January 21st – The future
poetry
We continued our exploration of
the Rhythm and Movement. THE MANTRA, poetic expression of the deepest spiritual
reality, is only possible when three highest intensities of poetic speech meet
and become indissolubly one, a highest intensity of rhythmic movement, a
highest intensity of interwoven verbal form and thought-substance, of style, and
a highest intensity of the soul’s vision of truth. All great poetry comes about
by a unison of these three elements. Jared explained metre (Matra) with lots of
examples for us to practice through reading aloud.
January 28th – Self
dynamising meditation using Savitri and Huta paintings
We continued our self-dynamising
meditation viewing the Huta Paintings of Book 3, Canto 3 (‘The Book of the
Divine Mother’, ‘The House of the Spirit and New Creation’) along with Mother’s
organ music and Her Voice. We tried to weave using the threads of the last
seven months of glimpses into a Spiritual fabric. This canto provided us the
perfect framework of Cosmic and Terrestrial creation using the cosmos’ seed of
integral knowledge of One Self, the Heartbeats of the One Soul representing the
great world rhythms and the all conscious Light.
The great world-rhythms
were heart-beats of one Soul,
To feel was a
flame-discovery of God,
All mind was a single harp
of many strings,
All life a song of many
meeting lives;
For worlds were many, but
the Self was one.
This knowledge now was made
a cosmos’ seed:
This seed was cased in the
safety of the Light,
It needed not a sheath of
Ignorance.
February 11th – Hansaveena
performance by Shri V Ramanan
Shri Ramanan is a devotee of our Mother and Master.
Hansaveena was conceptualized and brought to reality by Bharat Ratna Pandit
Ravishankar whose senior disciple was Pandit Barun Kumar Pal. Ramanan has
followed the Gurukula system as a senior disciple under Pandit Barun Kumar Pal.
Shri. Ramanan has performed at several prestigious venues and festivals,
including the Indian Slide Guitar Festival, The India Habitat Centre, The
George Harrison Festival at the Ravi Shankar Centre and the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram. Mr. Ramanan has also founded a performing arts school, Sadhana School
of Music, Dance and Arts, which has over 60 students training in various Indian
and Western Art forms.
It was a mystical evening of musical delight. Mdm
Jayalakshmi as the facilitator provided the needed support on behalf of our
Society and shared a short clip of the performance to our members as it was
progressing.
A Self-Dynamising Meditation on Savitri
Mantra based on ‘The Essence of Poetry’
‘The Essence of
Poetry’ is the Chapter II in our Master’s divine work ‘The Future Poetry’.
He explores the
grand possibility of poetry - the discovery of a closer
approximation to what we might call the Mantra
in poetry, that rhythmic speech which, as the Veda puts it, rises at once from
the heart of the seer and from the distant home of the Truth — the discovery of
the Word, the Divine movement, the form of thought proper to the reality. It is
accomplished through the stress of soul-vison (Soul-idea, soul of emotion for
the delight of the soul and embodied Truth of life or Truth of Nature) behind
the surface view of words; it is a spiritual excitement of rhythmic voyage of
self-discovery among the magic islands of form and name in the inner and outer
worlds. It is the greater Truth and its delight and beauty it is seeking. It is
true joy for ever with beauty which is Truth and Truth-beauty supporting each
other in ever increasing fashion.
“There is perhaps a truth in the Vedic idea
that the Spirit of creation framed all the movements of the world by chandas (The study of poetic metres and verse in
Sanskrit), in certain fixed rhythms of
the formative Word, and it is because they are faithful to the cosmic metres
that the basic world-movements unchangingly endure. A balanced harmony
maintained by a system of subtle recurrences is the foundation of immortality
in created things, and metrical movement is nothing else than creative sound
grown conscious of this secret of its own powers.”
It is a Divine Delight exploring the
rhythm, the imagery, the ideas and the spiritual power packed in some of the
sample passages of Savitri through meditating on the Essence of Poetry. It is
still a long way for us to comprehend our Master’s Savitri Mantra – The poetic
expression of the deepest spiritual reality through the unison of the highest
intensities of the Rhythm, the Style and the Soul’s vision of Truth exactly
reflecting the conception, perception and the sensation of the occasion;
however, every step we take is a progress in our infinite journey of delight
exposing every time some of the subtle and immaterial elements even to the
experienced devotees – truly packed with infinite possibilities and in infinite
dimensions as Jananam of Brahma - who is Sarvam, Anantam, Gnanam and Anandam –
who is the Creator, the Creation and the Movement of Creation. This unending
infinite scope is bewildering to terrestrial ordinary beings; in addition, the
dualities of our terrestrial world make searching of the essence as looking for
needle in a hay stack. The Grace of our Divine Mother makes this discovery for
progress easier through our consecration and surrender.
Below is a picture reflecting our humble
self-dynamising meditation attempt to contemplate on the essence of poetry
highlighted above – through a deep dive into the ocean of Savitri to catch a
few pearls to make a garland as our offering to our Divine Mother. Of course,
it is a small crude step in our journey through the infinite golden path of
delight requiring further purification, liberation, consecration and surrender.
It is not just the canto or story line or passage but also beyond to get as
close as possible to the transcendent Truth beauty and the beauty of Truth
involved.
Here is the Mother’s quote on
self-dynamising meditation: “… Everyone has his own mode of meditation. But if
one wants the meditation to be dynamic, one must have an aspiration for
progress and the meditation must be done to help and fulfil this aspiration for
progress. Then it becomes dynamic” Mother Q&A 1956
This deep meditation can lead us to a
feeling of flame discovery of God: Savitri in Her ‘all powerful and all
encompassing’ state as experienced and expressed to touch our emotions,
feelings and senses by our Master:
Out of the infinitudes all came to her,
Into the infinitudes sentient she spread,
Infinity was her own natural home.
Nowhere she dwelt, her spirit was everywhere,
The distant constellations wheeled round her;
Earth saw her born, all worlds were her colonies,
The greater worlds of life and mind were hers;
All Nature reproduced her in its lines,
Its movements were large copies of her own.
She was the single self of all these selves,
She was in them and they were all in her.
Book VII “The Book of Yoga”, Canto VII
“The Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness"
Deeper dive into Savitri can reveal
Beauty of Knowledge behind the ignorance surrounding our life, Delight of Truth
hiding behind falsehood and Love of Goodwill behind the apparent evil.
The above pictorial representation brings
to our inner vision a sense of being inside the Matrimandir accompanied by the Sound
of Divine music, the mystic air of formless forms, the Light of consciousness,
the water of Life and the Earth of Life forms realised. It is as if the Symbol
of Sri Aurobindo at the centre is coming to Life powered by Sat and Chit for
the Divine Ananda through the magic of our Mother’s Divine Love and Light thus
creating the Beauty of multiplicity around us.
-
Ramadoss
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