October 18th - Meditation on
Savitri with Huta’s Visuals:
Book Eleven: Canto
1, The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, Pictures 18
to 25.
God addresses Savitri as the living power of
the manifest Word of the Spirit, which has no creative powers but has the
knowledge of the slow pace of time. And asks Savitri “Ascend soul into thy
timeless self; Choose destiny’s curve and stamp thy will on time”
Savitri becomes energy of Sat-Chit-Ananda;
Then a voice is heard by the Savitri’s soul. "O spirit,
choose now; for this supreme choice is not offered again. The peace beyond name
and form, the peace in which all things come to rest, now looks at thee from my
highest being.
Savitri’s heart replies without words, "O Lord, give thy
peace, a boon to keep within for the magnificent soul of man struggling amidst
the fury and ruin of wild Time; thy calm, O Lord, bearing thy joy."
“Give to me, O Lord, thy embrace which cuts across the living knot
of pain, thy joy in which all created beings breathe, thy enchanting streaming
waters of deep love, give to me thy sweetness for earth and men, not the heart alone. Not the nature
alone.
Then a blissful cry from the Infinite arose chanting the following
words, "O beautiful body of the embodied Word creative, thy thoughts are
my thoughts. I have spoken through thee. My will is thy will, I have chosen thy
choice. I give to earth and men all that thou hast asked for them. All this
shall be entered in the book of Destiny by eternal Time, which is the trustee
of my thought, plan and act, the executor of my will.
Savitri succeeds in her mission finally when she hears the voice
of the Eternal giving up its stance and happily blessing Savitri and Satyavan,
"Descend thou to life with him whom thy heart desires. Far back in time, O
Satyavan, O luminous Savitri, I sent you forth beneath the stars — both of you
a dual power of God in an
ignorant world, in a bounded creation shut off from the boundless self —
bringing down God to the insentient globe, lifting earth-beings to the
immortality of God.
(Source: From Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo)
October 25th - Savitri Reading Circle:
Book Eleven: Canto
1: The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, Page-683 to
685
Savitri’s soul hears the voice of the God’s
soul coming from within her.” I am
the Ecstasy that is unassailable. Those who have looked on me shall have no
more grief. They who are not distracted by the pleasures and the little joys of
life but live closed in their consciousness to the outside world shall see my
forms”.
Two powers of
the same bliss, Nature and Soul in us are divided, where Soul longs to reach
the skies, but Nature leans down to earth. They are vainly divided by their
empty conceits of independence. Nature and Soul are like bride and bridegroom inexplicably
separated. But when the veil of Maya is lifted from the sense of time and
space, the spirit shall vibrate with endless bliss.
(Source:
From Collected works of Sri Aurobindo)
November 1st - Readings from AIM Magazine:
Mantra
(Rhythmic Word of the Infinite)
Since our group wanted to know more about Mantra, we read about
what Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s directive on Mantra.
Mother says that repetition of Mantra brings about a change in our
physical plane and a mantra should be not more than 3 words.
Her mantra “OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH” is like a phosphorescent radiation
from a medium with a powerful action.
A Mantra has life when it springs up spontaneously from within. It
has the most power. For people who have contact with their soul the mantra will
well up from within.
Sri Aurobindo gives us the most important tips on the way to do
Japa.
There is the mental way of doing Japa where you get absorbed in
its significance and power. The object of concentration in the head is to rise
to the divine consciousness and bring down the Light of the Mother or her Force
or Ananda into all the centres.
There is a vital way when it comes from heart ringing it with a
sense of Bhakhi. The object of the concentration in the heart is to open the
centre there ( heart lotus)to feel the presence of Divine Mother in the heart
and to become aware of one’s soul or psychic being which is a portion of the
Divine.
He also understands the common man’s problem of the strain, long
hours of japa brings, though accustomed to successful meditation!
November 8th - Reading from the
book “The Mother”:
Our group decided to read “Four great aspects
of the Mother” like a prayer before Deepavali which was on 10th
November.
In the words of Sri Aurobindo, four great
aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood
in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the
terrestrial play. To the four we give the four great names Maheswari, Mahakali,
Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati.
Imperial Maheswari is the one who opens us to
the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the
supreme Light, to a treasure house of the Mother’s eternal forces. Her
compassion is endless and inexhaustible.
Mahakali embodies her power of splendid
strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her
impetuous swiftness and world shaking force. All her divinity leaps out in
splendour of tempestuous action; She is there for swiftness, for the
immediately effective process.
Mahalakshmi resides where ever there is
harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and
beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony
in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of the life and
surroundings. Her grace lifts our wisdom to pinnacles of wonder and reveals to
it the mystic secrets of the ecstasy that surpasses all knowledge, meets
devotion with passionate attraction of the Divine and keeps it endure forever.
“All the work of
the other Powers leans on her for its completeness”
Mahasaraswati, the youngest of the Four, She
is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature.
Her grace will give us the intimate and
precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind
and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker.
Reading about the above powers of the Mother,
our prayer gets concentrated and sincere to receive Her Grace. I wish one day
we can programme and click in our physical, mental and emotional levels, all
these “Shakhis” according to the needs of the moment and just be a computer (a
tool) without our ego and ignorance coming in the way!
November 15th - Meditation on Savitri with
Huta’s visuals
Book Eleven: Canto 1, The Eternal Day: The
Soul’s Choice And the Supreme Consummation, Pictures 26 to 33
The pictures depict the soul of Savitri plunging down through unseen
worlds amidst joyous voices and triumphant cries greeting her all the way down.
She holds the soul of Satyavan within her enveloping soul. The great wings of
the Superconscient close above her and she finds herself buried in the breast
of the Earth Mother.
A Spirit gazes upon destiny; a glance of undying Love falls from
that gaze. A wonderful face looks down with deathless eyes. Over the wide earth
broods the infinite bliss. (Source: A Summary of Savitri by M.P.Pandit)
-
Jayalakshmi
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