... and when I turned through the pages of the book at night, I was held up when I came to the page of dedication. The book was dedicated to the Divine Mother. Whenever I published a new edition, I used to send an offering of some token amount to the Divine Mother, because the sale of the books was under my control. After giving away the copyright to the Navajivan Trust the position became quite different... the touch of the Divine Mother. I remained in contact with these two semi-liquid forms till the Memorable Day of the Mother's withdrawal. Then I could see that the second form which I could not recognize during an earlier experience was that of the Mother. It was the same form which was present by her body which was kept for Darshan. I bowed to that holy sheath of the Divine Mother. ... big educational institution and introduce copies of the book for their class library and for being given away as prizes. The sale proceeds of the dedication pilgrimage were to be offered to the Divine Mother. I experienced sound sleep after taking this decision and after pondering over the ways of surrender to the Mother. I was awakened at 4-30 a.m. by the idea of praying to my body which was 67 years ...
... flow from the Divine Grace.' "The Knowledge that Buddha, Shankara, Chaitanya or Vivekananda mastered was of this kind. Ramakrishna had no learning of any sort but the Divine Mother gave him Knowledge." "Which Divine Mother?" "Are there two Divine Mothers?" Outside a fine rain was falling from an overcast sky, making the brightly lit room seem really cosy. As everyone sat, snug and comfortable... sufferings will disappear. Men will love one another, since God is Love." "Then why did you tell us to love the Mother? Is she the Divine?" "Yes, she is. That's just why you call her the Divine Mother." "Why was she born in France? And how did she come here?" "Ah! that's a very long story. I think I ought to finish my earlier story first - the one which explains how I went to England. I've... that is a beautiful example. Did you know that Bijoy Goswami became a famous Yogi? Anyway, from this story you learn that if human mothers can have such experiences, then how much more may the Divine Mother have." "Yes, the Mother too has told us that she is always with us, sees and knows all that we are doing arid is helping us all the time." "Exactly! Well, perhaps now we could return to our ...
... when we invoke her, Time that brings Death closer to us keeps away. The Divine Mother is worshipped by the sustainer Vishnu, Kamalaksha Nishevita. Hence she sustains us all without a moment's respite. These cosmic powers of the Divine Mother (Vishveshwari) get engaged in the Adoration of the Divine Mother. viyadhādhi jagatprasuh: At the head she stands of birth and toil... understand the mystic diction of Sri Aurobindo, as Aswapati prepares to enter the realms of the Unknowable, the summit where the Divine Mother resides as an Empress, Sri Mata Sri Maharajni: The Sri Chakra which is the abode of the Supreme Goddess, the Divine Mother, is the residence as well of all her emanations, powers and personalities. Each one of them is distinct, has a definite function... the prayers themselves and are closeted with them. The prayer in the Adoration of the Divine Mother stops the epic action for a moment. The passage itself takes us to Sri Lalita Sahasranama. This important scripture for Sri Vidya Upasana (Tantra) begins with the words Sri Mata: the Divine Mother. The opening in the prayer "At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate" draws us straight ...
... outset altogether eliminate the necessity of dealing with the wrong turns and obscurities of his nature. For so long as the consciousness does not get integrally turned to the Divine Truth and the Divine Mother, so long as the nature remains divided, in however small a measure, between two opposing loyalties, the sadhaka cannot possibly expect that he would remain constantly in a state of ardent aspiration... aspiration, perfect faith and love, and full and constant openness to the Divine Force. It is thus clear that so long as the sadhaka does not get integrally consecrated to the Divine Mother, he has to meet and contend with the resistance in his mental being with its principal forms of doubt and denial, in his vital nature with its turmoils of desires and attachments, also in his physical... contact with the Mother and offer one's being and nature to her divine working. And, at least in the preliminary stages of sadhana, a simple and sincere prayer addressed in the right spirit to the Divine Mother is indeed one of the principal means of establishing this needed contact. In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a very great power; it is a far ...
... opening and receptivity in the matter of building up a life of sadhana and spiritual fulfilment we have to pay a great attention to the acquisition of these twin aptitudes. For it is a fact that the divine Mother has been incessantly pouring on every sincere sadhaka of the Path her Love and Power and Knowledge and Grace but that is coming to nought because most of us have kept completely closed all the doors... Shakti and offer himself to the Divine without the slightest reserve or hesitation with the simple candour of an innocent child. If one can effectively do that he will find that it is the Divine Mother herself who will start working in the sadhaka's adhara: all that is needed at each step of the Path either for the sadhana or for the siddhi will then be brought about by the Divine himself. And... to say about the matter: "It can be easily understood whether any sadhaka has been able to open himself or not. If it is found that he is becoming day by day aware of the nearness of the Divine Mother; or that he is having some particular experience of the action of the Mother in him; or that he is having some concrete touches, however meagre, of divine calmness, equality, light, bliss, knowledge ...
... Prakriti, it must exist for the Divine Mother. And then later he explains the difference. There is an entire passage there in which he says that the Divine Mother should not be identified with Prakriti. Naturally there is something of the Divine Mother there, because something of the Divine Mother is behind everything. But one must not think that Prakriti is the Divine Mother. (Nolini) It is the negative... not enough to free oneself from this slavery. He begins that way: it is not enough to free oneself from the slavery; he must keep his allegiance, but instead of obeying Prakriti, he must obey the Divine Mother; that is, instead of obeying something which is lower than himself, he must obey what is higher. That is the sentence: transfer his allegiance from this to that. Do you understand? No? Ah, it... to Prakriti is the negative side of the development; one frees himself from his allegiance to Prakriti, but one must take a step further and have the positive side of being surrendered to the Divine Mother. The last sentence: "...in the Truth-Creation the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya." What is this constant unfolding? Page 204 The Truth-Creation... it is ...
... epic's text. In The Book of the Divine Mother M. P. Pandit writes: "In the first part, [Sri Aurobindo] speaks of Aswapati's Yoga, the Yoga of the King ... Aswapati in the epic is the representative of the aspiring humanity who prepares and lays the path to the Divine Glory ... Aswapati stands face to face with the Creatrix of the universe, the supreme Divine Mother, and prays to her fervently to... supreme goal: the presence of the Divine Mother and her promise to incarnate among mankind in order to assure the foundation of the divine life upon earth. "The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds was just a small passage," writes Nirodbaran. "Here now we find the fully lengthened and developed Book running into 15 cantos. The third Book, The Book of the Divine Mother, was also written probably for... Aswapati represents the aspiring human soul down the millenniums of evolution in his search for the truth of himself, of the world and of God. He acquires 1 M. P. Pandit, The Book of the Divine Mother, pp.17, 40, 42,46and78. by his tapasya immense knowledge of the possibilities of the human consciousness, its deeper depths and its higher and the highest heights. In his heart bums ...
... Gods saw in the Divine Mother, in Aditi (this is the Sanskrit name for Divine Mother) a special Light, something special, and they said: if that can be brought down, then it can bring back light into this darkness. That Light is the mystic Fire. That is the origin of Agni. His origin is in the Supreme Divine Mother. In one of her talks Mother has said that when the Supreme Divine Mother saw the darkness... entered into the darkness. And all the psychic beings are nothing but evolutionary developments of this original psychic element which is nothing but Love of the Divine Mother. And that is why the psychic being automatically turns to the Divine Mother in an experience of Love. This is the Vedic truth told in algebraic form. There is a very important mantra in the Rigveda and it is said that if you recite... history of the world when the four emanations which had originated from the ultimate reality separated from the origin, and there came about a complete darkness. When that darkness came, the supreme Divine Mother went back to the Supreme Lord and said: An accident has occurred and there has come about a complete darkness. What is to be done? Then the Lord said: Create some other beings who will not separate ...
... freely and simply into the hands of the Divine Mother........that is the only way to succeed in the supramental Yoga. To be a Yogi, Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother. 23.01.65 * * * ... constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind." (The Mother). There, again, in the same book he says, "But be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that are beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrows reasonings and erring impressions, its bottomless aggressive ignorance... coming? But it is supramental integral transformation and divine manifestation in Matter which are the dual aim of our sadhana, and it is impossible of achievement except by the Grace of the Divine Mother, the supreme Consciousness—Force, Chit-tapas, of Sachchidananda. The Gita is a monumental synthesis of the various principles and aims of the Yogas current at that stage of human evolution ...
... consciousness applied to action has to be kept; the particular example used by the Gita may be treated as a thing belonging to a past world. The Gita, the Divine Mother and the Purushottama The Gita does not speak expressly of the Divine Mother; it speaks always of surrender to the Purushottama—it mentions her only as the Para Prakriti who becomes the Jiva, i.e., who manifests the Divine in the ... tradition which leans entirely on the Ishwara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it; the Tantrik tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishwari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother, because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme r... realisation through it. This Yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the Yoga. Page 443 In regard to the Purushottama the Divine Mother is the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds, Adya Shakti; she carries the Supreme in herself and manifests the Divine in the worlds through ...
... for his consultation camp for the eye patients in Gujarat in my eye clinic; he expressed his intention to offer the income of that consultation camp to the Divine Mother. I was extremely glad to have an opportunity to serve the Divine Mother. I therefore planned out a programme to make his visit successful. I wrote two articles about Dr. Agarwal who was a pioneer in the practice of Dr. Bates' method... Harmony, If Harmony is disturbed, ill health is expressed The Mother The eye clinic was started on 4-10-1947 (Vijayadashami) under the name of "Arogyamandir" with the blessings of the Divine Mother. It was started in an aristocratic area where people had tried excessive use of allopathic medicines and were suffering from the reactions of sulfa and other drugs and were anxious to find a new... Within a week he gave consultation to 300 patients and there was a sale of his books and medicines worth Rs. 1,500. A sum of rupees six thousand was collected to be offered at the feet of the Divine Mother. An atmosphere was prepared to some extent for nature cure treatment for the eyes but very few turned to this treatment in the beginning. Usually they came to naturopathy as a last resort, after ...
... towards all and every nation. A complete sincerity is required in this attitude. April 1968 Divine Mother, Do you want me to personally interview the people who come here to work for Auroville before we send their pictures to you? Yes. 20 June 1968 Divine Mother, Last Sunday several of the Ashram younger children unexpectedly went out on the Auroville lorry and... encourage the children to go out to Auroville on Sundays if we properly supervise them, or not? Page 229 Yes, they can go if it is well organised. Blessings. 28 June 1968 Divine Mother, 1) Do we need a Personnel Department in Auroville? No. 2) Should it be a part of the Liaison Office? Do not multiply departments, titles and names. It complicates life uselessly... New House for a New Consciousness. Blessings. 25 June 1969 Auromodèle is being built to make a concrete experiment and to learn how to live in Auroville. 18 August 1969 Divine Mother, I want to help build Auroville. I feel that the most practical way for me to help would be to go back to America and work for Auroville. Is this your will? My will is that you do some ...
... the sadhaka to discover with surprise that it is the Divine Mother herself and not he himself, who, dwelling within him as aconstantly active Presence has been doing all the sadhana in his ādhāra: he, on his side , is nothing more than an interested witness who is all the time watching with joyous wonder this amazing Lila of the Divine Mother whose sole aim in all her guidance is to lead the... Here are some words of Sri Aurobindo: "To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that always go together — the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender." (The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 9) Occasional illnesses or even serious diseases are almost a universal besetting... eradicate all his defects and uproot all his vicious weaknesses from his nature and consciousness, solely by the application of his own unaided paltry effort. It is only the Shakti or Power of the Divine Mother which can release us from their iron grips. And surely she will do SQ if only we can take refuge at her feet and surrender ourselves completely to her action with the utter simplicity and the ...
... Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time.. Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." 2 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her motherly comfort on the yearning thirsty soul: 0 strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and... be changed by an unchanging will. 3 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested... by light, his spirit devoured. 2 Thus Death came to his death—not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 3 In that domain of pure ...
... Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time. . Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate."² This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her motherly comfort on the yearning thirsty soul: 0 strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and break... Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.³ And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself... eaten by light, his spirit devoured. ² Thus Death came to his death – not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face.³ In that domain of pure transcendent light stood ...
... Dyumatsena, the fallen King caged in the mind, sees if at all as through a fog dimly, but Aswapathy the King-Forerunner breaks out of the mental cage, explores the "vasts of God", confronts the Divine Mother, and secures the boon of Her descent to earth. It may be asked: Why should the Infinite, the omnipotent, thus agree to limit itself? Omnipotence, however, includes also the power of self-limitation... are put into the mouth of Eric King of Norway: Some day surely The world too shall be saved from death by Love. 30 But in Sri Aurobindo's epic, Savitri is the Avatar of the Divine Mother and not alone Satyavan's wife. The aim of her great endeavour would be, not just to fulfil a personal need or to resist a personal danger, but primarily to hasten the cosmic evolution and to... to knuckle under. It is much more than a distressing conjugal problem, more even that a recurring human problem; it is a cosmic problem, it is a crisis in earth's evolutionary history. And the Divine Mother has come down as Power and Grace to defeat the Shadow and redeem the "soul of the world that is Satyavan". Page 666 The background infinities and cosmic significances notwithstanding ...
... ble, legitimate use in the service of God in the world. The surrender of the mind, therefore, means, in the Integral Yoga, a surrender of all its faculties. and functions into the hands of the divine Mother, so that She may, in Her inscrutable but infallible way, purify and transform them, and render them potent instruments. for the reception and transmission of Knowledge. The mind is derived... hand in hand on the firm basis of a total surrender. What is actually meant by the surrender of the mind? With an intense and constant aspiration, the mind must turn all its thoughts to the divine Mother, so that the loving intensity of the turning may bring about an automatic concentration of its energies and a consequent freedom from its wonted distraction and confusion. Concentration on the... immortality, a march ringing with paeans to the self- fulfilling Will of the Divine. THE SURRENDER OF THE BODY The surrender of the body means a surrender of all its movements to the divine Mother. It will not do, in the Integral Yoga, to reduce the action of the body to a minimum and limit it only to the bare maintenance of the physical frame, or to social or humanitarian beneficence, or ...
... ceremony should be performed in a simple way and that it should be over by the evening. The Divine Mother so arranged that this was the first and the only boy I saw for Arvinda. I thanked the Mother Divine with gratitude for solving this problem. An invitation for the marriage was sent to the Divine Mother, I invoked her Presence in the marriage ceremony to bless the couple who had decided to proceed... end—slowly I had prepared five shops on the road side of my house and excepting five shopkeepers there was no residential tenant. Another matter I had to surrender to the working of the Grace of the Divine Mother was of one of the shopkeepers who was trying to sell away his shop with goodwill and wanted to make money. It was extremely difficult and complicated to prevent him from doing it. The law also could... each a month. So the shop which made me struggle for three years got me a rent of Rs. 150 per month. Who else could transform and raise the income from Rs. 25 to Rs. 150 excepting the Grace of the Divine Mother? There was another case of the Divine Mother's help and protection. There are two houses in our khirki both having their ownership rights of the open land of that khirki. My neighbour insisted ...
... and simply into the hands of the Divine Mother. And yet that is the only way to succeed in the supramental Yoga. To be a Yogi, a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother. 7 June 1928 A lady has written... relations of the sadhaka with others must be created for him from within, when he has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine Mother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not be determined by his mind and his vital desires. This is the thing you have to remember. Your psychic being... field of unrest—to go through it in the right way one has to offer one's life and actions to the Divine and pray for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands—these are the first things to do, if she wants to have peace. 16 April 1933 In these moods the thoughts that assail you are so much out ...
... requested him to make some arrangement so that all of them could read together and maintain their interest in Sri Aurobindo, Purani suggested that they might form a group and write a letter to the Divine Mother to permit them to start a study circle. All those who were interested in reading Sri Aurobindo's books signed a letter addressed to the Mother and gave it to Purani to obtain the Divine Mother's... a decision and wired "I think the time is ripe enough to start a study circle in Ahmedabad. If you permit I can start." I sent another telegram on the same day praying for the blessings of the Divine Mother on the occasion of the opening of an eye clinic to be operated along the lines of Dr. Bates' methods, in Ahmedabad. I received blessings in reply to both of my telegrams and we held our first meeting... meeting of Sri Aurobindo Centre at Prof. Sethna's house on 4-10-1947 (Vijayadashami). The centre in Ahmedabad was known as Sri Arvind Mandal. It was started on the same day with the blessings of the Divine Mother. After getting the Mother's blessings, I started the eye clinic in the name of "Arogyamandir" also on the same day. The field of our activity was enlarged and we had a chance of inviting the ...
... of Satyavan from Aswapati?) The Yogin who is unified with the Divine, when he finds within him the face of the supreme Divine Mother responsing to him, whatever he wills that gets fulfilled. He now raised his voice in prayer, praying that the supreme Divine Mother might incarnate 9 Ibid., pp. 334-35. 10 lbid., p. 342. Page 412 the white passion of her Force... Sadhana have been given in the 22 cantos from the third Canto of Book I to the end of Book IV. The Sadhana of the Traveller (Aswapati) is over with the boon obtained by him from the supreme Divine Mother. This Sadhana has been briefly described by Sri Aurobindo himself in a letter; thus: First, he is achieving his own spiritual self-fulfilment as the Individual in the Yoga of the King... described in the second Book (consisting of 15 cantos). Finally, he aspires no longer for himself but for all, for universal realisation and new Creation. This is described in the Book of the Divine Mother (Book III, comprising 4 cantos). As an Individual, as he was passing through all the stages in his Sadhana, "a many-miracled consciousness unrolled in him." Sunbelts of knowledge, ...
... house in Madras, received a copy of Mother’s prayers. [7] His note on this prayer could thus paraphrased thus: "By ‘Sole Reality’, ‘Love supreme’, ‘Absolute Consciousness’ is meant the Divine Mother who will save the world by bringing it back to its original purity and power and light and life, by a fuller manifestation for which it is being moulded through suffering and darkness. For this... Chittoor, persuaded him to form an association. He gave them the Mantra Umaam Vandemataram , as a source of their power, and the next year wrote Uma Sahasram — a thousand hymns in praise of the Divine Mother, embodying the quintessence of all Her aspects and invoking Her grace for the freedom of the Motherland. Soon thereafter Appa led a small group to Surat. [13] In August 1908, Bharatiar and... Lord, Thy plenitude is realised. O divine Master, Thou hast granted to me the infinitude of divine contemplation, the perfect calm of Thy Eternity, and through an identification with our divine Mother, the All-Realiser, Thou has permitted me to participate in her sovereign power to be conscious and active…. * Two incidents occurred, late in July or early August, substantiating ...
... Book of the Divine Mother, was also written probably for the first time, for he wrote to Amal in 1946: "...there is also a third sufficiently long Book, The Book of the Divine Mother." The next step in the development was his re-copying the entire three Books on big white sheets of paper, in two columns in fine handwriting. There is one date at the end of The Book of the Divine Mother: May 7, 1944... other worlds has been replaced by a new Book, The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in fourteen Cantos with many thousand lines. There is also a third sufficiently long Book, The Book of the Divine Mother. In the new plan of the poem there is a second part consisting of five Books: two of these, The Book of Birth and Quest and The Book of Love, have been completed and another, The Book of Fate, is... used them for copying Savitri . At the end of one of the books he has written: "Last draft of Savitri , Sep.6, 1942." In another exercise book, containing matter up to the end of The Book of the Divine Mother, only at the end of Canto V of Book I, the date written is: April 24, 1944. (This, as you see, was the morning of the Darshan day). From these two dates we can surmise that from 1940, the year in ...
... creative dynamism. The Divine appears to him as the Divine Mother, the supreme Purusa as the supreme Nature or parā prakrti. He understands more and more as he advances on the path why Sri Râmakrishna remained from the very beginning of his spiritual life to the end of his earthly days such a docile and devoted child of the Divine Mother, even though he realised the ultimate truths of the Vedânta... him an expansion of the knowledge of God and of the action of the divine Will in his nature and being."¹ All these and other complex needs of the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga are fully met by the Divine Mother. In Her we embrace our eternal Father, our Friend and Lover, our Teacher and Master, and our sole Deliverer and Refuge. And beyond all these relations, deep and sweet as they are, we find something... negligence and awkwardness, and imparts to us the deftness and delicacy of touch that characterise the products of inspiration and make for perfection. Page 335 The four aspects of the Divine Mother comprise all that our integral being may yearn for and love. Maheśwari illumines our intelligence and gives it all the wisdom and knowledge it may seek. Mahākālī bestows upon us all the force ...
... them that they would get their connecting train by the Grace of the Divine Mother. Since they were Christians they placed faith in what I said. When they became quiet, I told them not to forget to thank God if they were able to catch the train. I then closed my eyes and tried to work out the circumstances by the Grace of the Divine Mother. I was in deep concentration and felt as if I entered the engine... change to be effected at the right time. I decided to return to Gujarat to practise this Yoga in the midst of the world and to lead a life based on the same principles inviting the help of the Divine Mother and with a feeling that "All can be done if the God-touch is there." Eight years of my stay at the Ashram had taught me very clearly that without the Divine Grace, no human strivings, however... time in my activities. My difficulties and my failures made me alert to open myself more and more to the Divine Grace and allow it to work out the difficulties. At the end of the day I thanked the Divine Mother most gratefully and prayed. I should record here most gratefully that all my prayers and calls were generously responded to. My difficulties were transformed into opportunities. Here I offer the ...
... with the inner manifestation (unexpressed) of the divine Mother, the supreme Shakti. At the same time, he did this with the intention of its being the mode of creation of the universe he wanted to create, the creative power of the universe. Hence, first of all, he had to conceive the possibility of the divine Mother in order that this divine Mother could conceive the possibility of the universe. You... was not as perfect as the flower, for it was one, two, and three. It was not so good—the flower is perfect. The divine Mother is the divine Shakti, that is, the creative Force. She is identified with the cosmos. How can she have a transcendent aspect? But perhaps the divine Mother was there before the creation! She must certainly have existed before the creation, for she cannot be her own product... one may put oneself in contact with the divine Consciousness within oneself, in the universe and, beyond all forms, in the transcendent. So these three aspects are also the three aspects of the divine Mother: transcendent, universal and individual.... Do you know the flower I have called "Transformation"? 1 Yes. You know it has four petals. Well, these four petals are arranged like a cross: one at ...
... for its fulfilment. An appeal to the divine Mother was now made by this fiery being that was embedded in ignorance. It had refused to give up its aspiration and refused to accept failure in spite of all opposite appearances. "It persevered through life's huge emptiness Amid the blank denials of the world." It made an appeal to the Divine Mother and "...waited for the fiat... Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study SUMMARY OF BOOK THREE THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE MOTHER CANTO I THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWABLE THE whole experience of life in the world as it is today can give — something. But, it is too little and "cannot fill the spirit's sacred thirst." Something seems to be missing which is... "Guarded by the veils of the Unmanifest". It was "A silent Cause occult, impenetrable,— Infinite, eternal, unthinkable, alone." CANTO II THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE MOTHER "A stillness absolute, incommunicable, Meets the sheer self-discovery of the soul," And this stillness "makes unreal all that mind has known". But it does not mean that ...
... Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her motherly comfort on the yearning thirsty soul: 9 Ibid., pp. 335-36. 10 Ibid., p. 341. 11 Ibid., p.... be changed by an unchanging will. 12 And She herself came down upon earth as Aswapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. -2- The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested... by light, his spirit devoured. 19 Thus Death came to his death, — not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 20 In that domain of pure transcendent ...
... up as follows: "How is it that the Divine Mother who, by definition, must be both omniscient and omnipotent, has allowed the Agenda to be got hold of entirely by Satprem in spite of her telling her son Andre that in case of publication it should be edited by him — without necessarily meaning utter exclusion of Satprem as collaborator? No matter if the Divine Mother has left her body she cannot cease... Could not her Will have even destroyed by some means the very original if she had wanted? Is it possible that she had changed her once-expressed intention?" Just because the intention the Divine Mother had once expressed has not been fulfilled you need not suppose she has changed it. Such a philosophy would be too facile. You forget that she undertook her world-work under certain conditions of... miraculous wave of the wand by her and there would be no need for slow laborious sadhana and no call for what we have termed "the sacrifice of Page 229 Sri Aurobindo" or for the Divine Mother to suffer as she did. Doubtless, the action of a superhuman will goes on behind the scenes and there are even direct luminous interventions at times but not everthing that we consider as deserving ...
... Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." 1 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her motherly comfort on the yearning thirsty soul: "O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and break... shall be changed by an unchanging will." 2 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material in conscience. The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself... incarnation. Death returned to his original 1 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 745. 2 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 747. 3 Bk. X: Canto 4: p. 749. Page 105 divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. "A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face." 1 In that domain of pure transcendent light ...
... vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate. 9 This great cry of the human soul moved the Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by bestowing of her motherly comfort on the yearning thirsty soul: O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend... by an unchanging will. 10 And She herself came down upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish the Divine work. (2) The Divine Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to 8.Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, SABCL, Vol. 28, pp. 335-336, 341. 9. Ibid., p. 345. 10. Ibid, p. 346. Page 5 change... light, his spirit devoured. 17 Thus Death came to his death - not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death returned to his original divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight Where once the vast embodied Void had stood. Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 18 In that domain of ...
... ancient India, the Rishis who guided the society were such seers of God, living light houses for the sea-faring souls of men. Page 35 because he saw the Divine Mother behind her; and love for the Divine Mother was inherent in him, suffusing and animating every fibre of his being. It was the overmastering passion of his soul. And it was this love for the Divine - in the beginning... for the redemption of mankind: "I look upon it (my country) as my mother. I revere and adore her." 49 Self-consecration, God-realisation, and the service of the country as the service of the divine Mother, these three 48. "Tell me of That which thou seest otherwhere than in virtue and other- where than in unrighteousness..." — Kathopanishad. "One whose intelligence has attained to... of the times, a living refutation of the invading spirit of scepticism and atheism, and a living fount of the Light and Love, the Peace and Purity of the Divine whom he loved and adored as the Divine Mother. His greatest disciple, Swami Vivekananda, was in America in 1893, waiting for his apostolic triumph at the Parliament of Religions, which was to open a new chapter in the history of the impact ...
... proceeds. Through a great shaft of Light across a tunnel that leads to the centre, he comes face to face with the World-Soul, the Two-in-One. It is there that he experiences the presence of the Divine Mother who supports the cosmos. It is She, the Power of the Supreme, supporting the cosmos, who bestows on him the boon that saves mankind from the stark imprisonment of Ignorance and subjection to Death... "protagonist of the mysterious play", "a thinker and a toiler in the ideal's air", "one in the front of the immemorial quest", —felt baffled when he considered the destiny of the race. When the Divine Mother commands him to continue his labours for man's perfection he invokes her help. A boon is given to him in answer to his prayer. Savitri's mortal birth was thus in answer to "a world's Page 32... the character of Savitri a profound change. Savitri, the Supreme Power of Grace descended into life, is the only feminine Avatār in the world. It is perhaps in the fitness of things that the Divine Mother in all her love, sympathy and deep understanding should descend to help her children Page 33 on earth in the fight against the forces of Inconscience and bring to birth a new race ...
... finished saying this that he began drawling again: “Mother’s mother, her mother, then her mother, again her mother,” then pointing his finger at the sky said: “There sits our real Mother. The Divine Mother is our real Mother.” Listening to my brother, I was a little disheartened. “Then how can we meet out real parents?” I enquired. My brother, that young boy, spoke like a wise old man: “By... open field and realised that evening had fallen. I felt terribly helpless. From that day I would stare at the open field in the evening, sit still and think about why we were born, what work the Divine Mother had sent us to the Earth for, why man suffered so much, where man went after death. Oh, so many questions! And they would all crop up at that time! When I grew up and read Anandamath I found... transformation took place in my life on that day. Sri Aurobindo is there, the Mother is there: What need we fear, then? Bowing at their Feet I began a new life. My elder brother had told me: “The Divine Mother is our real Mother.” Quite unexpectedly the truth came out one day from the Mother’s own mouth! One day, one of my friends scolded her little daughter. When the child went to the Mother ...
... to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her... her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure. There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental... superconscious Force, feel all her powers permeating from above and below and around it and thrill to a supreme Love and Ananda. But be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that are beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrow reasonings and erring impressions, its bottomless aggressive ignorance ...
... demand, without condition, without reservation so that all in you shall belong to the Divine Mother and nothing be left to the ego or given to any other power. The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it... To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted by ambition, pride... from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For Page 8 the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible. Page 9 ...
... Grace of our Divine Mother descended and entered into the depth of my mid-forehead. She came in the form of a Luminous Young Child Bala, in the same form as when She had been about seven years old-and opened the "chakra" on the top of the head, the Sahasrara, giving rise to wonderful visions and experiences. I feel that these are purely a gift of the Grace of our Divine Mother, and not at... after the experiences, the Grace comes in the form of Tamil poetry in which they get expressed. Below I am giving in English some recent experiences in the order in which they came. The Divine Mother lit the Light of a Lamp burning in the middle of my forehead. I t is a Light that extended, with its flaming heat, in all directions. In the depth of a silence beyond mind and heart, I found... in its intensity. As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousnesses, manifesting Herself as a luminous young child-Bala. I became one with Her in consciousness. My uvula curved upwards' and tasted the oozing Amrita ...
... work, for she was attending to numerous things. Here I must explain why Book Two, Canto 8, The World of Falsehood , the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness was rejected by the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother said: I have already fought with the Mother of Evil, and now I do not wish at all to give forms to the Falsehood in painting and then put the pictures in front of humanity, so that... one of her visions? So I copied exactly according to her sketch and made the painting. And lo! she liked it. When we were doing Book Three, The Book of the Divine Mother , in one of the paintings we had to show the Divine Mother in Aswapathy's heart. Here I cannot possibly forget the Mother's sense of humour, for I love it. She said: Now look! If we show the Supreme Mother's face in his ...
... I told myself, "No, you must work. It is only through work or through faith that the pain will go away. If you rest, it will get worse." As I expected, the pain went away after my supper. O my divine Mother, grant that my faith in you may become more and more unshakable and strong. The faith is in your active consciousness and your will, but it Page 12 is not yet in your body; that... You should concern yourself more with strengthening your consecration to the Divine than with working out the details of your relations with people. 12 April 1934 Page 32 Divine Mother! Tomorrow is the day of the attack. It comes at about seven o'clock—a revolt of the vital. I don't understand what you mean. Why acknowledge and accept a bad habit? 21 April 1934 I... order to make sure. In any case this kind of discussion is quite useless—it does not help to overcome doubt. 9 July 1934 Remove all weakness from me. It is not as easy as people think, Divine Mother, to become Your child integrally and perfectly. To do so one must... Be very sincere and straightforward, tolerate nothing in yourself that you could not show me without fear, and do nothing ...
... live. Blessings. 18 March 1965 Page 240 Divine Mother, If I should have an attack of any kind in the future, could I send you a note immediately, instead of people just taking me off to the hospital? Surely, let me know at once , so that I can help. Love. 30 September 1966 Divine Mother, I am having some difficulty in my vital. Would you please... were to do some work?... Blessings. 25 May 1967 Divine Mother, What I want is to move all of my being into the future. Will you help me with those parts that need a push? This is quite a good resolution. The push is and will be given. Now, do not resist. Love and blessings. 20 May 1968 Divine Mother, I am ready. Start. Blessings. 1 July 1969 ...
... Dyumatsena, the fallen King caged in the mind, sees if at all as through a fog dimly, but Aswapati the King-Forerunner breaks out of the mental cage, explores the "vasts of God", confronts the Divine Mother, and secures the boon of Her descent to earth. It may be asked: Why should the Infinite, the omnipotent, thus agree to limit itself? Omnipotence, however, includes also the power of self-limitation... History of Indian Literature. Page 287 Some day surely The world too shall be saved from death by Love. 22 But in Sri Aurobindo's epic, Savitri is the Avatar of the Divine Mother and not alone Satyavan's wife. The aim of her great endeavour would be, not just to fulfil a personal need or to resist a personal danger, but primarily to hasten the cosmic evolution and to... Unknown is she. 33 He is advised to content with what he has won and ask no more for the earth or the race as a whole. But Aswapati will not be so easily put off, and he makes reply to the Divine Mother: How shall I rest content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial things, I who have seen behind the cosmic mask The glory and the beauty of thy face? ... ...
