September
23rd – Self-Dynamising Meditation using Savitri and Huta Paintings
Earlier,
through our deep voyage into the unknowable, (Book 3, ‘The Book of the Divine
Mother’), over several months, we were trying to form an idea of the infinite
powers of our Divine Mother in our minds; all these are like the Silent witness
behind everything, experiencing the marvel of the dynamism of the diversifying
and integrating Spirit; it is as if this unfathomable Consciousness-Force, has
kindled in us a mystic flame of pure Love of aspiration, silently creating
a need behind our hearts to experience Aswapati's Boon: “… one shall
descend and break the iron law, Change Nature’s doom by the lone Spirit’s
power”. This has led us to explore and experience this All powerful Savitri,
at the conclusion of Her yoga, through the Canto 6 (Nirvana and the Discovery
of the All-Negating-Absolute) and 7 (Omnipresent Reality and the Discovery of
the All-Fulfilling Godhead) of Book 7: The Book of Yoga. It is now an
invitation to view the experience not only of the Spirit's view on the Silent
Force behind but also to integrate these two views (of one looking at the
other) to reach the MahaShaktit dynamising the Absolute.
This
month, when we took a deeper dive into Canto 6, we were reminded of 'The Issue'
(Book 1, Canto 2): "An Absolute Supernatural darkness falls on man, when
he nears God ..... That hour had fallen on Savitri". What we think as
naught (zero) is actually unmanifest infinity; the seeming falsehood, ignorance,
division, evil, incapacity, hatred, finite-view, commotion, ugliness,
time-trap, disharmony and suffering hide behind the Divine Substance as Occult
clay as Truth, Knowledge, Unity, Goodwill, Power, Love, Infinity, Silence,
Beauty, Eternity, Peace and Delight. We seem to constantly fight the cross
currents by taking either the side of the Spirit or Matter: Outside VS Inside,
Liberty VS Fraternity, Time VS Timelessness, Form VS Content, Personal VS
Impersonal, Head VS Heart, Profit VS Purpose etc; we can all embrace the
paradox of integrating both the sides and enjoy the powers of Savitri, The
Mahashakti.
Jared helped to us to experience the
unexplored side of Prof Vladimir - the creative movie making talent, which he
he was unable to bring out during his Singapore visit, due to the lack of slots
provided to him. We watched 'Sincerity', 'Sacrifice' and 'Future Education'
followed by brief discussion; those who missed are urged to watch these and
other short films , by visiting '12qualities.com'. A lot of sincere effort has
gone into educate us to look at our future with confidence - packed
with tremendous value indeed; again, it is for us to make the best meaning
out of them: what might look like as mere experiences of sacrifice, in fact,
are filled with delight, progress, knowledge, goodwill and power to those who
can aspire for the integral view and Mother's Grace.
October
7th- Read a few passages from All India Magazine
September 2018 issue- Prenatal Education
On Man and Woman-The relationship between man and
woman
In
this passage Mother talks about the highest ideal men and women should aim for
instead of woman’s part solely interior and domestic occupations and man’s
exclusively exterior and social occupations. The supreme reality is men and
women are equal in rights and in duties.
True Maternity- Begins with the conscious creation of
a being
Mother
advises the would be mothers that true maternity begins with the conscious
creation of a being, with the willed shaping of the soul unlike the animals who
give birth to young ones instinctively ignorantly, machine like. She says a
woman’s thought and will are so powerful to bring out a child with highest
ideal instead of believing in the obscure bonds of heredity and atavism.
Birth
and the Psychic Being-The material conditions and environment that the psychic
being chooses,
Mother
says. only when the soul has attained perfect psychic being, it has the choice
of taking a rebirth; if taking another janma, it can choose the body where it
can express its best. In spite of that it has to have a lot of self dynamism to
overcome the obstacles like material inconscience.
The psychic being: a result of evolution
Through
evolution psychic being is churned out from Matter.
The
Divine consciousness which has spread over Matter is lifted up slowly to reach
the Divine through several births.
Only
the psychic being can remember its past and has the pathway laid to become what
it wants to become rather than what it had been!
October
14th and October 21st- The Human Cycle
The
Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self Determination
War and self-determination
Read a few passages from the Chapter- The Spiritual
Aim and Life
Sri Aurobindo gives us a clear understanding that true aim of the spiritual society is for
the soul incarnated in the human body to fulfil its diviner purpose rather than
succumbing to just the satisfaction of physical, vital and emotional well being
or to flee away to its freedom from the diseased prone body.
The individual soul in man is the collective form of
the Infinite. It will hold sacred every aspect man’s physical, vital, emotional,
intellectual and psychic evolution. Inspite of the manifold manifestation of
the soul as an individual, human society, nation, it is one divine reality, the
conscious infinite in Man.
This reality as a dogma or creed does not impose on man’s
lower natural being.
To raise to a spiritualised society, large liberty
will be the means to give the freedom to raise the society from its yoke of
slavery to beliefs, customs and authority. By shaking of all these fetters man
chooses to wear the yoke which helps him to find his diviner inner nature and
its aspiration.
The true spirituality is the one which does not lay a
yoke upon for example science, philosophy or any art forms or compel them to
square their conclusions with any statement of dogmatic religious or even of
assured spiritual truth as some of the old religions attempted. If let free in
their action will find the unity of Truth with Good and Beauty and God.
The true Spiritualisation of humanity happens when the
true inner theocracy is established removing the false theocracy of dominant
church or priesthood.
This chapter ends with the word “Sarvabhavena” from Bhagavad Gita where Lord
Krishna says one who finds true divinity in everything in and around himself
will be free from all illusion and delusion, the freedom which Sri Aurobindo
talks about!
-
Jayalakshmi and Ramadoss
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