Huta expressed some of Sri Aurobindo's poems through paintings, under the Mother's inspiration & guidance. See 50+ paintings with relevant lines from the poems.
The Mother : Contact Painting
In March 1967 Huta began the work of expressing some of Sri Aurobindo's poems through paintings. Under the Mother's inspiration and guidance she selected certain verses from the poems and completed fifty-four paintings, which were all shown to the Mother in September of that year. This new book presents these paintings along with the lines which inspired them from some of Sri Aurobindo's most well-known poems
THEME/S
After the exhibition of Savitri paintings I felt strongly to express some of Sri Aurobindo's selected Poems and Sonnets through paintings. The Mother responded. I recall the words she spoke on 10th February 1967:
"Child, the Lord wants you to do the new things — the new creation."
So here we are to fulfil the Lord's wish.
On 10th March 1967 we started the work.
The Mother read with a magnifying glass a passage from 'Songs to Myrtilla' which I had typed in capital letters.
Then I gave her a sketch book to show me a picture with a few strokes. She said with a smile:
"Ah, but my child, I haven't done sketches for ages!"
I pleaded: "Mother, please do only a few lines. I will be inspired."
The Mother went into a trance. On waking, she did a sketch and explained to me the colour-scheme.
That very night I painted the picture. The next morning I sent it to the Mother. She wrote:
It was Monday 29th March 1967. I read to the Mother some passages from Collected Poems. She asked me to reject three passages and do paintings of the rest.
I prayed to her to show me through her sketches what to do about these pictures. She said while touching her forehead:
I am blank. I do not see any pictures. Do them with the inspiration which I am giving you.
I said with disappointment: "Oh! if you can't, how can I do them?"
She spoke with a soft laughter, nodding her head:
I know that you can do them. Simply sit in front of the boards and the inspiration will come.
Then she caressed my hands and looked deeply into my eyes with her luminous and smiling gaze.
I did the paintings according to her inspiration and instructions. In fact, from time to time she corrected my paintings and never forgot to explain to me in detail the colour-scheme.
The Mother saw all the fifty-four paintings of Sri Aurobindo' s poems on 1st September 1967. She liked them very much and expressed her happiness and satisfaction.
These paintings along with some new ones I had done under the Mother's guidance were exhibited on 20th February 1968. The Mother's message for this exhibition ran:
My declaration was:
"Nature proves her collaboration with a smile of flowers"
Love and Grace of our Divine Mother are endless ...
To express our gratitude,— Let us all collaborate with Her fully and sincerely with our deepest love ...
20.2.68
Huta
The Mother was pleased with the declaration.
In 1970 slides were made of these paintings along with the paintings of Savitri. The slides were shown in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre before the Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo, 15th August 1972.
For the Savitri paintings the Mother recited the passages and I recorded them. The background music was her own organ-music.
When the time came to recite the Poems, her voice failed. So I recited them with her approval. I did the recording of my recitation at home. It took me almost six months. I did it late at night when everything was hushed. Later I went to the projector room to blend this recitation with the background music composed by Sunil Bhattacharya.
I requested the Mother to hear the recitation before it was played to the audience.
On 5th May 1972 at 10.40 a.m. the Mother heard the first part of the recitation. Unfortunately the sound was not upto the mark and the background music was loud. Later I came to know that the amplifier was not in order. Neverthless, the Mother said:
"It is very good, it is all right. You have done better than I expected."
She encouraged me, but I was not satisfied.
Once again on 12th May the Mother heard the second part of the recitation. She remarked:
"It is very good. You have progressed."
Now I am happy to be able to publish in book form the paintings, along with Sri Aurobindo's verses, the Mother's comments and some of my own research.
My profound gratitude always to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
The art of the painter justifies visually to the spirit the search of the sense for delight by making it its own search for the pure intensities of meaning of the universal beauty it has revealed or hidden in creation; the indulgence of the eye's desire in perfection of form and colour becomes an enlightenment of the inner being through the power of a certain spiritually aesthetic Ananda.
Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India: Indian Art - IV
O Lord,
awaken in me the ardent desire to know You. I aspire to consecrate my life to Your service.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 24 December 1971
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In 1895 at Baroda Sri Aurobindo was given the work of teaching French for six hours in the week. In this year the first collection of his poems Songs to Myrtilla was published for private circulation.
Most of the poems written at Cambridge by Sri Aurobindo were published at Baroda in 1895 in his book Songs to Myrtilla.
The Life of Sri Aurobindo. A. B. Purani
MYRTILLA: Here the name of a girl. But usually it denotes the Goddess of Love - Aphrodite.
MYRTLE: An evergreen shrub (Myrtus) with beautiful and fragrant leaves.
Songs to Myrtilla
When earth is full of whispers, when No daily voice is heard of men, But higher audience brings The footsteps of invisible things, When o'er the glimmering tree-tops bowed The night is leaning on a luminous cloud, And always a melodious breeze Sings secret in the weird and charmed trees, Pleasant 'tis then heart-overawed to lie Alone with that clear moonlight and that listening sky.
