There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God's bounty.
- The Mother reads
SABCL > Hour of God
Rig VedaMandala 1 - Sukta 1 - Riks 1,2,3,4,5,6
अग्निम् ईळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवम् ऋत्विजम् | होतारं रत्नधातमम् ||
1) I adore the Flame, the vicar, the divine Ritwik of the Sacrifice, the summoner who most founds the ecstasy.
अग्निः पूर्वेभिर् ऋषिभिर् ईड्यो नूतनैर् उत | स देवां एह वक्षति ||
2) The Flame adorable by the ancient sages is adorable too by the new. He brings here the Gods.
अग्निना रयिम् अश्नवत् पोषम् एव दिवे-दिवे | यशसं वीरवत्तमम् ||
3) By the Flame one enjoys a treasure that verily increases day by day, glorious, most full of hero-power.
अग्ने यं यज्ञम् अध्वरं विश्वतः परिभूर् असि | स इद् देवेषु गच्छति ||
4) O Flame! the pilgrim-sacrifice on every side of which thou art with the environing being, that truly goes among the Gods.
अग्निर् होता कविक्रतुः सत्यश् चित्रश्रवस्तमः | देवो देवेभिर् आ गमत् ||
5) The Flame, the summoner, the Seer-Will, true and most full of richly varied listenings, may he come a God with the Gods.
यद् अङ्ग दाशुषे त्वम् अग्ने भद्रं करिष्यसि | तवेत् तत् सत्यम् अङ्गिरः ||
6) O Flame! the happy good which thou shalt create for the giver is that Truth and verily thine, O Angiras!
Translation by Sri AurobindoSABCL > Hymns of Mystic Fire
Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is found sleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss or a great destruction.
In the hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain self-flattering that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that which summons it. All insincerity of nature, once thy defence against the eye of the Master and the light of the ideal, becomes now a gap in thy armour and invites the blow. Even if thou conquer for the moment, it is the worse for thee, for the blow shall come afterwards and cast thee down in the midst of thy triumph.
Gloire à Toi, Seigneur, triomphateur de tous les obstacles.
Permets que rien en nous ne fasse obstacle à Ton œuvre.
Permets que rien ne retarde Ta manifestation.
Que Ta volonté soit faite en toute chose et à tout moment.
Nous sommes devant Toi pour que Ta volonté s’accomplisse en nous, dans tous les éléments, toutes les activités de notre être, depuis les hauteurs suprêmes, jusqu’aux moindres cellules de notre corps.
Permets que nous Te soyons entièrement et éternellement fidèles.
Nous voulons être complètement sous Ton influence, à l’exclusion de toute autre.
Permets que nous n’oubliions jamais de T’être profondément et intensément reconnaissants.
Permets que nous ne gaspillions jamais rien de toutes les choses merveilleuses que Tu nous donnes à chaque instant.
Permets que tout en nous collabore à Ton œuvre, que tout soit prêt pour Ta réalisation.
Gloire à Toi, Seigneur, Réalisateur Suprême.
Donne-nous une foi ardente, active, absolue, inébranlable en Ta VICTOIRE.
Prières et Méditations > Le 23 octobre 1937
But being pure cast aside all fear; for the hour is often terrible, a fire and a whirlwind and a tempest, a treading of the winepress of the wrath of God; but he who can stand up in it on the truth of his purpose is he who shall stand; even though he fall, he shall rise again; even though he seem to pass on the wings of the wind, he shall return. Nor let worldly prudence whisper too closely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the unexpected.
Rig VedaMandala 10 - Sukta 125 - Riks 5,6,7,8
(5)
अहम् एव स्वयम् इदं वदामि जुष्टं देवेभिर् उत मानुषेभिः | यं कामये तं-तम् उग्रं कृणोमि तम् ब्रह्माणं तम् ऋषिं तं सुमेधाम् ||
I utter here that which is adored by the gods and by men. The one I choose, I make him supreme and he knows the Word and possesses the Knowledge.
(6)
अहं रुद्राय धनुर् आ तनोमि ब्रह्मद्विषे शरवे हन्तवा उ | अहं जनाय समदं कृणोम्य् अहं द्यावापृथिवी आ विवेश ||
Rudra's bow I bend for him to slay the fierce enemies of the Truth; I am in the battle for the sake of the peoples, I have entered into heaven and earth.
(7)
अहं सुवे पितरम् अस्य मूर्धन् मम योनिर् अप्स्व् अन्तः समुद्रे | ततो वि तिष्ठे भुवनानु विश्वोतामूं द्यां वर्ष्मणोप स्पृशामि ||
I have given birth to the Father, whose head is my birthplace – in the waters, in the ocean. From there I have entered into the worlds and have established myself wide and I touch with my body the far heaven.
(8)
अहम् एव वात इव प्र वाम्य् आरभमाणा भुवनानि विश्वा | परो दिवा पर एना पृथिव्यैतावती महिना सम् बभूव ||
I rush like the wind as I drive all the worlds. That reaches beyond the heavens, beyond this earth, – such is the greatness that has manifested.
Translation in English by Nolini Kanta GuptaCWNKG > Vol. 5
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