... for with the passion of his soul. Hers was the Glory of God, the Divine Mother of All. Soul-stirring is his prayer to the Mighty Mother after having torn up "desire from its bleeding roots/ And offered to the gods the vacant place." The poet depicts the transformation that comes over Aswapati as his heart meets the Divine Mother, and describes the vision that comes to him of the New Creation to... reached before. The poet reveals how at meditation's peak at one with God, where many cease their search, he becomes aware of a Presence, God's Consciousness, Power and Bliss, which he calls the Divine Mother. He relates how this Creatrix of Boundless Love and Wisdom-Splendour comes down to Earth to transform Darkness into Light, the Unreal into the Real, and Death into Immortality. The famous... to dawn on earth, bringing with it a harmony of all contraries. Splendid and prophetic passages! Suddenly the Divine Mother rises in him and speaks in his ear's chambers, warning him not to awaken too soon the immeasurable descent, and 8 Ibid., pp. 305-348, (Book Three). Page 424 revealing her miraculous powers. But Aswapati who has now beheld this Wondrous Mother ...
... marvellously our Mother. Isn’t Savitri she and she only? Sri Aurobindo: Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. —3 November 1936 Amal Kiran continues: Amal: If Savitri is represented as an incarnation of the Divine Mother, Aswapati must be meant to represent Théon. Sri Aurobindo: What has Théon to do with it? Amal: If Aswapati is he, I’ll learn about... and was addressed to Amal Kiran in response to his query at that time. The way it is printed in the Centenary Edition is as follows: Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in the far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to “hew the ways of Immortality”. —1936. When the 1954 University-edition... printed in the Centenary Edition one gets the impression that it is a single letter, dated 1936. But actually it has two dates: Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. —3 November 1936. This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in the far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to “hew the ways of Immortality”. —10 November 1936 ...
... sense that she is afar and aloof, cold and indifferent like the transcendent Brahman. Indeed, the Divine Mother is more motherly than the human mother can be. The human mother is only a faint echo, a far-off shadow, at times a travesty of the true Mother in the archetypal world. The Divine Mother even in being transcendent leans down to our human dimensions, becomes one of us, is within us ... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections The Mother, Human and Divine In our human frailty we regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We are apt to seize exclusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the other term which is equally important. We demand from her the same reactions of motherly love that we expect from... human, human in the ignorant way—full of passion and craving, hunger for appropriation, considering her as nothing else than food for our egoistic desires. She is the mother indeed, but the Divine Mother. She wishes us to come to her in the divine way and not in the human way. For it is in the divine way that we rise to our highest and deepest stature, receive her fully and integrally, and enjoy ...
... sense that she is afar and aloof, cold and indifferent like the transcendent Brahman. Indeed, the Divine Mother is more motherly than the human mother can be. The human mother is only a faint echo, a far-off shadow, at times a travesty of the true Mother in the archetypal world. The Divine Mother even in being transcendent leans down to our human dimensions, becomes one of us, is within us as our... Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 SWEET MOTHER The Mother, Human and Divine IN our human frailty we regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We are apt to seize exclusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the other term which is equally important. We demand from her the... human, human in the ignorant way – full of passion and craving, hunger for appropriation, considering her as nothing else than food for our egoistic desires. She is the mother indeed, but the Divine Mother. She wishes us to come to her in the divine way and not in the human way. For it is in the divine way that we rise to our highest and deepest stature and receive her fully and integrally, enjoy ...
... On the Path 1967 May I make the choice, constantly, sincerely and integrally, as the Divine Mother may wish. Pranam. A good year of great progress towards the Light and total consecration. With my blessings. 1.1.1967 In 1958 the Mother said, "If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident... of aspiration. 19.5.1967 Page 11 Is it possible to make my hands conscious in such a way that they do nothing imperfect, incorrect or wrong ? What is the way to do it, Divine Mother? It is quite possible, by concentrating on the hands when they are doing something. The hands of painters, sculptors, musicians (especially pianists) are usually very conscious and... frequent in India where the belief in frequent reincarnations is still quite common. 30.7.1967 When I offer You money it is the "I" that spoils the offering. May the "I" disappear, O Divine Mother. .. may the pure and true consciousness install itself in Your child. Page 17 That he knows it is already very good. He is en route for liberation. 1.8.1967 Each time that ...
... if you do not succeed at once, and surely you will receive a certitude in one form or another. The precision grows with the persistence. 3.2.1969 When Your Presence becomes concrete, O Divine Mother, the existence becomes quite different! This must become a constant fact because the presence is constant. 5.2.1969 Doesn't irritation come from the ego, even when it is justified... pleased with itself. It is in the silence of a complete identification with the Divine that true understanding is gained. 26.10.1969 For all that I have to realise, Your Grace, O Divine Mother, is my refuge. The Grace is with you and will take you to the goal. Blessings. 28.10.1969 To be useful to Mother I feel the necessity of being more open to Her. When you... as you can, because that is the best means to increase receptivity and to open to the action of the Higher Force. 10.11.1969 Page 113 You have often granted me, O Divine Mother, what I wanted. Now I pray to You to grant only what you want, what You want. Total and constant contact with the Divine Consciousness. It is towards this that I am working for you. ...
... this consciousness but that is its real significance. This deeper meaning of the pranam is truly wondrous. And the Divine Mother Herself revealed its inner significance to us! We human beings have received this golden privilege to offer our pranam to the Lord and the Divine Mother immanent in creation. Indeed, how very fortunate we are! In the midst of this world I bow to Thee! I bow to... to be composed. It was also during this time that man learnt consciously to worship and bow before God or the Supreme Purusha. Man learnt spontaneously to offer his obeisance to the Lord and the Divine Mother. The touching of the elders’ feet in our country is part of this same mystery. When we bow to somebody, we are bowing to the One who abides in him. Of course, we don’t always do this consciously... It is because he called out from his deepest being by emptying his body, mind and heart and filling himself with love and devotion in order to offer his pranam that the Supreme Purusha and the Divine Mother have themselves come down on to the lap of Mother earth. The Mother prostrated Herself before Sri Aurobindo when She first saw Him. Very spontaneously She laid Her physical being at His Feet ...
... parable of dawn That seemed a niche for veiled divinity Or golden temple door to things beyond. 17 The images, all symbolical, describe the divinity of Savitri, the incarnation of the Divine Mother and heroine of the epic. It is said that the source of inspiration of the passage is the Overmind plane, even it could be the transcendental Supramental plane. When chanted with proper intonation... perturbed the vacant Vasts; Infinity's centre, a Face of rapturous calm Parted the eternal lids that open heaven; A form from far beatitudes seemed to near. 22 This is the Divine Mother stepping into Space and Time after the epiphany of the Symbol Dawn. Disclosed stood up in a gold moments blaze White sun-steppes in the pathless Infinite. Along a naked curve in boumeless... to be brought out and that cannot be done without the image of "opaque Inane" of the Inconscience which is the scene and cause of the resistance,—explains the poet. Similarly the "tread" of the Divine Mother was "an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it." 28 Hence the phrase "vacant Vast" has been used. "The same reasoning applies to the other passages." ...
... him, for he wants to see that glorious future upon earth. He cries out to the Divine Mother. Linger not long with thy transmuting hand Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time... Let a great word be spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate. 10 The Divine Mother responds to the call of mankind: 7 Collected Poems, SABCL, Vol. 5, p... sown in Death's tremendous hour, A branch of heaven transplant to human soil; Nature shall overleap her mortal step; Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will. 11 And the Divine Mother herself descends, as the daughter of Aswapati, as Savitri! Savitri is the Divine Response to human aspiration, the Divine Love incarnate in a human body. This divine holocaust is perhaps... No greater light come down upon the earth Delivering her from her unconsciousness, Man's spirit from unalterable fate? 14 And Savitri, awakened to her inner mission, asks the Divine Mother to give a command. She is told: Conquer thy heart's throbs, let thy heart beat in God: Thy nature shall be the engine of his works, Thy voice shall house the mightiness of his ...
... proceeds. Through a great shaft of Light across a tunnel that leads to the centre, he comes face to face with the World-Soul, the Two-in-One. It is there that he experiences the presence of the Divine Mother who supports the cosmos. It is She, the Power of the Supreme, supporting the cosmos, who bestows on him the boon that saves mankind from the stark imprisonment of Ignorance and subjection to... "protagonist of the mysterious play", "a thinker and a toiler in the ideal's air", "one in the front of the immemorial quest", — felt baffled when he considered the destiny of the race. When the Divine Mother commands him to continue his labours for man's perfection he invokes her help. A boon is given to him in answer 2 Savitri, p. 101 . Page 97 to his prayer. Savitri's... the character of Savitri a profound change. Savitri, the Supreme Power of Grace descended into life, is the only feminine Avatar in the world. It is perhaps in the fitness of things that the Divine Mother in all her love, sympathy and deep understanding should descend to help her children on earth in the fight against the forces of Inconscience and bring to Page 98 birth a ...
... Here now we find the fully lengthened and developed Book running into 15 Cantos. The third Book, The Book of the Divine Mother, was also written probably for the first time, for he writes to Amal in 1946: "...there is also a third sufficiently long Book, The Book of the Divine Mother." 9 The next step in the development was his re-copying the entire three Books on big white sheets of... been replaced by a new Book, The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in fourteen [now fifteen] Cantos with many thousand lines. There is also a third sufficiently long Book, The Book of the Divine Mother. In the new plan of the poem there is a second part consisting of five Books: two of these, The Book of Birth and Quest and The Book of Love, have been completed and another, The Book of... copying Savitri. At the end of one of the books he has written: "Last draft of Savitri, 6 September 1942." In another exercise book, containing, matter up to the end of The Book of the Divine Mother, only at the end of Canto V of Book I, the date is written: 24 April 1944. (This, by the way, was the morning of the Darshan Day.) From these two dates we can surmise that from 1940, the year ...
... necessity for reminding the reader that the 'tread' of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it." I have cited Sri Aurobindo's observation in full in order precisely to bring out the apparent opposition of the "lonely splendour" (which you attribute to the Dawn) and the "Divine Mother" (whom you would identify with a Deity coming after... acting as the "Ambassadress") - yes, to bring out this "opposition" and then show the complete reconcilement. I want to prove that the Divine Mother is herself the Dawn and that the "opposition" is just the succession of different aspects of the Dawn who is the Divine Mother. Take the verse about the Divine Mother's advent: Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts... [p. 4] Now, "vacant... of the cognate expressions whose "necessity lasts until there is the full outburst of the dawn". It is the Dawn and nothing else but the Dawn that is continuing all through and the tread of the Divine Mother is a portion of the process before the Dawn's full outburst: it is a phase of the Dawn-Goddess's gradual unfoldment of her "eternal Light". I am afraid I have over-laboured my thesis. I have ...
... tradition which leans entirely on the Ishwara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it; the Tantrik tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishwari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother, because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme r... realisation through it. This Yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the Yoga. In regard to the Purushottama the Divine Mother is the supreme divine Consciousness and Power above the worlds, Adya Shakti; she carries the Supreme in herself and manifests the Divine in the worlds through the Akshara and... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother in the Gita The Gita does not speak expressly of the Divine Mother; it speaks always of surrender to the Purushottama—it mentions her only as the Para Prakriti who becomes the Jiva, i.e., who manifests the Divine in the multiplicity and through whom all these worlds ...
... necessity for reminding the reader that the 'tread' of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it." I have cited Sri Aurobindo's observation in full in order precisely to bring out the apparent opposition of the "lonely splendour" (which you attribute to the Dawn) and the "Divine Mother" (whom you would identify with a Deity coming after... acting as the "Ambassadress")—yes, to bring out this "opposition" and then show the complete reconcilement. I want to prove that the Divine Mother is herself the Dawn and that the "opposition" is just the succession of different aspects of the Dawn who is the Divine Mother. Take the verse about the Divine Mother's advent: Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts... 1 Now, "vacant Vasts"... of the cognate expressions whose "necessity lasts until there is the full outburst of the dawn". It is the Dawn and nothing else but the Dawn that is continuing all through and the tread of the Divine Mother is a portion of the process before the Dawn's full outburst: it is a phase of the Dawn-Goddess's gradual unfold-ment of her "eternal Light". 1 P. 7. Page 197 I am afraid ...
... intensity or they may acquire a fluid charm or whispering cadence or dance of joy or haunting moan on account of the emotional nuances involved. When an Aswapati addresses the Divine Mother, how does he talk? How does the Divine Mother respond? Sri Aurobindo doesn't avoid the situation; he is willing to dare the impossible and find words to fit the situation. Thus Aswapati says: O radiant fountain... explanations of philosophy are often put in terms applicable to the woman, and sometimes astonishingly so." 162 Savitri is likewise the "union of strength and silence"; she is "an incarnation of the Divine Mother"; she is "the forerunner or first creator of a new race". 163 The dialectic of world transformation, the change of darkness into light, of death into immortality, is the vaster subject matter;... great drama of Becoming. Aswapati's effort, which is really the culmination of the effort of all of our yesterdays, the gathered energy of all the aeons of the past, is the necessary prelude to the Divine Mother agreeing to be a human incarnation as Savitri. From Savitri radiate the lines of mankind's and earth's future destiny. Past, present and future thus meet in Savitri, and it may be said of her and ...
... consciousness and go beyond to another state of consciousness higher than the mind. For, only so can man's problem be resolved. She found that she had within herself the Higher consciousness—in her the Divine Mother herself arose when she was preparing to face the danger. The other three Cantos of the first book describing the Raja Yoga--the Yoga of the King,—contain the kernal of the methods and results... his daughter, yet the poet's affirmation "A world's desire compelled her mortal birth" becomes quite intelligible and clear when we realise the symbolic character of Aswapathy. He carries to the Divine Mother the intense aspiration of the earth and as its representative prays to Her to come down on earth. Page 125 CANTO I The first Canto is found to be a very difficult by many... would be such that death-bound heart of men would want to be god-bound then the Divine Power would send down on earth one who would break the iron law of ignorance. The short- lived vision of the Divine Mother was, in fact, "the prescience of marvellous birth to come". Finding the conditions of earth incapable of supporting the full blaze of her Divine Glory the Divine Power puts on the mask of Matter ...
... one's body in His care. Further, we have only to be attentive to the orders He gives us in all circumstances and to obey scrupulously. 14.1.1970 The little moment passed before You, O Divine Mother, becomes a life in itself; it is going to be an eternal moment.. . The eternal supreme Consciousness is always there, concretely present and active. 16.1.1970 I do not live... it with light every morning so that the light be always around it, penetrating it each time that there is a possibility of it being received. 11.2.1970 The more I can go near You, O Divine Mother, the more the life becomes a true life. This body itself is in the midst of the struggle to realise the true life. 13.2.1970 I can feel that the golden light has become very... supramental world. But more than this, for the moment, I cannot say. Mentally, an occult significance has been given to each number. 25.2.1970 Page 128 Deliver me, O Divine Mother, from personal impotence. All that is united with the Supreme Lord, melted into Him, partakes of His Omnipotence. The body-cells themselves have the experience of it. But ...
... being, the All-Person of whom all beings are personalities, the Power from whom are all powers, the Self, the Spirit in all, by his being the Father of all that is, in his Consciousness-Force the Divine Mother, the Friend of all creatures, the All-blissful and All-beautiful of whom beauty and joy are the revelation, the All-Beloved and All-Lover. In a certain sense, so seen and understood, this becomes... the light of personality in impersonality, we see the biune aspect of Self and Self-Power, then in the Person Aspect a dual Person emerges, Ishwara-Shakti, the Divine Self and Creator and the Divine Mother and Creatrix of the universe; there becomes apparent to us the mystery of the masculine and feminine cosmic Principles whose play and inter action are necessary for all creation. In the superconscient... Self-Existence these two are fused and implied in each other, one and indistinguishable, but in the spiritual-pragmatic truth of the dynamism of the universe, they emerge and be come active; the Divine Mother-Energy as the universal creatrix, Maya, Para-Prakriti, Chit-Shakti, manifests the cosmic Self and Ishwara and her own self-power as a dual principle; it is through her that the Being, the Self, ...
... executive action of the omnipotent Goddess. He "keeping the traditions of those times goes," in the Savitri-story, "to the forest and performs penance for eighteen years, at the end of which the Divine Mother Gayatri appears to him and gives him a boon that she would be bom to him... He names her Savitri... Savitri and Gayatri are the same Deity." 8 8 Collected Works of M.P. Pandit, edited... "Savitri is the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind..." 17 How does it become the Sun-Word? "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in far past time when the whole thing had to be opened out, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality.' " 18 13 The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25... either leave behind all that he had achieved or else he must transform all that into powers of the spirit. But that is possible only by living in pure existence. Then only could he approach the Divine Mother and invoke her to step into the mortal creation in order to transform it. In the Yoga of Savitri,—through which she embodies higher and higher powers of the Divine Shakti in herself,— there arrives ...
... first, rises in us as a fire of aspiration, for it is he who "speaks for us the true thought of Earth and Heaven" and "makes perfect the Rite of the Path." 2 These powers are delegates of the divine Mother presiding over all manifestation who "has made her soul the body of our state." In the darkness that precedes the awakening of the gods, a child's hand reaches out blindly towards something... of the Ideal. Beyond the highest peaks of Illumined Mind, where "the Thinker sleeps in too much light" 16 he discovers the World Soul. At last, surrendering his separate self at the feet of the Divine Mother, he reaches the end of his journey and the light of the Greater Knowledge. The path of initiation also ends here. The consummation of Aswapati's Yoga is his integral surrender to the Divine... revealed, not cast in a human mould as it was in the beginning of the path, but now an overwhelming splendour of implacable light and bliss. Aswapati surrenders his human nature at the feet of the Divine Mother and becomes a vessel of her force, passing into the "inexpressible light" of the Greater Knowledge. Aspiring not for himself but for the world, he wins for mankind the boon of Love incarnate ...
... feet on the floor or on a small stool. But Sri Aurobindo’s yogic development had revealed the Divine Mother to him, and he on his part had surrendered totally and unconditionally to her. This revelation and his surrender he has expressed in the canto of Savitri called The Adoration of the Divine Mother: She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. The luminous heart of the Unknown is she... but the Shakti of God who is the sole sadhika [practitioner] of this yoga.’ This follows logically from the fact that the evolution is a development back to the Divine Origin and that it is the Divine Mother who has enabled and worked out this development. (This means, besides, that all human beings, as living elements of the evolution, participate in the evolutionary yoga, whether they want it or not... cases, though not in all, a severe strain on the body.’ 40 About the relations between the disciples and the Mother: ‘But why do you want to meet her as a “human” Mother? If you can see the Divine Mother in a human body that should be enough and a more fruitful attitude. Those who approach her as a human Mother often get into trouble by their conception making all sorts of mistakes in their approach ...
... of his own experiences and explorations which we find described in Savitri, culminating in ‘The Book of the Divine Mother.’ To understand Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s venture, it is essential not to forget that she was an incarnation of the transcendent, cosmic and individual Divine Mother in a human body, just as he was an incarnation of the transcendent, cosmic and individual Ishwara in a human... is not – and if they were and are not ‘that,’ the whole affair is a figment of the imagination, an elaborate fancy of the mind. If she is ‘that,’ then she is the Mother of all souls, for the Divine Mother is evidently the mother of everything that is authentically divine or the Divine, and our souls are ‘a spark’, i.e. a portion of the Divine. This makes the centring of the Integral Yoga on the Mother... Aurobindo. ‘The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother.’ And: ‘Everyone who is turned towards the Mother is doing my Yoga. It is a great mistake to suppose that one can “do” the Purna [Integral] Yoga – i.e. carry out and fulfil all sides of the Yoga ...
... flight!—nobody can describe so marvellously our Mother. Isn't Savitri she and she only? Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. 3 November 1936 If Savitri is represented as an incarnation of the Divine Mother, Aswapati must be meant to represent Theon. What has Theon to do with it? If Aswapati is he, I'll learn about his role from the poem—but couldn't... other worlds has been replaced by a new book, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in fourteen cantos with many thousand lines. There is also a third sufficiently long book, the Book of the Divine Mother. In the new plan of the poem there is a second part consisting of five books: two of these, the Book of Birth and Quest and the Book of Love, have been completed and another, the Book of Fate, is... book: but this too is as yet only an individual victory. Finally, he aspires no longer for himself but for all, for a universal realisation and new creation. That is described in the Book of the Divine Mother. As to the Nirvana poem, I have said that the poem announces no metaphysical philosophy but is only the description of a spiritual experience. So how can any metaphysics be derived from it true ...
... unnoticed. We ignored Her very often in our blind impertinence. When we were in front of Her, the window of our soul open Even for some seconds we could perceive in Her The Divine Mother, the wordless magnificence, the Eternal in a body For ever so close, so intimate, mother, friend, confidante, Master, professor, infallible guide, adorable sister. Day and night... frightened souls, stressed to the breaking point Who cry hopeless in the night. Come, the honey, the immortal nectar waits for you. Come our brothers and sisters, The Divine Mother puts all Her sweetness in our honey, in this nectar. All the walls, artificial, false, murderous will fall As soon as you will have swallowed some drops of this sublime honey. ... to us. This honey is for whoever looks for the Divine. Knock at the door, taste some drops of the honey, Then depart enlightened, cured, Singing the glory of the Divine Mother, the Mother of the whole Universe. Come, you children of immortality, the honey waits for you. Come, take your part, be happy, luminous As the blue full moon playing with ...
... Consciousness and the Power that contains the experience. At present my inner being wants to impose one simple and straight attitude on my outer being — "Accept heartily whatever the Divine Mother does." This indeed is a very essential thing to be realised if any real or lasting progress is to be achieved. Yes, it is essential. Early in the morning, among... the lower nature, it will be met by the Mother. And I shall remain as a dynamic and luminous channel." Quite right. One who is sincere and open exclusively to the Divine Mother would refuse to believe that this Yoga is the most arduous and difficult. It is so for only those who refuse to take her as their all. When she is our all, she travels with us and saves us from... would perhaps laugh at such a premature prayer; but then is it not true that when a child cries for his Mother she always comes to him? Moreover, this Mother is not merely a human mother, but a Divine Mother, who is more sensitive to the crying of her child than any human being could be. She is always eager to remove him from the grip of the ordinary nature and lift him wholly into her light. The ordinary ...
... remarkable conversions. Thus, from 1 February, Savita Hindocha, who was later to acquire the Ashram name of "Huta", began writing down in her mother tongue Gujarati, her intense prayers to the Divine Mother with single-pointed devotion, feeling irresistibly drawn as iron is by the magnet. 1 In 1981, in a preface to her autobiography, she wrote: A few disciples of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo... divine peace and happiness cannot come from money, family, children, pleasure, prosperity. She will rather offer all she possesses in the world - as well as the immortal love of her soul - to the divine Mother; but will it be accepted? It was accepted indeed, and Huta came to the Ashram for a short visit and had her first darshan of the Mother. It was the 1st of November and, in the Meditation Hall... After coming to the Ashram... it was my inmost soul, my psychic being, which felt this to be my true home. Where else could I go, where else could I live after that, leaving my true home and my divine Mother? 6 Page 588 And Jay Holmes Smith, who had first come upon Sri Aurobindo's writings in the New York Public Library - even as Miss Margaret Wilson had earlier read there his Essays ...
... of transformation and perfection; for, this work depends upon the fullness of ¹ The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. Page 400 the sâdhaka's self-surrender to the Divine Mother, and the fullness or integrality of surrender is possible only when the sâdhaka detaches and knows himself as separate from the nature he surrenders. All offering implies previous possession of... to promote the growth and ascent of his liberated consciousness towards the universality, transcendence and integrality of the divine Consciousness, and offer his nature into the hands of the divine Mother, so that She may transform and perfect it for Her work in the world. His ascent from one status of the Spirit to another, from knowledge to higher knowledge, from power to fuller power, from bliss... will be his Page 401 further liberation into the universality and transcendence i the Divine. And the higher he ascends, the better can he unite his will with the Will of the Divine Mother for the liberation and transformation of his nature. The main difficulty, which, however, proves after a certain time to be a great help and opportunity, is that the sâdhaka of the Integral ...
... to the Divine for a supramental life-effectuation. When converted and transformed, the desires shed their ego-moulds and separative drive, and unite and collaborate with the flaming Will of the Divine Mother, which then spontaneously fulfils itself in the individual nature. What should be the attitude of the sâdhaka when, in. the course of his yoga, he finds his desires assailing him with a desperate... will only distract his attention from the work and shut out the Mother's guidance. Whether one is working or waiting for some work, there should always be a quiet and intent concentration on the Divine Mother, and an openness and receptivity to Her inspiration and guidance. Such openness alone can change our physical being, foster the growth of the higher conscious- ness in it, heighten the powers and... work and love and knowledge that he practises, in which the three elements can never be separated. But in spite of the synthetic nature of his sâdhanâ and the direct increasing guidance of the Divine Mother, he has to pass through a long, intricate process of self-discipline and purification. Each part of his nature has to be tackled separately and in the mass, each of its movement to be scrutinised ...
... personal profit, all stipulation of self regarding desire must be extirpated from the nature. There must be no demand for fruit and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the pleasure of the Divine Mother and the fulfilment of her work, your only reward a constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and bliss. The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the... recompense of the selfless worker. But a time will come when you will feel more and more that you are the instrument and not the worker. For first by the force of your devotion your contact with the Divine Mother will become so intimate that at all times you will have only to concentrate and to put everything into her hands to have her present guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indication... then every disturbing element and distorting influence will progressively fall away from your nature. The last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force. Always she will be in you and you ...
... want anything better. But if you are a sadhak, then you do not accept the play of the lower nature, you turn to the Divine Mother instead, and ask her to work through you instead of the lower Nature. It is only when you have turned entirely in every part of your being to the Divine Mother and to her alone that the Divine will do all actions through you. 27 May 1933 How can I know that the Mother... for the working of the evolutionary Ignorance. As the ignorant mental, vital or physical being is not itself the Divine, although it comes from the Divine—so the mechanism of Prakriti is not the Divine Mother. No doubt something of her is there in and behind this mechanism maintaining it for its evolutionary purpose—but what she is in herself is not a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power ...
... really that — ‘either she is that, or she is not’ — not only in theory and feelings of devotion, but in most concrete reality. But: ‘There is the Mother who is carrying on the sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises.’ 8 (Sri Aurobindo) The Mother has explained this: how some wanted to see her exclusively in her almighty divine glory, and how they expected from her... contrary, saw her rather as the human albeit divinely inspired incarnation, as the avant-gardiste of the Integral Yoga and as their guru. With all possible combinations and variations in between. The Divine Mother had taken the burden of the world upon her in a human body and she had accepted all consequences of this commitment. To do this, it was necessary for her to limit voluntarily her instrumental... quite other — but in their conclusions they again fall back into their first attitude concentrating on that apparently deteriorating body, however much respect or devotion they may profess for ‘the divine Mother’, for ‘sweet Mother’. Still, the Mother had impressed it so strongly on them: ‘I am talking about cellular realizations, don’t forget it!’ or: ‘I am talking about something completely material’ ...
... December 1927, I was a young boy of twenty-one and perhaps the youngest among those who were in the Ashram at the time. In the morning there used to be a common meditation in the presence of the Divine Mother on the ground-floor verandah of Sri Aurobindo's house. The Mother comes down at 7 a.m. In meditation, I open myself up in all parts of my being and strive to receive her Light and Grace to purify... experiences regarding each of us. This was a golden period in the sadhana in the Ashram, when gods were called down to inhabit those who were fit to assimilate their consciousness. The Grace of the Divine Mother had begun to work upon me and I was dragged many a time into trance and came back with different types of experiences. Once I saw myself acting as a military officer on a mountain in one of my past... the upper verandah in the presence of the Mother. During this session of night meditation many people used to have experiences. There are many incidents which took place by the Grace of the Divine Mother. It so happened, one day, that the main gate was locked from inside for morning meditation by a young gate-keeper and he joined the meditation. When the meditation was over we were leaving the Mother ...
... I merge into Thee in an immense love … I have become the purifying fire of Thy love.’ The entry of 13 September begins: ‘With fervour I salute Thee, O divine Mother, and in deep affection I identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, towards Thee and bow to Thee in mute adoration and in an ardent aspiration I identify myself with Thee.’ And on the next day she writes:... powers of the Goddess that we find all over the world represented in the manner the peoples have perceived or imagined her and her emanations. Mirra had known that she was an incarnation of the Divine Mother, not only in one of her aspects but in the integrality of Her being. The great clairvoyant Madame Théon had seen the ‘twelve pearls’ like a crown above Mirra’s head. In fact, Mirra had felt all ...
... 6 You unpredictable wonderful little girl of fifty odd years, what is all this sudden lamentation and shedding of tears and self-doubting? The Divine Mother is always with you and has accepted you and given you not only good relatives and friends, dear and near ones, but also an elder soul-brother out of the blue who though physically far is ever close... hung. That's enough of Yogic philosophy and poetry for the present! (29.4.1990) Your two letters refer to some very important matters. First, the inner darshan of the Divine Mother on 6.5.81. Your reply to her offer to grant boons is exemplary: "I want only You and Your will." Of course, this is the most wonderful gift God can bestow: one who receives it will look on nothing... life-thrill accompanying that thought. Am I talking abracadabra? (21.5.1990) Your letter, as usual, is a long soliloquy - but it is not just X chatting with X but X communing with the Divine Mother whom he is nestling deep within him and with Amal whom he holds in some warm wideness of inner being. The increasing apathy and detachment you speak of is basically the distance you feel ...
... the surroundings full of light. When I saw this light a torchlike light emerged immediately from my forehead. I rode up to the hut and got down from the horse and went into the hut. There 1 saw a Divine Mother Page 354 sitting in the lotus-pose. She was full of light. 1 offered my pranam to her and she blessed me and advised me to study medicine. After more than twelve years I came to... torchlight emerges from your forehead. Urged by it, led by it you reach your soul's "cave", as the Upanishads would designate your inmost and there in what has seemed an obscure place you come upon the Divine Mother, formed of light and the source of all radiance. She is waiting for you and at once accepts you with her gesture of blessing. Thus long before you came to the Ashram, you had been chosen... for deviation Page 355 from spirituality you have a Saving Grace present always. So I see no cause for you to despair. Light can always come up. Keep appealing to the Divine Mother and she will give you the boon of her blessing. And he who has that boon must carry ever a smile on his lips. (13.3.1995) Page 356 ...
... sunlight was a great god's golden smile. All Nature was at beauty's festival. 14 The dramatic style of Sri Aurobindo centres around situations like Aswapati's colloquy with the Divine Mother, the debate of Savitri and Death and the loving exchange of words between Savitri and Satyavan. It also extends to characters like the triple soul-forces and their mouthpieces. The speeches are... are, no doubt, often long. But they are punctuated by questions and exclamations which help to make them animated. And many of them rise to the highest level of poetry. The Divine Mother opens her address to Aswapati with the following words: OSon of Strength who climbst creation's peaks, No soul is thy companion in the light; Alone thou standest at the eternal doors. What... Reason that scans and breaks, but cannot build Or builds in vain because she doubts her work. I am, I love, I see, I act, I will. 19 When Savitri herself, in her capacity as Divine Mother, commands Death to stand aside "And leave the path of my incarnate Force"(p. 666), Death vanishes into thin air: The two opposed each other face to face. His being like a huge fort ...
