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

Celebrating the Joy of Christmas Day

The life of the enchanted globe became
A storm of sweetness and of light and song,
A revel of colour and of ecstasy,
A hymn of rays, a litany of cries:
A strain of choral priestly music sang
And, swung on the swaying censer of the trees,
A sacrifice of perfume filled the hours.
(Book four, Canto one)


25th December – the Christmas tree was decorated and installed in the middle of the Playground. Everyone was gay. The Mother wore a beautiful brocade dress and sat near the tree to distribute gifts to everyone with her love and blessings.

The band played some tunes, and there were songs and entertainments by the school children.


All this was new to me, for we had never had a Christmas tree in our house. Now I was watching, learning and assimilating, trying to perceive the meaning of all this.


The Mother’s invocation to Father Christmas:

Father Christmas.
I evoke you today!
Answer our call. Come bearing all your marvellous gifts. You are the great dispenser of worldly possessions; you are the untiring friend who hears every request and grants it generously. Give each one the material object he desires, and as for me, give me enough, give me much so that I may give largely to all.

(An excerpt from ‘Story of the Soul’, By Huta, Havyavahana Trust, Puducherry)

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