This is a selection from the private journal of a seeker of the New World. These reflections are interspersed with quotes from Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Yoga in 21st Century
THEME/S
Sunday, January 1, 2023
My audacity scares me. But it is so familiar.
My courage is the courage of despair… said someone once.
Musings on Art- A collection
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Painting is the art of imparting an experience.
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The presence of a Goddess, an act of art.
Art is an arena of a violent duel- between the Infinite and man. With varying results.
Man once sought in Art something higher than life- now he seeks in it something lower than life.
The pioneers of Modern Art insisted upon seeing the Divine in their work- even when the whole world including God denied it. There is some tenacity and courage here.
"The reality of painting throws things into question, the reality of things throws painting into question.”
Agenda
Monday, February 6, 2023
It's up to us to CHANGE TACK-this is what's expected of us, to change tack and not keep going round in circles... And there's no point in giving up, because it would just have to be started all over again next time. What I always say is: "Here's the opportunity- go right to the end." It's no use saying, "Ah, I can't '," because next time it will be even more difficult.
Ode to France- A collection over years
Friday, February 10, 2023
France is not dead. She is elsewhere.And ready for Combat.
The rapidity with which France breaks her old idols to forge new ones to be broken is dizzying.Audacity, Thy name is France.
I sought you everywhere O FranceAnd thought you're dead.Until the day you leapt out of my flesh.
There are some eternal moments which play out between France and God.No other witnesses.
France makes you dream....of the impossible. The hope of grandeur.
How sweet is the sound of clash when Truths collide. France plays this symphony quite often.
Come, calls France. I will make you bold in mind and body.
La vérité a besoin de la France.The Truth needs France.
France cannot be dead as long as she is alive in even one single heart. Anywhere in the world.
I accept destruction if Thou dost ordain it-but let me serve Thee one last time- says a dying France.
France is revolutionary or nothing.
The France of my dreams is perhaps only a dream. But it exists.
It is necessary that France exists. Be it in mediocrity, be it in darkness. Sometimes its role is to just exist. For it takes only a spark to set it on fire when the Hour arrives.
My passion for France, and its mission has acquired a fundamental quality - sovereign and immutable.
There are few nations in the world which appear to Asphyxiate in the absence of Greatness. The rest seem to live quite comfortably.
What does it mean to passionately love a country in an age when you are no longer required to die for it?To give it - LIFE. True life.
Wait, O Fate before rejoicing.There is France.
For the last 500 years...there was one nation called France whose one job was to ensure that Truth and Beauty are not absent from the earth for long....
The best in France teaches you that one can have convictions and passionately fight for them without losing finesse- a measured, balanced, sober rebellion.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The only Immortality is in not dying.~An obscure American poet.
Friday, March 3, 2023
His laughter pervades everything...The true comedy of this world.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
A grand Revolution is being prepared under the surface of things. All the highest in the past, all the purest, all the loveliest that man has achieved will become one huge cry of protest that will wring the Future out of the present decay.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Mahakali.SHE WANTS THE TRUTH.May She burn away all our crookedness- this intolerable human consciousness- weak, small, petty- horribly false.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
All the parts of being are searching for their own Absolute.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
It is beautiful to be alive in an era where Truth - the only Reality is the only salvation.
Monday, April 17, 2023
“And everything is devised and organized, minutely and innumerably and very brutally, to teach us not to react, or rather to cease reacting to the world of Falsehood—to receive or perceive only the vibration of Truth. To BE the vibration of Truth.
An invasion of the Real.
That is why Matter is being pounded.
It is the time to be true.
Simply true.
In the great disintegration of the terrestrial Unreality, only the real ones will survive.
Because they will have no contact with what does not exist.” - S.
“The earth must be liberated. There is no other liberation.” - S.
The Mother
Saturday, May 6, 2023
The world will trouble you so long as any part of you belongs to the world. It is only if you belong entirely to the Divine that you can become free.
Monday, May 8, 2023
“If you cannot say about everything and for everything and to everything: ‘It is You’, you are struck by Death.If the panther that attacks you is not You, you are immediately eaten.” - S.
Sri Aurobindo
I know what is preparing behind the darkness and can see and feel the first signs of its coming. Those who seek for the Divine have to stand firm and persist in their seeking; after a time, the darkness will fade and begin to disappear and the Light will come."
Sunday, May 14, 2023
May what is True really BE.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
At times I dream of composing a work- in any form- but something not of the world and nor for the world.Something only meant to record the fact that some miserable earthly creature somehow at some point in the human history after that Golden Era managed to conceive of some really audacious aspirations.Some anguished prisoner was awake in this slaughter house even if only to shed a helpless tear.Just to bear witness that- even in this pathetic century- someone understands- even if one can do nothing more.
Not literature, not poetry- and above all NO AUDIENCE.
For I cannot make anything useful out of the rather unearthly scraps that I receive- but perhaps the Cosmos will?
