August 24th : Meditations on
Savitri, Book 7, Canto 4.
Watching the paintings of Savitri by
Huta, along with the Mother’s recitation of the relevant passages – covering
Book Seven, Canto Four, started the programme. This topic highlighted the
personality of Savitri as an avatar, her encounter with the three
aspects of the World Mother, or the triple soul-forces within herself, and her
work to build the bridge for man to cross over into the highest realm of
consciousness.
Savitri meets
here the “Triple Soul Forces”, three goddesses of the overmental world,
namely the Madonna of compassion and love, the Madonna of might, and
the Madonna of light and wisdom. These Madonnas appear before her one
after the other and each one introduces herself as Savirti Savitri’s secret
soul. Immediately after each Madonna addresses Savitri, perversions, or an
egoistic deformation, of what each Madonna really stands for appears and
exhorts Savitri.
Savitri
promises to return with the perfect force of consciousness to render help to
the struggling and bound existence of man.
All of us read
the passages twice by meditating on them.
August 31st:
‘Meditations
on Savitri’ – ‘The Finding of The Soul’, Book 7 Canto 5. Pictures 1 to 6.
We meditated on a few passages watching the paintings by Huta. Savitri
here is on her forward journey to find her Soul, after meeting the Madonna of Compassion
and Love, the Madonna of Might, and the Madonna of Light and Wisdom. She
journeys into the dark cave. In the journey inwards into the mystic cave, she
is helped by a force of Light. Within, she sees a golden serpent with wisdom filled
luminous eyes, an eagle and doves of peace. As she proceeded into the cave she
felt one with all creatures of the universe. There was a sealed identity of the
Adorer and the Adored in that space. At last Savitri comes face to face with
her Secret Soul, a deathless Sun.
September 7th: Readings
from Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Bases of Yoga’, Pages
97 – 100.
The reading of the passages reveals how important a role the subliminal
self plays in us. All our surface bodily existence is supported by its larger
and more efficient and powerful mind, vital and subtler physical consciousness
in us. This opens to higher super-conscient as well as subconscient regions in
us. To bring down the power of super-conscient regions to the subconscient, tit
is a pre-requisite for the higher mind and vital to be made strong with light
and peace from above. Without proper attitude and guidance, it is like inviting
more trouble. To take the path of ANUBHAVA that is exhausting all the natural
tendencies by going through it with Most of the adverse elements in the lower
regions should be removed or purified and prepared for the descent of calm,
equanimity and purity.
September 14th:The Om
Choir
The programme started with reading the passages from the book,‘The Sunlit Path’ for the first half hour
which set the stage for the Om Choir. We read a few passages from,“The Spirit and the Psychic Being”,
which says we have to go beyond words like Supreme and Divine. We have to
experience contacting “THAT” by an unwavering faith and aspiration. The second
half hour, the group chanted OM in a unified, rhythmical way with voice warming
up exercises in the beginning.Om chanting in unison brings about an inner peace,
the very basic requirement for spiritual development. To listen in to the
inputs of OM by other members of the gathering enhanced enhanced the spirit of
oneness, unity and harmony.
September 21st:‘Meditations on Savitri’ – ‘The Finding of The Soul’, Book 7 Canto 5. Pictures 7 to 11.
Savitri’s mission as the purna avatar was an inner process of
uniting the upper and the lower hemispheres in the ladder of existence, so that
the hitherto unmanifest spiritual powers pour into the triple worldof Matter,
Life and Mind and bring about an enrichment of earthly life, according to
Professor Kandaswami. The psychic being
is a tiny being, “A being no bigger than the thumb of man”– ankustamatra
purusha- as the Upanishad puts it, deep-seated in the cavernous depths of
man’s being. The psychic being in an individual is a tiny flame. It grows into
Fire and then bursts into a huge conflagration. It grows in stature – to quote
Professor Seetaraman – progressively, with every ascent towards and descent
from the higher consciousness, till at last that tiny creature becomes a
majestic King. Just by reading the passages 10 and 11, we get a luminous
picture of what a transformation each
one of us are entitled to, if only we aspire for that!
- Jayalakshmi
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