... Book: but this too is as yet only an individual victory. Finally, he aspires no longer for himself but for all, for a universal realisation and new creation. This is described in the Book of the Divine Mother. 4 The aim of this paper is to offer the reader an overview of the fifteen cantos of Book II, entitled "The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds". These are incidentally also those cantos... indifferent to the lower worlds of death, evil, pain and suffering. This world did not contain the Truth of Power which he was seeking which, he now realises, can only be brought down by the Divine Mother. Even the still spirit that looks upon its works Was some pale front of the Unknowable; A shadow seemed the wide and witness Self, Its liberation and immobile calm A void recoil... absorbed in deep creative joy; Their trance of bliss sustained the mobile world. Behind them in a morning dusk One stood Who brought them forth from the Unknowable. 73 This is the Divine Mother who is the guide of the traveller of the unseen paths. She stands above all, supporting all, the sole omnipotent Goddess of whom the creation is the mysterious mask. Aswapati's spirit was now ...
... the hostiles and thus go downhill and get lost, or to marshall Page 336 courage and confidence and give a successful fight to the weaknesses as a loyal and loving child of the Divine Mother and clear them out from one's nature. Thus a necessary victory will be gained and a further advancement made on the path. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "... once our minds are reasonably fixed... (vii) self-confidence and resolution of will, (viii) vigilance and power of discrimination, (ix) steadiness of aspiration, (x) sincerity, (xi) constant invocation of the grace and protection of the Divine Mother, etc. It is difficult for the ordinary sadhaka to acquire all these quali-ties in full in the early part of his spiritual career. So he cannot reasonably expect that he will never be troubled... fortunate, he can surely do so much as to keep himself separate in his consciousness, not to be overcome by the hostile suggestions, and to resist them with all his good will. A sincere prayer to the Divine Mother accompanying this personal effort at resistance will do the rest. And the sadhaka will surely come out of his ordeal with a fresh ground of victory gained. In the case of this relatively more advanced ...
... awakening to the sadhana-life of the seeker concerned. To cite only a few of them: (i) Development of pure love and devotion for the Divine;(ii) concrete sense of the constant Presence of the Divine Mother; (iii) sure indications coming from within as regard s the way to be followed at any moment; (iv) quietening and purification of the mind and heart and the vital of the sadhaka; (v) opening of... faith in the constant action of the Grace of the Mother. instead of relying too much on the efficacy of his own personal effort, if he develops in his heart a genuine love and devotion for the Divine Mother, if all the se concomitant conditions Page 266 are fulfilled by the sadhaka, his psychic being will surely come out of its secret dwelling place within, be active in the outer... develop vis-à-vis the dangers and difficulties of life: the sadhaka will not find them as before an intolerable misfortune but as deliberate opportunities for receiving the loving Grace of the divine Mother. In short , the life of the sadhaka will advance thenceforward along a sun-lit flower-bedecked cosy path . In the next phase of sadhana the sadhaka' s psychic being will take its permanent ...
... away, one in a most tragic manner during the Master's lifetime, and the other three at a fairly advanced age. As for the rest of us, we are engaged in our individual activities, each serving the Divine Mother in his own way. There is no longer the common centre of union, and each being busy with his sadhana, we meet rarely, but, the memory kindles up of our old, far off days whenever we join for a talk... leaving, Sri Aurobindo asked one of his older companions to bring him back with him! It is he who first accepted Sri Aurobindo as the Divine Father and called him Father, accepted the Mother as the Divine Mother and began to call her Mother. When he offered to wash the 'Father's' clothes, Sri Aurobindo warned him that he would be mocked at, but that did not deter him. He had gone without food and sleep... offered the pictures to the Mother. She was very pleased and said she would take them to Sri Aurobindo and ask him to write something. He wrote under the painting of the white lotus: Aditi, The Divine Mother. And the Mother wrote on the other: The Avatar. But she forbade Champaklal to show them to anyone, for people would not understand what they meant. Champaklal is the custodian of all their relics ...
... presence and power of the Divine Mother. The Mother's power and not Page 295 any human endeavour and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and Life divine and the immortal's Ananda. 8 The visioning of the Divine Mother - the interpretation of... Aurobindo was asked by a disciple ten years later whether he did not refer to "our Mother" in his book The Mother, he gave the supremely succinct answer, "Yes." She was verily the 'individual' divine Mother who embodied the Page 292 power of the two vaster ways (universal and transcendent) of her existence; and she had descended here amongst us into this 'too too sullied' world of error ...
... aim; and the significance of the absolute surrender to the Mother in Her triple poise comes out clearly as we follow the steps of this radical transmutation. For, who else except the Divine Mother can effect tins change of the lower into the higher nature, bestowing upon man the double freedom of self-expression—the freedom of the soul and the freedom of the converted and divinised .nature... a constant opportunity to our embodied being to approach and contact the divine Grace, and accelerate the pace of our evolution into our dynamic divinity. Page 94 The individual divine Mother, at once transcendent and universal in Her consciousness, brings down the transcendent Will to new creation, and infuses it into those individual units of humanity who open and surrender to Her... thou carriest in thyself the torch of the integral splendour which does not waver, and by associating with them, it is this thou wilt carry into their midst."² This is the work which the Divine Mother has to do upon earth in Her individual poise, a work of inconceivable . ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother. ² ibid. Page 98 labour and toil, carried on from day ...
... mastered and the exploration of her vast provinces begins. His present Raj Yoga, the Yoga of the King, has to be raised to the Cosmic Yoga, Vishva Yoga, and finally to the Yoga of Surrender to the Divine Mother. II: 1 The World-Stair The Vishva Yoga begins. Here is a Universe well-planned and many-tiered. It has limits neither in Space nor in Time. Experience after experience... Yet this supernal birth is his alone and cannot be of great avail for the collective on the earth. The individual's supernal birth has to become a larger supernal birth. Its key is with the Divine Mother and therefore Aswapati must approach her. With this Siddhi attained, and with the cosmic forces now under his control, he becomes the Lord of Life, justifies his name Aswapati. Henceforth his... there is also an obligation of fulfilling oneself here. Page – 60 Aswapati is alert to it and hence he must remove the veil of light. III: 2 The Adoration of the Divine Mother In that self-discovery Aswapati comes to know about God's desire that works here even in this mortal world. Here he is rewarded. It is in response to the longing of his soul that ...
... start drawing close to you from all directions and enring you with what I can only term a mighty tenderness of touch. You will feel held in the embrace - at once infinite and intimate - of the Divine Mother. A profound peace which will also be vibrant with a deep quiet love will be your sense of your own true self. You will be free from all fluttering of the small human heart and convey a helpful ... satisfied by all that is still left gross and misfeatured around us from a past which has not learned to be completely blessed by Sri Aurobindo, not allowed itself to be entirely caressed by the Divine Mother. When I look at the life within me and at the life without, I am struck by so much that has lingered from my pre-Yogic past in the midst of the thinking and feeling and willing and doing that... whereas my tolerance is not able to cope with them." The inconveniences of your life are always before me and I know that you try your utmost to be a true child of our Page 168 Divine Mother in spite of the obstacles in your way which may tend to bring down the consciousness. Our Gurus are aware of your troubles and the hurdles in the way of your spiritual life: they judge not just ...
... psychic and spiritual, that through these the nature will be transformed and the ego replaced by the true person and the animal by the true vital and physical being become fit instruments of the Divine Mother. Yes, these experiences [ of the smallness of the egoistic person ] always come when one is opening into the wideness of the cosmic consciousness and your conclusions are correct. The se... he is centred in his ego, ego-centric, and does all for his ego; even his love and liking is mostly based on ego. All that has to be changed and all has to be centred in the Divine, done for the Divine Mother. It is the work of the sadhana to get that done. The silence, the growth of the psychic and all else is meant to bring about that—but it cannot be done all at once. When the consciousness is ready... you alone are a chosen instrument. All who arrive at the realisation in this Yoga will be instruments—it is part of the realisation that the sadhak should turn himself into an instrument of the Divine Mother Getting Rid of the Ego and of Egoism What you say [ about the need to purify oneself of ego ] is perfectly correct—I am glad you are becoming so lucid and clearsighted, the result surely of ...
... not the "Individual" Divine Mother who has embodied "the power of these two vaster ways of her existence" 1 —Transcendent and Universal? Yes. Has she not descended here (amongst us) into the Darkness and Falsehood and Error and Death in her deep and great love for us? Yes. There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her Prayers, they... they say, explain this view. But to my mental conception, to my psychic feeling, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on herself the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us—human beings—to Knowledge and Bliss and Ananda and to Him. The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show ...
... Surrender and Opening The whole principle of this Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, Truth-consciousness and Ananda of the Supramental Divine. * Radha is the personification of the absolute love for the Divine... held up and exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. * There is not much spiritual meaning in keeping open to the Mother if you withhold your surrender. Self-giving or surrender is demanded of those who practise this... want to mix with it and turn it to their profit. It often happens too that some Power or Powers undivine in their nature present themselves as the Supreme Lord or as the Page 38 Divine Mother and claim the being's service and surrender. If these things are accepted, there will be an extremely disastrous consequence. If indeed there is the assent of the Sadhak to the Divine working alone ...
... can break this resistance. 17 May 1968 Page 247 Divine Mother, Given the present state of Auroville's finances, should we approach either of the following people for donations: [names given]. It is not this kind of people who can give to Auroville what it needs. 17 May 1968 Divine Mother, Firstly, what is the role of the United States with regard to the... Pavilion, and if so may she start fund raising in America immediately for this? I never gave her this work officially. But if she brings money so much the better. 22 March 1966 Divine Mother, Do you wish us to try and raise large amounts of money for both the Ashram and the Auroville Project, in America? Page 246 If it is at all possible for you it would be extremely ...
... paintings was given to me by the Divine Mother. It was so great, so beyond the capacity of the little instrument she had summoned that only her Grace working in Sri Aurobindo's Light could have seen me through. As a matter of fact, when I began I did not know how to draw a straight line or how to hold brushes—nor did I have any colour sense. It is the Divine Mother who taught me painting and truly... consciousness." And in the second letter she said: "We are going towards a painting that will be able to express the Supramental Truth of things." Now the work is over and I am ever grateful to the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo for making me their instrument. "All can be done if the God-touch is there." This is what Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri and how true it is! I am happy—really happy—to ...
... a wet towel. I cried, 0 my darling, come to me! I cannot live without seeing you. " If Narendra failed to come to him for some days, he would become disconsolate. He would weep and pray to the Divine Mother, begging Her to make him come. Their relationship continued in this way for some time. Narendra was a born idealist and seeker of truth, but his mind was intensely analytical and he subordinated... "I believed every word and eagerly waited for the night... As I went I was filled with a divine intoxication... Reaching the temple as I cast my eyes on the image I actually found that the Divine Mother was living and conscious... I was caught in a surging wave of devotion and love. In the ecstasy of joy I prostrated myself and prayed, "Mother, give me discrimination! Give me renunciation. Give... to pray to the Mother about! " In shame and remorse I bowed to Her respectfully and said, "Mother, I want nothing but knowledge and devotion. " And so Narendra Nath came to know the Divine Mother, and the power of his Master. Later Sri Ramakrishna promised Narendra that his family would never be without plain food and clothing. The promise proved true, and now Narendra had more and more ...
... pray to Thee, yet I like to pray at Thy Lotus feet, at Thy holy feet, and like to live only for my Divine Mother. Ma — if my inner being is not wishing for Thee, I pray Thee to make it wish. 9.3.33 Mother, Light the fire in my heart for Thy service and to be faithful to the Divine Mother. 11.3.33 Mother, Make me more and more fit for Thy service and use me for Thy service... Mother, keep me open to Thee and let me hear Thy voice and make me grow into Thy consciousness; so that I may be able to serve Thee and may live only for Thee. 3.3.33 I feel the Divine Mother sitting on the throne of my heart and giving me aspiration and devotion for Thee, and making me conscious of Thy grace. 4.3.33 Page 1 O Mother Divine! I pray to Thy Lotus feet ...
... human bullock cart can proceed. But farther on when the bullocks perceive, on the way, that too great a thing called Divine Love they are frightened and fall down by the sudden shock. Then the Divine Mother showers on them the psychic love which lifts them up. And the journey is resumed. By and by, the bullocks become strong and powerful, get accustomed to the Divine Love after many a Page... way without ego. If it loves in the egoistic vital way, then it only creates difficulties for itself and for the sadhana and for the Mother. The outer being too must love the Divine Mother. If the love is confined within the soul alone there is hardly anything remarkable in it. Why do you need something remarkable? The love of the soul is the true thing, simple and absolute... so long as knowledge and realisation are not complete, faith is indispensable. The difficulties in sadhana come because we lack a real self-giving and spontaneous love for the Divine Mother. For the integral Yoga especially, they are our only permanent safeguards. Moreover, it is harder to understand the Divine in a physical form than on the ethereal planes. Even our outer questioning ...
... higher Purusha, Purushottama. Tantra worships the higher Prakriti as Parashakti, the Divine Mother who holds in herself the supreme Purusha. The world is created and exists not by the power of Maya but by the formative power of the Mother, which was the original meaning of the word 'maya', the Divine Maya. The Divine Mother creates the world and maintains the world in the Delight of her Conscious Existence... Master and disciple, the leader and the led. Ii brings out into prominence the Purusha aspect of the Reality. In the Tantra the relation is as between Mother and child. The supreme Reality is the Divine Mother holding the universe in her arms. The individual worships and adores the Supreme Prakriti as a human child does. The Vaishnava makes the relation as between the lover and the beloved, and the love ...
... Purusha, Purushottama. Tantra worships the higher Prakriti as Parashakti, the Divine Mother, who holds in herself the supreme Purusha. The world is created and exists not by the power of Maya but by the formative power of the Mother, which was the original meaning of the word 'maya', the Divine Maya. The Divine Mother creates the world and maintains the world in the Delight of her Conscious Existence... Master and disciple, the leader and the led. It brings out into prominence the Purusha aspect of the Reality. In the Tantra the relation is as between Mother and child. The supreme Reality is the Divine Mother holding the universe in her arms. The individual worships and adores the Supreme Prakriti as a human child does. The Vaishnava makes the relation as between the lover and the beloved, and the ...
... identification with Mother India in whom he had realised the Divine Mother. He was well advanced in Yoga at the time when he spoke these words, as his letters to his wife attest. No other leader, even in his most inspired flights, would have presumed to speak of "the Mother in me"! The utter effacement of his personal self in the Divine Mother had resulted in this identification. The third point is a... of prediction, Sri Aurobindo once remarked in his evening talks, "When I was arrested, my maternal grand aunt asked Vishuddharianda166 'what will happen to our Aurobindo'? He replied, The Divine Mother has taken him in Her arms. Nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo, He is world's Aurobindo, and the world will be filled with his perfume.' " XVII " ...
... would very much like you to write over the white lotus and me to write over the red lotus.” Sri Aurobindo smiled a sweet, gentle smile. Then saying a soft “umm…” he wrote: Aditi The Divine Mother He wrote under the red lotus: To Champaklal With blessings Sri Aurobindo 2.2.40 After writing this Sri Aurobindo looked at Champaklal and gently smiled. An indescribable... to all of us on an important occasion. And that is how we came to know about the significance of the red and white lotus. I can picture before my eyes Sri Aurobindo writing Aditi The Divine Mother and the Mother watching this being written. Then the Mother writing The Avatar Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo watching the Mother writing this. What an unbelievable event that... probably understand its full import only later. 2nd February 1940 will be written down in golden letters on the pages of earth’s history. In that auspicious moment the Lord Himself revealed the Divine Mother Aditi and Aditi Herself revealed the Lord to us human beings. Sri Aurobindo announced in writing that She was Mother Aditi and the Mother announced in writing that He was the Lord and Avatar. What ...
... never seen such a sight! The Divine Mother herself teaching Her human children! The gods too had never had Darshan of the Mother in a human body. That is why they would come down to be close to Her. I have also heard that in the evening when the Mother came downstairs to give us flower-blessings in the Ashram, the gods would gather in the Meditation Hall. The Divine Mother Herself had taken on a human... darkness. Was this due to an absence of form? What we cannot understand, cannot know, whose core we cannot penetrate for lack of a path, that is what we call darkness. That writer was unaware that the Divine Mother Herself and the Supreme Purusha would become visible to us in human form and we would be blessed. Despite being inhabitants of that distant realm they came down to this mortal world. They were no ...
... Mandir gado! should have seemed to Barin a corroboration of his intuition that the one thing necessary for the effective propagation of the new revolutionary gospel was a Temple consecrated to the Divine Mother, a Temple invoking Mother India as Bharat Shakti, as Bhavani Bharati. Sri Aurobindo fell in with the idea, which was to find a solitary place somewhere among the hills and erect the proposed temple... fever while wandering among the Amarkantak hills, abandoned his search and returned. He was then cured (as mentioned in an earlier chapter) by a Naga sannyasi. But the idea of a Temple for the Divine Mother persisted, and indeed won numerous adherents who were aflame with enthusiasm for the project. Some like Haribhau Modak and Kakasaheb Patil, however, wanted the purely religious part of the project... endless nightmares to high British officials in Bengal, but was to prove, on contrary, a mighty inspiration and supreme driving force to countless revolutionaries. The worship of the Divine Mother as Durga, as Kali, as Lakshmi - or in anyone of her many manifestations - comes down from very ancient times, and is even now universal in India; and of particular significance is the worship of ...
... of the epic, if Aswapathy was Sri Aurobindo, then Savitri was the Mother hewrself. In fact, in a letter written in 1936, Sri Aurobindo said that in his poem Savitri was "an incarnation of the Divine Mother", and not just a paragon of chastity and symbol of the flaming power of love. 13 In another letter he said that he looked upon the composition of Savitri as a field of experimentation... in the nineteen-thirties, the additions and alterations were in the first Part, notably in what is now "The Book of Beginnings", "The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds" and "The Book of the Divine Mother". Writing to Sethna in 1938, Sri Aurobindo said that "The 'Worlds' have fallen into a state of manuscript chaos, corrections upon corrections, additions upon additions, rearrangements on re... system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana. 3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine. 4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated. 27 Page 393 ...
... experience was so strong that I remember it even today with the same intensity. I realised within me what a huge support my mother was in my life! To let go a 16-year-old girl into the arms of the divine Mother had not caused her the slightest hesitation or sorrow. Not just that but for the sake of her daughter, she did not feel the slightest hesitation to give up her husband, her beloved sons, her very... beautiful, pleasant in the worldly life, whispering into my ears that I only had to step in to enjoy this happiness and comfort. All I had to do was say "yes, I accept." On the other side was the divine Mother pointing out the possibility of a luminous, radiant future, "In this life, your path is different. Come to me. Follow the destiny of your life for which you were born." Neither Baba nor Ma had spoken... had gone through with Her the last time. I could see the Mother from quite far, standing in the line. Keeping my attention on Her, I moved slowly forward thinking that I had left home for this divine Mother. It is Her attraction that had made me embrace this new life. Would I be able to renounce everything from within and offer myself at Her Feet? This thought, however, did not last very long for I ...
... extent of their receptivity. 16.1.1968 The anxiety for my progress gives place to an aspiration: the aspiration to place myself in Your hands for You to knead my being as You want, O Divine Mother ! This is the best means and the quickest. I accept the responsibility. 20.1.1968 Some days ago I wanted to begin each day of mine by making Pranam to you. Since then I get... which was heard. 25.4.1968 Yesterday, coming down from Your room I could not stop my tears. There are bonds attached to me, rather it is myself attached to them. Only Your Grace, O Divine Mother, can do what needs to be done. You must not be unquiet. When the hour of liberation will arrive, it will be done most naturally—without tears. 6.5.1968 I have been wanting to... But each time that we are attentive and concentrated, we become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things. 13.12.1968 Without being able to feel constantly Your presence, O Divine Mother, the life is no longer joyous. But also, something protects it from being sad. It is so because the Presence is constant, be it felt or not, and its protection is constant and effective ...
... All that flatters the ego or feeds it should be rejected. There should be no impatience if the progress is slow or difficulties many—all should be done in a calm patience—and full reliance on the Divine Mother. This period tests the capacity of the sadhak and the sincerity of his aspiration towards the Divine. 12 November 1936 A correspondent has asked whether it is possible to receive spiritual... Mother is not a development of supernatural force, but if someone is accepted to take up this path of Yoga he is led towards a deeper and higher consciousness in which he can attain union with the Divine Mother. This however is a path long and full of difficulties—Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do not admit anyone to it unless they are sure of his call and his capacity to follow it and the person himself ...
... be very concentrated and very attentive, then one becomes conscious. Mother, suffering comes from ignorance and pain, but what is the nature of the suffering and pain the Divine Mother feels for her children—the Divine Mother in Savitri? It is because she participates in their nature. She has descended upon earth to participate in their nature. Because if she did not participate in their nature ...
... into the hands of the Divine Mother. And yet that is the only way to succeed in the Supramental Yoga. To be a Yogi, a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The Page 367 object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own, it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of the Divine Mother. The difficulties that ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 13, 1914 With fervour I hail Thee, O divine Mother, and in deep affection identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, to Thee, and bow to Thee in mute adoration and in an ardent aspiration identify myself with Thee. Then all becomes a marvellous Silence; Being is absorbed in Non-Being, all ...
... child know without the help of his parents or teachers, what he is? You must find it out yourself, but not with your mind. It is only the psychic that can tell you. Page 125 Divine Mother, When we are children, we are told what is good and what is bad. That's why we repeat the same all our life, "This is good! That is bad". How should one know, in fact, what is good and what... With my blessings and my love. 30 August 1964 MESSAGES TO STUDENT BOARDING HOUSES Prayer Given to the Children of Dortoir Boarding We all want to be the true children of our Divine Mother. But for that, sweet Mother, give us patience and courage, obedience, goodwill, generosity and unselfishness, and all the necessary virtues. Page 127 This is our prayer and aspiration ...
... formed with the women sadhakas. The whole principle of this Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and to nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother Power all the transcendent light, force, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ananda of the supramental Divine. In this Yoga, therefore, there can be no place for vital relations or... bringing down of the supramental Light, Power and Bliss into the centre that can so change it. As to the working afterwards, it is the supramental Truth and the creative vision and will of the Divine Mother that will determine it. But it will be a working of the conscious Truth, not of the Darkness and Ignorance to which sexual desire and enjoyment belong; it will be a power of preservation and free ...
... Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Consciousness and Force of the Divine Please explain to me what is meant by the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine—which is the Mother of all things. 24 June 1933 You have written in The Mother that the Mother is the consciousness and force of the ...
... mistake, which made her a special vessel of God's grace in the period after the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, introduced into Roman Catholic Christianity its most outstanding truth, an image of the Divine Mother. I am afraid the temper which looked on Jesus as the sole embodiment of the Supreme and on his message as the one and only divine communication and thus bred the spirit of sectarian narrowness and... of the deep soul and reaches the authentic Divine Reality. This worship is Roman Catholicism's secret link with the work of Sri Aurobindo in whose Yoga the inner and outer self-surrender to the Divine Mother, the Parameshwara's Para-shakti, the Purushottama's Para-prakriti is the central "sunlit" path to the Supermind and the most dynamic channel for the descent of the all-transforming Supramental Light ...
... The Mother SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity the whole universe has... but powers that express Her. There are many powers of the universal Mother which are not yet made manifest to us, and many universes too which are still in the Unmanifest and which the Divine Mother can create. What has been created is just one system of possibilities out of the innumerable that She and the Supreme can realise. Time and again this Divine Creatrix takes a direct hand ...
... and went, but he held them all with the same and utmost respect (many of them half his age). Were he late, he apologised to them. He said that the one sitting there (in the head’s chair) was the Divine Mother Herself — not just a representative. Gangadhar was a man with hardly any needs, let alone wants. He had whittled them down to the minimum. He never asked for anything extra, or even complained... precursor of some more and higher experiences that he had — as he himself wrote about them later. He talks of how the “thousand petalled lotus Centre above the head opened due to the Grace of the Divine Mother. So too the Brahma-randram. He experienced being transported to many regions of Golden Light, into the presence of the Supreme Lord, full of peace and Ananda. These are a few bits and pieces ...
... raised the cry of "The Divine Mother", the World -Creatrix whose frontal aspect was to him the Soul of India, the presiding Goddess of this country's career through time, this country whose most characteristic trait has been its seeking for the infinite and eternal Spirit all through her long history. On meeting the Mother, Sri Aurobindo recognised an incarnation of the Divine Mother he had worshipped. ...
... A disciple asked him: “Do you not refer to the Mother (our Mother) in your book The Mother ?” Sri Aurobindo answered with one word: “Yes.” Then the disciple asked: “Is she not the ‘individual’ Divine Mother who has embodied ‘the power of these two vast ways of her existence’?” Sri Aurobindo answered again with one word: “Yes.” And he explained: “The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes... blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.” 52 About the Divine Mother, i.e. about herself, the Mother said: “She has descended onto Earth to participate in their nature [ i.e. the nature of the humans]. For if she did not participate in their nature, she could ...
... The wish was fulfilled as soon as the need was felt, without applying for any sanction to the Ashram authorities. A Westerner appeared out of the blue and presented him with a radio. "You see, Divine Mother see that Gangadhar need radio, so she tells vellakara (w hite man) to give me radio. Otherwise, you tell me how did this vellakara know that Gangadhar need radio?" he explained merrily... 1977:176 7. "As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousness." Gangadhar in Mother India, Mar 1977:176 8. "When in your heart and thought you will make no difference between Sri Aurobindo and me, when to think ...
... Left Bank of the Seine! The cry from the "Latin Quarter" and the call to the Indian Wholeness of spiritual being have been equally strong. Nothing except the vigilant and compassionate eyes of the Divine Mother could have led me to where I am at present. I recollect asking her whether the Supermind could transform an aspirant in spite of himself. On receiving a "Yes," I exclaimed: "Then there is hope for... I rather say "brought the light" of them? For indeed they are shining with your soul and, coming from its depths, reach into mine like a sweet and soothing smile conveyed through you by our Divine Mother; Yes, it is She, the eternal radiance, who passes between us in the form of words. And that is why our friendship is so full - even without words - and a vibrant communicative silence holds us ...
... Dearest Josef, Minna and I are delighted to get your letter and are truly relieved to learn that your blood-trouble was such as to let you go home for the week-end. We pray to the Divine Mother to make you normal soon. I thank you for your renewal of subscription to Mother India plus your donation. It is indeed a generous gesture. It must have been a big surprise to you that... extremely sorry that you are not well. Fever, nervousness, weakness - all these troubles cut to my heart and make me wonder what I should do to help. As soon as I read of them I concentrated on our Divine Mother and put them into her hands - those ready recipients, both graceful and gracious, of all our troubles. I am glad that you are not such a defeatist as to run to your bed each time there is an in ...
... poignant phrase from the hymn: "help of the helpless." I really admire the courage and calmness and composure with which you carry on. Surely it is your constant feeling that you are a child of the Divine Mother and that she is making the utmost possible of your soul's embodiment - truly it is this conviction of yours which is the cause of the quiet smile taking you through all your difficulties from day... and adorable Mother, with Thy help what is there that is impossible?" The sense behind my selection must have been: "Even I who am an impossible candidate for the Integral Yoga can go on if the Divine Mother whom I can't help adoring for her sweetness and light and strength takes me up and bears me towards whatever realisation Sri Aurobindo has in sight for the earth." It is noteworthy that ...
... thought, feeling and action has to be irradiated if the Aurobindonian Yoga is to be truly done. The consecration of Page 151 each movement of our conscious embodied life to the Divine Mother is demanded. There is that command by Sri Aurobindo: "Love the Mother. Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present." From the Mother deep within us... concentrate and channel itself to the outer world through that in-gathered profundity of shining sweetness and smiling strength which is our inmost heart, our true soul, spontaneously a child of the Divine Mother. When all thought, all word, all deed issue from that circumambient peace and that centre of luminous power into a world of body dealing with body, "the old fiasco" will begin to disappear, ...
... available to me earlier I consulted him about in case of difficulty or uncertainty. Yet several matters elsewhere were missed. Page 291 Take these lines from Aswapati's speech to the Divine Mother: The splendid youth of Time has passed and failed; Heavy and long are the years our labour counts And still the seals are firm upon man's soul And weary is the ancient Mother's... self-undoing as thought of now - the disciple cannot be conceived to be in much more difficult circumstances when the problem is confronted within the benevolent helpful presence of the incarnate Divine Mother. But, doubtless, if even now, "once more", the "defeat" is accepted as in the past, then "next time it will surely be still worse". Mark the "surely" in contrast to the earlier "generally". The ...
... the subject - from my own depths and strive to find a try sting-place in others' inmost being. The thoughts may wear an ordinary look and the words sound casual, but always the intent is from the Divine Mother in me to the same shining secret in my correspondent. The celebration planned and executed by Nirodbaran and Deshpande took me by surprise and the substantial souvenir with its accompanying... Your name "Monika" rings a very melodious bell, being the same as that of St. Augustine's mother who was a partner with him in the spiritual quest. And Augustine himself was, according to our Divine Mother, a man very much like me. This pronouncement confirms my own sense of affinity with the young aspirant to monkhood who appealed to God: "Give me chastity - but not yet!" Your very first ...
... Mantra: Words that can tear the veil from deity's face. If he had decided to live longer and cross the 80-year mark he would have gone from glory to greater glory in his world-work. Our Divine Mother at 80 was playing tennis every afternoon and participating in the Ashram's activities and giving us the benefit of what Sri Aurobindo had called "the Mind of Light" which, as she told me, had got... increasingly of all one's personalities. Page 207 This would be the dynamic, active surrender which I have spoken of - the constant happy cry to be at all moments the child of the Divine Mother. I am glad you have no doubts that you are very near me. You have really been so from the beginning of our friendship. But perhaps now you realise that you are sharing in whatever little Yoga ...
... phase of the many-sided Truth, a shade of difference from God in order to feel the rapture of adoration and love. Shankara who was a supreme Monist was yet an impassioned singer of hymns to the Divine Mother. The Gita presents us with Brahman-Nirvana as well as with the creative Ishwara and even this Ishwara's human incarnation so that a prominent part of its message is happily summed up in the Sa... which I may render: The Eternal Feminine Is Leading us upward. I discover that my fanciful picture has terminated in conjuring up with Goethe's final phrase the presence of the Divine Mother whom Sri Aurobindo has put at the head of our human march. (11.5.1986) Page 92 ...
... the variety of topics it deals with - or, rather, the various ways in which it approaches one sole Topic - better still, the one Soul-topic -the discovery of our true self which is a child of the Divine Mother, implicitly, intrinsically, inherently. Ever since I came here I have tried to find that self whose love for the Divine is spontaneous and unconditional. I don't remember whether 1 have quoted to... light. 'Your dream was indeed a many-aspected pointer to the basis of the happy communication, both written and thought-wafted, going on between us within the enfolding presence of the Divine Mother. (21.10.1989) Speech is the usual mode of communication and togetherness. But silence need not be self-enclosed and separative. When it is full of memories and anticipations it ...
... the inmost sanctuary to which the temple-door leads and of which the goldenness of that entrance is the promise, A soul-state of intense yet steady luminosity revealing the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother as the immortal In-dwellers of our being is the best birthday-realisation I can wish you. I am sure that nothing less than this can meet the needs of your nature. You are a bom devotee... onions only when they are taken raw. My constitution accepts all kinds of food. I don't particularly go after any kind, but welcome whatever is given - and everything is inwardly offered to the Divine Mother with the prayer: "May it all go to the growth of your divinity in me!" (20.2.1992) I arrived at my flat on March 17 after five months at the Ashram Nursing Home. Physiotherapy ...
... force becomes prominent and determines everything. In the world of Ananda, Bliss is the determinant. Then there is the Supramental world, with the four Maha-Shaktis, aspects of the Divine Mother: Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. Below the Supermind and behind the universe of Mind, Life and Matter is the world of the Great Gods. They receive light from the Supramental... from the Supramental had already been discovered creates the near-certainty of the name's crystallisation for intellectual purposes. In the long essay on the Powers and Personalities of the Divine Mother, where the knowledge of the Overmind-plane as distinct from the Supermind is patent, do we not still mark the absence of the appellation in spite of the latter having occurred earlier in the ...