1890-92
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Songs to Myrtilla
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Pururavas
In one sense therefore the whole previous life of Pururavas has been a preparation for his meeting with Urvasie. He has filled earth and heaven, even as he has filled his own imagination with the splendour of his life as with an epic poem. He has become indeed Pururavas, he who is noised afar, but he has never yet felt his own soul. But now he sees Urvasie and all the force of his nature pours itself into his love for her like a river which has at last found its natural sea.
Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings: Vikramorvasie: The Characters
Urvasie
I come to you, O mountains, with a heart Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch Towards your solemn summits kindred hands.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Urvasie
Such then is Urvasie, Narain born, the brightness of sunlight, the blush of the dawn, the multitudinous laughter of the sea, the glory of the skies and the leap of the lightning, all in brief that is bright, far-off, unseizable and compellingly attractive in this world, all too that is wonderful, sweet to the taste and intoxicating in human beauty, human life, the joy of human passion and emotion: all finally that seizes, masters and carries away in art, poetry, thought and knowledge, is involved in this one name.
She sat, the Mother of the Aryans, white With a sublime pallor beneath her hair. Musing, with wide creative brows, she sat In a slight lovely dress fastened with flowers, All heaped with her large tresses. Golden swans Preened in the waters by her dipping feet. One hand propped her fair marble cheek, the other The mystic lotus hardly held.
The Mother of the Aryans
Sri Aurobindo discloses about Arya and the Aryan:
Intrinsically, in its most fundamental sense, Arya means an effort or an uprising and overcoming. The Aryan is he who strives and overcomes all outside him and within him that stands opposed to the human advance.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: "Arya" - Its Significance
Then with a sweet immortal smile the Mother Gave to him in the hollow of her hand Wonderful water of the lake.
To the calm Light inviolable all hail Whom Time divides not, nor Space measures, One. Boundless and Absolute who is alone, The eternal vast I am immutable!
Sri Aurobindo, Translations: Invocation
I am the lord of tempest and mountain, I am the Spirit of freedom and pride. Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Invitation
1908-9 (Ali pore Jail)
When I suggested to the Mother that we could paint a luminous figure of the Lord for the passage from Who she agreed. But when she saw the painting on the 6th April 1967, she said with a touch of irony:
"Child, don't you think it is more like a man than the Lord? This figure should be rather like Him."
Then the Mother gave the meaning to this picture:
"What man must become."
ॐ शुक्रोऽसि भ्राजोऽसि स्वरसि ज्योतिरसि । आप्नुहि श्रोयांसमति समं क्राम ।। अथर्वः २. ११५
ॐ शुक्रोऽसि भ्राजोऽसि स्वरसि ज्योतिरसि । आप्नुहि श्रोयांसमति समं क्राम ।।
अथर्वः २. ११५
O man, thou art a pure and luminous soul, blissful and resplendent. To transcend the common human level and realise an ever higher and higher good.
While explaining to me this painting after I had read the passage, the Mother said:
"Give the effect of pitch dark and in the middle a shining flame."
I said: "Yes, Mother, it is a very good idea. But we have already done a similar picture in Savitri. It will be a repetition. What if we paint a luminous figure in the midst of the darkness?"
She laughed and remarked:
"Child, that is it!"
But I was quite mistaken. The painting I had suggested to her did not come out very well. So eventually I had to do as the Mother had previously asked me — but with a little difference from the painting I had done in Savitri. I was convinced that finally the Supreme's Will prevails.
अहं वृक्षस्य रेरिवा । कीर्तिः पृष्ठं गिरेरिव । ऊर्ध्वपवित्रो वाजिनीव स्वमृतमस्मि । द्रविणं सवर्चसम् । सुमेधा अमृतोक्षितः ।
I am He that moves the Tree of the Universe and my glory is like the shoulders of a high mountain. I am lofty and pure like sweet nectar in the strong, I am the shining riches of the world, I am the deep thinker, the deathless One who decays not from the beginning.
Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Taittiriya Upanishad
It is He in the sun who is ageless and deathless And into the midnight His shadow is thrown; When darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness, He was seated within it immense and alone.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Who
Shun all lowness, narrowness and shallowness in religious thought and experience. Be wider than the widest horizons, be loftier than the highest Kanchanjungha, profounder than the deepest oceans.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human: Jnana
Religions are based on creeds which are spiritual experiences brought down to a level where they become more easy to grasp, but at the cost of their integral purity and truth.
The time of religions is over. We have entered the age of Universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Religion
The quarrels of religious sects are like the disputing of pots, which shall be alone allowed to hold the immortalising nectar. Let them dispute, but the thing for us is to get at the nectar in whatever pot and obtain immortality.
I dreamed that in myself the world I saw, Wherein three angels strove for mastery. Law Was one, clear vision and denial cold, Yet in her limits strong, presumptuous, bold; The second with enthusiasm bright, Flame in her heart but round her brows the night, Faded as this advanced. She could not bear That searching gaze, nor the strong chilling air These thoughts created, nourishing our parts Of mind, but petrifying human hearts. Science was one, the other gave her name, Religion. But a third behind them came, Veiled, vague, remote, and had as yet no right own light.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: A Vision of Science
Sea — In this yoga one sees many levels of consciousness which appear as skies or else seas.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sky, Weather, Night and Dawn
The sea with the sun over it is a plane of consciousness lit by the Truth.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Water and Bodies of Water
Take me, be My way to climb the heavens, thou rude great sea. I will seize thy mane, O lion, I will tame thee and disdain; Or else below Into thy salt abysmal caverns go, Receive thy weight Upon me and be stubborn as my fate. I come, O sea, To measure my enormous self with thee.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: To the Sea
The Mother explained to me this picture on the 6th April 1967. But now she was not doing any sketches. She only sketched the first painting. The rest she left to the inspiration. I was confused. But the Mother set things right by telling me this:
"Child, keep everything ready before your easel. Then concentrate. The inspiration which hovers over your head will come through your hand and you can do your work."
