a high note of affirmation : “A
highest spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or
psycho-spiritual change; the psychic movement inward to the inner being, the
Self or Divinity within us, must be completed by an opening upward to a supreme
spiritual status or a higher existence. (The
Life Divine, Pg. 943)
-
Jayanthy
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