CWTVKS Volume 3

SOME FLASHES

“O Thou, sole Reality, Light of our light and Life of our life, Love supreme, Saviour of the world, grant that more and more I may be perfectly awakened to the awareness of Thy constant presence. Let all my acts conform to Thy law; let there be no difference between my will and Thine. Extricate me from the illusory-consciousness of my mind, from its world of phantasies; let me identify my consciousness with the Absolute Consciousness, for that art Thou.

Give me constancy in the will to attain the end give me firmness and energy and the courage which shakes off all torpor and lassitude.

Give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the peace that makes Thy presence felt and Thy intervention effective, the peace that is ever victorious over all bad will and every obscurity.

Grant, I implore Thee, that all in my being may be identified with Thee. May I be nothing else any more than a flame of love, utterly awakened to a supreme realisation of Thee.”

( Prayers and Meditations of the Mother)

The Divine is addressed, invoked to hasten the perfect awakening of the inner soul, the psychic being, to speed up the gradual unfolding of the hidden consciousness which is in direct communion with the eternal Presence, Satchidananda.

For the Divine Mother is the absolute Truth, the Sole Reality, Sat, from which all existences are derived. She is Consciousness and its force, Cit Sakti, consciousness formed in the supreme Light of which our light is a derivation and force of consciousness expressed in the deeper Life of which our life is a surface activity. She is also supreme Love which is the central manifestation of Delight, Ananda, the supra-ethical essence, Rasa, the very substance of the Divine, Paramam Vyoma. Thus she is Sat-Chit-Ananda, Absolute. Yet is she related to this world of ignorance and falsehood and suffering, for this is only an imperfect manifestation of Her own true existence. She is the saviour of the world by bringing it back to its own original purity and power and light and life by a fuller and diviner manifestation for which it is being moulded through the ordeal of suffering and darkness.

This consummation is possible under an initial condition of Her own. There must be a readiness somewhere in the earth-consciousness—the physical consciousness—to open to the influence of the psychic being, the inner soul…