... guess, A rendezvous of Knowledge with Ignorance. 151 Quite different is the picture given of Aswapati when he reaches the final part of his Sadhana and feels the presence of the Divine Mother. Intoxicated as with nectarous rain His nature's passioning stretches flowed to her Flashing with lightnings, mad with luminous wine. All was a limitless sea that heaved to... Each nerve became a burning thread of joy. 158 But perhaps the most gorgeous description in the whole poem (so far published, May 1951) is that in which Aswapati describes to the Divine Mother what he saw. Figure after figure, image after image, "come crowding down" with the spendour of the "marvellous dawn" mentioned therein. Here is the description: I saw the Omnipotent's flaming ...
... contained in Savitri . One may mark in this respect the utterance of Arjuna in his exultation of the vision, and of Vishwarupa as the Destroyer of the world, with the colloquy of Aswapati and the Divine Mother in the third Book of Savitri . Savitri is a big work containing the intense directness, vastness and comprehensiveness of the Vedas and the Upanishads. The Vedas and the Upanishads... Illumined Mind and passes beyond the borders of manifested creation to the Centre from which creation proceeds. Here he comes face to face with the World-Soul. He now experiences the presence of the Divine Mother who supports the cosmos. It is She, the Power of the Supreme, supporting the cosmos, who bestows on him the boon that saves mankind from the stark imprisonment of Ignorance and subjection to ...
... the common kind and it is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences. The work of illustrating the whole of Savitri through paintings was given to me by the Divine Mother on 6th October 1961. It was so great, so beyond the capacity of little instrument she had summoned, that only her Grace working in Sri Aurobindo's Light could have seen me through. The... written in Savitri, and how true it has proved! I am really happy to share this splendid gift with everybody, in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Light. My profound gratitude to Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother for their Grace and Love. Page 42 HUTA (Copyright: Huta D. Hindocha) Page 43 ...
... Supreme Mother and her Avatar in Savitri. The passage quoted by Amal Kiran to show the symbolic significance of Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the words addressed by Aswapati to the Divine Mother when she is ready to offer him her boon reveals the link. The expression Wisdom-Splendour brings out the experience of Wisdom as light, as is seen in the Biblical passages referred to by Raymond... The All-Beautiful is a miracle in each shape. 151 The lines make us not merely understand what epiphany means but make us see it. Also Death himself has a vision of Savitri as the Divine Mother. Describing the Childhood of the Flame (Savitri) Sri Aurobindo says: ... with a greater Nature she was one. As from the soil sprang glory of branch and flower, As from the ...
... The Mother The Mother* SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity the whole universe has taken... are but powers that express Her. There are many powers of the universal Mother which are not yet made manifest to us, and many universes too which are still in the Unmanifest and which the Divine Mother can create. What has been created is just one system of possibilities out of the innumerable that She and the Supreme can realise. Time and again this Divine Creatrix takes a direct hand in ...
... forehead in a gesture of 'Pranam' to the Mother and then slowly walks away in a half-indrawn state. He is immensely pleased with himself for having had a successful "concentrated meditation" on the divine Mother for full five minutes. But was it really successful as a meditation ? Did he derive much spiritual benefit out of his routine exercise in daily morning meditation ? For right answers to... nature; (xi) to learn the secret of how to surrender oneself to the Divine; (xii) to find the solution of any specific problem of one's life; (xiii) to evoke and receive the Grace and aid of the Divine Mother before undertaking any special work; (xiv) to establish; peace and silence in oneself; (xv) even to eradicate the maladies afflicting the physical adhara; etc. Another possible application ...
... Grace descending from above in response to the sadhaka 's call. And the significant fact is that wherever there is the flame of aspiration burning bright in the sadhaka' s heart, the Grace of the Divine Mother cannot but respond. But what is after all this aspiration? The sadhaka should not make any confusion here. For aspiration is not the exuberance of the vital nor the insistent hungry demand... fully to the Divine and consecrate to him all that one is, one has, and one does without the slightest expectation of any fruit in return. If the sadhaka can do this in all earnestness, the Divine Mother herself will take charge of his life and sadhana and lead him along a sunlit path to the ultimate attainment of union with the Divine. The place of aspiration is so very important in the ...
... Savitri II 'The Adoration of the Divine Mother' It is a tremendous moment for Aswapati. Terrestrial trappings fall from him, human vestiges vanish; separative identity is ended, the drop has been swallowed up by the ocean! Is this, then, the end? Not to be —the soul lost in the "boundless silence of the Self". For Aswapati himself, such is... perception. He sees for the first time, he hears, he feels, he knows with an utter immediacy and completeness. The knowledge invades and possesses him, strength streams into him, joy thrills him. The Divine Mother is the Arts and Sciences all: The spirit's alchemist energy is hers; She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire... Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes, ...
... to a temporary feeling of that which is caught in the Night as if it were universal and eternal." 15 Again, in yet another letter: "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother." 16 Like Homer and Milton, Sri Aurobindo also plunges in medias res in the opening canto; exclusive of the sections devoted to necessary retrospective narration, the main action of the epic... dawn" referred to in the last line of the epic. In the issue between Night and Day, Darkness and Light, Dawn obviously forms the link, the mediator, the passage; and Savitri the "incarnation of the Divine Mother" is here the mediator, the vanquisher of Night and redeemer of Day. 17 Page 262 ...
... exaggeration to say that Avatars, the incarnations of the Divine, have done little else besides that. And what of, the Divine Mother herself? The main work of an Avatar is often to subdue the evil-doers, those that follow and pull others to follow the Wrong Path. And the Divine Mother, she who harbours in her bosom the supreme Truth and Consciousness and Bliss, is in one of her essential aspects, the ...
... the outer nature; it remains as it is, pure, unsullied. Some of you were present at my talk on Dante. I spoke of Dante's vision; it is a wonderful vision—the vision of the mission of the Divine Mother. Dante saw a globe of light in front of him. As he was standing before the Divine Trinity in the Empyrean, suddenly he saw revealed to him a luminous globe and, within that luminous globe... Him, not as conceived by me." In our language we can say that the luminous globe was the supreme Divine, and then within it was the whirling circling light—that was the Creative Power, the Divine Mother in Her creative mood. And within that, "I was there as Her child, in my true reality, not as I see myself but as She sees me; in that image I saw myself." Page 74 Dante says that ...
... exaggeration to say that Avatars, the incarnations of the Divine, have done little else besides that. And what of the Divine Mother herself ? The main work of an Avatar is often to subdue the evil-doers, those that follow and pull others to follow the Wrong Path. And the Divine Mother, she who harbours in her bosom the supreme Truth and Consciousness and Bliss, is in one of her essential aspects, the ...
... remarks struck him and he retraced his steps. After going some distance he looked back. He found that nobody was there. It flashed on him that the Divine Mother herself had spoken and had wanted him to remain at Arunachala. Of course it was the Divine Mother who had asked him to go back. Maharshi is intended to live that sort of life. He has nothing to do with what happens around him. He remains calm ...
... Life. They are the first and primal godheads with whom creation starts and who preside over the whole play of the manifestation. These gods that emanated out of the supreme consciousness of the Divine Mother as her fundamental aspects and personalities had automatically an absolute freedom of action and movement, otherwise they would not be divine personalities. And this freedom could be exercised and... the distortion that turned the gods into Asuras, that was how Lucifer became Satan. And that was how Paradise was lost. But the story of Paradise Regained is yet more marvellous. When the Divine Mother, Page 267 the creative infinite Consciousness found herself parcelled out and scattered (even like the body of Sati borne about by Shiva, in the well-known Indian legend) and lost ...
... status of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of consciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is the will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother. Now, as the Reality along with its consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation, has been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more and... (iv) Aniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution in detail. Coriesponding with these Four there are the other Four Powers and Personalities of the Divine Mother – íśwarií (i) Maheshwari, (ii) Mahakali, (iii) Mahalakshmi and (iv) Mahasaraswati. Next in the downward gradient comes the Overmind where the individualised powers and personalities of the Divine ...
... exaggeration to say that Avatars, the incarnations of the Divine, have done little else besides that. And what of the Divine Mother herself? The main work of an Avatar is often to subdue the evil-doers, those that follow and pull others to follow the Wrong Path. And the Divine Mother, she who harbours in her bosom the supreme Truth and Consciousness and Bliss, is in one of her essential aspects, the ...
... want to show your gratefulness towards me? Oh! how I am flattered, overwhelmed with surprises, touched by the very thought. At last there is someone who would like to show his gratitude to the Divine. Mother, please do not tease me. I am serious. Well, so am I! ( smiling ) I tell you that most people consider this to be the most natural act, — when God protects them from a misfortune or an accident... contrary. Without faltering, He invites us to progress more. He brings us into the sanctuary of Truth where is found the source of Peace, Light and Ananda, where the Lord resides — the Immanent Divine ( Mother indicates the heart ). There, in that immense cave of the inner being, one must plunge to find the inner support; one must descend and descend further, more and more, plane after plane, ...
... personal relations to disappear in the single relation between the sadhak and the Divine; (2) All personal (psychic-spiritual) relations to proceed from the Divine Mother, determined by her, and to be part of the single relation with the Divine Mother. 22 Our view is that the normal thing is in Yoga for the entire flame of the nature to turn towards the Divine and the rest must wait for the ...
... at last, he offered the painting to the Mother on his thirty-seventh birthday (2 February 1940). She was pleased, and took it to Sri Aurobindo who wrote on the top of the white lotus "Aditi: The Divine Mother", and the Mother wrote on the top of the red lotus "The Avatar: Sri Aurobindo", and they both inscribed their blessings to Champaklal. 5 Thus auspiciously started on his sadhana of painting, his... Hour of the Grace of God, the Hour of Blissful Victory. Also, proportionate to the ardour of the aspiration and the purity and intensity of the effort would be the answering response from the Divine Mother. But when the hour of the Divine draws near The Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time And God be born into the human clay In forms made ready by your human lives. Then shall ...
... long journey to the Divine Mother. In Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Aswapathy's Yoga makes him a traveller in the several regions of the World-Stair, from Night below to Superlight above. With all this knowledge, Aswapathy finds it impossible to return to the old world without an assurance of its eventual transformation. He therefore makes this passionate plea to the Divine Mother: How shall I ...
... founding of a great Yoga Ashram there and then spoke of the founding of a new city near Pondicherry by the lady of divine powers. The reading immediately came to the subject of the temple of the Divine Mother at the centre of the new city. There was deviation from the design given by the Founder and the deviation was done deliberately. Two persons were responsible for it and they will have to suffer... were going on, I consulted Parmeshwari Prasad Khetan, a scholar of astrology and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, at Haridwar. He also confirmed that I will be enjoying the protection of the Divine Mother. Similar were the conclusions of two professionals whom I met by chance at Kodaikanal. They were using the words "Guru Shakti" as my saviour and protector and they thought that the conjunction ...
... Herself. I've heard that the glass you drank water from. She would hold it for you. Some people in the Ashram used to say all sorts of things because of this. They didn't like this. How can the Divine Mother Herself hold a glass of water that Pranab had touched with his mouth?! They did not understand the relationship of deep love and affection the Mother had with you. They just suffered from... Dada did not stop there. "As long as there is attachment, nothing can be achieved. You must cut off all bonds at one stroke. We have neither father, nor mother, nor anybody. We have only the Divine Mother. Tvamek Bhavani. Na tatah na matah Na jaya na vidya Na putra na putri Gatistang, gatistang Tvamek Bhavani. Page 131 And Dada's voice rang ...
... content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial things, I who have seen behind the cosmic mask The glory and the beauty of thy face? Aswapathy is telling the divine Mother: How long shall we have to bear this yoke of night and death? Page 76 We who are the vessels of a deathless Force. And then he says: We are trying and struggling... spoken from the heights And one great act unlock the doors of Fate." Aswapathy's prayer sinks down in the resisting night, oppressed by the thousand forces that deny. And then the divine Mother gives a reply to his entreaty: "O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend, and break the iron Law, Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power. A ...
... profit, all stipulation of self- regarding desire must be extirpated from the nature. There must be no demand for fruit and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the pleasure of the Divine Mother and the fulfilment of her work, your only reward a constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and bliss. The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is... s of her action, means for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe... "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker, but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force....You will know and see and ...
... shatter all limits, break all chains, dispel all illusions...” And in the Prayer of the 17th October, 1914, she communicates to us the promise of the Divine Mother with whom she is identified :— Page 324 "O Divine Mother, the obstacles will he surmounted and the enemy appeased. Thou wilt reign over all the earth with Thy sovereign love, and the consciousness of men will be ...
... struck him and he retraced his steps. After going some distance he looked back and found that there was nobody. Suddenly it struck him that it was the Divine Mother herself who wanted him to remain at Arunachala. Of course it was the Divine Mother who asked him to go back. Maharshi was intended to lead this sort of life. He has nothing to do with what happens around him. He remains calm and ...
... nature tended to become universal. A powerful aspiration rose in his heart to unite with the Supreme. He got the vision of the divine Mother and he pleaded before her for humanity. He prayed for a boon of divine Grace to help humanity to overcome Ignorance and Death. The divine Mother gave him the assurance that a Divine being, her own emanation, would be born on earth. Savitri was that incarnation of the ...
... She wanted to know which book I wanted, but this time I felt She was asking the question in a somewhat different way. I, therefore, understood this question from the divine Mother in a much deeper way. I really felt it was the divine Mother, the Mother of the world, asking me what I wanted on my birthday. Why should I then ask for something very ordinary, very material like a book or toffees? So I told ...
... is available. Then the Mother concentrated on me once again for some time. I felt a great strength enter me at Her touch. I bowed my head at Her lotus feet, then holding them I told Her, "Divine Mother, with Your Grace everything is possible." I feel, at that moment on that day, it was my inmost being that had spoken those words to the Mother. A long time has passed and the Music section... music! The first and last! After this incident, I began feeling quite worthless. How could I have been affected by the criticism of ordinary people when the work was entrusted to me by the Divine Mother Herself? Foolishly, I once again went and told the Mother about it! I felt ashamed and overcome with regret. However, I did not feel like adding one more gaffe while trying to rectify the preceding ...
... wrote a letter to the Mother: Divine Mother, From time to time, some force attacks me and makes me do very negative things which spontaneously I would never do. O Mother, things happen at such a rapid pace that I do not even find time to call you. Before I can call you, this force has taken control of me and the unthinkable is done. My divine Mother, I do not want to fall into the clutches ...
... Her unblinkingly. Nothing else existed at that moment. The Mother was all I could see. How exceedingly divine, Her beauty! Even in a human body She looked sublimely divine. The very image of the Divine Mother! It was unimaginable! Truly unimaginable! For an instant I was immersed in the Mother. And it became clear to me that anyone who has loved Her can never be enticed or imprisoned by anything the... finished forever". One who has loved the Mother has been bound to Her forever. Today, 50 years on, as I have sat down to write about the Mother, I remember that auspicious moment when the Divine Mother acceded to my prayer and gave me a little of Her invaluable time and lent me Her ear. Today my heart overflows with measureless gratitude from the deepest recesses of my being. Let me share my feelings ...
... stone and has ten feet and whom the lotus-born Brahma lauded in order to slay Madhu and Kaitava when Hari was asleep, I worship that Mahākālikā. (Translation by Shankaranarayanan) Glory of the Divine Mother , p. 133. सेवे महातारिका कोमलाङ्गि देवि दुर्गे॥ ॐ श्रीनारायणि नीलावगुण्ठे॥ ॐ नमो देवि दुर्गे॥ ॐ श्रीनारायणि नीलावगुण्ठे॥ seve mahātārikāṁ komalāṅgi devi durge. om śrī nārāyaṇi nīlāvaguṇṭhe... discus Sudarsana , She has a complexion of coral and is seated on a lotus. I worship here that Mahalaxmi, the vanquisher of asura, Mahisha. (Translation by Shankaranarayanan) Glory of the Divine Mother , p.153. ...
... great zeal, Destroyer of immense fear, Increaser of fear in our enemies, Devi, quite difficult for our perception, protect me. Devikavacham 14 Translation by Shankaranarayanan Glory of the Divine Mother, p. 88 सर्वस्वरूपे सर्वेशे सर्वशक्तिसमन्विते । भयेभ्यस्त्राहि नो देवि दुर्गे देवि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥२४॥ sarvasvarūpe sarveśe sarvaśaktisamanvite, bhayebhyastrāhi no devi durge devi namo'stu... master of all, O thou accompanied by all the forces, Devi, protect us from fear. O Devi Durga, salutations be to thee. Devimahatmyam 11.24 Translation by Shankaranarayanan Glory of the Divine Mother, p. 254 ॐ यस्मिन् सर्वं यतः सर्वं यः सर्वं सर्वतश्च यः। यश्च सर्वमयो नित्यः तस्मै सर्वात्मने नमः ॥८३॥ om yasmin sarvaṁ yataḥ sarvaṁ yaḥ sarvaṁ sarvataśca yaḥ, yaśca sarvamayo nityaḥ ...
... universal and transcendental. (4) Hostile Maya is difficult to surmount. Careful not to be dazzled by anything that imitates the Divine. Our surrender must be onepointed to the inner guide and the Divine Mother. I must not be disturbed by the victory of the hostile but wait for the Divine Mother’s intervention. I must be empowered by Her Force, Knowledge and Love and surrender completely to Her. I must... us. But is he really lost? Whatever the case — ours is not to bemoan his departure. Rather “Triumph-March” him into the realms he so much dreamt of and prepared himself for — the Realms of his Divine Mother. He is lost — if ‘lost’ is the mingling of a drop with the ocean — a merging of one with THE ONE who is ALL. ...
... Andre, Vasudha, Champaklal, Dyuman, Parichand and so many others who dedicated their lives exclusively to the cause of the Supreme Lord. These people will never be forgotten. By the Grace of the Divine Mother, they may have taken a new birth in order to fulfil yet other brilliant and higher aspirations of their souls. I read the book. Reminiscences by Nolini Kanta Gupta and K. Amrita. It is a very... Yogi that we essentially know him. It is as a Yogi full of "sweetness and light" that his presence still pervades the Ashram, a constant reminder to us of what whole-hearted surrender to the Divine Mother could be like. In closing, we may note a trait which endeared him all the more to his friends. He had a lively wit, a fondness for the sunny "wisecrack". Whoever met him, at any time of the ...
... under the white lotus she wrote: To Champaklal With blessings to my dear child 2.2.40 Mother Aditi The Divine Mother With a beautiful affectionate smile Sri Aurobindo said: “Umm.” Then he wrote above the white lotus: Aditi The Divine Mother And under the red lotus he wrote: To Champaklal With blessings 2.2.40 Sri Aurobindo Then Mother told me not to show ...
... "A God's Labour": .. .Go where none have gone! Dig deeper, deeper yet Till thou reach the grim foundation stone And knock at the keyless gate. " Pranam to the Divine Mother" There are two ways of bowing To you, O Splendour sweet! One craves the boon of blessedness, One gives the soul to your feet. As I read these lines, my mind left today... wealthier violet. Sighing nostalgically, I read the next stanzas. Here Amal goes on to elaborate the craving for the boon of blessedness. It is somewhat self-centred. The touch of the Divine Mother makes us feel holy and happy, but this is a rapturous robbery Deaf to infinity's call That we should leap and plunge in [Her]. The other way of bowing to the Mother is ...
... test—the more they give, the more they get. “There are big waves and small waves, but it is all sea. And there are rich men and poor men, but they are all the Divine’s children seeking their Divine Mother. “As they come nearer, the waves all come together, and joyfully they rush on to the beach. People coming near to the Divine collect together. They bend down and all becomes love for the Divine... for us?” At that moment I truly believed she gave names only to the flowers, but after this and other such experiences, I am convinced that it is both terrestrial and an individual gift of the Divine Mother. With the children who arrived with their parents after 1939, little by little a new energy was present in the Ashram and one of the first things the Mother did was to use the French name for ...
... domaines. Dans la Lumiere et la Joie.” (With my blessings for the development, flowering and cultivation of beauty in all its domains. With Light and Joy.) In teaching us the four aspects of the Divine Mother, the Mother said, “There is another aspect… love!” She said this emanation had already been born on earth. She did not give a name but left it to us to find out. Of course we all thought it was... The aim was not money, nor wealth, but to grow inwardly was the constant focus. I am filled with tremendous gratitude for this wonderful experience of being here at a time when the Lord and the Divine Mother were on the earth. It took me some years to absorb and assimilate all that she had taught and I am so grateful for the grace that her life here brought to all of us. You are ...
... 19: Canto XIV The World-Soul 20: Canto XV The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge Book Three The Book of the Divine Mother 21: Canto I The Pursuit of the Unknowable Page 90 22: Canto II The Adoration of the Divine Mother 23: Canto III The House of the Spirit and the New Creation 24: Canto IV The Vision and the Boon ...
... ‘The great World-Mother now in her arose.’ 15 ( Savitri) — In her Prayers and Meditations we read on 13 September 1914: ‘With fervour I hail Thee, O divine Mother, and in deep affection identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, to Thee, and bow to Thee in mute adoration and in an ardent aspiration I identify myself with Thee.’ 16 (In mystical texts the Divine is ...
... glow of compassionate grandeur. You have referred to a poem of mine, after reading which the Mother had asked everyone present at the time to read. Here it is: PRANAM TO THE DIVINE MOTHER . There are two ways of bowing To you, O Splendour sweet! One craves the boon of blessedness. One gives the soul to your feet. Pulling your touch to ourselves we feel... highest Yoga when the being is turned towards a personal Supreme and seeks His manifestation in one's active life. (15.6.1992) Thank you for appreciating my poem "Pranam to the Divine Mother". Only one phrase in it you have fallen foul of: the four opening words of the last stanza: Make me your nothing, my whole life I would drown in your vastnesses - A cry to be ruled ...
... free, ready to leave all behind without the slightest regret. If I had to die that very minute, I would do it with a quiet happiness." You remarked: "This should mean almost oneness with the Divine Mother." I answered: "No, it may imply getting nearer to her, but in itself it was just a glad freedom from earth and life." I have more than once quoted to you the Upanishadic rending of the knot of... because its practitioner has to confront life and actively seek to change world-values, but by separating them from their common context and by lifting each event and its significance towards the Divine Mother who watches all and secretly pervades all. Thus one dynamically dissociates events from the run of daily time and refuses to deal with them from the human source of life-manipulation. Into the ...
... Bell - today all the bells of heaven are ringing!" In 1995 when my father passed away I was shattered. As always I reached out to Amal for that rare human comfort which you get from the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo's children alone. The other greatest comfort I found in my saddest moments was from The Life Divine, Savitri a nd Prayers and Meditations . These are 'life-saving' books which... a moment. The distillation goes on in the heart. Learn to keep the Eternal in your each Page 14 heart throb..." I did learn that remembering intensely Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother has the most soothing effect on pained emotions. The heart heals and we learn to laugh again, laugh silently with our whole being. In his rooms at Rue Francois Martin, Amal enjoyed reaching ...
... willing to give a location to my residence in the Matrimandir area—nearest the Matrimandir. But Roger is anxious and would like to know clearly and precisely the work I am expected to do by the Divine Mother as the guardian of the Matrimandir. Then and then only Roger can proceed further and can plan out everything accordingly. Roger said that there are many things which are to be done in the Matrimandir... maintenance. 4) Priestess of Matrimandir—That is just to watch and see! Finally, Roger said that everything would be possible for him to arrange once my work as guardian would be decided by the Divine Mother, and he is ready to do exactly according to The Mother's Will. Roger is going to Paris on Saturday, so it is very important that he should know as soon as possible regarding the matter so that ...
... period in the sadhana of the Ashram. In the author's own words "It was the period, when Gods were called down to inhabit those who were fit to assimilate their consciousness. The Grace of the Divine Mother had favoured and had begun to work upon me and I was dragged many a time in trance and came back with different types of experiences. Once I saw myself acting as a military officer on a mountain... life is like the purifying stream of the Ganges absorbing its many propensities and purifying its outcomes. The author's journey in life is a real pilgrimage. Its guiding light is the Grace of the Divine Mother. His difficulties are transformed into challenges, nay, opportunities. He is transported to the place that is destined; he is thrown into the work that is ordained by the Grace. In the beginning ...
... off to the nearby tube station: "Here is my visiting card. In case you change your mind, please let me know." I took it and said: "Thank you once again. Please do come to the Ashram and meet our Divine Mother, will you?" He nodded. We parted, perhaps never to meet again. On my way home countless thoughts whirled dizzily through my mind. Then from nowhere a small silly voice whispered: "You fool, how... Mother regarding the proposal and my refusal. I also wrote a letter to my friend Mrs. Saralaben Shah of Bombay: “Never do I want to get married, never do I want to fall into that delusion. The Divine Mother wrote to me in 1956: "You are born for the Divine and you will find the Divine." This was true and will always remain true. Let the Mother's Will be done. I will make the most of my life. I know ...
... heights beyond it. Each victory thou thinkest the last triumphant struggle proves to be but the prelude to a hundred fierce and perilous battles... But thou sayest God's hand will be with me and the Divine Mother near with her gracious smile of succour? And thou knowest not then that God's grace is more difficult to have or to keep than the nectar of the Immortals or Kuvera's priceless treasures? Ask of... help is there even when it seems to be withdrawn, but still is there the appearance of total night with no sun to come and no star of hope to pierce the blackness. Beautiful is the face of the Divine Mother, but she too can be hard and terrible. Nay, then, is immortality a plaything to be given lightly to a child or the divine life a prize without effort or the crown for a weakling? Strive rightly ...
... personal relations to disappear in the single relation between the sadhaka and the Divine; (2) All personal (psychic-spiritual) relations to proceed from the Divine Mother, determined by her, and to be part of the single relation with the Divine Mother. In so far as it keeps to this double rule and Page 302 admits no physical indulgence or vital deformation or mixture, a personal relation can ...
... if done in the right attitude and spirit. The sadhana of inner concentration consists in: (1) Fixing the consciousness in the heart and concentrating there on the idea, image or name of the Divine Mother, whichever comes easiest to you. (2) A gradual and progressive quieting of the mind by this concentration in the heart. (3) An aspiration for the Mother's presence in the heart and the control... Work done with the right attitude is the easiest means for that—i.e. work done without desire or ego, rejecting all movements of desire, demand or ego when they come, done as an offering to the Divine Mother, with the remembrance of her and prayer to her to manifest her force and take up the action so that there too and not only in inner silence you can feel her presence and working. I don't ...
... (1954) 25 August 1954 This talk is based upon Chapter 6 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. "There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental... it very often, doesn't he? ( Long silence. Mother takes the book and looks for the paragraph. ) Here it is, in this paragraph: "But be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that are beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrow reasonings and erring impression, its bottomless aggressive ignorance ...
... 1968 Divine Mother, How dependent is the building of Auroville upon man's acceptance of spirituality? The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two has no sense for me as, in truth, life and the spirit are one and it is in and by the physical work that the highest Spirit must be manifested. 19 April 1968 Divine Mother, Is there ...
... 17 August 1938 There are many who hold the view that she was human but now embodies the Divine Mother and her "Prayers", they say, explain this view. But, to my mental conception, to my psychic being, she is the Divine Mother who has consented to put on her the cloak of obscurity and suffering and ignorance so that she can effectively lead us—human beings—to ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Message Divine Mother and Her Embodiment The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine — which is the Mother of all things. * The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine. Alone, she harbours the absolute Power and the ineffable ...
... Chapter 3 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. "The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can... powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible." What does "decreed" mean? It comes from the word "decree". It is a ...
... divisions like petals and the outermost has twelve petallic divisions. Golden - suggestive of luminous sovereignty - against a background of silvery blue is the lotus here. The Seed-Shakti of the Divine Mother, creatrix of all, is pictured by the small centre in which all things seem to be held secretly concentrated. Out of this, four primary creative powers are shown as breaking: these are Maheshwari... perfection of being, an omni-competence for a world-structure that can face and meet all demands. Here is a flag charged with India's authentic mission, the mission of rendering victorious the Divine Mother, the Infinite Self and Shakti. In this flag we have the suggestion not only of a sky with an ethereal lotus poised in it, but also of a stretch of water with an earthly lotus afloat. The ever-existing ...
... zealous devotee of Ramakrishna as an Incarnation - that is to say, of a real manifestation of the Supreme Essence without that Essence's ceasing to be supreme for a moment. For him to look upon the Divine Mother and upon Ramakrishna as illusions to be renounced would have been to make a mockery of his own holiest feelings. And the fact stands that he did not deem them illusions: his every thought was an... which he declared that the supreme Spirit was eternally passive, eternally aloof from this phantasmagoric universe. If he had spent even half his energy of prophet to humanity as the soldier of the Divine Mother just as he spent so much of his energy of sadhana as Her son and devotee, his philosophy would not have been such a Pyrrhic victory of the trenchant intellect over the illumined soul. He ...
... psychological disposition the strong joy of a warrior, the joy of scoring victory in one's fight against temptations and the zealous joy of making constant progress. "Am I not a child of the Divine Mother? How can I then accept ignoble defeat at the hands of my nature's foibles? I must always advance on the path of my spiritual destiny — come what pay" — such an attitude of self-confidence and... the bracing adage: "Always behave as if the Divine is looking at you, for he is indeed always present." He should activate his love for the Divine and try to grow in the living Presence of the Divine Mother. This love and the sense of Presence, if strong and genuine, will immensely fortify; Page 244 his will-power and the conquest over one's weaknesses will almost become a child's ...
... development. When a sadhaka reaches this stage, he can not only keep firm his loving faith in the Divine; even under the harrowing blows of life, but can actually see the auspicious hand of the Divine Mother behind all the misfortunes that may visit him. He will realise not in mere intellectual belief but in concrete experience that in God's Providence there is no real evil; there is only good or... indubitable spiritual fact that such an entire motiveless love far the Divine on the sadhaka' s part will not go unrecognised by the Divine. As Sri Aurobindo has assured us: "In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely — and this represents itself in an inner giving — her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power recreating you in the divine nature ...
... "I shall not give the slightest indulgence to any of these weaknesses even for a moment, even for once; I must nip them in the bud as soon as they appear. I must be a loyal child of the Divine Mother; I must develop in me the proper psychological disposition which will automatically incline me to become a joyous and faithful collaborator of the Mother's work in me. Do I not claim that I love... search for the roots, the sadhaka has to keep alive in his heart a very sincere and ardent aspiration for the eradication of the weakness in question. He has to address his earnest prayer to the Divine Mother that through the active intervention of her Grace these deep-rooted and recondite weaknesses and attachments may give up their malignancy and Page 59 become quite innocuous in ...
... the spiritual truth. For me Divine's Eye is always fixed upon the sadhaka; the Mother Consciousness is always accompanying him at every step of his advancement. Not only that; in reality the Divine Mother is everything. She is, of coarse, the Goal but she is also the Way; and she is again the Mahasadhika, carrying on that Sadhana herself. So how can the sadhaka say that he is alone on' the upward... sadhaka's personal effort should be engaged in making this surrender to the Divine genuine and thorough. And in the measure he is capable of doing so, he will find to his happy surprise that the Divine Mother has started acting quite overtly in his life and no longer secretly as before. And this with the purpose of building up his spiritual life and bringing him to the fruition of his divine goal. ...
... advancement on the path of the Divine. In Sri Aurobindo's words: Page 138 "There must be no demand for fruit and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the pleasure of the Divine Mother and the fulfilment of her work, your only reward a constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and bliss." ( The Mother, Cent. Ed., Vol. 25, p. 16) To sum up: A sadhaka... sadhaka of the Integral Yoga should not bother about Fate or Niyati or Karma; he should always stay on the path of the Divine and, having completely surrendered himself to the Divine Mother, fearlessly move forward into the bosom of the still unknown future with the confidence of someone who knows that the divine Mahashakti is always with him with her protecting arms guarding him in all situations. ...
... purusa, as also the Supreme Purusha, but it also opens up the path of the leadership of Para Prakriti, of the Divine Mother; all the elements and fibres of Prakriti are sought to be transformed by means of increasing and constant help and descent of the higher and higher powers of the Divine Mother, the powers of the Supermind and even beyond. Thus not only the liberation of the soul but also the liberation ...