Then she pressed my hands in order to give me her Force.
Someone leaping from the rocks Past me ran with wind-blown locks Like a startled bright surmise Visible to mortal eyes, - Just a cheek of frightened rose That with sudden beauty glows, Just a footstep like the wind And a hurried glance behind, And then nothing, - as a thought Escapes the mind ere it is caught. Someone of the heavenly rout From behind the veil ran out.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Revelation
Sri Aurobindo's view about the Sun:
Inner Truth.
There are different suns in the different planes each with its own colours.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sun, Moon, Star, Fire
The red sun is a symbol of the true, illumined physical consciousness.
The sun is the symbol of the concentrated light of Truth.
The sun indicates Truth directly perceived in whatever plane it may be.
My truth is one that rejects ignorance and falsehood and moves to the knowledge, rejects darkness and moves to the light, rejects egoism and moves to the Divine Self, rejects imperfections and moves to perfections. My truth is not only the truth of Bhakti or of psychic development but also of knowledge, purity, divine strength and calm and of the raising of all these things from their mental, emotional and vital forms to their supramental reality.
Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest: To Krishnashashi
The Truth manifesting on all the planes is one thing, the Supramental is another, although it is the source of all Truth.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Experiences on the Higher Planes
A golden evening, when the thoughtful sun Rejects its usual pomp in going, trees That bend down to their green companion And fruitful Mother, vaguely whispering, — these And a wide silent sea. Such hour is nearest God, — Like rich old age when the long ways have all been trod.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Evening
The Divine who is absolutely perfect is at the same time absolutely humble — humble as nothing else can ever be. He is not occupied in admiring Himself, though He is All, He ever seeks to find Himself in what is not-Himself — that is why He has created in His own being what seems to be a colossal not-Himself, this phenomenal world.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth
Thou who pervadest all the worlds below, Yet sits above, Master of all who work and rule and know, Servant of love!
Thou who disdainest not the worm to be Nor even the clod, Therefore we know by that humility That Thou art God.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: God
The Mother admired this picture very much and said with a happy smile:
"Well, I call it 'Divinity of Ice.' This is very good."
Later she wrote on a piece of paper the other meaning which was given to this painting:
"Mountain's Peak."
Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old Art slumbering, void Of sense or motion, for in the spirit's hold Of unalloyed Immortal bliss thou dreamst protected! deep Let my voice glide Into thy dumb retreat and break that sleep Abysmal. Hear!
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Rishi
According to the Mother "AHANA" is:
"The Mother's Aspect of Ananda."
Ananda — Delight; essential principle of delight; bliss; spiritual ecstasy; the bliss of the Spirit which is the secret source and support of all existence.
Sri Aurobindo
Flute, according to Sri Aurobindo:
Symbol of a call, usually the Spiritual Call.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Objects
Ever we hear in the heart of the peril a flute go before us, Luminous beckoning hands in the distance invite and implore us.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ahana
When the Mother and I were doing the painting of Sri Aurobindo's poems, she wanted me to paint the vision she had seen many years back.
This picture, which is to be a mural, relates to the Mother's Vision.
Here is the Universal Deity — one of the Mother's aspects — sitting on a boulder, in the midst of a beautiful scenery, giving the Spiritual Wealth to people of all Nations.
The picture was meant to be a vast conception and not restrict itself to a narrow representation.
This aspect also stands for Mother India whom the Mother looking into the future, calls "The Guru of the world."
When the Mother saw this painting she suggested one or two alterations which I have made.
On seeing the final picture she expressed her satisfaction and pleasure.
Originally the Mother wished this vision to be painted on the right-side wall at the entrance of Golconde.
Under the brook in the painting a concealed pipe has to be arranged so that water may trickle through the grooves which are in Golconde between the slabs. People will have the illusion that the water is flowing from the brook in the picture.
In this water people have to wash their feet and after wiping them on a big mat near the steps, go to their rooms.
Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleams, ... Dark of hue, O candid-fair In thy soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Loveliest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, Mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee Mother great and free!
Sri Aurobindo, Translations: Hymn to the Mother
About the symbolism Sri Aurobindo wrote:
"The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white fire of the Divine Tapas and the crimson fire of the Divine Love — and everything else of the Divine Consciousness."
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Six Poems - Notes
O Flame who art Time's last boon of the sacrifice, offering-flower held by the finite's gods to the Infinite, O marvel bird with the burning wings of light and the unbarred lids that look beyond all space, One strange leap of thy mystic stress breaking the barriers of mind and life, arrives at its luminous term thy flight; Invading the secret clasp of the Silence and crimson Fire thou frontest eyes in a timeless Face.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Bird of Fire
The moon indicates spirituality, sometimes also spiritual Ananda.