“If we are not able to carry out great things, let it seem at least that we are able to conceive them.”-De Gaulle.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Failure is nothing but a step forward to your success. You will have to dig in each step carefully and set your feet firmly and proceed in future to the Truth. But you must be obstinate.The highest cannot be realised until one becomes perfect. It takes years after years, century after century. However, you must be obstinate like the Supreme Lord. Be more and more obstinate in front of your own defects.
What can be more audacious, more heroic, more revolutionary than the moment when Man first uttered the cry- I am He.It makes you tremble.
Friday, June 2, 2023
“Nothing true in a mission can fail, either it persists or takes another form.”
I see myself going right through to the end.
Saturday, June 3, 2023
The reality of the disastrous basis of human life….which all the success of developing India cannot change.
(Ref- Following a ghastly train accident in India)
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
One should not judge like Satprem before becoming Satprem.
Thursday, June 8, 2023
We have a bad habit of living in falsehood.Sometimes this human nightmare is really no more than that.
Saw a peacock on the roof this evening.
May the TRUE ME really win.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
There is nobody here, even among the best, who is ready to give up all his habits, conveniences or preferences to win the final victory, even if he is to break his neck on the way.
Agenda 1965
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The will for victory, mon petit, that's the whole thing! Not a will here or there or here (gesture to various spots of the body), not that, not the personal victory over disease: the victory over the world. After all, we are here for that; I don't know if it will be for this time, but at any rate that's what is expected of us. We are here for that- TO FIGHT. So we are made to fight, and as it is the most (how can I put it?) intimate way, it is the body that is affected.
Monday, July 17, 2023
Without heroism man cannot grow into Godhead; courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action. - Sri Aurobindo
Monday, August 14, 2023
The greatest joy I have faintly experienced is when I feel that the ego is on the verge of being dissolved. That is the closest I could manage to come to Ananda. Very very faint. But there is a veritable joy of transformation.
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
We are on the verge of the marvellous....It is only acute human stupidity that can still keep us interested in and affected by the old world.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
All life is Yoga, but Yoga is not a joke.And neither is life.
Friday, August 25, 2023
SILENCE. The lord is here.
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
I have seen a fleeting vision of the ego disappearing completely leaving behind a faint trace.....Must hold on to it.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
This huge lie....is only a huge habit.
Friday, September 1, 2023
A little mind does itAnd a little mind views it.A little mind likes itAnd a little mind abhors it.
WHERE IS GOD IN ALL THIS.?!
It's so much easier to fight against the 'bad', the 'false', the 'ugly', the 'wrong'.
But what to do with that which is not any of these. It's not bad, false, ugly or wrong. It's just HUMAN.
And it's no longer acceptable.
When the only problem with the vibration is that it is a mortal vibration...
Saturday, September 2, 2023
“How shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief who sees everywhere Oneness?”
Said so the Rishis.
Thursday, September 7, 2023
“We are here to do things that are tough, but that which can really change human life.” - S.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
“We must deliver the Blue Sun, it is the path of Men.” - S.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
“We are always mistaken: we are not "in life", trying not to die we are in death, searching for the Life that is not yet.Millimetre by millimetre.”-S.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Galloping on a horse with Sri Aurobindo....high speed....TRUE LIBERTY.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
(Arrived in Pondicherry)
Life, BOUNDLESS life.
Each part of the being now wants to EXCEED itself.
The complete breakdown of the 'human'- a fiery thirst for SOMETHING ELSE.
Friday, October 13, 2023
(Ref- The October 7th massacre in Israel)
Horror doesn't touch me in the same way anymore.
An obsolete species undergoing some obsolete experiences.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Humanity is like an empty clanking vessel now....all that noise is so hollow...unreal...It is so poor...so bankrupt....and so unbearable that it can now finally be very easily overcome.All those centuries to reach just this point...the zero state.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The world fades away...when every part of your being thirsts for an ABSOLUTE.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Fight oh man, Fight.The glorious battle is finally here.The enemy overruns all our LivesNot a spot is left to Light.A sinking ship on a sea of NightNot an aid in sightNor a friend to guideFight oh man, Fight.
When dancing on the human corpseMadness reigns and unmasks its face.When all seems lost and defeat looms largeWhen not a corner is left unstainedWhen conquered is each thought and breathWhen each new hope brings a new despairWhen besieged is all we have seen and beenAnd doomed is all we deemed we areSeek oh man, Seek.Amidst the wreckageIn Silence and PrayerThat which STILL escapes.
Pure and inviolable.
Friday, November 17, 2023
Be worthy.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
I don't know....but Truth breathes differently.
An aspiration for an unwounded Life ....and a fleeting glimpse of it...makes even a little scratch seem unbearable.
Monday, December 4, 2023
The apocalypse of the human race is here...It is sowing despair and panic in the consciousness... but it is its own death that disturbs the falsehood.Oh Man- night is upon your soul!
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