September 20th
– Quarterly
committee meeting and Savitri with Huta’s Visuals:
From 4.30pm to
5.30pm AGM was conducted successfully with a good number of committee members
attending.
Savitri with Huta’s visuals: Book Eleven,
The Book of The Everlasting Day.
Canto 1, The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice
and The Supreme Consummation, Pictures 10 to17
September
27th – Savitri Reading Circle:
Book Eleven, The
Book of The Everlasting Day - Canto 1, The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and
The Supreme Consummation. Pages 674-683:
Savitri sees the Death and the
darkness dissolve and there gleams
the lurking love of God on her front. All grace, all glory, all divinity are
here focussed in one form; all adored eyes gaze through his eyes from one face;
Death transformed holds all godheads in his grandiose limbs.
Savitri
discovers that the creator of these marvellous worlds is the same as the one
who creates this universe, the same one whom her soul has faced as Death and
Night. His darkness is no more; instead there is a luminous splendour. All
grace and divinity are here collected in a single form. She regards in him the
Virat, the Spirit of things seen, the Hiranyagarbha, author of thoughts and
dreams.
Behind both the Virat
and the Hiranyagarbha — their secret cause — stands a third Purusha, the
Prajna. His is a massed superconscience, wrap
in himself, with closed eyes. He broods in his omniscient sleep and creates all
things.
He is dormant in the
atoms and in the burning star. He is asleep in all forms, god, man, beast,
stone. Because he is there within it, the Inconscient does its work
faultlessly. And because he is there indwelling, the world does not die. Of the
circle of God, he is the Centre; he is also the circumference within which
Nature moves. His is a creative slumber that is the pervading might of God in
all things, Awake; he is the Eternal, the Supreme.
All powers were woven
in countless concords here.
The
two look upon each other; Savitri’s Soul sees Soul of death.
Then like an anthem
rising from the luminous cavern of the heart, a voice soars up whose enchanting
sound can change the painful weeping of suffering earth into sobs of rapture
and her cry into a happy song of the spirit.
As a messenger of the
confident felicity of her heart, a smile gently ripples across her wide eyes,
like the first beam of the morning sun rippling along two awakened lotus-pools.
(Sourced from Collected works of Sri Aurobindo)
Since the meditation was on the same canto, the
summary is combined.
October
4th – Reading from AIM Magazine:
Mantra
(Rhythmic word of the Infinite)
In the theory of Mantra,
Mother says the Sound always has more Power than most of us think. Uttered with
right aspiration brings positive effect. Even wishing someone “Good Day” with a
will and aspiration will make it concrete and more effective than greeting
casually.
I found this magazine
very enlightening, bringing more awareness on the usage of our speech. Mother
gives a detailed explanation on the source power that come into words.
Next in the passage
by Ramakrishna Das in “The Arduous Path of Transformation becomes Easy by the
Japa of Ma” the author says that Sanskrit letter
(M) is the bija
(seed-syllable) for Chandra the moon. Chandra contains amrita, divine nectar and
is cooling and peaceful.
It is the embodiment
of Bliss. Sanskrit letter
(A) to the letter
(M), one gets the word
Ma.
(A) is the seed syllable
for Agni, the purifying spiritual fire for three types of our karma. Sanchita
karma (the results of actions from previous lives),kriyamana (the results of
actions from this life) and prarabdha (the present destiny) –will be burnt away
by the japa of Ma.
October 11th
- Readings from “Questions and Answers, 1956”, The
Mother - Volume 8- pages 93 to 95:
In the first passage
we read, the Mother talks about the number “12.”
She says that in the
very old tradition, even before the Vedic tradition there was a belief that “If
twelve men of goodwill unite and call the Divine, the Divine is obliged to
come”.
But only the number
12 cannot do the magic! It is what kind of united aspiration the 12 people had.
And also it is a superstition to think that always when the 12 people of same
good will pray the Divine will descend.
In the next question,
“How can one understand the Divine and how can we find the Divine within
ourselves”
Sri Aurobindo says
that we are already THAT in our secret nature.
It is because He is
the very essence of our being that we can become Him and consequently
understand Him; otherwise it would be impossible.
To realise Him, the
aspiration and preoccupation should be constant and not a half hour pass time!
Mother says that our silent aspiration can give us the most precious gifts!
Reading and writing
all these glimpses help me to bring and see more of divine in my otherwise
mundane routine!
-
Jayalakshmi
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