A golden moon means a power of spirituality full of light of higher Truth.
STARS: Signifies a creation or formation or the promise or power of a creation or formation. The Star is always a promise of the Light to come; the star changes into a sun when there is the descent of the Light.
Stars indicate beginnings or promise of Light.
Moon: In a general way, the moon is associated with spiritual force, spiritual progress, spiritual aspiration.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 26 February 1958
O star of creation pure and free, Halo-moon of ecstasy unknown, Storm-breath of the soul-change yet to be, Ocean-self enraptured and alone!
15.10.1933
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Trance
What is prominent [here] is a certain calm, deep and intense spiritual emotion taken up by the spiritual vision that sees exactly that state or experience and gives it its exact revelatory words. It is an Overmind vision and experience and condition that is given a full power of expression by the word and rhythm — there is a success in 'embodying' them or at least the sight and emotion of them which gives the lines their force.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: Overhead Inspiration in Some Poems of the 1930s
"Arms taking to a voiceless supreme delight, Life that meets the Eternal with close breast, An unwalled mind dissolved in the Infinite, Force one with unimaginable rest?"
15.11.1933
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Life Heavens
"This Jivanmukta is not merely a poem, but a transcript of a spiritual condition, one of the highest in the inner Overmind experience. To express it at all is not easy ...."
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: On Bengali Translations of Shiva and Jivanmukta
The subject is the Vedantic idea of the living liberated man — Jivanmukta — though perhaps I have given a pull towards my own ideal which the strict Vedantin would consider illegitimate.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: Jivanmukta
A splendour is here, refused to the earthward sight, That floods some deep flame-covered all-seeing eye; Revealed it wakens when God's stillness Heavens the ocean of moveless Nature.
13.4.1934
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Jivanmukta
Aspiration is the dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World
The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility.
Aspiration is a thing that is cultivated like all the activities of the being. You may be born with just a little aspiration and you can cultivate it to make it great.
The flame of the aspiration must be so straight and so ardent that no obstacle can dissolve it.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Aspiration
The constant aspiration conquers all defects.
The aspiration should be for the full descent of the Truth and the victory over falsehood in the world.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Aspiration
One who is in himself for ever the Two and for ever innumerably All and Eternal and Infinite, this is the indication of the Supreme who is beyond Time and Timelessness in the highest Absolute.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human: Nature: The World-Manifestation
Here or otherwhere, — poised on the unreachable abrupt snow-solitary ascent Earth aspiring lifts to the illimitable Light, then ceases broken and spent, Or in the glowing expanse, arid, fiery and austere, of the desert's hungry soul, — A breath, a cry, a glimmer from Eternity's face, in a fragment the mystic Whole.
19.4.1932
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: In Horis Aeternum
Supermind is superman; therefore to rise beyond mind is the condition.
To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity.
To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning.
This is the transfiguration of thyself on the mountain. It is to discover God as thyself and reveal him to thyself in all things. Live in his being, shine with his light, act with his power, rejoice with his bliss. Be that Fire and that Sun and that Ocean. Be that joy and that greatness and that beauty.
When thou hast done this even in part, thou has attained to the first steps of supermanhood.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human: The Divine Superman
The Gods are those who are immortal, who are not bound to the Vicissitudes of the material life with all that is narrow, mean, unreal and false in them.
The Gods are those who are turned to the Light and live in the Power and in the Consciousness.
These are real and living beings, each one in his own realm, and have an independent reality. They would exist even if men did not exist.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: 4 November 1958
Calm faces of the gods on backgrounds vast Bringing the marvel of the infinitudes, ...
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Other Earths
Sri Aurobindo has stated:
"As thought rises in the scale, it ceases to be intellectual, becomes illumined, then intuitive, then overmental and finally disappears seeking the last Beyond. The poem does not express any philosophical thought, however; it is simply a perception of a certain movement, that is all.
Pale blue is the colour of the higher ranges of mind upto the intuition. Above it, it begins to become golden with the Supramental Light.
Thought is not the giver of knowledge but the mediator between the Inconscient and the Superconscient. It compels the world born from the Inconscient to reach for a Knowledge other than the instinctive vital or merely empirical, for the Knowledge that itself exceeds thought; it calls for that superconscient Knowledge and prepares the consciousness here to receive it. It rises itself into the higher realms and even in disappearing into the Supramental and Ananda levels is transformed into something that will bring down their powers into the silent self which its cessation leaves behind it.
Gold-red is the colour of the Supramental in the physical — the poem describes Thought in the stage when it is undergoing transformation and is about to ascend into the Infinite above and disappear into it. The flame-word rune is the Word of the higher Inspiration, Intuition, Revelation which is the highest attainment of Thought."
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: Thought the Paraclete
Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the white-gold seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Eremite, sole, daring the boumeless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Thought the Paraclete
Psychic love is distinguished by an essential purity and selflessness, ...
Psychic love does not exclude discrimination.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Human Relations and the Spiritual Life
In connection with the China rose the Mother has revealed:
I wanted to take this little rose, for I consider it to be the manifestation nearest to divine Love. It is disinterested, spontaneous, intimate.
