May
22nd - Savitri, An Unending Journey:
For this week –
we continued our study of Sri Aurobindo’s mystical experiences as encapsulated
in the mantras of Book I Canto III of Savitri.
We sailed through mysteried seas of knowledge and flame – breathing the air
that moves the ‘argosies of the Gods’ and the ‘strange riches’ sailing from the
unseen. We witnessed the “flame wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word / and
flashes of an occult revealing Light” – heard the lightning feet of Inspiration
and felt her flame stab that bares the closed beyond. Through mantric word and
sound, we touched the possibility of Knowledge beyond mind.
June 5th - Selected readings from All India Magazine,
“The Hidden Sun,” May 2016 edition:
The “Hidden Sun”
was an intriguing theme selected for reading on this day. Since the title
itself was pregnant with suggestions and a world of possible meanings and
explanations, we decided to start by reading the editorial, seeking to place
the theme in perspective. There was indeed a rich background to the “Hidden
Sun”. Who or what is this hidden sun?
The hidden sun,
according to the Vedic seers, is the eighth son of Aditi, named Martanda, whom
Aditi “cast down into the darkness to fight and emerge victoriously” (All India
Magazine, May 2016, pg. 3). Aditi is the “Mother of the Universe, the Primal
Being … Aditi is all that has been and all that will take birth.” (Rig Veda 1.89.10 in http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/goddess-aditi-the-primal-creatix/).
This sun, which the Vedas sing of, is none other than the Supramental sun of
the Integral Yoga, hidden for now, and nursing a glorious dawn, or awakening in
secrecy. For this glorious awakening is
needed a sufficient purification and preparation of this earth nature, behind
which the Sun is hidden, so that it can express itself in its truest, most
resplendent Light and transform all of earth nature into its truest and most resplendent.
The editorial further makes reference to the first descent of the Supramental
Light upon earth on the 29th of February 1956 through the tapasya of
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Following
the reading of the editorial, the two passages titled, “The unborn Glory” on
page 6 and “Mind and the Divine Consciousness” on pg. 7 were read. These two
passages spoke about the place of the mind in this Yoga which aims at the
Supramental realization, especially touching upon its limitations in knowing by
identity, the Supermind.
The following
quote gives a succinct summary of the content of the readings: “Only the
supermind can be a true mediator and interpreter. But if you want the
supramental Light, you must not tie yourself to mental ideas, but draw back from
them and observe them with an impartial equality in the silence of the spirit.
When the supramental Light touches them, it will put them in their place and
finally replace them by the true truth of things.” (All India Magazine, May
2016, pg.7).
June 12th –
Readings from The Synthesis of Yoga:
We discussed the
question addressed to the Mother on what a ‘self-creator’ is. The context of the discussion was a passage
from The Synthesis of Yoga on the
personal and impersonal Godhead. The Mother explained that creation should be
taken in the sense of ‘manifesting, of making apparent’ – and the Divine, being
the All and beyond the All, manifests his own self in the act of creation. It
is as if the Divine has given an ‘external form of Himself to Himself.’
- Jared and Jayanthy
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