... or rather refuse to conceive that there is no limitation of time and space with the Divine, that she can create wonders in the fraction of a moment. Thus their minds deny rigidly that she, the Divine Mother, can help them adequately by a mere look or a touch. As they are so limited and narrow they take her also to be such! No doubt such foolishness is not in the true being, but in the outer. But then... two perhaps, but the supramental light in the physical cannot come until much else is done to prepare the physical for it. It is for the great object of transformation that the Divine Mother sends down something from her own self in the form of experiences and realisations. Remaining in the Mother the sadhak need not remain all passive, doing nothing, when the lower nature ...
... status of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of consciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is the will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother. Now, as the Reality along with its consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation, has been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more... (iv) Aniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution in detail. Corresponding with these Four there are the other Four Powers and Personalities of the Divine Mother— Iswari: (i) Maheshwari, (ii) Mahakali, (iii) Mahalakshmi and (iv} Mahasaraswati. Next in the downward gradient comes the Overmind where the individualised powers and personalities of the Divine ...
... status of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of consciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is the will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother. Now, as the Reality along with its consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation, has been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more... Page 41 embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution in detail. Corresponding with these Four there are the other Four Powers and Personalities of the Divine Mother— Ishwari: (i) Mahesh-wari, (ii) Mahakali, (Hi) Mahalakshmi and (iv) Mahasaraswati. Next in the downward gradient comes the Overmind where the individualised powers and personalities of the ...
... outer nature; it remains as it is, pure, unsullied. Some of you were present at my talk on Dante....... I spoke of Dante's vision, it is a wonderful vision, – the vision of the mission of the Divine Mother. Dante saw a globe of light in front of him. As he was standing before the Divine Trinity in the Empyrean, suddenly he saw revealed to him a luminous globe and, within that luminous globe, as... our language we can say that the luminous globe was the supreme Divine and, then, within it, the whirling circling Page 29 light – that was the Creative Power, the Divine Mother in Her creative mood. And, within that, I was there as Her child, in my true reality, not as I see myself but as She sees me; in that image I saw myself. Dante says that it was an experience ...
... seeing her happy our happiness is joint. The One we call Aditi in Heaven dwells, Is the Mother of gods twelve, everyone tells. As the Divine Mother adored by all, If Her you please, you'll never fall. When on this earth the Divine Mother came, Much loved and worshipped, Mira she became. She is the guardian of our life's responsibility, We serve Her always, each to his ...
... will at once reply in a chorus : Love is the truth and essence of the Mother's life and love the nuclear force of her personality. In the Chandi (a portion of the Markendya Purana), the Divine Mother has been hymned under her diverse aspects of Consciousness, Intelligence, Power, Peace, Beauty, Forgive- ness, Kindness, etc., but the most primal and puissant, the most graceful and rapturous... dealings with the terrestrial play,” but they do not exhaust her;—her divinity, because it is the divinity of the Divine Himself, transcends them all. "There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the ...
... the white lotus: Aditi The Divine Mother And below the red lotus: To Champaklal with blessings 2.2.40 SRI AUROBINDO After writing, he looked at me and gave a sweet smile. And on the top of the red lotus Mother wrote: The Avatar Sri Aurobindo Page 4 Aditi The Divine Mother The avatar Sri ...
... to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. (SABCL,Vol. 25, pp. 24-25) I had just read an Upanishadic parable by Nolini-da. The Supreme Purusha felt very lonely and said: “How can one be happy alone?” And so the Supreme Purusha... e. She became the most gross inconscient Matter. And Brahman on the other side became the contrary of his Shakti, Nothingness. The Two became opposites. Here I am now, standing next to that Divine Mother, that Supreme Shakti. And She is herself telling us: “I have come down to Inconscient Matter. My work in the Inconscient has begun.” A shiver of strange fear coursed through my whole ...
... voyages in opposite directions by two sons of India out of their love for the country. We know that Bankim Chandra, Rabindranath, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo looked upon their country as the Divine Mother. And that is why they have all unveiled the real face of India to the world. When Vivekananda returned from the West he said: I loved India even before arriving in the West. But now (while... What an interesting coincidence! That map of India drawn within a circle in Garsten Place at the All India Radio headquarters was also made in green cement! And it is Mother India herself, the Divine Mother of the world and the universe, Mother Aditi who says : It is the map of the true India in spite of all passing appearances, and it will always remain the map of the true India, whatever people ...
... country had after such a long wait found at last a mother. As if a child had called out ‘Ma’ for the first time. And so the destined year 1905 arrived and transformed the life of India. The Divine Mother had been waiting just for this moment. It was known that even after the composition of Vande Mataram in 1875 and its subsequent publication, the song had still not awakened the Indian people... told Mona one day: “We did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God, so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother.” When Mona recounted this to the Mother, She just laughed. Sri Aurobindo had remarked about Mona’s father: “That fearless Sudhir.” The Mother told Mona: Your father is among the ‘gifted’ ...
... used to mitigate the punishment that we merited for our conduct. The Mother’s Body was our protective shield. Like Karna on whom She had put the shield of the sun at the time of his birth, the divine Mother Herself, Aditi, was our shield. And this shield will protect us forever. It will protect us now from the attacks of the subtle world. * After the Mother’s physical withdrawal Nolini-da wrote:... Mother went on: “Ah! He looked so wonderful in his judge’s gown. Elegant, well-built, erect.” The Mother’s eyes and face were glowing with a marvellous tenderness. Probably it was from this divine Mother that human mothers had learnt to praise their own children. While She was saying this, the Mother looked exceedingly beautiful. It was after a long time that I had heard something like this from ...
... down on paper. I first met the Mother when I was nine, in August of 1942. In that very first darshan of the Mother I felt that She was not human but a goddess come down in a human body, the Divine Mother herself. On Her instruction, in 1951, I settled down in the Ashram for good. In those days the Mother used to Herself organise all the activities of the Ashram. She thus had a connection... started carefully recording in a notebook any incident that was connected with Her or any words She had spoken, however insignificant they might have been, since they were the utterance of the Divine Mother herself. I shall pick out here from that note-book some of the words She blessed me with. My questions and the Mother's answers have also been recorded faithfully in the form and language that She ...
... answer: If Nolini has no objection and if there is no other programme at the Theatre, you can go ahead. After getting Nolini-da's permission, I wrote to the Mother on 14.6.63 again: Divine Mother, I am Your obedient child. I do not know how to show my devotion to Sri Aurobindo and to You. We are eager to do the programme with Sri Aurobindo's writings. If we are unable to rise to... Page 134 now, we were forced to prepone the date of the programme from the 16 th to the 14 th of August. I sent a letter to the Mother on 5 th August: Divine Mother, The programme for the 15 th August is ready. We pray to do the programme on 14 th instead of 16 th August at the Theatre at 8.30 pm. I know the programme is starting a little late. Pranab ...
... us. How will I be able to battle with the Asuras in front of the real Mahakali? My dance is very powerful, Mother, but how can I dance in front of You? How can I act as Mahakali, when the real Divine Mother is present before me? Tell me, Mother, what I should do. The Mother sat for a long time in silence, eyes closed. Then, She spoke: Mother - Try and gather all... the limitations from your nature. I think this will help you. I came away from the Mother with Her blessings. The next day, I had another interview with Her. I - Divine Mother, tomorrow is 1 st December, the day of our programme. I am just unable to do Mahakali's dance. Nothing is coming. Mother - Call Her. She will help you. I - (stunned) Call Mahakali ...
... should speak to the Mother, the divine Mother.? I am supposed to listen to what the Mother tells me, to follow the advice She gives me, but instead I proffered to Her my opinion, my way of looking at the problem! How very silly and stupid of me, how insolent! I began to feel quite disturbed. I told myself inwardly, "Mother, I don't know how to speak to the divine Mother! Please forgive me!" ...
... demonstration of what Yoga can do, and what the Integral Yoga certainly did, to help a sadhak to find his authentic voice as a poet of spiritual sensibility. Thus, for example, "The Feet of the Divine Mother": Be Her light footfall a token Of a Stillness fraught with Grace; Page 259 Keep the truthward prayer unspoken Her sandals trace. Not solely Heaven descended... authoritatively on the Yoga of the other and on the life of Sri Aurobindo. In his essay on "The Brazier of Love", Rishabhchand wondered why the Chandi (or Devi Mahatmyam), while it invokes the. Divine Mother in her different aspects of Consciousness, Intelligence, Power, Peace, Beauty, Forgiveness, Kindness, etc., doesn't refer to the cardinal aspect of Love: Love is the first, highest and ...
... I solemnly believe that what is unique in our Centre of Education is not so much its academic structure, although there too it is developing certain special features, but the presence of the Divine Mother, the vibrant atmosphere, which, at one stage or the other, awakens the individual here, Page 677 without any outward compulsion whatsoever, to the necessity of an inner discipline,... follows in English: Let us bow down and surrender ourselves to Sri Aurobindo of divine thought, divine word and divine act - the propounder of the philosophy of Life Divine. Victory to the Divine Mother, founder of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and its Director, the vehicle of Sri Aurobindo's grace. Next day, on 1 March, he offered to the Mother the first volume of his Marathi translation of The Life ...
... evolution. From the cells of the physical body to the summits of our mental being, all, without exception, must be divinely converted and rendered perfectly plastic to the supramental Force of the divine Mother. "So long as one element of the being, one movement of the thought is still subjected to outside influences, not solely under Thine, it cannot be said that the true Union is realised... which nothing in the universe can shake or ruffle. The Karmayogi has now become a divine child, liberated in his being and nature, immersed in an ineffable peace and bliss, and moved by the Divine Mother for the furtherance of her evolutionary ends in the world. Because he embraces the Divine in all beings and things, and clearly sees His Hand in every event, he knows that all in the universe ...
... How can I perfect the effort to serve the Divine? Mother answered, To will for it more and more in all the parts of your being. Blessings. On 29.7.67 I sent Rs 3000 to Mother with my letter saying, "I expected Rs 1000 as my income from a company at Patna, but I have received Rs 4000. Here are Rs 3000 for the Divine." Mother replied, "It is good. Blessings." ...
... electric energies, all incapacity into divine strength, and all inconscience into plenary consciousness. The transformed human nature will be a temple housing the four supreme aspects of the divine Mother, Adyā Śakti: Maheśwari, Mahākālī, Mahālaksmī and Mahāsaraswatī. Maheśwari will occupy its parts of knowledge, widening and illumining them with Her all-revealing Light, Mahākālī will govern... subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker."¹ This free and harmonious working of the four supreme aspects and powers of the Divine Mother in the transformed human nature will imply in its practical results a combined and perfectly coordinated action of the fourfold type of human temperament— Brāhman, Ksatriya, Vaiśya and Śūdra— ...
... adorned by lotus, goad, noose and conch.She is SriMira, Kamala, Lakshmi, Sri, seated on the golden lotus. Devimahatmyam Murtirahasya 2, 3 Translation by Shankaranarayanan Glory of the Divine Mother p. 304 एवं यः पूजयेद्भक्त्या सोऽवाप्नोति चराचरम् । भुक्त्वा भोगान् यथाकामं देवीसायुज्यमाप्नुयात् ॥३७॥ evaṁ yaḥ pūjayedbhaktyā so'vāpnoti carācaram, bhuktvā bhogān yathākāmaṁ devīsāy... of the universe, O thou worthy of praise by the inhabitants of the three worlds, grant what is best to all the worlds. Devimahatmyam 11.35 Translation by Shankaranarayanan Glory to the Divine Mother p. 257 मीरा ममैकशरणम्। देवी परमेश्वरी मीरा ममैकशरणम्। ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीअरविन्दाय ॥ मीरा शरणं मम। mīrā mamaikaśaraṇam. devī parameśvarī mīrā mamaikaśaraṇam. om namo bhagavate śrīaravindāya ...
... is there for anyone who can reach it. 16 May 1933 Personal Difficulties and Progress in Yoga You have now taken the right attitude, and if you keep it all will go better. It is to the divine Mother that you have come for Yoga, not for the old kind of life. You should also regard this as an Asram, not an ordinary Sansar, and in your dealings with others here strive to conquer anger, self-assertion ...
... your work—many do so. What is necessary at the beginning is to remember the Mother as much as possible, to concentrate on her in the heart for a time every day, if possible thinking of her as the Divine Mother, to aspire to feel her there within you, offer her your works and pray that from within she may guide and sustain you. This is a preliminary stage which often takes long, but if one goes through ...
... entirely and at all times all other forces, and to reject them most when they become most active. Faith, sincerity, perseverance will do the rest. 16 November 1932 Yesterday I prayed, "O Divine Mother, how can I realise that I am always guided by Thee and that Thy presence is in all things and everywhere. I pray that I may love Thee and be Thy child and an instrument for Thy work." Yes. The ...
... baby whom I took to be Jesus Christ Page 275 as it resembled his figure. The vision lasted for about a minute and I saw it with open eyes. It may be so—as Jesus was a child of the Divine Mother. 25 November 1933 I saw the Mother in the colour of the flower we call "Detachment". Does it have any meaning? It must mean that that was the force which she was offering to you or else ...
... O Lord, Thy plenitude is realised. O divine Master, Thou hast granted to me the infinitude of divine contemplation, the perfect calm of Thy Eternity, and through an identification with our divine Mother, the All-Realiser, Thou hast permitted me to participate in her sovereign power to be conscious and active... In the omnipotent bliss of Thy infinitude, I bow to Thee! Page 259 ...
... excited by the descent and want to mix with it and turn it to their profit. It often happens too that some Power or Powers undivine in their nature present themselves as the Supreme Lord or as the Divine Mother and claim the being's service and surrender. If these things are accepted, there will be an extremely disastrous consequence. If indeed there is the assent of the sadhak to the Divine working alone ...
... not that in her case nor in X 's. By seeing the Divine in the Mother, I don't mean imagination or calm, calculated reasoning. But to see actually the fully flaming, resplendent, effulgent Divine Mother in any one of her Powers—why, that is damnably difficult at least for me who have not even seen the halo around her. I don't believe X or anybody would have that at first view. That can only ...
... say on what plane the Maharshi is, but his method is that of Adwaita Knowledge and Moksha—so there is no necessity for him to recognise the arrival of the Divine. X 's Guru was a bhakta of the Divine Mother and believed in the dynamic side of existence, so it was quite natural for him to have the revelation of the coming of the Mother. 23 January 1936 After reading a chapter in The Synthesis ...
... the opening of the psychic. Then of course anger and jealousy do not remain—they fall away from the sense of spiritual oneness. 3 May 1936 X told me that she was in constant touch with the Divine Mother long before she came to Pondicherry. She saw her not only in meditation or vision but before her wide-awake eyes, in a concrete form. She often conversed with her; especially when some difficulty ...
... to have the experience of the Truth behind it. Your action is according to universal Nature and in that again it is according to your individual nature, and all Nature is a force put out by the Divine Mother for the action of the universe. But as things are it is an action in the Ignorance and the ego; while what we want is an action of the divine Truth Page 242 unveiled and undeformed by ...
... 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being The Psychic Being The Psychic Being is a small portion of the Divine Mother In the mystery of its selecting will, In the Divine Comedy a participant, The Spirit’s conscious representative, God’s delegate in our humanity, Comrade of the universe, the Transcendent’s ray, She had come into the mortal body’s ...
... it is not possible to realise it suddenly, but to grow steadily into it is possible, if one keeps the aim always before one—to be a selfless and perfectly tempered instrument for the work of the Divine Mother. 27 September 1935 Page 413 It is very satisfying to have closed so well the work you undertook for the Mother, overcoming all difficulties and ending in such a satisfactory result ...
... enlightened sense, not to do eccentric or marvellous things, but to give the body the possibility of being strong and supple enough to express a higher consciousness. 2.6.1970 * Q : Divine Mother, there is great confusion concerning Auroville's organisation, inner as well as outer. How can we work together towards the realisation of a higher consciousness? In order to realise a greater sense ...
... the heights he must climb, without letting his progress be enchained and delayed by the totality of the universe, which, in its immensity and complexity, cannot effect so swift an ascent." O Divine Mother, always Thy word comforts and blesses, calms and illumines, and Thy generous hand lifts a fold of the veil hiding the infinite knowledge. How calm, noble and pure is the splendour of Thy perfect ...
... vital and your sense of the fine, the magnificent experience it was, --that too is natural and right; for the vital, no less than the psychic and every other part of the being, has to feel the Divine Mother and give itself entirely to her. But this must always be remembered that the vital being and the life-force in man are separated from the Divine Light and, so separated, they are an ...
... over the world-movement or some part of it or some movement in it. But the Four of whom you speak are also Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother, by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine Personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal consciousness-forms of her Godhead ...
... sincere aspiration has its effect; if you are sincere, you will grow into the divine life. To be entirely sincere means to desire the divine Truth only, to surrender yourself more and more to the Divine Mother, to reject all personal demand and desire other than this one aspiration, to offer every action in life to the Divine and do it as the work given without bringing in the ego. This is the basis of ...
... spiritual consciousness above and a descent of the Divine Force from above which does its own work in the mind and body—the manner and stages varying in each sadhak. A perfect confidence in the Divine Mother and a vigilance to repel all wrong suggestions and influences is the main law of this Yoga. Your opening having once been so powerful on Page 462 the more usual Tantric lines (even without ...
... submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger—for these things are not in its composition. In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely—and this represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking ...
... being of Krishna; through the Peace you can perceive the Shantimaya Shiva; in the Light, in the delivering Knowledge, the Love, the fulfilling and uplifting Power you can meet the presence of the Divine Mother. It is this perception that makes the experiences of the bhaktas and mystics so rapturous and enables them to pass more easily through the nights of anguish and separation—when there is this so ...
... be done without the image of the "opaque Inane" of the Inconscience which is the scene and cause of the resistance. There is the same necessity for reminding the reader that the "tread" of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it. The same reasoning applies to the other passages. As for the occurrence of the phrases in the same place ...
... sense of the fine, the magnificent experience it was,—that too is natural and right; for the vital, no less than the psychic and Page 116 every other part of the being, has to feel the Divine Mother and give itself entirely to her. But this must always be remembered that the vital being and the life-force in man are separated from the Divine Light and, so separated, they are an instrument ...
... ess is lost in the Cosmic Existence. You had all this first in the impersonal way, but after the burning up of the psychic fire, you felt the Personal wideness, the cosmic consciousness of the Divine Mother and received her blessing. If your consciousness rises above the head, that means that it goes beyond the ordinary mind to the centre above which receives the higher consciousness or else ...
... been impossible without that strength of will. People less strong than Buddha may have to develop it by endeavour. Those who cannot do that have to find their strength in their reliance on the Divine Mother. The Need of Will There must be a fixed will for the spiritual life—that alone can overcome all obstacles. To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming [ lower movements ]—but ...
... the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision. But first it must be conquered back for her and those will be strongest for the conquest who are in this part of their nature strong and large and free from ...
... long and laborious working. 26 July 1934 Why do people often say that this Yoga is a very arduous one, full of difficulties and obstacles? One who is sincere and open exclusively to the Divine Mother would not believe this. It is Page 164 difficult only for those who refuse to take her as their all. Of course; but most do not find it easy to take the Mother as their all. 22 ...
... 2 and cast their seed into the three Thoughts. प्रातर्देवीमदितिं जोहवीमि मव्यंदिन उदिता सूर्यस्य । राये मित्रावरुणा सर्वतातेळे तोकाय तनयाय शं योः ॥३॥ 3) In the dawn I call to the divine Mother infinite, in the mid-day and at the rising of the sun. I desire of Mitra and Varuna the peace and the movement in the forming of the all 3 for felicity and for the creation and the begetting ...
... e, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater ...
... . The individual consciousness will recover its true sense and action; for it is the form of a Soul sent out from the Supreme and, in spite of all appearances, a nucleus or nebula in which the Divine Mother-Force is at work for the victorious embodiment of the timeless and formless Divine in Time and Matter. This will reveal itself slowly to our vision and experience as the will of the Master of works ...
... human sense of the word, limited by His qualities though otherwise possessed of omnipotence and omniscience; it answers to the Indian special conceptions of Shiva or Vishnu or Brahma or of the Divine Mother of all, Durga or Kali. Each religion really erects a different personal Deity according to its own heart and thought to adore and serve. The fierce and inexorable God of Calvin is a different being ...
... deep within and the Divine who is universally around - but in as much as this Divine is figured as the Supreme Mother one with the Supreme Lord we get again a strong Tantric stress except that the Divine Mother works from above downward and not from below upward to open the Yogi's consciousness to the hidden potentialities of his embodied being. The push upward from below is not ruled out: indeed no occult ...
... the days of her decline we evoked the Godward instinct, we would never lift her up. She whose sons in myriads had communed for ages with the Eternal must be herself a Goddess, an aspect of the Divine Mother, the world-creatrix. Wrapped in the atmosphere of the Supreme Being must she be visioned and worshipped. That was the core of the Aurobindonian nationalism. Out of it sprang the mighty ...
... has prepared to go with the two English volumes of the Agenda? It smacks of sensational journalism and tries to focus the limelight on him and to present the Mother not as she was — a real Divine Mother working for the good of her children with deepest love and understanding — but as a kind of super-occultist bent only on one object with the help of her single confidant. Do you know that in ...
... on November 24, 1926 in order to expedite by "a dynamic meditation" (to use his own words) the fulfilment of his Integral Yoga — the personality whom these followers, inspired by him, called the Divine Mother. There was no organised life among them before this date. The occasion marked the spiritual event known as the descent of the Overmind, the world of the Great Gods, the plane of Krishna-co ...
... falsehood—false, false, false, and a falsehood that must disappear. There is only ONE reality, there is only ONE life, there is only ONE consciousness ( Mother lowers her fist sharply ): the Divine. ( Mother looks at Satprem with great intensity, Satprem puts his forehead on Mother's knees ) Page 162 ...
... and that's the reason for all this wavering, these complications—but what we have to learn is to leave it to... that is, have no desire, no preference, and leave the choice entirely to the Divine. ( Mother goes within ) Page 219 × Satprem means not permanently in contact with the inner. ...
... keeps coming and coming—you don't know where it comes from, but it keeps coming and accumulating. It was a force with a sparkling white light at its center, the light which is the force of the Divine Mother, and as soon as it was well packed and concentrated inside, or condensed, it took on all the colors—vibrations of every color ... Like a materialization—these colors were like a materialization ...
... If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. Mother, tell me how I can keep Your service holy and free from the slightest stain of human impurity. By wanting it and always aspiring for it. Integral purity: the whole being is purified ...
... in Savitri —Savitri lives always on earth, with the soul of the earth, to make the whole earth progress as quickly as possible. Well, when the time comes and things on earth are ready, then the divine Mother incarnates with her full power—when things are ready. Then will come the perfection of the realization. A splendor of creation exceeding all logic! It brings in a fullness and a power completely ...
... poetry there is everywhere underlying his unlimited thirst for the Divine, his battle with the world, his ultimate triumph and his absolute and ecstatic surrender to Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother. Not only is he an idealist but an extremist. When he feels, he feels all. "Love's life is precious only if given whole," 4 he says. So is it with everything else: all or nothing. ...
... descent into mortal life in order to help humanity. [Udar chose not to personalize other impressions of Sri Aurobindo but instead he quoted a passage from Savitri , Book III, The Book of the Divine Mother, Canto IV, The Vision and the Boon. Udar said Sri Aurobindo was writing about King Aswapati in that passage and speaks in the third person, but he is actually writing about himself.] Can you ...
... were, the quintessence of the Divine. It is a deep core surrounded by a wall (with no door or window) where one may have the experience which an Aurobindonian poet has expressed in regard to the Divine Mother: Your spirit is my spirit, deep in the deep, Walled by a wizardry of shining sleep. “Here within a golden circle an opening is made to the overhead Sun of the planes beyond the mind ...
... without true value. One must “Offer everything from within”. “When you give yourself, give completely, without demand, without condition, without reservation so that all in you shall belong to the Divine Mother.” Such an extraordinary ceremony of offering can be done only by a few people, not everyone can do it. One can visualise the ascent to the higher consciousness (Range of Mountains) only after such ...
... s lines from Savitri : ‘I saw the Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers / Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life / Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth.’ 17 Udar remembers: ‘The Divine Mother said to me that these Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers had started coming down. They are souls that have waited for thousands of years for the right time to take rebirth and come down to prepare the ...
... community she was building up were not her disciples but her children. This meant much more than mere words. As Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here.’ 5 He also wrote: ‘The soul goes to ...
... in the end Sri Aurobindo confided the Integral Yoga entirely to the Mother, who was doing it herself, literally, in every person turned towards her. For every soul on earth “is a portion of the Divine Mother” 65 ; and: “It is only those who are capable by aspiration and meditation on the Mother to open and receive her action and working within that can succeed in this Yoga.” 66 A “Yoga with ...
... the ashes of the tyranny of the ego. In explaining the nature of the Lord, Whose Kingdom we desire to establish on this tormented earth and with Whose spirit we want to inform our lives, the Divine Mother says: The wisdom that we wish to acquire, the power we want to gain, the love we want to realize, the perfection we want to attain, the harmonious and progressive state we wish to reach, and ...
... be named by different names. Each would describe the being in a totally different way, although they all would be talking about one and the same manifestation. The one whom in India you call the Divine Mother, is for the Catholics the Virgin Mary and for the Japanese Kwannon, the Goddess of Compassion, and still others would call her by still other names. It is the same Force, the same Power, but the ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 2 August 1950 Divine Mother, I learn from Dr. S that the second warning to the Press gardener has not been heartily approved by you. I very much regret that somehow or other I have gone against your will by my ignorant insistence in the matter. However, it ...
... for supramental realisation on the part of the spiritual seekers. His Yoga is called the yoga of Transformation or the Integral yoga and the way to it is perfect and unreserved surrender to the Divine Mother who Page 9 is the Divine Shakti and the mystery behind the whole creation. "Those who wish to help the Light of Truth to prevail over the forces of darkness and falsehood can ...
... c Nirvana or extinction, but in Her dynamic World-Play, a state about which it has been said: "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being,...but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force...it will be your constant, simple and natural experience that ...
... its farthest reach, one cannot expect to have the realisation of the Supreme! In our innocence we could not understand at that time 3. The 'Mother' refers to the Supreme addressed as the Divine Mother. Page 140 that out of sheer love for us the Thakur was attempting the impossible!" 4 (Italics ours.) Indeed, mystics are universally agreed on the point that with the ...
... May the flame of aspiration he steady and one-pointed, may it rise up and up to the Divine and rest only there. May the aspirant see, hear, speak, feel nothing except: 0 my Divine Lord, 0 my Divine Mother, may Your Will be fulfilled. Yes, it would be a fine achievement. Always with you, supporting you in your efforts, my dear child 20 September 1935 ...
... Mother, Today is the day when You first saw me and allowed me to stay in the Ashram as a permanent sadhak. You gave me a new life. In utter gratefulness and devotion I take refuge in You, my Divine Mother. May the spirit of submission, surrender, faith and sincerity grow in me more and more. These years have brought upon you a wonderful change and yet still a greater change will come until ...
... Aurobindo’s booklet The Mother a passage following his description of her four universal Powers: Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. 91 ‘There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the Earth-spirit. There are among them presences indispensable for the supramental ...
... there is no Ashram and no Yoga.’ 25 ‘As to the Mother, I could not reconcile myself to how a European lady could establish herself as the Mother in Pondicherry Ashram and even more as the Divine Mother,’ writes Rakhal Bose. 26 And M.P. Pandit writes: ‘There was quite a consternation at this development [of Sri Aurobindo putting the Mother at the head of the Ashram]. It was hard to accept a ...
... As I listened to her pathetic words, large teardrops slid down my cheeks. But I wiped them away immediately and answered her with a smile, "I cannot tell you how fortunate I am to be near the Divine Mother. Please believe me, I am the happiest person." The Mother was very sympathetic when my mother expressed her wish to have a photograph taken of the Mother and myself together, so that she could ...
... seat. I did so. She removed her Kashmiri shawl and folded it neatly with care and put it on a table near her sofa where she sat. I smiled to myself, because her scrupulousness reminded me of our Divine Mother. Mrs. Gandhi was on my right side, but we were sitting very close. First she looked at the entwined fingers of her hands and then at me. She asked me softly: "Do you wish to tell me anything ...
... universal love. || 154.42 || These lines went on echoing and re-echoing in my heart. I fell in love with Savitri, the incarnation of the Supreme Mother. I was so fascinated that I felt the Divine Mother herself was reciting the lines to me. Cascades of divine light and peace seemed to be falling all around me. It was as if my soul surged out of its body and floated in this magnificent atmosphere ...
... the breathtaking beauty of the marvellous scene which was spread out like a panorama before my eyes. I was now floating a little above the lake. Its coolness enveloped my subtle body. Here the Divine Mother had strewn lavishly her exquisite Beauty and Wonder and Quietude. The divine vibrations were overwhelming. I was engulfed by the new consciousness. I reached the Suns. Their Force and Power 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. ...
... write to you: "Huta sends her warm regards to you and she appreciates your understanding and consideration about her guardianship at the Matrimandir. She too feels the same. She says if the Divine Mother wishes her to go there, she will go. In fact, Huta has left everything to the Mother who knows the best, and who is wiser than human beings." Yours affectionately, Amal A very long time ...
... Seven—The Book of Yoga. The Mother explained : Now for this Book 7—The Book of Yoga—you must start when Savitri is sitting on a mat near Satyavan who is asleep. Savitri sees the aspects of the Divine Mother. When she sees the aspects, they can be painted and the answer they give to Savitri must be painted also. And finally Savitri meets her very Soul—the Supreme Mother. So you must choose the paintings ...
... who appreciated the illustrations of Savitri will surely like to see these paintings. 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. ...
... different aspects of the Creative Power—what is India is called the 'Shakti,' or the 'Mother'—which have presided over universal evolution. ) '...There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental ...
... Words of the Mother - II The Body (the Physical) Physical centre: occupied mainly with material things, it likes to have an ordered life. Divine Mother, I want to realise Your Presence in all the parts of my being, penetrating even the body—only I don't know how to do it. You are the very reason of my being; why then do I live now without feeling ...
... all these adverse circumstances with patience, endurance and equanimity. 23 October 1935 The extent of your difficulties gives you the measure of your ego. 23 March 1957 Divine Mother, My giant enemy ego is sitting directly in my path and will not let me pass. In what manner should I fight him? Ignore him and go through. 12 May 1966 To get over our ego is ...
... Ambition is always a source of disturbance and confusion. 16 May 1934 Detaching oneself from the ignorant actions of the mind and vital and from any kind of ambition, and allowing the Divine Mother to work according to Her own will, one can have inner as well as outer peace and happiness; and this, I think, is the way one can serve the Mother gratefully and sincerely. Is this not so? Certainly ...
... Words of the Mother - II Aspects of Sadhana Divine Mother, I wish to get light on the following points. 1) Have I the capacity and are there potentialities in me to follow this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverance and whether you can by the intensity and ...
... is no other satisfying way. Page 216 By changing house you cannot change character. If you change your character you need not change your environment. 22 October 1964 Divine Mother, I have had a feeling of wanting to move into a separate house lately. I do not know whether I am right in this. May I have your divine guidance in this? Exterior things must be of little ...
... love and blessings. 5 March 1968 Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself... And the Lord will take care of your progress. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968 Divine Mother, I implore you to illumine and put a living faith in this dark area in me. Do not give any importance to that part and it will lose its strength and little by little even its existence. My ...
... Things of that sort. And right now, it's the New Year there, so he sent me this ( Mother shows a card with seven candles illuminating the world, and wheat sheaves ). In the past, he called me The Divine Mother, and Sri Aurobindo was The Lord . Then in his last letter, it was "Guru" (I have become the guru!), and, "I want to inform you that I have left the group." And now he sends me this card: "To ...
... "divine purity in beings," I quite understand, but if we mean "the Divine's purity," I no longer understand. Divine purity in beings means they are closed to all influence except that of the Divine. ( Mother counts the petals ) Five petals ... Soon afterwards I go on seeing throngs of people whom I don't know. And with more than half of them, it's per-fect-ly useless: curiosity, pride ...