This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart.
The Mother, Mother's Agenda — 1951-1960: October 8, 1956
Gold in the mind and the life-flame' s red Make of the heavens a splendour, the earth a blaze, But the white and rose of the heart are dead. Flame-wind, pass! I will wait for Love in the silent ways.
1942
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Flame-Wind
Fire; Fire of Sacrifice; the Fire-God; Flame of Divine
Force; illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire.
The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Experiences Associated with the Psychic
Who was it that came to me in a boat made of dream-fire With his flame brow and his sun-gold body? Melted was the silence into a sweet secret murmur, "Do you come now? is the heart's fire ready?"
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Dream Boat
हंसः शुचिषद् वसुरन्तरिक्षसद्धोता वेदिषदतिथिर्दुरोणसत् । नृषद्वरसदृतसद् वयोमसदब्जा गोजा ऋतजा अद्रिजा ऋतं बृहत्
Lo, the Swan whose dwelling is in the purity, He is the Vasu in the inter-regions, the Sacrificer at the altar, the Guest in the vessel of the drinking: He is in man and in the Great Ones and His home is in the law, and His dwelling is in the firmament: He is all that is born on the mountains. He is the Truth and He is the Mighty One.
Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda
Swan: Indian symbol of the individual soul, the central being, the divine part which is turned towards the Divine, descending from there and ascending to it.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Animal World
Swan is the symbol of the soul on the higher plane.
Swan is the liberated soul.
The silent Consciousness in which the soul is liberated from the universe. Beyond this there is the Divine who fulfils the universe with a new spiritual creation.
One with the Eternal, live in his infinity, Drowned in the Absolute, found in the Godhead, Swan of the supreme and spaceless ether wandering winged through the universe, Spirit immortal.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ascent
God has made the world a field of battle and filled it with the trampling of combatants and cries of the great wrestle and struggle. Would you filch His peace without paying the price He has fixed for it?
Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: Thoughts and Glimpses
All things considered, looking at the world as it is and as it seems it must be irremediably, the human intellect decreed that this world must have been a mistake on the part of God and the manifestation or creation can be only the result of desire, desire for self-knowledge, desire for self-manifestation, desire for self-enjoyment and the only thing to be done is to put an end to this mistake as soon as possible by refusing consent to desire and its evil consequences.
But the supreme Lord answers that the comedy has not yet been wholly played out, and He adds, "Wait for the last act, may be, you will change your opinion".
The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: The Divine Working in the Universe
A power greater than that of Evil can alone win the Victory. Victory can be sure and certain only when it is a total Victory.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: New Year Messages
Every victory we win over the obscure physical Nature is the promise of a greater one to come.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: The Body (the Physical)
All around me now the Titan forces press; This earth is theirs, they hold its days in fee; I am full of wounds and the fight merciless: Is it not yet Thy hour of Victory?
25.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: In the Battle
What people call delight is not even a caricature of true delight, but rather a diabolical invention to make you lose the way, the delight of joy that comes from pleasure, forgetfulness, indifference. What I speak of is a delight that is perfect peace, light without shadow, harmony; beauty whole and entire and irresistible Power, the Delight that is the Divine Presence itself, in its essence, in its will and in its realisation.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1955): 7 December 1955
In some faint dawn, In some dim eve, Like a gesture of Light, Like a dream of delight Thou comst nearer and nearer to me.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: In Some Faint Dawn
MUSES, the nine goddesses of the liberal arts — daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
Calliope — of epic poetry Clio — ” history Erato — ” love poetry Euterpe — ” music and lyric poetry Melpomene — ” tragedy Polyhymnia — ” sacred lyrics Terpsichore — ” dancing Thalia — ” comedy Urania — ” astronomy
Muse — an inspiring goddess more vaguely imagined poetic character: poetry or art.
Musa Spiritus: The Muse or goddess of spiritual inspiration.
O word concealed in the upper fire, Thou who hast lingered through centuries, Descend from thy rapt white desire, Plunging through gold eternities.
Into the gulf of our nature leap, Voice of the spaces, call of the Light! Break the seals of Matter's sleep, Break the trance of the unseen height.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Musa Spiritus
Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its Victory over all opposing forces.
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - III
Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, — Bride of the Fire! I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose, I have slain desire.
11.11.1935
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Bride of the Fire
The Sun is the Truth from above, in the last resort the supramental Truth.
Call of the Divine Grace: Not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: The Divine Grace
Voice of Infinity, sound in my heart, — Call of the One! Stamp there thy radiance, never to part, O living Sun.
According to the Mother the Blue Bird is:
The Bird of Happiness
The lights indicate the action of certain forces, usually indicated by the colour of the light. Whitish blue is known as Sri Aurobindo's light or sometimes Sri Krishna's light.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours
The fire indicates a dynamic action.
I am the bird of God in His blue;....
I rise like a fire from the mortal's earth Into a griefless sky And drop in the suffering soil of his birth Fire-seeds of ecstasy.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Blue Bird
Divine Sacrifice is the descent of the Divine into the obscurity of the unconsciousness.
