January 10th – AGM and Readings from Question and Answers:
Following our AGM, we read a few questions
from sadhaks and Mother’s answers for them.
January 17th - Readings from ‘Essays on Gita’
by Sri Aurobindo:
Sri Aurobindo
contributed these articles in Arya magazine from 1916 to 1920. In 1928, he
brought out an extensively revised edition in this book form. We read two
passages from the first article “Our Demand and Need from the Gita.” These
passages talk about how the man kind
attach themselves to certain scriptures and religious beliefs with full
knowledge or half knowledge and look down upon other religions and sacred books
as impostures.
In recent times
mankind has become more tolerant and respectful of other religious truths and
less inclined to fight on these grounds. Truth is one and eternal, and all the
other truths get their right place and knowledge in the light of the “ONE
TRUTH”.
It is essential
for us to approach our spiritual or religious text namely Gita or Vedas for the
value they are giving to humanity. Over time the statements made in the
scriptures undergo various mutations and divisions according to mankind’s mind
set.
January 24th - Savitri, An unending journey:
Meditation
on “Savitri” with Huta’s Visuals - Book One, The Book of Beginnings, Canto One,
The Symbol Dawn
No one can speak
about Savitri with greater authority than The Mother. She has said: Savitri is
a revelation. It is a meditation; it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal...
Our divine association with Savitri continues...
We meditated on
the first 12 paintings.
I felt writing
the beautiful explanation from Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo gives us the
joy of opening to a wider world and beyond!
Before
existence, non-existence; before being, non-being.
Before this
manifestation of names and forms came to be, it was all a state of
indefiniteness, a featureless Blank, as it were. There was simply the
Unmanifest; it was an infinite Zero. But this was not an empty zero. It was
contentful, holding in itself potentialities without end, immeasurable. And it
was because this Nothing contained all in seed in its bosom that things could
at all manifest from it.
The Zero is not
a negative Void. It exceeds the farthest conception of the mind and strikes it
as a blank though it is full in a way that is beyond human comprehension. Out
of this Zero issue the Numbers stretching into infinity. Appearance of dawn
always carries with it an enchanting beauty that is not of this world but of
one beyond; it is bright with hues that bespeak a splendour on which mortal
eyes have not rested; it brings the tidings of assurance from a Divine
Effulgence, an eternal Light that is forever; though not in evidence today in
this world of obscurity and death, it looms above and sends intimations of its
existence and advent through the flares of its glow on the horizons of its
skies.
The Goddess of
Eternal Light forms the link between Timeless Existence and this creation in
Time; she renders the truths of the former into terms proper to the latter. She
is able to do it for she holds the knowledge of what is to be worked out and in
what precise manner. She knows the steps, the course and the goal.
Source:
Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo.
January
31st - Reading from the book ‘THE
HOUR OF GOD’ by Sri Aurobindo:
The first piece
also titled “THE HOUR OF GOD” Sri Aurobindo guides us on how we must make use
of the precious moments when God visits our outer being. When that happens
anything we undertake will be a success with little effort. We are at terrible
loss when we miss these moments indulged in our ego senses or sleeping in
inertia. We should cleanse our being of self-deceit, hypocrisy and vain
self-flattering and receive the Power of the Breath of the Lord with trust and
go forward.
February 7th - Reading from AIM Magazine:
We read the
Awakening dated October 2014 during our weekly session on 7th Feb 2016. The
following is a brief note on the reading. The subject was "Fearlessness in
Action - Manifold, unfettered and fearlessness." We read two stories - The
first about the Mother when she was about fifteen or sixteen as recounted to
Children by Poorna Prema. Mother had fearlessly prevented the dismissal of an
art instructor. The second story was about Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry
"Butch" O'Hare, an American fighter pilot who, single handed,
destroyed five Japanese bombers on February 20, 1942, and saved the Aircraft
Career Lexington from the possible attack by the Japanese Bombers. Though he
was killed a year later in an aerial combat, his hometown not wanting to forget
the heroic action named the O'Hare airport in Chicago after him. We also read a
small prayer from the Mother entitled "Lead us to Victory.”
February
14th - Readings
from Question and Answers (2nd May 1956):
Sri Aurobindo
says the “UNION WITH THE DIVINE” is threefold. They are the yoga of knowledge,
the yoga of love and devotion and the yoga of works. For the Sadhak’s question
about whether Supramental has descended upon Earth to bring about the new race,
Mother replies as follows:
Like the
millions of years passed for the present development of the mind of man, even
now some time would pass before the new race would be visible. For people who
are inwardly ready, who are open and in direct contact with higher forces, can
feel the Supramental light in the earth atmosphere. For people centred in
exclusively outer being, think of the sudden and unexpected appearance as miraculous.
-
Jayalakshmi
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