... the budding aspirant for it that you are. All that has become abnormally "intense" will take its true shape when the "immense" that is coupled with the "intense" in Savitri enfolds you like a Divine Mother. (17.5.1990) There is no question of my misunderstanding or misjudging you. What you have written about the ridiculousness of "the well-meaning attempt of many to present the ...
... Amiens'in As You Like It: Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude... But, having put my brow at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother, all the lines cut by Karma, my own or those of others, have tended to get wiped off and the being has tried to move assiduously, as near as my frail nature allows, towards the state Sri Aurobindo ...
... the Psychic Being, the Soul of us which is stationed in the inmost recesses of the heart-centre, the centre which the Gita seeks to activate through its Yoga of Devotion. The Lord Himself or the Divine Mother or rather the two together as a single Reality are secretly present most luminously with the amalgam of Child and Seer that constitutes the Soul. My whole prayer is to be one with this Seer-Child ...
... been taking could have worked after so many days like a miracle. But something in you - the intuitive observer - refuses to get round the fact of the sudden relief after an act of appeal to the Divine Mother of both of us by a loving relative who is always close to your heart. This relative sends his warmest love to you and your family, including the newly arrived Rishaya. (12.3,1994) ...
... fused as one supreme Entity in a single form - ardhanariivara - the left Page 204 half expresses her. But Sri Aurobindo has created a new age of spiritual dynamism in which the Divine Mother shines forth with the total force of the Lord. Symbolic indeed is her position in a world-work which is figured not only as an aeonic many-featured sustainment of her original creative activity ...
... the near future. (24.3.1992) You have asked: "How to be prepared for February 21?" Paradoxically I may say: "Feel that February 21 is not at all a special occasion." For, the Divine Mother came to the earth to evoke in us the eternity and infinity that are at the heart of all the pulses of time, all passing moments and moods. If February 21 is something utterly unusual and exceptional ...
... itself only by opposing itself to Indian spirituality, by which it mostly understands a Western-type pantheism or Shankarite Illusionism (without appreciating Shahkara's lifelong devotion to the Divine Mother). Illusionism itself is misunderstood as landing the mystic in material unconsciousness instead of in spiritual superconsciousness. Look at what the most progressive Christian - Teilhard de Chardin ...
... deed from hour to hour. My first preoccupation is always to answer in pulsing reality the questions: "Does the Supreme Master's presence suffuse every attitude of mine? Does the presence of the Divine Mother manifest itself in all my relationships with fellow-creatures?" Since the goals of the old spiritual paths are regarded as no more than stepping-stones in the Integral Yoga, the drive of a perpetual ...
... would, no doubt, apply to all Darshan days and not only to the one that is just ahead of us. On a Darshan day now we have not only to think of Sri Aurobindo but also to visualise him, with the Divine Mother sitting on his right. Visualisation is important, for he and she are the Lord and his Executive Power in a physical shape and unless the physicality of them goes home to us in a vivid way we may ...
... I feel everywhere. In far Germany you must still be asleep - unless my intense remembrance of you has momentarily pulled you outward or else more inward to that dimension in which the Divine Mother holds all her children together in the depths of her love. I have been graced with a general sense of this dimension, for there is in my heart a warmth and a glow which I feel in a certain measure ...
... at all rimes. (11.4.1986) What is happening in you is the drawing together of all the strands of your life into the central personality who is for ever a child of Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother. Once the commonly diffused being finds itself unified, there takes place by force of the psychic concentration an opening into a new dimension so that the future going forth of one's consciousness ...
... so that no disparity with the left leg may be left. Don't feel anxious about me. I am well taken care of and I both eat and sleep normally. And at the Samadhi I shall appeal to our Lord and the Divine Mother to help my deeply cherished friend. (23.10.1992) As regards a photo of you which I have requested, it is all right if you have shunned being snapped for several years lest a picture ...
... the spiritual path the best way is to superimpose on the incipient erotic imagination the remembrance of the compassionate face of our Lord Sri Aurobindo and the affectionate countenance of our Divine Mother, (18.5.1993) Page 152 ...
... wings on to our sagging shoulders. (27.9.1993) Here are your questions and my answers . 1. What is the unifying relation between the Supermind and Divine Grace? The Divine Mother who is the Supermind's eternal gesture of Light and Love to our fumbling and stumbling world, 2. What should be our attitude towards the Supermind? Self-offering to Sri Aurobindo who has ...
... hands". Man's earth-born heart is never forsaken by it. And perhaps the intensest throb of that heart is heard in those four long colloquies - first, the dialogue between King Aswapathy and the Divine Mother who grants him the boon he so passionately craves: O radiant fountain of the world's delight World-free and unattainable above, O Bliss who ever dwellst deep hid within While ...
... right hand, seated there, on the edge of his bed. And the two right arms became like a big telephone switchboard hook-up—you know, the long cords. So, through the hook-up I called. I called to the Divine Mother, to You specifically, if I may say so, as is my wont. And this time, the You appeared, not above my head, as is usual, but above the patient's head. And to that You I called three times, 'Mother ...
... other worlds has been replaced by a new book, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in fourteen cantos with many thousand lines. There is also a third sufficiently long book, the Book of the Divine Mother. In the new plan of the poem there is a second part consisting of five books: two of these, the Book of Birth and Quest and the Book of Love, have been completed and another, the Book of Fate, is ...
... Dawn 88 Dawn-Goddess 86,88,252,262 democracy of the Divine 77,366 descent of Supramental Godhead 248 different phases of night 249 divine and human simultaneously 314 Divine Mother 96 Divine Power 312 divine vision 249 divinised consciousness 129 earth-born heart of man 77 earth-life as the field of the Spirit 76 earth's aspiration 130 fate ...
... letter of 1936 had been printed I made a new reading of two words from Sri Aurobindo's manuscript. The letter as it stood in print read: "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother... The narrative is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality'." Now, instead of "The narrative" I deciphered "This ...
... achievement in the course of history - in short, a Grace of the Eternal, which can only be received and never demanded as a right and which has been offered to terrestrial evolution by the birth of the Divine Mother amongst us, side by side with that of Sri Aurobindo the Supramental Avatar. From the viewpoint of Nature and history the dual embodiment of the Supermind is asking for the impossible. Have not all ...
... Ashram impossible. Sri Aurobindo Keep faith and confidence and remain cheerful. 2-9-28 The Mother November 1928 ( Mother's answers to questions by Muljibhai Talati ) Divine Mother, J wish to get light on the following points. 1) Have I the capacity and are there potentialities in me to lead this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the ...
... Vol. 5, No. 2, (December 1981), p. 191. Let us first take an example from Canto Four Book Three about Aswapati's return to the mortal world after receiving an assurance from the Divine Mother: Once more he moved amid material scenes, Lifted by intimations from the heights And twixt the pauses of the building brain Touched by the thoughts that skim the fathomless ...
... done without the image of the "opaque Inane" of the Inconscience which is the scene and cause of the resistance. There is the same necessity for reminding the reader that the "tread" of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it. The same reasoning applies to the other passages. As for the occurrence of the phrases in the same place ...
... to ourselves, what properly belongs to the Divine. Sri Aurobindo speaks in a memorable passage in the book The Page 170 Mother of the supreme holocaust of the divine Mother. She sacrifices herself, comes down into this world of suffering and darkness in order that it may be uplifted. 6 In several other passages of his writings, particularly in this epic, he refers ...
... that she is intensely human: she is at once the goddess and her physical incarnation. Savitri too is the Mother of the Universe: she is "represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother; 110 she takes a human body without losing her divinity. Sri Aurobindo describes her birth and childhood, her youth and her quest. In keeping with the new aesthesis the sensuous is transmuted ...
... cavern of thy secret soul. 22 These were the occult powers, the messengers who helped men and brought solace and light into their lives. They knew that Savitri was the incarnation of the Divine Mother. O human copy and disguise of God Who seekst the deity thou keepest hid. 23 Following their suggestion, Savitri takes the winding road, the narrow path, trod only by rare wounded ...
... be clarified?” Take an example in which a choice of word is involved. It is from Book III Canto IV, The Vision and the Boon, p. 347. Aswapati has received the boon of a radiant daughter from the Divine Mother and is on his way back to attend to “the vast business of created things”. His spirit had climbed up to the borderline of the transcendental looking downward, and now things have to happen in the ...
... Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, gave to Aurofood Private Limited, on the occasion of the foundation ceremony of their flour Mill by Mr. K. Amrita on behalf of the divine Mother, at 2pm on 14th August 1968 Birthday card from the Mother Birthday card from the Mother ...
... iron curtain separating the being from That. The solution recommended in all spiritual disciplines to avoid this perilous rejection of Grace, brahma nir ā kara ṇ a, is to offer the gifts of the Divine Mother to Herself for Her use and work. This keeps the being always in contact with the Divine, before, during and after the act of receiving. And the consciousness of the sadhaka begins to realise that ...
... to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. 17 The devotee-begins with the ardent aspiration that the return journey to his or her true home in the bosom of the Supreme Mother begins with the release of the Divine spark in us ...
... Heaven-fire laughed in the comers of her eyes; Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength, She menaced the triumph of the nether gods. 18 Obviously it is the Durga-aspect of the Divine Mother. A halo of lightnings flamed around her head And sovereignty a great cestus zoned her robe And majesty and victory sat with her Guarding in the wide cosmic battlefield Against ...
... complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana. 3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine. 4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated. [While looking at the Samadhi:] I ...
... the will of my Lord, by the power of my Lord, stop immediately harassing us. The Mother (Prayer for the children of Dortoir Boarding) We all want to be the true children of our Divine Mother. But for that, sweet Mother, give us patience and courage, obedience, good will, generosity and unselfishness, and all the necessary virtues. This is our prayer and aspiration. 15 January ...
... experience. At the age of nineteen his guru, Shri Ambananda Nath, initiated him into the Tantric discipline of Sri Vidya and the Agamic rituals , and directed him to strive only for the Love of the Divine Mother, Lalita Tripurambika . Panditji's deep knowledge of philosophy and his profound sadhana are reflected in his writings and oratory. ...
... heights is sought to be effected by the operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and as the yogic processes progress farther, the principle of surrender to the Shakti or Divine Mother which is so central in the Tantra also becomes central; there is, however, full recognition that the shakti is the power of Purushottama and is herself Purushottama. In the Tantra, the initial stress ...
... original creatrix of the Universe, since she is the creative power of the supreme Divine who is the ultimate source and originator of the universe. In the Vedic yoga, Aditi has been regarded as the Divine Mother, and throughout the history of Indian culture, Aditi has retained that original character. In the Gita, we do not find the reference to the word Aditi but we have equivalent term, namely, ...
... Prashna Upanishad, or Brahma, the first of the Gods — devanam Prathamah, to Atharvan, he to Angir, Angir to Satyavaha the Bhardwaja, or Angiras in the Mundaka Upanishad or as Uma Haimavati, the Divine Mother who knows the Supreme, in the Kena Upanishad. "Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn from them; for sharp as a razor's edge, hard to Page 21 traverse, difficult of going is ...
... This growing sense of certainty is what can appropriately be called the power of faith, shradda, and this power, as it grows, imparts in our being increasing faith in the bhāgavati śhakti, the Divine Mother and the Supreme Lord. Perfection of the srhaddhā is also a part of the perfection of our native parts. The second element of perfection, therefore, is Page 73 the perfection of "the ...
... pointed at Him. Although she is the great goddess, in order to take her right place on Shiva's lap she has to give up entirely what she was. What a paradox that for conquering the supreme Soul the divine Mother must throw herself into the fire of sacrifice! Even for her, there was a price to pay, as it were. Thus this "supreme fable" conceals a great lesson in human life and demonstrates the nature of ...
... the publication of some books on Champaklal. Kamalaben came to the Ashram at the young age of thirteen on 20 February 1928. She had the rare opportunity of spending her time in the service of Divine Mother and later on she served Champaklal till his last moment. She hardly speaks about herself. I have found her sincere, straightforward, warm, generous and a silent servitor of the Divine. She looked ...
... short span of a few significant words: "To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together — the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender." (SABCL, Vol. 25, The Mother, p. 9) We find here mentioned three essential factors: sincerity, surrender and ...
... at the end of the series. Rather, this should be the constant accompaniment of the sadhaka' s sadhana throughout the entire period of his sadhana-life. This step represents the sending up to the Divine Mother a sincere and steady prayer spontaneously rising from the heart of the aspirant and appealing to the Shakti with the candid trust of a child that, by the action of Her Grace, the importunate vital ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 3 August 1949 Divine Mother, This evening a workman in the machine section was caught red-handed with a packet of washing soda which he had hidden in his cloth bag; it was detected at the time of search. This man stole it from the machine section where it was stocked ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 15 January 1947 Divine Mother, Today I am writing to you a few lines about an externality of life. Often I have been careless about dressing my hair. The main motive behind has always been that it is a sheer waste of time and energy which can be spent for a higher ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 20 March 1947 Divine Mother, Since riots and disturbances have begun in the Punjab, my waking consciousness has been lowered down and sunk into the mire of attachment for my relatives who are suffering in their native place. When my mind is at rest, various thoughts ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 30 September 1947 Divine Mother, My elder brother, who lives in the Pakistan part of the Punjab, writes to me in a letter received today: “Our native village has been looted and captured by Moslems. All Hindus there have fled away and taken refuge in a big town ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 26 December 1946 Divine Mother, Aditya can be a useful hand for Aditi work because he is competent in Sanskrit and Hindi. He will joyfully spare some time for it with your blessing and sanction. He is fully busy in the Granary and I wonder how he could find ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother October 1947 Divine Mother, Today you remarked, “The courtyard looks shabby.” What is to be done to make it neat and decent? You have arranged the courtyard as well as it can be under the present conditions. Nothing short of repaving it entirely could remove ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 14 May 1947 Divine Mother, I want my meals in a brass carrier if possible, especially because I have no arrangement in my room to keep the carrier out of the reach of ants. If you have a small basin, fill it with water, put in the centre a cement block and on ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 16 April 1947 Divine Mother, A sannyasi has placed an order for two books asking for a 50% concession in price. Can he be granted the concession? NO. My love and blessings 16 April 1947 ...
... refuse to stay a moment longer in the body. The time will come when he will shake the world to its foundation through the strength of his intellectual and spiritual powers. I have prayed that the Divine Mother may keep this realisation of the Absolute veiled from Naren. There is much work to be done by him." 1 We have made a brief survey of some of the main grounds upon which most spiritual ...
... politics, placing God at the head of the National movement as its leader, inspirer, force and strength. He saw the country, not as a political or geographical entity, but as the very body of the Divine Mother — this was the key to the inspiration he provided. Lastly, Sri Aurobindo developed the theory and practice of Passive Resistance as a means of giving a direction to the political struggle with the ...
... through and through. How often have I not Page 19 seen this radiance, when he used to sit before the table for writing or for rest, or when he was lying on the bed as if on the lap of the Divine Mother, with a half-bare body, the hands held together behind the head, the lips smiling in a wakeful dream! Every part of the body presented the picture of a god in human guise that could not be tampered ...
... playing. Page 225 I could not make out if they were angels or goddesses. Their bodies were filled with superhuman light. It seemed they had some rapport with the Divine Mother. They respected me and talked with me, I forget what, but probably it was about my sadhana and the Mother. A bright light was burning amidst them. Although they were not young they appeared as innocent ...
... Darshan days at the Ashram. Page 251 Let the descent come when it can, 20th or 22nd or any other day of the month or year. On the 21st only offer yourself to the Divine Mother and consecrate everything. I wonder why the lower resistance is greater now, especially when the Darshan is approaching? It is often so. One has to learn not to submit ...
... come for darshan this time, it can’t be easy to come twice within this short time. Don’t be sorry, remain calm and remember the Mother, gather faith and strength within. You are a child of the Divine Mother, be tranquil, calm and full of force. There is no special procedure. To take the name of the Mother, to remember her within, to pray to her, all this may be described as calling the Mother. As it ...
... lightly and simply, or perhaps we forgot their greatness because they were so close to us, just as I forgot the Lord's greatness being so close to Him. Pavitra-da was entirely dedicated to the Divine. Mother said that, from the very beginning, he followed the path without the slightest vacillation, without turning either to the right or to the left; he followed the footsteps of the Master so closely ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 18 January 1960 Gracious Divine Mother, The realisation has come to me that silence has nothing to do with the absence of sound, but is something in itself, a positive quality almost living and vibrant, almost visible, part of the essential nature of things. Quite correct ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother c. 1955 Gracious Divine Mother, You have talked to me and explained many things about humility and openness, about the things in me that hide you from me, about confidence and letting go. But it is very hard for me to be patient and wait gladly and let you do the sadhana. Yet ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 25 November 1956 Gracious Divine Mother, Should I ask for a servant to come three or four hours a week to clean my room? I have always preferred not to have a servant in the house, but nowadays I have no time for cleaning. Or should I take housecleaning time out of my library ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 8 October 1965 Gracious Divine Mother, What is the matter? I can't find any inside, any door, any opening to "step through". There is no place I can go to hide, to rest, to find any peace. Why is it that I still can't trust the sadhana to you? Many years ago when ...
... and other Greek deities. Page 68 The seers who wrote these epics attributed semi-divine parentage to both heroes. Arjuna is said to be the son of the god Indra and Achilles has a divine mother: Thetis. These heroes have received special training in the art of warfare, and have even been given divine armor and weapons that give the man extraordinary power on the battlefield. There, none ...
... and emotions that ardently aspire to be identified with Her, wherever Her glory is sung or a sunlit future is in the making. Blessed be the still moaning earth; but, having borne the Divine Mother, it cannot restrain this Ananda any longer and wants to burst its shell of unconsciousness and breathe Her plenitude. Blessed be those whose hearts are still vibrating with that felicity ...
... is impossible to become like a child giving oneself entirely until the psychic is in control and stronger than the vital. It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. I am told that the psychic ...
... has kindled the souls of men and women by the million to a more passionate love of Freedom and a richer dedication to the service of the country.' Bharati saw India as his motherland - Bharat the Divine Mother - in diverse attitudes and situations: he saw her fettered, struggling valiantly to free herself, hoping and despairing alternately; he saw her as a veritable Kamadhenu, unfailing giver of unending ...
... gradually prepared for this. You said to me the other day, “I am trying to put her in contact with her soul and if I succeed I will consider it to be the Supreme Grace.” But Mother, when the Divine Mother Herself is saying this, is it not already established? Mother, we are your children, but after all we are children and have not any sadhana. Thy Grace alone can do something for Karuna, so ...
... faster and faster, only fly further and further; let it rather be a purposeful forging ahead, a bold storming of the fortress of Nescience, under the leadership of a choice superior spirit. The Divine Mother now gives her wide consenting voice to expectant Aswapati: O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature's ...
... heart chose and chooses not again... Death's grip can break our bodies, not our souls; If death take him, I too know how to die. 220 Savitri, born by the grace of the divine Mother, full of "untrembling virgin fire", will she yield the ground to the foe without struggling against the injustice? No, she was not born to die; neither will it be Satyavan's fate. Savitri will ...
... weep, His soul would have lain down content, at ease, And never thought to exceed the human start And never learned to climb towards the Sun. 239 Hence the Divine Mother cries out for yet bigger and acuter trials for mankind, so that out of the tremendous labour and pain a greater creation may come into being. Vain are the deluded cries of mortals like the queen ...
... crude outward aspect. She gave us an amusing description of the room where she was put up, an old dilapidated room as dark as it was dirty and a paradise for white ants. Thus it was that the Divine Mother, One who is fairer than the fairest and lovelier than infinite beauty had to come down and enter the darkness and evil of this human life; for how else could these poor mortals have a chance? ...
... from the rest of Savitri, though of course it is also integral to the total scheme of the epic. The occult-spiritual odyssey of Aswapati ends in the fourth canto of Book III (The Book of the Divine Mother), where he has the 'beatific vision' of the Mother who gives her consenting voice to his prayer on behalf of humanity. Page 415 There is also, in Book VII (The ...
... made felt the impress of its Presence. Page 285 world-labour. There is however, yet another status beyond—beyond the beyond—it is the relation between the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother in itself apart from their work it heir purpose in manifestation, it is their own 'Lila' between themselves, exclusively their own. The delight of this exclusively personal play behind and beyond ...
... accessible part of the epic to even an uninitiated reader. But the reader needs help with the rest of the book. Nolinida begins the second section of this essay by telling us who Savitri really is: the Divine Mother come down upon earth as a human creature "to change the mortal earth into an immortal paradise". Then he goes on to describe Savitri's mission in its two phases. The first phase, that of preparation ...
... know, cannot appreciate the gift, the boon that is brought to him, to his very door: he has only to receive and accept in order to be saved out of all ignorance and grief, impotence and death. The Divine Mother has forgotten herself, has made herself as small and as close and native to earth as any earthly creature, like any one of us, taken upon herself all limitations and indignities, the entire burden ...
... it its full, integral and absolute effectivity. And mortal pain he accepts, and swallows the poison of ignorant life—even like Nilakantha Shiva—to transmute it into ecstasy and immortality. The Divine Mother sank into the earth-nature of a human body: She made of her pangs a mystic poignant sword...... Hoping her greater being to implant That heaven might native grow in mortal soil. 1 ...
... to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. Published February 1975 Page 17 ...
... pursue him in vain and find him not. Neither charity nor benevolence nor rites have any room in his consciousness. He has done the sacrifice of the passions at the golden feet of the Divine Mother. Who can know the infinite power of the name, Kali? The God of gods, the great God, Mahadeva himself sings multiple-tongued praises to her. Page 59 ...
... there is a divinity that shapes —and is shaped at the same time, shapes from behind and is shaped itself in front. This dynamic Divine Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental Divine or the incarnate Divine Mother. In the inevitable course of evolution man is something that will be surpassed, not in the sense that he will be rejected and thrown out as an unnecessary element, like some of the prehistoric ...
... full, integral and absolute effectivity. And mortal pain he accepts, and swallows the poison of ignorant life—even like Nilakantha Shiva —to transmute it into ecstasy and immortality. The Divine Mother sank into the earth-nature of a human body: Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword... Hoping her greater being to implant That heaven might native grow on mortal soil ...
... lump of sugar but taste it instead. The aim of his dynamic personality Page 228 was to purify and transform the egoistic 'I' into the real ‘I’, and take part in the play of the Divine Mother in her creation. The future spiritual realisation will follow this line of development; all efforts will seek to make this great realisation still more manifest, widely established and universally ...
... these favourable conditions there is the towering presence of The Mother. She is not only the organizer who directs and harmonizes our effort, but she is the guide, the Guru, the incarnation of the Divine Mother, to whom all, children and parents, students and teachers, girls and boys, come with love and confidence, for advice, help, strength, comfort and peace. * The Students' Prayer ...
... Not just for * Elder brother Page 38 me but for all her children despite their shortcomings. For Mother was not only divine but also so very human. Even while being the divine Mother, she used to be so concerned about us like any human mother. I cannot communicate this in words. She could be human because she was divine. I have already told you about my Burodadu. While ...
... But she walked so fast that none of them could keep pace with her! We used to joke: "There goes Mother with her eight 'Sakhis'." (The reference was to the eight female companions of the Divine Mother in our scriptures.) Millie-di recounted an incident of that time to me. After her return from tennis, Mother took classes twice a week for the older people - a translation-class. Mother ...
... sincerity and a clear vision are the guiding and protective factors. (73) P eople usually look upon Mother as the Universal Mother pictured as a serious Goddess. But this very same Divine Mother could also behave like a little girl full of laughter, curiosity and playfulness. Let me give you a little instance. After our evening meal, Mother used to rest on her bed while I would spread ...
... plenty of people can prophesy. That capacity is common among Yogis. When I was arrested, my maternal-grand-aunt asked Swami Bhaskaranand, "What will happen to our Aurobindo ?" He replied, "The Divine Mother has taken him in her arms; nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo . He is world's Aurobindo and the world will be filled with his perfume.". Another time I was taken by Jatin ...
... slowly taking possession of our human life, She is moulding it as she wills it to be - A vessel and an instrument-a visible embodiment Of the Consciousness, the Power, the Bliss Of the Divine Mother. October 14, 1932 Page 312 ON this troubled world, distracted beyond measure, Erring in the double darkness of ignorance and ill-will, Seeking remedy and refuge from ...
... fortitude-for beyond is the promised land flowing with milk and honey. *** None is truly weak, not even any limb or element in him. One has only to open to the Universal Power, the Divine Mother; she is the origin and fountain-head of all strength and energy and she can make the mute speak and the lame leap over the mountains. *** There is no error that cannot be repaired ...
... its full, integral and absolute effectivity. And mortal pain he accepts, and swallows the poison of ignorant life – even like Nilakantha Shiva – to transmute it into ecstasy and immortality. The Divine Mother sank into the earth-nature of a human body: Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword. . . Hoping her greater being to implant That heaven might native grow on mortal soil.¹ ...
... know, cannot appreciate the gift, the boon that is brought to him, to his very door: he has only to receive and accept in order to be saved out of all ignorance and grief, impotence and death. The Divine Mother has forgotten herself, has made herself as small and as close and native to earth as any earthly creature, like anyone of us, taken upon herself all limitations and indignities, the entire burden ...
... Supreme Person, the Purushottama. Even there as He begins to lean and look dawn, He expresses himself at the very outset as the dual personality of Ishwara and Shakti (the Divine Father and the Divine Mother) – sa dvitiyam aicchat, as the Upanishad says. That is still the Divine in His highest transcendent status, paratpara. Next, this dual or biune or divalent reality shows itself or throws itself ...
... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo The Divine Mother " THIS IS SHE " The Two who are one are the secret of all power, The Two who are one are the might and right in things. My purpose in this chapter is not to write about the Mother's life, for her life, like Sri Aurobindo's, has not been on the surface. And their outer life reflects in a very ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 9 January 1964 Gracious Divine Mother, It seems more and more clear to me that if there is nothing really but the One; if all our seemingly separate existences and actions are only an appearance, then the only way to do anything effective for World Union is first to get out ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 3 March 1961 Gracious Divine Mother, Mother of Radiances, Is it possible that in a former life I found You—found the Self, became a free soul? Is that what You meant when You said in an interview long ago that there is a contact with the psychic being which my mind refuses ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 11 January 1963 Gracious Divine Mother, Everything in my being wants to give itself to You. Why is there no way, no help? Why can't it be now instead of in some vague indefinite future! Many times I have asked You, in interview, in writing and in prayer about now, and You have ...
... as divinisation of the body, there is such a thing as a conquest of death; in other words, a supramental body. And I believe I had a fore-glimpse of that in this un-aging youth and beauty of the Divine Mother that I had been graciously given to see. And along with this, if the Lord descended with His supramental body, then what 'moja'! 164 (Laughter) Let me 163In the Darshan vision witnessed ...
... lodged itself in order to bring back the erring creation to its lost home. The Divine Love became involved and entangled in the Inconscient, became one with it; only so could she (it was indeed the Divine Mother in her Grace) suffuse the inconscient universe with her own substance and transmute it into its original nature. The first effect or visible sign of this descent or divine infusion is the emergence ...
... Mother and yourself, not so much because they are spiritual or lack variety. SRI AUROBINDO: How do they know about the Mother? PURANI: The poems can very well be taken as addressed to the Divine Mother. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Besides, all the poems are not like that— "Garur Gadi", for instance. He has variety too. Of course they are spiritual and mystic. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO (to Purani): ...
... without a moment's thought: Where else could I go, where else could I live after that [i.e. the realisation that for my inmost soul the Ashram was my true home], leaving my true home and my divine Mother? 15 Page 753 II The Ashram had always eschewed politics, and even when Sri Aurobindo and the Mother espoused the Allied cause during the war, or when Sri Aurobindo advised ...
... arranged by volume. Volume 28 — Savitri, A Legend and a Symbol, Part One: The Book of Beginnings; Page 820 The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds; The Book of the Divine Mother. Volume 29 — Savitri — A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL, PARTS Two AND THERE. Part Two: The Book of Birth and Quest; The Book of Love; The Book-of Fate; The Book of Yoga; The Book of Death; Part Three: ...
... were traitors because we did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God; so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother. ( The Mother laughs ) The Mother: It is very sweet. I understand, I know, it is quite clear now. Mona: Mother, while observing Nature he feels that all the leaves and flowers, all the plants ...
... suffering. "That is how the world that ought to have been so beautiful became so ugly." Our eyes were riveted on Mother's face. "Then, when the Supreme Consciousness you may call her the Divine Mother, if you like - saw that, she was very much bothered, you see. She told herself, 'Really, it is not a success!' Then turning to the Divine, to God, the Supreme, she asked Him to come to her succour ...
... role of the Redeemer whose mission is to transform this meaningless mortal life into the purposeful Life Divine. "Savitri is represented in the poem", says Sri Aurobindo, "as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality' ." 10 As a mortal, Savitri weds Satyavan ...
... hers. 25 Although she is born human to save humanity, yet is she divine in her origins. The ray of divinity issues forth unfailingly through the framework of the mortal being. To this Divine Mother who walks the earth in a mortal garb is given the challenge to meet and master. The issue thus presented to her is: Whether to bear with Ignorance and Death Or hew the ...
... fleeting experiences of Love and Joy (though falling short of divine Ananda); but the other two - Falsehood and Death — seem to hold the field still. Hence the pressing need to cooperate with the Divine Mother who with her supramental Yoga will bring down "into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and Life divine and the immortal's Ananda". 8 Page 602 ...
... surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger - for these things are not in its composition. In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely - and this represents itself in an inner giving her presence in 'your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine ...
... earth-consciousness and the higher consciousness is effected .... It is the Divine who is always referred to as Divine Maitre and Seigneur. There is the Mother who is carrying on the sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur or Divine Master. 8 That is of course an over-view, a master-key; but how any individual entry is to be understood ...
... channels. "The whole principle of this Yoga," said Sri Aurobindo, "is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother-Power all the transcendent light, force, wideness, peace, purity, Truth-Consciousness and Ananda of the supramental Divine." 9 From this it must follow that vital relations or interchanges with ...
... of friends come and give valuable assistance in various ways for this cause. I need not express my feelings for what I owe to them — I only pray, "May they be showered with the Blessings of the Divine Mother!" 23.10.1984 Sahana ...
... blessings, and help us derive from them the knowledge and strength needed for the next step forward. Sincerity requires a constant inner reference of all our experiences, happy or painful, to the divine Mother, so that she may turn them to good account for our transformation. Sincerity imparts Page 168 to us the inner perception that, whatever the appearances may be, it is the divine Love ...
... are intensities of delight, of power, of ecstasy, of calm-wideness of self, each carrying its authentic atmosphere with the expression. When Aswapathy felt the approach of the supreme Power, the Divine Mother, here is what he felt: "Spirit and body thrilled identified, Linked in the grasp of an unspoken joy; Mind, members, life were merged in ecstasy. Intoxicated as with nectarous rain ...
... mind, however wide and acute it may be, can be the guide and agent of this manifold purification. The Integral Yoga, therefore, provides for the Page 235 Grace and guidance of the Divine Mother for this super- human work. We shall now consider the process of purification of the human mind, preparatory to the final work of transformation. Page 236 ...
... Matter, her contact with "the horror of the falsehood and the inconscience,” inconscience," "the seat of oblivion and a supreme obscurity"; her intimate colloquies with the Eternal and the Divine Mother, and the help rendered to her in her terrestrial work by the supreme Gods. Perhaps they are a little too mystic and mysterious for the blear and blinkered human reason to understand and value ...
... grown up right from childhood sheltered in the Mother’s Love. The Mother’s laughter, the Mother’s words are still glowing in the treasure-house of your memory. Once you have known and received the Divine Mother Herself as your mother and as your friend, the very tenor of your life changes. The heart’s lyre is always heard in the strain: Ey sansarey dori karey raja jaar ma maheshwari. (Whom need ...