Sacrifice is the word used by the Gita for self-giving. The Divine has given himself and spread himself everywhere in matter in order to awaken it to the Divine Consciousness; matter is automatically under the obligation to give itself to the Divine; it is a mutual and reciprocal sacrifice.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1956): 29 February 1956
Golden light is usually a light from the supermind, a light of Truth-Knowledge.
Blue light is some spiritual force from the upper plane.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Light
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air Between the gold and the blue And wrapped them softly and left them there, My jewelled dreams of you.
31.7.1935, 1.1.1936
The Mother, More Answers from the Mother: 26 July 1969
Forsaking my godhead I have come down Here on the sordid earth, Ignorant, labouring, human grown Twixt the veils of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long In a horror of mud and mire A bed for the golden river's song, A home for the deathless fire.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: A God's Labour
He who would bring the heavens here Must descend himself into clay And the burden of earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge Marrying the soil to the sky And sow in this dancing planet midge The moods of infinity.
According to Sri Aurobindo the rainbow is:
Sign of Peace and Deliverance
It is quite true that falsehood reigns in this world, that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you have not to allow yourself to be shaken. You must remain calm and strong and go straight, using the power of Truth and the Divine Force supporting you to overcome the difficulties and set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Difficulties of Yoga
Falsehood is the very symbol of that which wants to oppose the divine work of Truth.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: Letters to a Young Sadhak - IX
Anyone who lives in falsehood is an enemy of humanity...
The Mother, Words of Long Ago: Sincerity
It is the unconsciousness of creation that constitutes the Falsehood of the Creation. As soon as the creation will become conscious again of being the Lord, the Falsehood will cease.
The Mother, On Thoughts and Aphorisms: Aphorism - 109
Sri Aurobindo describes about the Sphinx in Savitri Book 3, Canto 4:
On his long way through Time and Circumstance The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands, Awaits him armed with soul-slaying word: ||89.29||
According to Sri Aurobindo:
The Sphinx is a symbol of the eternal quest that can only be answered by the secret knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Constructions
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep At the very root of things Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep On the Dragon's outspread wings.
The Mother discloses:
Sri Aurobindo is here, as living and as present as ever, and it is left to us to realise his work with all the sincerity, eagerness and concentration necessary.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Mahasamadhi
Sri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, protecting. We must answer to his Grace by a perfect faithfulness.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Eternal Presence
He who I am was with me still; All veils are breaking now. I have heard His voice and borne His will On my vast untroubled brow.
Water: Symbol of a state of consciousness or a plane.
When the water is so symbolic it is a big expanse of water; a river or a pond are not enough to symbolise a plane.
Gold: Knowledge of the divine Truth; indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness.
Supramental is simply the direct self-existent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth-Power.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Supermind or Supramental
The supramental is the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism
It is Truth that conquers and not falsehood; by Truth was stretched out the path of the journey of the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth has its Supreme abode.
Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged And the golden waters pour Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged And glimmer from shore to shore.
The earth is the place of evolution in which all these forces meet and try to manifest and out of their working something has to develop. On the other planes (the mental, vital etc;) there is not the evolution — there each acts separately according to its own law.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: Descent and Transformation
The psychic is the soul or spark of the Divine Fire supporting the individual evolution on the earth and the psychic being is the soul-consciousness developing itself or rather its manifestation from life to life with the mind, vital and body as its instruments until all is ready for the union with the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being
Let the earth, the entire world and the heavens be enlightened by the brilliant supreme light of Lord Sun and inspire our intellect.
Rigveda
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth And the undying suns here burn; Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth The incarnate spirits yearn.
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss: Down a gold-red stair-way wend The radiant children of paradise Clarioning darkness's end.
इमे चेतारो अनृतस्य भूरेः मित्रो अर्यमा वरुणो हि सन्ति | इम ऋतस्य वावृधुर्दुरोणे शग्मासः पुत्रा अदितेरदब्धाः ||
ऋग्वेद, VII. 60. 5 मैत्रावरुणिर्वसिष्टः मित्रावरुणौ, त्रिष्टुप्
These are they who are conscious of the much falsehood in the world; they grow in the house of Truth, they are the strong and invincible sons of Infinity.
Rigveda VII, 60. 5.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air, For in a raiment of gold and blue There shall move on the earth embodied and fair The living truth of you.
When the Mother was asked: Will you explain these lines? She replied: "Explain? There is no explanation. They speak for themselves very clearly. Poetry is not to be explained. It is to be felt and not reasoned about. The poetic inspiration is above reason. It must not be made to sink into the domain of the reason, because it will get spoiled.... It is to be understood by an internal contact much more than by words."
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 31 December 1954
Even in rags I am a God; Fallen, I am divine; High I triumph when down-trod, Long I live when slain.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Life
The mountain is the symbol of the embodied consciousness based upon earth but rising up towards the Divine.
The mountain always represents the ascending hill of existence with the Divine to be reached on the summits.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Earth
Sky: A symbol of the mental consciousness (or the psychic) or other consciousnesses above the mind.
The higher consciousness in any of its levels is seen usually as a sky or ether but when felt through the vital it is often perceived as a sea. In this yoga one sees many levels of consciousness which appear as skies or seas.
