Guiding Light of The Month

O Lord, how ardently do I call and implore Thy love! Grant that my aspiration may be intense enough to awaken the same aspiration everywhere: oh, may good- ness, justice and peace reign as supreme masters, may ignorant egoism be overcome, darkness be suddenly illu- minated by Thy pure Light; may the blind see, the deaf hear, may Thy law be proclaimed in every place and, in a constantly progressive union, in an ever more perfect harmony, may all, like one single being, stretch out their arms towards Thee to identify themselves with Thee and manifest Thee upon earth. - The Mother

Birth of New Light

(Picture of Dawn – Sandhya)


Like a fire from cave depths
Like a chant of hymn from silence’ self
Like a living symbol from ocean-ness
Awakes the Dawn from Nature’s bosom.

She leans Her hands of blessing
As fresh pink hues on blue sky
Secretly knocks the petals opening
On the flame-flowers of ecstasy.

A welcome song for the day is Dawn,
A miracle birth of light in morn.
-          Sandhya
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Dr. Prema Nandakumar, in her PhD thesis titled “Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, A study of the cosmic epic”, gives a beautiful account of how Dawn is picturized in Savitri. She says:

“This sublime picture of Dawn is verily infused with the symbolism of growth in consciousness: that is, Woman inconscient waking up from her stupor and becoming slowly transformed into the superconscient goddess”.

References:
·         Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, “A study of the cosmic epic”, by Dr. Prema Nandakumar.


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