... Aurobindo, "You must go inside yourself and enter into a complete dedication to the spiritual life." Mother said, "This is the exact reply." The second part of his letter said, "Divine Mother, one thing more. Would you change my name, as in the Christian culture Thomas, I believe, is 'the doubter' and truly I have had enough of him." Mother had a laugh. She said Yes, gave the name ...
... Then, looking at me the bhairavi said, "My girl, who are you?" "She is nobody," Dada at once retorted, "she is just an ordinary little girl. The strength that is inside her is the power of the divine Mother of Pondicherry. You tried to fool around with Her. ? Just see your condition!" In a fading voice, the bhairavi answered, "Babu, please forgive me. Please forgive me!" Dada said, "There's no use ...
... this. You know, dear, this is how the maharishis and great spiritually powerfull gurus remove human sorrow and suffering. The Mother did the same with our Ma's pain. After all, She is the mighty divine Mother! Her Grace and divine touch changed our Ma.She was born anew." I listened mesmerised to all these stories about the Mother and the Ashram from Dada's mouth. This was our first contact with Sri ...
... the language and would not need an interpreter. I must confess that the Mother's words before everybody that day had touched my self-respect to the quick. But then, who could say anything to the divine Mother? And so I had to swallow my pain. Whatever She had done was for my good after all. So only when the proposal for taking French classes came from Her, did I understand! In the words of Rabindranath ...
... Living in The Presence Imitating The Mother’s Music I — Divine Mother, people comment that I imitate your organ music. When I play the organ, they feel I am trying to play Your music. Not everything but some parts at least. They call me a copycat of Your music. Mother — You cannot imitate my music unless it comes from within. Sit in silence ...
... Yoga" into Page 5 "Sri Aurobindo's Yoga and the Mother", as I had the feeling that to speak of the "place of the Mother" in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga was not so correct for Mother was the Divine Mother of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Rishabhchand was annoyed and frank about it. I was advised not to take such liberties in future, but he was not at all rude or impolite as a writer of his standing ...
... as a person of great siddhis and as one who had become very intimate with Mother. He was offered a seat in front of Mother ,a rare honour. He was a tantric yogi and spontaneously recognised the Divine Mother at the first sight. He had remarked that Mother was free from all samskara, that is, she was the Immaculate Divine. I had heard before of a tantric from North Bihar who observed the traditional ...
... naturally, it cannot be at once complete; you have to go on until all in you opens and you become completely conscious of yourself, and are entirely in all your being the child and instrument of the Divine Mother. (21.9.31) ...
... quarter. I feel at present that I am not worthy of such a great mission. Is there any means of attaining that fitness?" Sri Aurobindo: "Surrender yourself to God and in the name of the Divine Mother get along with the service of India. That is my Diksha to you." 2 The religious background is unmistakable. Although the immediate aim is the liberation of India, the ultimate aim is the ...
... the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision." There are four great aspects of the Mother —Maheswari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. The "third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her ...
... silent message on how to meditate; and the information about Tara’s indexing 10,000 photographs of the Mother moves us to meditate on the Maha Meru Yantra . For who can exhaust the facets of the Divine Mother? That is why Tara reveals only lightning flashes of those days in Pondicherry when it was as if gods walked on earth while the Supreme kept busy fashioning the Next Future. And how was it done ...
... relation to any formal work that they have left behind them." After his pilgrimage to Amarnath (Kashmir) in August 1898, where he saw the Presence of Lord Shiva, followed by the vision of the Divine Mother at Kshir Bhavani, his bonds began to break. In January 1899 the work of Belur Math was completed. In June he left for Europe and America for the second time. In 1900, April 18, he wrote ...
... O Earth goddess! Peoples are borne by thee: thou art borne by Vishnu. Bear me as well and purify the seat. Om, salutations to Chandika. (Translation by Shankaranarayanan) Glory of the Divine Mother , p. 62. ...
... the gods with immeasurable light, she is Mahalakshmi containing the three gunas, verily the destroyer of Mahisa.7 Vaikritika Rahasya 3, 4, 6, 7 Traslation by Shankaranarayanan Glory of the Divine Mother, pp. 295-96 ॐ श्रीदुर्गायै नमः। श्रीमीरायै नमः। श्रीमीरायै नमः॥ om śrīdurgāyai namaḥ, śrīmīrāyai namaḥ, śrīmīrāyai namaḥ. OM! Salutation to Sri Durga, salutation to Sri Mira, salutation ...
... prophesy and that that capacity is very common among Yogis. "When I was arrested," said Sri Aurobindo, "my maternal grand-aunt asked Vishuddhananda, 'What will happen to our Auro?' He replied, 'The Divine Mother has taken him in her arms: nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo, he is the world's Aurobindo and the world will be filled with his perfume." Sri Aurobindo gave an example ...
... boarding house) started on 15.1.45 the Mother gave us a prayer which we always used as our Dortoir prayer for all functions: Sweet Mother We would all like to be the true children of our Divine Mother. But for that, Sweet Mother, give us the patience and the courage, the obedience, the goodwill, the generosity, and the disinterestedness, and all the necessary virtues. This is our prayer ...
... Correspondence Tara's Correspondence with The Mother Undated O my dear Mama, Mama, I pray and pray and pray to You. Come, come, come, O my sweet Divine Mother. Come spread thy light in the heart and make it bright, for it is full of darkness. Surely, dear little star, you will become all luminous as it is the nature of a star to be. My love and ...
... could not be undone. Doubt gives way to Faith Mother would talk to me about many things. I listened carefully but some doubts lingered in my mind. Although I knew that our Mother was the Divine Mother, mental reservations remained on some matters. And then an event took place which made a believer out of me.The 2nd December program was organized in the playground. Once the practice sessions went ...
... poetry of Kabir. In Bengal again at the end of the Mahomedan period there is the same blending of fervent devotion with many depths and turns of religious thought in the songs of Ramprasad to the divine Mother, combined here with a vivid play of imagination turning all familiar things into apt and pregnant images and an intense spontaneity of feeling. In the South a profounder philosophic utterance is ...
... and present Eternal in which the temporal being exists and to which in man it increasingly turns for transcendence. The sentiment of the Bengali poet, the wonderful singer and rapt devotee of the Divine Mother,— How rich an estate man lies fallow here! If this were tilled, a golden crop would spring,— expresses the real Indian feeling about human life. But it is most attracted by the greater ...
... 9 Plenitude 26 Pleroma 130 Poems 590 Poet-Vision 654 Pointers 18 Pool of Lonelinesses 72 Pranam to the Divine Mother 397 Prayer 159 Prayer for Perfection 398 Prefigure 39 Prelude 86 Prophecy 569 Psyche 361 Psychophany ...
... laughter" (a la Aeschylus though in a super-Aeschylean sense) of the waves of Infinity. The rock-supported Ashramites are all in the form of children because the psychic being that turns towards the Divine Mother is always a seer-child. But Lalubhai, who is found among them, does not need to have a child-form since very much of him is an unpretentious though wisdom-seeking child. Perhaps the name I gave ...
... 147 touch with every kind of spiritual experience anywhere. What is at issue is the Integral Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation whose radiating centre was the embodied Divine Mother gathering around her all those children of hers who had in these times a special affinity with her mission and brought both their qualities and defects to lay at her feet in loving self-surrender ...
... flesh And never fade away. I know that your sweet limbs Withdraw from gaze and touch Because the outward light I crave and prize too much. * One day I thought the Divine Mother was moving away from me in outer contact This hurt very much. But, if it was a fact, 1 tried to see the truth behind it. The result was the personal poem here. Page 571 I know ...
... mighty Will and Wisdom that are our origin and that work to make us realise we are their immortal children. To feel at every moment our lives as at once streaming out of, and leaping towards, a Divine Mother-Father is the single task we all have in common. If the dreamings and doings of each of us stand apart from those of others instead of joining together in an harmonious effort, we shall fall short ...
... The Sun and The Rainbow PRANAM" TO THE DIVINE MOTHER There are two ways of bowing To you, O Splendour sweet! One craves the boon of blessedness. One gives the soul to your feet. Pulling your touch to ourselves we feel Holy and happy — we think huge heaven Comes close with you that we may pluck A redder ...
... twelve Books, with an epilogue, but while even the epilogue got written - at least as a general first draft - and the Book of Beginnings, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, the Book of the Divine Mother, the Book of Birth and Quest, the Book of Life, the Book of Love, the Book of Fate and several other Books are available for enthusiasts of spiritual poetry, the one single Book which does not exist ...
... 17.9.34 …I do not gather from what is quoted as said by your Guru that he claimed to be the Avatar. It seems to me that he claimed to be a Power preparing the way for the work of the Divine Mother.... Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: The Guru and the Avatar 25.8.1935 Bharat Brahmachari got an adesh in 1925-26 to go to Brindavan to invoke the Mother. He of ...
... The answer was immediate and non-ambiguous: “Gangaram édér panch lakh taka diyédé” = Gangaram give them Rs 5 lakhs — and that was that. My conclusions after all these episodes would be that the Divine Mother was more and more manifesting in the Physical and Pranab-da served as the vehicle — the doer. Pranab-da’s temper as mentioned was both a boon and a bane. There was an episode where I was much ...
... limit to that enlightenment. A certain mixture of shadow was accepted as inevitable. At rare moments a flashing doubt about this grey inevitability escapes their lips: Earth then appears to be a divine Mother waiting for some final apocalypse of herself. But the vision of that perfect life is never clearly held before the consciousness: fugitive symbols of its possibility float down from the high trances ...
... inner experience. Tantra is basically a fusion of the three aspects of Joy (ananda or love). Knowledge and Power, i.e. the power and joy of effectuating knowledge in the creation, which is the Divine Mother. The aspect of knowledge has always been important to me — the thirst to arrive at an understanding of what everything is aiming at. The one thing that was always very clear from the beginning was ...
... the part of the sadhak. It comes more easily with the eyes shut than with the eyes open, but it does come in both ways. But is it not extremely difficult to see the fully flaming resplendent Divine Mother? I don't believe X or anybody would have that at first view. That can come only if one has already developed the faculty of vision in the occult planes. What is of more importance is the clear ...
... Auroville Foundation Ceremony 1979-02-21 Our brother Narad had arranged on 21st February 1979, The Mother's birthday, a flower-show at his place in Auroville as a loving offering to our Divine Mother from his dedicated family. For me to go to his garden would have been a joy even on any other day, to see brother Narad with his plants as if he were near the Mother. The plants speak to him, of ...
... Gift of Brilliant Beautiful Asana 1979-10-03 The Asanas—of dazzling snow-white light—symbolise the basis of a supreme new earth-life of unchanging immortal Ananda-Light of the Divine Mother brought by the Supramental Godhead. On this basis a new luminous creation takes place with a diversity of embodied consciousness, symbolised by the different colours. The harmony of the diverse ...
... "He is my lion!" Champaklal Speaks illustrates how his first and foremost aspiration — to spend every moment of his life and all his energy in the service of his Lord Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother — was amply fulfilled by Their infinite Grace. In fact, as Champaklalji might have put it, it is more appropriate to say that he was chosen by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother who themselves moulded ...
... force, or the force of the World-Mother, is directly empowered by the Supreme. The initiated reader of Sri Aurobindo's literature instantly remembers the word in The Mother : "The Grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme." 4 That is why Gokak sees in Savitri a doctrine which incarnates as imagination. 5 This is not wholly true, because there are moments in Savitri where new ...
... give them to him. He wants you to write on the white lotus and I on the red.” With a beautiful affectionate smile Sri Aurobindo said: “Umm.” Then he wrote above the white lotus: Aditi The Divine Mother And under the red lotus he wrote: To Champaklal With blessings 2.2.40 Sri Aurobindo After writing, he looked at me and gave a sweet smile. Then above the red lotus Mother wrote: ...
... deeply the 43 Hymns to the Mystic Fire, SABCL, Vol. 11, pp. 440-41. 44 Savitri, p. 121;-see also p. 301. Page 123 holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother." 45 In the Epic's passage Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. The great World-Mother by her sacrifice Has made her soul the body of our state; Accepting sorrow and un ...
... fierce and perilous battles.... Sri Aurobindo chose the legend of Savitri to bring out not only the "fierceness" of these "perilous battles" but through these the "beautiful face of the Divine Mother" in Savitri, the "Daughter of Infinity" and Symbol of Light bom to be established in this our world of shadows and limitations. But the Daughter is also the Mother of Mothers who comes ...
... hands". Man's earth-bom heart is never forsaken by it. And perhaps the intensest throb of that heart is heard in those four long colloquies — first, the dialogue between King Aswapati and the Divine Mother who grants him the boon he so passionately craves: O radiant fountain of the world's delight World-free and unattainable above, O Bliss who ever dwellst deep hid within ...
... changed its title to "Book II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds". When he came to the last four sections of the former Book of Beginnings, he grouped them into "Book III: The Book of the Divine Mother". 16.Sri Aurobindo's last complete manuscript of the first three books of Savitri , dated 1944, was written in two columns on large loose sheets. But later he rewrote many passages in ...
... (Correspondence with Debou) Debou's Correspondence with The Mother 4 January 1952 O divine Mother, sweet Mother, Make of me the hero warrior I aspire to become, so that I may fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure, so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them ...
... and inaction; the force of inconscience. Tamas is one of the three Gunas or modes of Nature. Tantra —a yogic system based on the principle of Consciousness-Power (conceived of as the Divine Mother) as the Supreme Reality; its method of discipline is to raise Nature in man into manifest power of Spirit. Tantrik —relating to Tantra; a follower of the Tantra system of philosophy and ...
... Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Chinese Language On seeing the artistically designed cover of the Chinese translation of The Life Divine , Mother was specially pleased and remarked on Chinese habits and referred to their language. She said: “In Japan I had also learnt some Chinese besides the Japanese Language; but only so much as was necessary ...
... of my Lord, with the will of my Lord, by the power of my Lord, stop immediately harassing us. ( Prayer given to children of Dortoir Boarding ) We all want to be the true children of our Divine Mother. But for that, sweet Mother, give us patience and courage, obedience, good will, generosity and unselfishness, and all the necessary virtues. This is our prayer and aspiration. 15 January ...
... Part IV: Correspondence with Early Disciples Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Muljibhaitalati Divine Mother, I wish to get light on the following points. 1) Have I the capacity and are there potentialities in me to lead this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and p ...
... to these resources being made open. Let us take an example from Canto Four Book Three, Savitri , p. 347, about Aswapati’s return to the mortal world after receiving an exceptional boon from the Divine Mother. The Centenary Edition reads the text as follows: Once more he moved amid material scenes, Lifted by intimations from the heights And twixt the pauses of the building brain Touched by the ...
... end this note with a blessing of love from Sri Satprem which he personally sent me in February, 2005. r r fevrier 2005 To Shankar In this auspicious month of the Divine Mother it is most touching to read re-read and re-read Your faithfulness in the Truth Divine With my deepest Love and Mother’s Love Satprem Shankar Bandyopadhyay Hari Krishna ...
... occasions; the advice was asked of her, and together with the advice she always gave something else, more profound, more powerful than her often misinterpreted words. She was, lest we forget, the divine Mother who by her Yoga had become the body of the Earth, who was literally present in the rock, the tree and the yogi, in the swindler and in the secretary-general, in the just and in the sinner, in the ...
... actual facts. Once it so happened that ‘God’ decided to exteriorize himself ‘in order to know himself in detail.’ To that end he first manifested his Consciousness, which is the Universal or Divine Mother, and ordered her to make a universe. The Universal Mother emanated four beings, representing the four essential powers of God (and therefore of herself): Truth, Consciousness (that is Light), Life ...
... through the Peace you can perceive the śantimaya [all-peaceful] Shiva; in the Light, in the delivering Knowledge, the Love, the fulfilling and uplifting Power you can meet the presence of the Divine Mother. It is this perception that makes the experiences of the bhaktas and mystics so rapturous and enables them to pass more easily through the nights of anguish and separation; when there is this s ...
... limit to that enlightenment. A certain mixture of shadow was accepted as inevitable. At rare moments a flashing doubt about this grey inevitability escapes their lips: Earth then appears to be a divine Mother waiting for some final apocalypse of herself. But the vision of that perfec f life is never clearly held before the consciousness: fugitive symbols of its possibility float down from the high trances ...
... An ampler ether, a diviner air and found in our Ashram's Mother a living culmination of the most precious and profound truth of the Roman Church -the vision and worship of the Divine Mother through the figure of the Virgin Mary. Of course, this is not the only source of soul-fulfilment for you. The Himalayan presence of Sri Aurobindo has given you the sense of reaching the end of all ...
... psychological pointer suggesting what in us is to be the principal motive-power of our sadhana: the heart in its wholeness - the heart which in its innermost recess knows itself to be a child of the Divine Mother and in its outermost aperture feels a spontaneous affinity to all the other children of the same Supreme Creatrix. This twofold heart, with its rapturous root within and its felicitous flower without ...
... studied with sympathy. But I found them all insufficient and some of them narrow in attitude when I stood in the presence of Sri Aurobindo and his gracious co-worker whom his disciples hailed as the Divine Mother incarnate. Page 212 Such intimate knowledge of the world-process, such illumined understanding of human nature, such evocation of the inmost soul to suffuse the commonest activity ...
... the news you give of yourself is hardly comforting. What is of comfort is that you are holding on with undiminished courage and even turning your troubles into occasions for going closer to our Divine Mother. About one trouble in the future I can assure you that you can take it quite lightly. I mean the cataract operation. I have had both my eyes operated on for cataracts -of course, not at the same ...
... Present swallowing up all past and future. In our yoga's language I would not speak of any "standing". I would just say of myself: 'Tying, endlessly accepted, in the time-transcending love-lap of the Divine Mother." Page 265 ...
... possible out of the treasured silence of those depths. (31.5.1992) Page 66 Your cries for help have been reaching me for quite a time. I am offering you into the hands of our Divine Mother. The answer I get is: "Patient endurance." You have to stop being frantic. The fear-complex has come before and it has gone. Now too it will be on its way out. You must be certain of this. In the ...
... a compassionate insight into human frailties, a joyous imaginative response to Nature, both living and inanimate, a lordly sense of the supreme Self of selves, a simple heart ever adoring the Divine Mother and with profound humility facing always an Infinite still to be realised. (22.11.1991) Page 273 ...
... vacuity: such was my "experience". What was totally free and void appeared to be waiting to be repopu-lated - by millions of Sri Aurobindo, a countless number of Page 193 the Divine Mother! It was the thrilling presage of a transformed humanity, a perfected earth-life. This prophetic part of the "experience" denoted the new turn given by the Integral Yoga - the creative turn - to ...
... physical frame and could somehow play the artist with the lines of her face, turning the preceding expression of peace to a hint of delicate Page 15 delight at the subtle sight of the Divine Mother. I remember calling Richard Hartz's attention to this sweet change. The other experience was caught from a large picture of the Mother hanging behind the bed on which Lalita had been laid. This ...
... in me, eternal Allah's naught but I." Page 5 Now for the other lines you quoted to me from page 343 of Savitri, a passage which is part of Aswapati's long speech to the Divine Mother: A power arose out of my slumber's cell. Abandoning the tardy limp of the hours And the inconstant blink of mortal sight, There where the Thinker sleeps in too much light ...
... communicate my small attempts to be a mere tool in the all-guiding hands of Sri Aurobindo and be taken by them through every movement of life to the radiant feet of his companion and co-worker, the Divine Mother - feet that hold the sense of all journeys done and the promise to us that we world-wanderers will at last reach home by surrendering ourselves to them. You have given me a good glimpse ...
... Aurobindo has invoked is in full sway, there is bound to be the play of untoward possibilities getting realised. However, our confidence should remain intact that whatever the look of things the Divine Mother will never fail to use it for the benefit of her devotee-children. At the same time we must bear in mind her statement that her blessings are basically for the soul's good, the soul's progress ...
... rhythm which seems like a universal humming with small ups and downs of tone and, while this large peacefully listening poise is enjoyed, some sort of warm "aroma" of self-offering wafts towards the Divine Mother present everywhere yet wearing the face and form of the human-looking Mother we have known in the Ashram as our Guru and this "aroma" emanates from a small centre which is myself deep within, a ...
... in the text. King Aswapaty (corrected form of the old spelling "Aswapathy") has returned from his exploration of the supra-terrestrial "planes", which had culminated in his vision of the Divine Mother and his securing a boon from her for the world. Though back on earth, he is still receptive to influences from beyond: Once more he moved amid material scenes, Lifted by intimations from ...
... several-aspected ascension made visible to us through those apertures in the dark background of the Virgin's fair face. All this appears to be significant of the varied conditions under which the Divine Mother consents to work in her earthly manifestation through the development of what we term the Psychic Being down the ages, the inmost Soul projected from on high to bring gradually the heavenly plenitude ...
... through all... The passage from At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate to Below, the wonder of the embrace divine is one of the finest in Savitri, revealing the Divine Mother in magical words that can stand full comparison to what I have termed the mantra of mantras, the description of the Divine Mother's incarnation in the young Savitri, breaking upon our marvelling ...
... nter who gave us that unforgettable as well as that unfathomable beauty of a picture known as "Mona Lisa", the picture of a noble lady who is said to have been a past emanation of our Ashram's Divine Mother. Once, looking at the long finely moulded fingers of the Mother in a certain pose, I remarked to her: "How much your hand resembles Mona Lisa's as depicted in Leonardo's great painting!" She very ...
... three predominates but I see in you on most occasions all of them Page 234 jointly at work. The way you are facing your body's troubles without losing even an iota of faith in the Divine Mother and with actually finding in them subtle opportunities to have a more intense relationship of love with her shows how strong the sweetness is and how radiant the strength and how calm and warm the ...
... have gone, getting rid of the quivering hopes for the nights that are ahead, we must gather all our thoughts and feelings and dreams in the living moment, make it an outward-inward offering to the Divine Mother. An offering to her, made with full absorption in the sense of her luminous beauty, will wipe off the script of karma and render us new-bom and,, if we let the offering keep out the worry over ...
... my way. Give up and I shall do all that is needed.' " The only thing we have to do is to open ourselves to the Grace constantly - a persistent attitude of being a simple child in the arms of the Divine Mother. From the little that I know of practical sadhana I would call this attitude a state of never-stopping flow of spontaneous warmth from the heart-centre to the Truth that is Sri Aurobindo and the ...
... fact to note in his Savitri. The achievement of the heroine's father - the long manifold Yoga and detailed exploration of the various ascending planes right up to the highest, from which the Divine Mother emerges to meet him - represents the long spiritual labour of Sri Aurobindo himself. The name of this Aurobindonian "thinker and toiler in the Ideal's air" is Aswapati, "Lord of the Horse". ...
... Aurobindo has explained its root meaning and applied it to Bankim Chandra Chatterji for his discovery of the mantra of India's renascence in the song Bande Mataram, that cry of obeisance to the divine Mother Spirit which is felt behind India's idealistic and soul-questing activity down the ages. In its highest connotation, "rishi" means one who brings about the creative expression of the secret divinity ...
... What, however, shall we say when we hear that once she was "extremely restless", "a bit annoyed with herself" and "dejected", on finding she could not control her body for a time? Is this the Divine Mother whom we have known? Was she reduced to the merely human level of despair? Surely it is illogical to jump to a conclusion on the strength of our normal interpretation of appearances. Might not the ...
... of 1936 had been printed I made to new reading of two words from Sri Aurobindo's manuscript. The letter as it stood in print read: "Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother... The narrative is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened, so as to 'hew the ways of Immortality'." Now, instead of "The narrative" I deciphered ...
... being, the All-Person of whom all beings are personalities, the Power from whom are all powers, the Self, the Spirit in all, by his being the Father of all that is, in his Consciousness-Force the Divine Mother, the Friend of all creatures, the All-blissful and All-beautiful of whom beauty and joy are the revelation, the All-Beloved and All-Lover. In a certain sense, so seen and understood, this becomes ...
... without his ego-annulling and desire-destroying Nirvana or Ramakrishna's intensely radiant nature and healing atmosphere can be acquired without his rapturous realisation of the omni-present Divine Mother. Qualities of the soul reach their acmes only through the soul's awakening to its cosmic and transcendent source. But Russell's failure to assess rightly the validity and worth of spiritual ...
... Sea"). 7. Ibid., p. 7 (“Life's Extremist"). 8. Stephen Crane, Prose- and Poetry. The Library of America, 1984. 9. Amal Kiran, Altar and Flame, p. 40 ("Pranam to the Divine Mother") 10. Ibid., p. 26 ("Dante Meets Beatrice in Purgatory"). Page 219 ...
... intuitive consciousness of the poet may be received by our own 'soul' and open in us A golden temple-door to things beyond." (27.3.1976) By the grace of the Divine Mother Amal Kiran had a fearful experience which showed him what in reality jealousy is. The experience in his own words is as follows: Page 78 I was sitting ...
... many, especially the more tradition-minded, it was an almost insurmountable difficulty to accept a foreign lady as being on an equal footing with Sri Aurobindo, let alone as the incarnation of the Divine Mother. Meanwhile, Mirra, whom we will call ‘the Mother’ henceforth, looked after Sri Aurobindo’s household, kept herself at a distance as much as possible, and enjoyed for seven years ‘an integral ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Here is the letter written by Alain Grandcolas and Ruud Lohmann to the Mother on 15.2.73: Divine Mother, Roger asked us to go to Huta to discuss certain things regarding her house near the Matrimandir as to how she wishes to have it built. She said that everything should be done exactly according to the Mother's wish. We asked ...
... Since the Mother gave her blessings and since all the letters were written to me, I had every right to publish the booklet without anybody's permission, guidance and support. Nobody except the Divine Mother can ever use me as their instrument. So once and for all, please remove from your mind the idea that some people have used me as their instrument. For I am not involved in the management, I am ...
... on the Terminology of The Mother Further Sri Aurobindo discloses in Vol. 25, pp. 62, 64: ... Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the Supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother; by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal consciousness forms of the Godhead ...
... put all these things in the recess—12x12x12—the children will cover the recess with cement, and adorn the place with the flowers of "Power" which are the most favourite flowers of Mahakali. Our Divine Mother too loved these flowers. Then all of us will pray sincerely to the Supreme Power to set everything right not only in Auroville and in the Ashram but in the whole world. Finally I must let you ...
... for the working of the evolutionary Ignorance. As the ignorant mental, vital or physical being is not itself the Divine, although it comes from the Divine—so the mechanism of Prakriti is not the Divine Mother. No doubt something of her is there in and behind this mechanism maintaining it for its evolutionary purpose—but what she is in herself is not Page 41 a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine ...
... exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and Page 80 motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. It [ the idea that the sadhana is done by the Divine rather than by oneself ] is a truth but a truth that does not become effective for the consciousness until or in ...
... plays a very large part wherever the religious impulse is most richly fervent and springs most warmly from the heart of man. The soul goes to the Mother-Soul in all its desires and troubles and the divine Mother wishes that it should be so, so that she may pour out her heart of love. It turns to her too because of the self-existent nature of this love and because that points us to the home towards which ...
... self-surrender of its being to the Eternal, God is all and all is the Godhead. It knows God as the Father of this world who nourishes and cherishes and watches over his children. It knows God as the divine Mother who holds us in her bosom, lavishes upon us the sweetness of her love and fills the universe with her forms of beauty. It knows him as the first Creator from Page 329 whom has originated ...
... field of unrest—to go through it in the right way one has to offer one's life and actions to the Divine and pray for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands. In her condition the one thing by which she can enter into the sadhana is to remember the Divine always, taking her difficulties as ...
... mind on the higher Self so long as you have no consciousness or experience of it? You can only concentrate on the idea of the Self. Or else one can concentrate on the idea of the Divine or the Divine Mother or on an image or on the feeling of devotion, calling the presence in the heart or the Force to work in the mind and heart and body and liberate the consciousness and give the self-realisation. ...
... to which the body is only a small instrument and nothing more. One must therefore dismiss all fear of new things and accept with calm and confidence each field of new experience, relying on the Divine Mother-Force for guidance and support and protection throughout the change. The sadhana is a difficult one and time should not be grudged; it is only in the last stages that a very great and constant ...
... psychic and the lotus indicated the opening of the psychic consciousness. The twelve-petalled lotus and the twelve-rayed sun indicate the same thing, the complete Truth-consciousness of the Divine Mother. It was rising but only half risen. The red colour was the sign of Power. All these things are signs, now often repeated, of the process that is going on. The heat is the result of the psychic ...
... may take the place of the mind's activity, are the requisite conditions of the Yoga. Page 44 The further method is,—(1) To concentrate in the heart and aspire and (2) to call to the divine Mother to enter there and purify the mind and vital and unveil the psychic being so that her constant guidance and presence in it may be felt always and (3) to concentrate in the quiet mind and (in the ...
... but as the loving and compassionate human Mother as well. The Mother is not giving every day, only from time to time. But why do you want to meet her as a "human" mother—if you can see the divine Mother in a human body, that should be enough and a more fruitful attitude. Those who approach her as a human Mother often get into trouble by their conception making all sorts of mistakes in their approach ...
... claiming to serve the Divine? Since they are "grands" they must have been well-known persons. I can see only one—Rasputin. Hitler, Page 605 Stalin and Co. do not claim to serve the Divine. Mother was not speaking of these but of others met by herself. But "grands" here does not mean great in the worldly sense, that is incarnating in famous people, but powerful in the vital world. ...
... of Page 601 the 'Divin Maître' and myself". It is the Divine who is always referred to as Divin Maître and Seigneur . There is the Mother who is carrying on the sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur or Divine Master. This kind of prayer from the Divine to the Divine you will find also in the Ramayan and the Mahabharat ...
... existence is one movement and an expression of its peace and strength and Ananda. 23 January 1929 For Kantilal Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. 16 April 1930 For K. Krishna Rao Go below the surface of the consciousness deep within, for there ...
... and you must take the right attitude and openness to the Mother. Mother, how can one always receive Ananda from you? By thinking less and less of oneself and more and more of the Divine. Mother, how can I open myself to you? By quieting the mind and vital, by concentrating more on the Mother and by calling for her Force to enter and work in the being. Mother, why is one harmed ...
... destined hour came. I do not gather from what is quoted as said by your Guru that he claimed to be the Avatar. It seems to me that he claimed to be a Power preparing the way for the work of the Divine Mother and even to indicate that all that he meant would be manifested not only by his own followers but by other groups (সম্প্রদায়), consisting evidently of those who had not had him for Guru but had ...
... over the world movement or some part of it or some movement in it. But the Four of whom you speak are also Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother, by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine Personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal consciousness-forms of her Godhead ...
... says, "Keep yourself always open to me" and "I am always with you and around you." How am I to feel her presence always? Also, what does "conscious" mean and how does one become conscious? The Divine Mother is everywhere and at all times she is with you. If one opens and becomes conscious, then one can feel her presence. It is because the nature is ignorant, full of itself and its desires that one ...
... Mother's Force The Mother with Letters on the Mother Pressure of the Descending Force This is the meaning of your experiences: (1) The power of the Divine Mother from above is descending upon you and the pressure you feel on your head and the workings of which you are aware are hers. Put yourself completely into her hands, have entire confidence, observe ...
... also help to open it farther—though they are not indispensable for that. Those who have the faculty of vision may not use it properly or take full advantage of it. Take X. She claims that the Divine Mother comes to her and tells her how to solve her difficulties. But if the Mother ever tried to interfere with those defects and imperfections, I suppose X would not like it. I don't suppose she would—the ...
... Mother is not a development of supernatural force, but if someone is accepted to take up this path of Yoga he is led towards a deeper and higher consciousness in which he can attain union with the Divine Mother. This however is a path long and full of difficulties—Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do not admit anyone to it unless they are sure of his call and his capacity to follow it and the person himself ...
... Presence The Mother with Letters on the Mother Feeling the Mother's Presence Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. 16 April 1930 The constant presence of the Mother comes by practice; the Divine Grace is essential ...