One day, and all the half-dead is done, One day, and all the unborn begun; A little path and the great goal, A touch that brings the divine whole.
Hill after hill was climbed and now, Behold, the last tremendous brow And the great rock that none has trod; A step, and all is sky and God.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: One Day
The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos — it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Self or Atman
My vast transcendence holds the cosmic whirl; I am hid in it as in the sea a pearl.
15.7.1938
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Indwelling Universal
The Night is the symbol of Ignorance or Avidya in which men live just as Light is the symbol of Truth and Knowledge.
According to Sri Aurobindo golden white Light is:
"Light of purity & Truth"
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: Seeing the Mother in Visions and Dreams
Even if there is much darkness — and this world is full of it and physical nature of man also — yet a ray of the true Light can prevail eventually against a tenfold darkness. Believe that and cleave to it always.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Faith
Keep firm faith in the victory of the Light and face with calm equanimity the resistance of Matter and human personality to their own transformation.
I made an assignation with the Night; In the abyss was fixed our rendezvous: In my breast carrying God's deathless light I came her dark and dangerous heart to woo.
26.7.1938, 18.8.1944
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Pilgrim of the Night
Unity: When there is the development of the Self-realisation or of the cosmic consciousness or if there is the emptiness which is preliminary condition for these things, there comes an automatic tendency for a Unity with all — their affections, mental, vital, physical may easily touch. One has to keep oneself free.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness
I spread life's burning wings of rapture and pain; Black fire and gold fire strove towards one bliss: I rose by them towards a supernal plane Of power and love and deathless ecstasies.
8.8.1938, 22.3.1944
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Life-Unity
The Golden Light: is that of the Divine Truth on the higher planes.
Golden Light always means the light of Truth; but the nature of the Truth varies according to the plane to which it belongs.
Golden Light is a Light from the Supermind but naturally it is modified in the plane in which it works.
When it is golden red it means the same modified Supramental-physical Light, — the Light of Divine Truth in the physical.
The golden red Light has a strong transforming power.
Thy golden Light came down into my brain And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane, A calm illumination and a flame.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Golden Light
The seed of this poem was the experience recounted below:
There was an incident in Baroda which is important. Once Sri Aurobindo was going in his carriage from Camp Road towards the city. Just by the side of the Public Gardens an accident was narrowly averted. As he saw the possibility of the accident he found that with the Will to prevent it there appeared a Being of Light in him who was as it were the Master of the situation and able to control the details. This experience was previous to the beginning of his Sadhana.
When the Mother saw this painting she exclaimed:
"O this is magnificent!"O
Above my head a mighty head was seen, A face with the calm of immortality And an omnipotent gaze that held the scene In the vast circle of its sovereignty.
13.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Godhead
The delight is to live in the Truth, to live in communion with eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. It is to be free in true Liberty, the Liberty of the constant and invariable union with the divine Will.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness
Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship — if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. He got a direct proof of the truth that can be behind image-worship.
With my European mind I had at that time no faith in the Gods. I had gone to Karnali (near Chandod) and there are several temples there. There is one Kali temple and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God.
5.12.1939
The idol of Mahakali, Karnali situated on the northern bank of river Narmada, near Chandod in Gujarat.
When Sri Aurobindo visited this shrine in 1906. He realised the living Presence of Kali in the image. The poem which he wrote later. The Stone Goddess, is reproduced here.
"You stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother..."
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Intellect and Yoga
The great World-Mother and her mighty will Inhabited the earth's abysmal sleep, Voiceless, omnipotent, inscrutable, Mute in the desert and the sky and deep.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Stone Goddess
This painting depicting the Mother's vision:
"THE SOUL NESTLED IN THE HEART OF THE SUPREME LORD."
The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be Divine.
In the soul the individual and the Divine are eternally one.
The role of the soul is to make of man a true being.
The soul is that which comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: The Soul (the Psychic)
No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee. Thy presence is my immortality.
20.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Divine Worker
In our yoga the Nirvana is the beginning of the higher Truth, as it is the passage from the Ignorance to the higher Truth. The Ignorance has to be extinguished in order that the Truth may manifest.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Jainism and Buddhism
Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of the Divine effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of being, whatever that may be, so far as we can conceive it in mind and realise it in spiritual activity.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Delight of the Divine
All yoga is in its nature an attempt and an arriving at unity with the Supreme.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: Hathayoga
He hears the blows that shatter Nature's house: Calm sits he, formidable, luminous.
21.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Guest
This is Sri Aurobindo' s Yoga:
The Yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in relation with the world.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Ascetic Practices
Sri Aurobindo states:
To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim. When one has some kind of constant Union, one can be called a Yogi, but the union has to be made complete. There are yogis who have only the Union on the spiritual plane, others who are united in mind and heart, others in the Vital also. In our Yoga our aim is to be united too in the physical consciousness and on the supramental plane.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: The Aim of the Integral Yoga
By this Yoga we not only seek the Infinite, but we call upon the Infinite to unfold himself in human life.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Four Aids
Nature in me one day like Him shall sit, Victorious, calm, immortal, infinite.
22.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Inner Sovereign
Light or rays of light are always light of the higher consciousness working in the being to illumine or to purify to awaken the consciousness or attune it to the Truth.
