August
26th – Savitri Circle
Book
7, The Book of Yoga, Canto 5- The Finding of the Soul
Read
the 11 passages from Meditations on Savitri.
In
this Canto, Savitri goes onward in her search for the secret cave of her soul.
At first she finds herself in the supernatural darkness that intervenes before
one reaches God,
She
moves silently and approaches a wide end. The emptiness breaks, a wave ripples
within, and there is a blissful stir. Dawn breaks out followed by Day and in
that brilliance Savitri recognises the mystic cavern which is the dwelling of
her secret soul. The great rock-doors of the cave appear in an awful dimness.
Savitri passes from room to room, she feels
her self one with all that she sees and a sealed identity within her awakes.
She realises that she herself is the Beloved of the Supreme.
Once
again Savitri finds herself on the human soil. She finds that the half-opened
lotus-bud of her heart has bloomed revealing her secret soul. Her being calls
the mighty Mother of the worlds to come down and in a flash a Face, a Form
comes down into her heart. The moment its feet touch the quivering bloom of her
heart-lotus, a mighty movement rocks the inner space and a flaming serpent
rises released from sleep in the Night of the Inconscient. It storms its way
upwards, striking all the lotuses — Centres of Consciousness — on its route and
setting them vibrating in light and bliss, till it reaches the Eternal’s space
in the crown of the head.
The
mighty Mother — an image of the original Power — is seated there, armed, her
arm lifted in a saviour gesture, a sacred beast prone below her feet.
All
in the being of Savitri undergoes a celestial change. The working in each of
the Centres, the Lotus-kingdoms, is transformed. Behind all stands her
deathless soul casting aside its veil of Ignorance and surrendered in the hands
of the World-Mother.
September
2nd – Reading from All India Magazine – August 2018
The
Secular Legends- Sri Aurobindo talks about how even the great
epics like Mahabarata looses its original kernel of sweetness when redacted by
the later poets.They become disfigured and marred by transforming them into
secular legends.
The
Hindu Mind- It is really amazing how Sri Aurobindo has analysed both our Hindu
mythology and
Greek
mythology. While Greek minds aimed at limited and finite perfection, Hindu mind
went beyond the surface of the earth to infinite spiritual loveliness and
exaltation.
The
true subject of Hindu epic -The characters of
Hindu legends-
-These
passages talk about how the main core of these epics are struggle between the
right and the wrong ideals, where the human and divine actors are just like
pawns moved to and fro by immense world impulses which they express.
And
also they present character types. For example Rama, Sita and Savitri represent
moral excellence.
Ideal
love is triune energy, neither a mere sensual impulse nor mere emotional nor
mere spiritual.
In
their limit of extension the three meet and harmonise, and they are no more
triple but triune.
The
Rishis of yore- Sri
Aurobindo says our vedic Rishis won their knowledge by meditation working
through inspiration to intuition. Rishis
of the yore had incalculable spiritual energies. They were inspired thinkers.
September
9th – The Human Cycle
Mr
Suryanarayanan gave us an beautiful insight into Eric and also wrote this
passage for the newsletter.
Eric'
is one of the poetic dramas of Sri Aurobindo. 'Eric' is set in the heroic age
of Norway, when the many petty kingdoms were engaged in frequent fights with
one another.
Eric
(the hero of the play) wants to unite the entire SCANDINAVIA. He wins the first
round of battle and is elected as the King of Norway.
Even
after winning the war, Eric is not peaceful. He is afraid that one day or the
other 'all this realm with labour built' may dissolve like a transitory
cloud.
It
is in such a situation that the play begins. He feels besides strength and
wisdom he needs another power and prays to Goddess Freya to indicate to
him what is lacking.
At
this point, he suddenly hears a song
'Love
is the hoop of the gods
Hearts
to combine.....'
which
reveals to him that love alone can unite.
In
the profound words of Prof. M.V. Seetaraman :
Love
of the Goddess of Love desires love in Eric and he with his intense
faith and opening to Her finds love born in him with Aslaug (the heroine of the
play) as the instrument. And so he becomes the vehicle of manifestation of this
love for others. And his desire in every relationship is only to unite hearts
and so love in Eric desires love in others and brings the birth of love in
them.
Eric,
the complete man, can bring love in the hearts of a limited world of human
beings and save them from their death -in- life, their tragic existence, but to
save the whole world from Death is the work of the Divine Mother. The Vibhuti
looks forward to the Avatar. Eric points to Savitri.
September
16th – The Human Cycle
War and self-determination
We read a few passages from The Spiritual Aim
and Life. Jared facilitated in understanding the passages.
It talks about how the original spiritual
element of the religion is now crushed by its outward aids and forms and
machinery. And a great sign of this failure is when the individual is obliged
to flee from society in order to find room for his spiritual growth.
Now the religion is distorted and has made man
the slave of dogmas, slave of customs in addition to his being slave of his own
inner weakness, ignorance and passions.
The true spirituality in the religion makes
man get rid of this yoke and progress upwards for higher freedom and find the
finest inner law of his nature.
-
Jayalakshmi
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