18th
January : Meditation on “Savitri” Book X (The Book of the Double Twilight)
Canto One, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
The 4 pictures with lines from “Savitri” saw
Savitri with Satyavan’s soul and the the God of Death travelling through
darkness finds. Savitri finds herself in a trance of the Real and the Ideal.
These lines seem to tell us that when the
Knowledge of the Self hidden in the
darkness of our Ignorance comes out like morning Sun, the dark, dragon body,
adversary of the Light will have no go except to slip down from the stair of
Time!
Savitri, Immutable like a Fixed Eternal Star,
The Divine Mother, goes through these experiences to show us the way to higher
plane of Consciousness.
25th January : Talk on
How to manage Stress by Mr Karlu Sarkar
Mr Karlu Sarkar
talked about Nadi shuddhi. Calm breathing is essential to bring about Peace in
the mind. There is a dynamic link between Mind and Matter. Peace in the mind
drives out all lurking diseases in the body. Peace is both Bhakthi and Shakthi.
Meditation gives intuition to enter the Truth where intellect cannot enter. He
also taught us a few exercises to release the pain and bring flexibility to
muscles and joints. Indeed it was a joyous session to learn valuable exercises
which bring a sense of well being and Peace in us.
8th
February : Words of the Mother on ‘The Integral Yoga’:
The Mother considers three conceptual examples
of the manifested world primarily to show the clear difference of understanding
and approach by Sri Aurobindo towards
1. The views expressed by the Buddhist and Shankarite are
that this world is only a projection of the real and is full of ignorance and
suffering. The sooner, the better it is
for the individual to get away from this and attain liberation.
2.
The
Vedantic view is that ‘The world is Divine’ but the outer expression is obsure,
ignorant and pervert.This condition is going to remain same and it is better
for the individual to become conscious of the inner Divine with least
attachment to this world.
Sri Aurobindo’s view: The created world did not
happen as it was to meant to be by the Divine and is only in the process of
becoming. Its current obsure and
perverted expression has to be developed into a perfect manifestation. In order to speed up this process, it is
necessary for the librated individuals to bring down the realization to this
world and change the conditions till perfection. Hence this is not an individualistic
approach, to leave the world unhappy.
15th February
: Reading from “The Synthesis of Yoga” –
The Mother’s Talks
Mother clears the Sadhaks’ doubt on “what is
“Egoistic state of Consciousness absorbed in the outer appearances...” She says
that Sri Aurobindo’s “Yoga starts where
the others end.” Instead of thinking the body and life as useless after uniting
with Divine inside, one should work for the Transformation of both and it is
like “Cutting one’s way through a virgin forest.”
21st
February- Mother’s 137th Birth Anniversary celebrations
The first sight of the galore of beautiful and
different varieties of flowers arranged at Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s altar
by dear Marty really made the birthday celebration a joy of purity. I thought
of reading through the significance of the flowers offered at our Mother’s feet.
It goes like this...
Rose – Love for the Divine
Baby’s breath - Blooms without
attracting attention
Lily - Joy of Integral peace
Orchid - Emotional attachment to the
divine
Garden Gladiolus - Conscious of
Divine and surrendered to it
Chrysanthemum - Purified dynamic
life energy
Lotus - Supramental wealth
Sunflower - consciousness turned
towards Light
Dahlia - Nobility and dignity
Jasmine - Psychic purity and
Integral purity
Nerium Oleander - Sweetness of
thought turned exclusively towards the Divine, perfect quietness in the mind.
Just going through the Book of Spiritual
Significance of Flowers by our dear Mother gives so much elevation in the
thought and spreads joy in the heart!
Meditation music was followed by the Readings
of prayers by Mrs Rajah and Mrs Kashyap .
Darshan Message
from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puthucherry was read by Mr C.Krishnamurthy:
“Far-wandering seekers on the Eternal’s path
Brought to these quiet founts their spirit’s
thirst
And spent the treasure of a silent hour
Bathed in the purity of the mild gaze
That, uninsistent, ruled them from its peace,
And by its influence found the ways of calm”.
-
Savitri,
Sri Aurobindo
The musical offering then began. Ms. Shibani
Roy rendered Hindustani Vocal with Mr Mihir Kundu on the tabla. The song, which
was on Mother Durga, was very appropriate and brought us closer to The Mother’s
grace. The room-full of devotees appeared to be lost in the devotional
consciousness that was beginning to settle in the room. The celebration ended with vote of thanks by
Sri C.Krishnamurthy and all of us were treated to the delicious Mahaprasad,
prepared by our strong and enthusiastic team of Shakthi Svaroopinis!
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