Light is the light of Consciousness, Truth, Knowledge; the Sun is the concentration of the Light.
The golden light is the light of the Divine Truth which comes out from the supramental sunlight and modified according to the level it crosses, creates the ranges from overmind to higher Mind.
I move in an ocean of stupendous Light Joining my depths to His eternal height.
3/4.10.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Light
Sankaracharya Hill
Sankaracharya Hill — also called by Muslims Takht-i-Suleman, meaning the seat of Solomon.
On top of the Hill there is a temple built some hundreds of years ago by Adi Shankaracharya. This can be viewed from any part of Shrinagar (Kashmir). There is a huge Shivalingam in the centre of the innermost temple.
Sri Aurobindo had his third experience here. He has stated:
That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of the Infinite I had at the Shankaracharya Hill, and at Parvati Hill near Poona, and the reality of the image in a temple at Karnali near Chandod.
In 1939 Sri Aurobindo described these three experiences in sonnets:
Adwaita, The Hill-top Temple and The Stone Goddess
In 1903 Sri Aurobindo took a month's leave and went to Bengal. His presence was required there to smooth out the differences that had arisen among some of the leading political workers. But he was soon called back by the Maharaja who wished that he should accompany him on his tour to Kashmir as his personal secretary.
In Kashmir, Sri Aurobindo had his third spiritual experience of decisive character, as unexpected and unbidden as the first two, but of a capital importance from a certain standpoint. He says about it: "There was a realisation of the vacant Infinite1 while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman (Seat of Solomon) in Kashmir." In 1939 he wrote this Sonnet (Adwaita) on this experience.
I walked on the high-wayed Seat of Solomon Where Shankaracharya's tiny temple stands Facing Infinity from Time's edge, alone On the bare ridge ending earth's vain romance
19.10.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Adwaita
One of Sri Aurobindo's experiences, of the contact with the Infinite, was on the Hill-top Temple of the Parvati Hill in Poona.
After unnumbered steps of a hill-stair I saw upon earth's head brilliant with sun The immobile Goddess in her house of stone In a loneliness of meditating air.
21.10.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Hill-top Temple
The sense of the length of time depends upon the consciousness in which you find yourself. In an ordinary human consciousness, time is measured in relation to the number of years you expect to live. If you succeed in uniting your consciousness with the psychic consciousness, a life is but a moment among similar moments that have existed before; then one life more or less has not much importance. If you are united with the consciousness of eternity, time no longer has any reality.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 22 March 1951
It is never too early to begin, never too late to continue.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 13 January 1951
Find the Guide secret within you or housed in an earthly body, hearken to his voice and follow always the way that he points. At the end is the Light that fails not, the Truth that deceives not, the Power that neither strays nor stumbles, the wide freedom, the ineffable Beatitude.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human: Partial Systems of Yoga
The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect outflowing of the Divine humanity.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Principle of the Integral Yoga
Time voyages with Thee upon its prow — And all the future's passionate hope is Thou
25.10.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Because Thou Art
In each part of the being, the Divine manifests Himself differently. In the higher parts He manifests as Power, Love, etc., but in the physical He manifests Himself as harmony and beauty.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 25 January 1951
Ishwara is God, the Divine Being, Lord of all the Beings, conscious in the conscious, also in the inconscience, master and controller of the many who are in the hands of Nature. He is timeless in Time, the omnipresent, omnipotent, All-ruler who by his Shakti i.e. conscious power, manifests himself in time and governs the Universe.
A master-work of colour and design, A mighty sweetness borne on grandeur's wings; A burdened wonder of significant line Reveals itself in even commonest things.
26.10.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Divine Sight
O splendid Agni, Thou who art so living within me, I call Thee. I invoke Thee that Thou mayest be more living still, that Thy brazier may become more immense, Thy flames higher and more powerful, that the entire being may now be only an ardent burning, a purifying pyre.
The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: September 30, 1914
BURNING: It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning.
The body burns with Thy rapture's sacred fire Pure, passionate, holy, virgin of desire.
1.11.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Divine Sense
यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते । अप्राप्य मनसा सह । आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान् । न विभेति कुतश्चनेति । एतं ह वाव न तपति । किमहं साधु नाकरवम् । किमहं पापमकरवमिति । स य एवं विद्वानेते आत्मानं स्पृणुते । उभे ह्येवैष एते आत्मानं स्पृणुते । य एवं वेद । इत्युपनिषत् । सह नाववस्तु । सह नौ भुनक्तु । सह वीर्यं करवावहै । तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ।
The Bliss of the Eternal from which words turn back without attaining and mind also returns baffled: who knows the Bliss of the Eternal, he fears not for aught in this world or elsewhere. Verily, to him comes not remorse and her torment saying, "Why have I left undone the good and why have I done that which was evil?" For he who knows the Eternal, knows these and delivers from them his Spirit; yea, he knows both evil and good for what they are and delivers his Spirit, who knows the Eternal. And this is Upanishad, the secret of the Veda.
Together may He protect us, together may II possess us, together may we make unto us strength and virility. May our reading be full of light and power. May we never hate. OM! Peace! Peace! Peace!
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