... Méditations de la Mère " in Section Five Page French Original — English Translation 601 divin Maître — divine Master 601 avec notre divine Mère — with our divine Mother 602 Seigneur — Lord 602 Telles furent les deux phrases que j'écrivis hier par une sorte de nécessité absolue. La premiére, comme si la puissance de la prière ne serait complete ...
... in this Yoga and one has to do whichever one finds easiest and most natural. The object of the concentration in the heart is to open the centre there (heart-lotus), to feel the presence of the Divine Mother in the heart and to become aware of one's soul or psychic being which is a portion of the Divine. The object of the concentration in the head is to rise to the Divine Consciousness and bring down ...
... mentions only the Cosmic Powers of the Mother and not her supramental Powers. In the book, after describing the four Powers of the Mother, you have said: "There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental ...
... As a result, I have to pass through various human births and experience pain, separation, suffering, falsehood and ignorance. It is true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. 15 February 1937 ...
... physical, but when these become quiet and the psychic unveils itself, then one feels the presence of the Divine within. 29 February 1936 He must go into himself and find the presence of the Divine Mother within and the psychic behind the heart and from there the knowledge will come and also the power to dissolve the inner obstacles. 21 December 1936 It is good that you have come out of the ...
... conscious. 9 April 1931 Is it true that one should feel that it is the Divine Presence which moves one and does everything for one? Would it be possible to feel it without a union with the Divine Mother? No—that is itself a union with her—to feel the Divine Presence above or in you and moving you. 14 July 1933 Page 189 Nowadays I feel that even my blood flow is united with the ...
... held up and exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. If you want to make any progress while you are here, you will first have to realise how much time you have lost and how far you are from this. Afterwards, you will have to ...
... reference to the appearance of the being, that he was like this or like that, all differing and yet it would be one and the same manifestation. You have the vision of one in India whom you call the Divine Mother, the Catholics say it is the Virgin Mary, and the Japanese call it Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy, and others would give other names. It is the same Force, the same Power, but the images made of ...
... Prayers and Meditations September 20, 1914 My pen is mute, for thought is silent, but my heart aspires to Thee, O Lord, uniting Thee with our divine Mother in one love, one veneration. And through Thee the entire being strains towards the Ineffable; beyond Being, beyond the very Silence, that is united with That. Page 249 ...
... the working of the evolutionary ignorance. As the ignorant mental, vital or physical being is not itself the Divine, although it comes from the Divine - so the mechanism of Prakriti is not the Divine Mother. No doubt something of her is there in and behind this mechanism maintaining it for the evolutionary purpose; but what she is in herself is not a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness ...
... if seen by an Indian, have quite a different appearance; for when one sees, one projects the Page 27 forms of one's mind.... You have the vision of one in India whom you call the Divine Mother; the Catholics say it is the Virgin Mary, and the Japanese call it Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy; and others would give other names. It is the same force, the same power, but the images made of ...
... was no other than itself and its felicity, it became suffering. And that is how the world, which was to have been so beautiful, became so ugly. Now, that consciousness (if you like to call it the Divine Mother, the Supreme Consciousness), when she saw this she was very disturbed, you may be sure, she said to herself: "This has really not succeeded." So she turned back to the Divine, to God, the Supreme ...
... instrument and not the worker." The final stage will be the Supreme consummation: "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force." Keeping this goal before ...
... into tamas when they go into solitude. Oct, 1971* * It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the integral Yoga. 1971* * ... Divine Mother, I implore you to illumine and put a living faith in this dark area in me. Do not give any importance to that part and it will lose its strength and little by little even its existence. ...
... complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana. 3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine. 4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated. Page 24 ( Message for "Meditations on Savitri" ...
... and in his teaching he reveals that all the nations are essentially one and meant to express the Divine Unity upon earth through an organised and harmonious diversity. 15 August 1954 Divine Mother, The officer who is preparing the electoral rolls wants the name of the Mother included in the lists. If the Mother permits, I shall give the name. Page 43 Yes. If they ask ...
... you. You can build a filter; make it a big one! 7 July 1970 A: This is a letter from X. He would like me to read it to you. May I do that? Page 340 Yes. A: (Reading) "Divine Mother, there is great confusion about Auroville's organisation, inner as well as outer. How can we work together towards the realisation of a higher consciousness? It seems that Auroville should become ...
... developments in Bengal. You said that Bengal is not receptive to Your Force and does not accept You. Nothing could be sadder for Bengal. But, Mother, how is it that Bengal, having worshipped You, the Divine Mother, throughout the ages and appealed to You in all circumstances, is now in such a deplorable and lamentable state? Mother, how far am I responsible (for I must confess that I feel guilty) and ...
... to happiness; all the rest is passing illusion. It is not in division but in unity that can be found the solution of human problems and the remedy to human miseries. October 1961 Divine Mother, Could we have a message from you to pass along to those in the United States who may be ready to aid in the fund-raising work we are doing? Money is not meant to make money; money is meant ...
... difficult to bear, I can in no way ask you to stay in spite of the ordeal. 7 October 1959 I see no point in your going to Tiruvannamalai unless you like tourism. 5 September 1964 Divine Mother, Should I return to America and organise the raising of money and spreading the Yoga for you and Sri Aurobindo? Or is this just my active vital talking? I don't wish to back out of the fight ...
... Of those who possess a true value the power of Yoga will increase the value, but from one who has only some false appearance of art, even that appearance will vanish or else lose its appeal. Divine Mother, Do you wish us to try and intensively spread the Yoga in America? Yoga can not be spread by any exterior means. 30 May 1966 May I ask Your help in dealing with the feeling ...
... do through Thy supreme intervention. And all those who are Thyself, manifesting Thee in the perfection of some particular activity, will also be our collaborators, for such is Thy Will. Our Divine Mother is with us and has promised us identification with the supreme and total consciousness—from the unfathomable depths to the most external world of the senses. And in all these domains Agni assures ...
... Mother of the "Divin Maître" and myself. It is the Divine who is always referred to as Divin Maître and Seigneur. There is the Mother Page 383 who is carrying on the Sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur or Divine Master. This kind of prayer from the Divine to the Divine you will find also in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ...
... they cannot conceive that one can do or be something without knowing what it is. That also, one might say if one likes the joke: "It is only when one does not know that one is most divine." Page 66 ( Mother goes into contemplation. ) For those who like definitions, there is another way of answering to "What is the Divine?"... "A vastness, smiling and luminous." And it is there , ...
... My love and blessings. 8 August 1939 O Devi, O Mother! In the secret recesses of my heart's chamber I have always been aware of an instinctive belief that you are an Avatar of the Divine Mother whom I adore, but whom I know not except by Her lotus-feet. That is the reason why my eyes seek Her in your lotus-feet, and my heart yearns to press them to itself knowing them as its sole refuge ...
... one million dollars. × Ganesh : a god with the head of an elephant; the son of Parvati, the Divine Mother. × The room where, on the first of each month, Mother distributed to the disciples their needs ...
... flame of Agni, which is the fire of aspiration. 19 May 1967 Is it possible to make my hands conscious so that they do nothing imperfect, incorrect or wrong? What is the way to do it, Divine Mother? It is quite possible, by concentrating on the hands when they are doing something. Page 363 The hands of painters, sculptors, musicians (especially pianists) are usually very conscious ...
... repetition, but exclusively and uniquely the relationship each one is capable of having with the Divine. Thus, from the psychological point of view, YOU ALONE have this direct relationship with the Divine." Mother then adds, in a voice that seems to come from far, far away: ) One is all alone with the Supreme. × As we will ...
... endurance of the faith. 13 June 1956 Page 229 Look life in the face from the soul's inner strength and become master of circumstances. 19 September 1956 May the Divine Mother give me the necessary force so that the following prayer of mine may become effective. As a son of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, my greatest interest is in Truth. Let not the mountain of pride ...
... grant eternal peace to the departed soul and give you all courage and fortitude to face this irreparable loss. Abhay-da was truly a dedicated Ashramke and his work and respect towards the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo Page 125 shall always be remembered. We offer our heart-felt tribute to this great son of the Mother. Please accept our deepest condolence. 22 August ...
... that is, the effort that comes from pride, vanity, ambition and egoism, disappears from a manifestation, it becomes very simple because Peace, Serenity, Equality and Light, etc. appear where the Divine Mother manifests herself. The simplicity of the manifestation can be compared to that of a flower that blossoms, shows its beauty and spreads its perfume without raised voices or violent gestures ...
... had heard, "Will THEY believe you?" But Mother did say "he" = Pranab. × The white lotus of the divine Mother (the pink lotus is Sri Aurobindo's flower). × The next time, after the intervention of Mother's ...
... ( meditation ) Page 236 × Puja : ritual, ceremony. In this case, the yearly ceremonies to Durga, the divine Mother. ...
... sunlike hands". Man's earth-born heart is never forsaken by it. And perhaps the intensest throb of that heart is heard in those four long colloquies—first, the dialogue between King Aswapathy and the Divine Mother who grants him the boon he so passionately craves: O radiant fountain of the world's delight World-free and unattainable above, O Bliss who ever dwellst deep hid within While ...
... very words from Nature's summits and they are employed to invoke the Supreme Word that has created not a mere poem but a whole world and has the power to re-create it—the Supreme Word that is the Divine Mother turned towards the universe instead of being rapt in Her own self of infinite light, to which the apostrophe makes a reference in the third person while addressing Her aspect of the universe's ...
... what they feel and what they respond to. A last note: It's in reply to an Ashram "association." They asked: "What is the need of the hour?" "Do not try to deceive the Divine!" ( Mother laughs a lot ) Page 85 ...
... Page 194 great and in the circumstances of his time his single-track message had a valuable work to do. Shankara had even a bhakta-side to him: he composed splendid hymns to the Divine Mother and his call towards a featureless transcendent Atman-Brahman was deemed a final necessary step from a world which for all its teeming labour seemed to him incapable of lasting reformation. Knowing ...
... than the assertion that Sri Aurobindo is all for an impersonal Brahman and gives no importance to the Personal Divine and man's relationship with Him of love and service? Self-surrender to the Divine Mother is the whole heart of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga. He 1 has emphatically declared it as something "simple and familiar" that the entire reason of his Yoga has always been "that to follow after ...
... "My Integral Yoga." Your notions of individuality and personality strike me as very superficial: individuality and personality are not opposed to self-surrender and self-dedication to the Divine Mother nor are they destroyed by those gestures and acts; nor, I may add, are they incompatible, in the manifold and harmonious truth of the Divine, with a realisation of the impersonal infinite ...
... piece. 1 p. 187-188. 2 Ibid., pp. 189. Page 278 I have looked upon the God-Rose as the supreme Absolute grown a Form of transcendent Beauty that we may term the Divine Mother joining the Infinite to the finite by her role as Creatrix and joining the finite to the Infinite by her role as Mediatrix. Beauty is an expression of Bliss—Bliss that is the ultimate stuff" of ...
... twelve Books, with an epilogue, but while even the epilogue got written - at least as a general first draft -and the Book of Beginnings, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, the Book of the Divine Mother, the Book of Birth and Quest, the Book of Life, the Book of Love, the Book of Fate and several other Books are available for enthusiasts of spiritual poetry, the one single Book which does not exist ...
... possible without his ego-annulling and desire-destroying Nirvana or Ramakrishna's intensely radiant nature and healing atmosphere can be acquired without his rapturous realisation of the omnipresent Divine Mother. Qualities of the soul reach their acmes only through the soul's awakening to its cosmic and transcendent source. But Russell's failure to assess rightly the validity and worth of spiritual experience ...
... I have no objection to your being the Supreme, only it stupefies one to think of you as such! But there was no question about my being the Supreme; the question was whether there was one Divine Mother or 20,000 Divine Mothers. At the same time I don't see why it should stupefy one (you?), in spite of your absence of personal objections to think of me as such (the Supreme). Why, you are yourself ...
... of him. But Vivekananda was a doubter; he could not blindly accept what Ramakrishna preached. He would say all the time, "I do not believe all you say," and Ramakrishna would say, "I see the Divine Mother, I touch Her, I talk with Her." "I don't believe it. If you show me, then I shall believe." So that was Vivekananda. He was a pakka 305 scientist. You must give me the proof - the proof of ...
... Divine in all their acts, thoughts and emotions. May we live always in You, by You and only for You. 124 - 125 The Happiness Divine Mother, Nameless Eternal Being, Creatrix Supreme, Grace Incarnate in a fragile body Who art beyond the Form and the Formless, Beyond the zenith of our climbing, Beyond the ...
... of the article is saying here that Sri Aurobindo is equal to all of them at once. 191Foreigner, in Urdu and Hindi. The word often carries a derogatory connotation. 192A temple to the Divine Mother who is representative of the nation. Page 135 didn't get the hint. Well, I did go to prison! After my matriculation, in 1920 or 1921, the Non-Cooperation Movement 193 started. ...
... But plenty of people can prophesy and among Yogis that capacity is very common. When I was arrested, my maternal grand aunt asked Vishuddhananda, "What will happen to our Auro?" He replied, "The Divine Mother has taken him in her arms: nothing will happen to him. But he is not your Aurobindo, he is the world's Aurobindo and the world will be filled with his perfume." Narayan Jyotishi also, who did not ...
... towering personality, though in seclusion, dominated the scene. Now the picture, as I said, is entirely different. We can see that all the world is coming to the Mother and accepting her as the Divine Mother, the Shakti who rules, guides and saves. This is what Sri Aurobindo had wanted and laid down since the Mother took charge of the Ashram, as the prime desideratum of his Supramental Yoga. It has ...
... Mother and yourself, not so much because they are spiritual or lack variety. Sri Aurobindo: How do they know about the Mother? Purani: The poems can very well be taken as addressed to the Divine Mother. Sri Aurobindo: Yes. Besides, all poems are not like that—Garur Gadi, for instance. He has variety too. Of course they are spiritual and mystic. [40] Sri Aurobindo regarding Nishikanto’s ...
... instruments. The Tantric discipline bases itself upon Nature Power coiled up in Matter: the release of that all-conquering force through a purification and opening into the consciousness of the Divine Mother, the transcendent creatrix of the universe. The dynamic materialising aspect of consciousness was what inspired the Tantras: the others forming the Vedantic line, on the whole, were based on the ...
... above and the secret wonder that is to be revealed below are both compassed in the symbolism. Here, then, is a flag charged with India's spiritual mission, the mission of rendering victorious the Divine Mother, the infinite Self and Shakti. In this symbolism is the promise both of India's own unity and of a world-union; for, the genuine indefeasible oneness can come only of a sense in all men of the one ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 11 March 1947 Divine Mother, The postman who delivers posted articles to the Ashram Press says to me now and again, “I bring very heavy parcels of type for the Press, I deliver so many money orders to the Aditi office, but you do not give me any remuneration ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 8 July 1947 Divine Mother, My elder brother, who lives in the Pakistan area of the Punjab and is a rich man, asks me: “Should I continue to live in the Pakistan area or migrate from it and become an inhabitant in the Hindustan area? I am at a loss what to do. No ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 29 March 1947 Divine Mother, Several times during the last few days I have seen the taps of latrines and wash basins at the Press fully open with water flowing out of them. Sadhaks as well as workmen, when they turn on taps for water and do not find water ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 27 February 1947 Divine Mother, X wants the handbills advertising his books to be enclosed in the copies of Aditi and thus sent to all subscribers of Aditi . If you approve of it, we shall send the handbills along with the April issue. The handbills I am enclosing ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 5 July 1947 Divine Mother, Today I have fallen victim to a new physical disease — piles. I want to prevent this disease at its very outset. As far as I can see, it has been caused by the constipation that I have had for the last two years. At any rate, I want ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 25 September 1947 Divine Mother, Today J of the Garden Service has supplied eleven plants for the Press grounds and they have been properly planted in his presence. He says that there will be a lining of bricks all along the ditches that have plants inside, for ...
... (Correspondence with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 5 March 1947 Divine Mother, You did not reply about my request for furniture. Shall I remind R about the supply of the sanctioned furniture? I did not reply because your furniture has not been forgotten but your need is one among so many others that have also ...
... (Correspondence with Jayantilal) Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother 14 May 1963 Mother, May the Divine Mother give me the necessary force so that the following prayer of mine may become effective. As a son of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, my greatest interest is in Truth. Let not the mountain of pride hidden in my nature distort in ...
... over anybody; I can plead with a colleague, but I dare not get even a glaring mistake corrected by myself. Even to get that inner title page composed, I virtually had to obtain D's consent to it. Divine Mother, I cannot tell you how unenviable I find my position in the Press. Well, this is unexpected! ... This morning when you came I showed you that I had chosen for the inner page the one you had ...
... included inside a letter: "Ma Mere Divine, cette statuette a ete faite en Pologne. Permets que je Te donne aujourd'hui la photo de Riek, Riek par laquelle Tu m'as me nee a Toi. Janina." ("My Divine Mother, this statuette was made in Poland. Let me give You today the photo of Riek through whom You brought me to Yourself. Janina.") A few minutes later your letter arrived and I knew that the Divine ...
... exception. I offer everything to You with all my love and joy. For my heart's aspiration is only You. I want to be what You want me to be. I want to do what You want me to do. For me You are the Divine Mother, and I am here to serve You. Nothing is more important to me. Difficulties do not matter to me and I am prepared to do whatever You expect of me. Give me the command, the direct and distinct Word ...
... Page 4 from various perils and deceptive quicksands of the Path, if only we can make firm and constant and absolutely invariable our love and devotion, and faith and trust in the Divine Mother and her love. In that case we shall discover to our surprise that no misfortune, however grievous in its appearance and howsoever suddenly overtaking us on the Way and seriously afflicting our mind ...
... of her action, means for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe.... "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are com-pletely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force." (The Mother, Cent. Ed., pp ...
... your purity of aspiration be absolute and pervasive of all the planes and layers of the being.... "The last stage of this perfection will come when you are cod pletely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force.... "You will know and ...
... with what our old scriptures have called ‘the eternal eater of the secret honey of existence.’… I would just say of myself: ‘lying, endlessly accepted, in the time-transcending love-lap of the Divine Mother.’ “ On reading this account from Amal-da we, the younger pilgrims on the Path, can only gape in wonder. 14. K.D.S. as an Expositor and a Counsellor Sethna is a great expositor of ...
... sacrifice of works combined with renunciation of desire, and combined also with attainment of the knowledge of the cosmic forces, cosmic beings, gods and goddesses, as also the knowledge of Aditi, Divine Mother, and of the Supreme Purusha that was conceived and experienced as Transcendental Originator of the universe. At the deeper level, the truth of sacrifice can best be seen in the Purusha Sukta of ...
... is approached by the thought, It vanishes." That Reality is spoken of in the neuter as That ( tad ekam ); it is often spoken Page 60 of as He ( sah) that is one with Aditi, the Divine Mother; it is identified with the Immortality, the supreme triple Principle, the vast Existence ( vasu ) , Energy of Consciousness ( urja ), and Bliss ( Madhu). That Reality is unmoving; it is the ...
... be applied to great yogis. Let me now tell you of the booklet Bhawani Mandir which Sri Aurobindo wrote at this time. It was Barin who conceived the idea that a temple consecrated to the Divine Mother, invoking Mother India as Bharat Shakti, Bhawani Bharati, would be extremely effective for the propagation of the new revolutionary gospel, and at his request Sri Aurobinclo wrote the booklet. It ...
... not that in her case nor in A.B.'s. By seeing the Divine in the Mother, I don't mean imagination or calm, calculated reasoning. But to see actually the fully flaming, resplendent, effulgent Divine Mother in any one of her Powers—why, that is damnably difficult, Sir, at least for me who have not even seen the halo around her. I don't believe A.B. or anybody would have that at first view. That ...
... was laid by Nolini. Soon after, the Sun-God appeared in the eastern sky in his silent majesty and beauty. His beneficent smile kindled in our hearts a hymn of adoration to the supreme Deity - the Divine Mother. On the Prosperity day, the Mother used to distribute our monthly material necessities to each of us. During the long distribution, some of us used to sit by her with her permission. To be so ...
... the Mother that I was absolutely ignorant of things divine and that my sole spiritual observance was the nightly recital of a very short prayer that my own mother had taught me in my infancy. The Divine Mother solemnly looked into my eyes and assured me that my prayers would be guided in future. And guided they have been, steadily and effectively. That earnest look of the Mother was my initiation. ...
... only way to a real self-giving — otherwise the ego always remains in spite of experiences and progress. What is the part in us that demands a special attention even from the Divine Mother? It is the ego that wants the satisfaction of being the first or specially singled out. It is this egoistic vital demand with all its consequent results and disturbances that made ...
... subconscient. It is so probably. Only you have to see that it does not come in again, but remains outside. I was under the impression that when my vital opened to the Divine Mother it would bring in heroism, enthusiasm, intensity and total and passionate self-giving, not only of itself but of all my human nature. And that it would no longer remain a mere witness as now, and ...
... steps later after by-passing her, he understood the situation and stopped, became normal and looked back at the woman. She had disappeared. Immediately the whole thing became clear to him. The Divine Mother had come in a physical form to prevent his quitting the Ashram. He returned and never left the Ashram again. Page 253 Because he is a great man does it follow that everything ...
... “OM anandamayi chaitanyamayi satyamayi parame”. But Mother, the mantra “OM Ma Mira sharanam mama” has always appealed to me more, because I have faith that all the transcendental powers of the Divine Mother are embodied in Thee. This mantra is good and you can keep it. I often recite: “Cry not to heaven, for she alone can save. For this the silent Force came missioned down; In her the ...
... 1967 Mother, May I take it that Thy response will be awakened in me and that your last utterances to me were a definite promise, such as we read in Thy Prayers and Meditations : “Our Divine Mother is with us and has promised us identification with the supreme and total consciousness.”? 32 This promise is still valid. Mother, do I receive what you are trying to give to me? ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 5 May 1963 Gracious Divine Mother. Is this hunger that 1 feel so much of the time aspiration? When I told You about it in an interview long ago (although then I think I described it as a homesick feeling), You turned Your head away as if in disgust or impatience. I am not ...
... your power of observation grow and your mind be prepared from within for knowledge. I am at a loss to know how to tackle the present spiritual thoughts. They are almost all about the Divine Mother and her new creation. They may be very good and helpful for active-minded writers, as they carry some higher truth. But, for me, they come at Page 37 When one is plunged ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 13 October 1957 Gracious Divine Mother, I am so grateful for your letter, for your touch, and for the warm, sweet feeling that I belong to you again. I'm sorry to bother you again, but I'm still con fused about the matter of persistence; the question has troubled me ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 19 November 1957 Gracious Divine Mother, There is something I need to ask you about M before he comes on the 1st. Should I confine my work with him strictly to New Horizon work or should I also do other things I have been doing for him—such as personal and business correspondence ...
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 19 January 1957 Gracious Divine Mother, I cannot believe that in the Integral Yoga the darkness and ugliness and suffering I have been immersed in for almost three years are necessary. Nor do I believe that it is beyond the power of the Divine to help. Only, something is dreadfully ...
... her ascending reality, these are in view of her manifestation, of world-labour. There is however, yet another status beyond—beyond the beyond—it is the relation between the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother in itself apart from their work, their purpose in manifestation, it is their own 'Lila' between themselves, exclusively their own. 1 Death has passed, vast and solemn, and all fell into ...
... instruments. The Tantric discipline bases itself upon Nature Power coiled up in Matter: the release of that all-conquering force through a purification and opening into the consciousness of the Divine Mother, the transcendent creatrix of the universe. The dynamic materialising aspect of consciousness was what inspired the Tantras: the others forming the Vedantic line, on the whole, were based on the ...
... there is a divinity that shapes — and is shaped at the same time, shapes from behind and is shaped itself in front. This dynamic Divine Sri Aurobindo calls the supra-mental Divine or the incarnate Divine Mother. In the inevitable course of evolution man is something that will be surpassed, not in the sense that he will be rejected and thrown out as an unnecessary element, like some of the ...
... individual can successfully grow into a living and harmonious dynamic Truth only when it has in its consciousness at every moment and in every movement of its life the never-failing Presence of the Divine Mother, for thus only a centre can become a divine embodiment and incarnation of the Supreme Mother for the expression and realisation of her truth upon this earth. Page 51 ...
... felt the impress of its Presence. Page 235 world-labour. There is however, yet another status beyond – beyond the beyond – It is the relation between the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother in itself apart from their work, their purpose in manifestation, it is their own 'Lila' between themselves, exclusively their own. The delight of this exclusively personal play behind and beyond ...
... there is a divinity that shapes – and is shaped at the same time, shapes from behind and is shaped itself in front. This dynamic Divine Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental Divine or the incarnate Divine Mother. In the inevitable course of evolution man is something that will be surpassed, not in the sense that he will be rejected and thrown out as an unnecessary element, like some of the prehistoric ...
... individual can successfully grow into a living and harmonious dynamic Truth only when it has in its consciousness at every moment and in every movement of its life the never-failing Presence of the Divine Mother, for thus only a centre can become a divine embodiment and incarnation of the Supreme Mother for the expression and realisation of her truth upon this earth. Page 343 ...
... the vision of the "Divine Comedy". That is the name of his great poem. Comedy means a play that ends in happiness and union – here it is the supreme happiness, the bliss of union with God and the Divine Mother. It is the culmination and denouement of an unrolling of God's play of creation and world manifestation. Dante ends his vision of the play in a single line of summation – indeed in a single word ...
... the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.¹ ¹ Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol. 25, p. 24-25 Page 104 ...
... embraced all wrong customs; To see wrong, to speak wrong I am always prone: Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani! Page 55 Lord of the people, Lord of the Divine Mother, the great Lord Himself, the Lord of the Gods, Lord of the day, Lord of the night, I know none else among the Gods for everlasting shelter; Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge ...
... Supreme Person, the Purushottama. Even there as He begins to lean and look down, He expresses himself at the very outset as the dual personality of Ishwara and Shakti (the Divine Father and the Divine Mother) —sa dvitiyam aichhat, as the Upanishad says. That is still the Divine in His highest transcendent status, par ā tpara. Next, this dual or biune or divalent reality shows itself or throws itself ...
... sea; that too is clearly visible on the map. It is as if giving the warning, "Here am I , the coast-guard ever on the watch. Beware!" It is the Elephant on which rides Lakshmi – gajalaksmi, the divine Mother of Plenty and Beauty. The elephant is the symbol of material power, As Hitler was threatening to cover, as with an ominous comet's tail, the whole of earth and sky, one of our sadhaks here sent ...
... its crude outward aspect. She gave us an amusing description of the room where she was put up, an old dilapidated room as dark as it was dirty and a paradise of white ants. Thus it was that the Divine Mother, One who is fairer than the fairest and lovelier than infinite beauty had to come down and enter the darkness and evil of this human life; for how else could these poor mortals have a chance? ...
... gift, the boon that is brought to him, to his very door: he has only Page 77 to receive and accept in order to be saved out of all ignorance and grief, impotence and death. The Divine Mother has forgotten herself, has made herself as small and as close and native to earth as any earthly creature, like any one of us, taken upon herself all limitations and indignities, the entire burden ...
... itself in order to bring back the erring creation to its lost home. The Divine Love became involved and entangled in the Inconscient, became one with it; only so could she (it was indeed the Divine Mother in her Grace) suffuse the inconscient universe with her own substance and transmute it into its original nature. The first effect or visible sign of this descent or divine Page 94 ...
... instal permanently in an earthly form the Mother Divine. This Temple we call the Ashram has grown through the Power and Influence of Her physical Presence, in order that She may manifest anew. The Divine Mother of the worlds has installed Herself here. In the golden Temple the living Goddess is manifest with all Her Powers of realisation. She has Herself taken charge of the Work now. And the power of Her ...
... replied." From the savings I made of the money given to me Mother I bought a watch for my own mother, a small watch made in Switzerland. It was as small as a ting My mother showed this to the Divine Mother and to that I had gifted it to her. The Mother asked me later: 'You gave your mother a watch? How much did you spend?' "Just sixty rupees. Mother. It was from the saving! from your ...
... permanently in an earthly form the Mother Divine. This Temple we call the Ashram has grown through the Power and Influence of her physical Presence, in order that she may manifest anew. The Divine Mother of the worlds has installed herself here. In the golden Temple Page 49 the living Goddess is manifest with all her Powers of realisation. She has herself taken charge of the Work ...
... slowly taking possession of our human life, She is moulding it as she wills it to be - A vessel and an instrument-a visible embodiment Of the Consciousness, the Power, the Bliss Of the Divine Mother. October 14, 1932 X ON this troubled world, distracted beyond measure, Erring in the double darkness of ignorance and ill-will, Seeking remedy and refuge from ...
... promised land flowing with milk and honey. * None is truly weak, not even any limb or element in him. One has only to open to the Universal Power, the Divine Mother; she is the origin and fountain-head of all strength and energy and she can make the mute speak and the lame leap over the mountains. * There is no error that cannot ...
... promise to Aswapathy of the ultimate victory of the Divine in spite of all difficulties and oppositions. But Aswapathy feels that his mere human spirit would find the task very hard and unless the Divine Mother herself comes down on earth, or sends her representative emanation on earth in a human form, it would be impossible to create the world of Truth here, life divine in the midst of life human. The ...
... integral Yoga. When he went into seclusion after his great Siddhi in 1926, he gave the charge of the inmates in the Mother's hands. Thus the Ashram was founded and the Mother was accepted as the Divine Mother. Since then, the Ashram began to expand rapidly and by 1950, it had become a large spiritual institution giving Page 13 shelter to men and women and children of all ...
... thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice of the Purusha., but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakṛti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. The Mother.— VI Page 169 which they have come. Nature has provided him with necessary instrumentation to realise his oneness with the Divine and therefore one day ...
... the first Canto gives Savitri's detailed description, sequentially it should come third or fourth. The very first prophetic description is given on the occasion of the boon to Aswapathy by the Divine Mother. It is her description before the birth. The appendix begins with that description. Then in order of time comes the vision which Aswapathy sees when Savitri approaches him in the palace. It ...
... "in the deep lotus home" in her own natural being— "on concentration's marble seat", "calling the mighty Mother of the worlds" to descend into her, "to make this earthly tenement her house". The divine Mother descended into her heart and there was "a mighty movement" when the higher Power touched her heart-centre. "A naming serpent rose released from sleep". Then Page 323 every centre ...
... disharmony. The difficulty is not in the intellect itself, but in its egoism and its inveterate tendency to divide and analyse, and concentrate on parts to the exclusion of the rest. But, says the Divine Mother to the Mother, "This intellectual faculty which makes man vain and leads him into error., is the very faculty which can also, once enlightened and purified, lead him further, higher than the universal ...
... of life, money will be restored to the Divine Power and "used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of anew divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision.”¹ The degrading bondage of money has to be annulled, not by a flight or withdrawal from it, but by a complete conquest and mastery. It is not enough to be ...
... the integral union with the Divine, she means a union out of which will pour, as from an inexhaustible fountain. His Love and Light and blissful Force upon this obscure material world. "O divine Mother, Thy march is triumphal and uninterrupted, He who unites with Thee in an integral love journeys unceasingly towards vaster and vaster horizons, towards a completer and completer realization, leaping ...
... Yogis. Disciple : Can one have these things in him when there is complete union with the Divine? Sri Aurobindo : What is the "complete union"? For instance, Ramakrishna asked the Divine Mother not to send him "Kama" – sex-impulse – and he succeeded, but all cases are not like that. It is quite possible to reject something centrally and totally – that is to say, completely – but one ...
... material arranged by volume. Volume 28 Savitri—A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL, PART ONE: The Book of Beginnings; The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds; The Book of the Divine Mother. Volume 29 Savitr i — A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL, PARTS Two AND THREE: Part Two: The Book of Birth and Quest; The Book of Love; The Book of Fate; The Book of Yoga; ...
... are two backgrounds to the central drama played in Savitri . There is the cosmic background, sketched already in Books II and III—'The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds' and 'The Book of the Divine Mother', and there is the human background, to be sketched now in Book IV, 'The Book of Savitri's Birth and Quest'. The wider cosmic background includes the smaller human background, for they are both ...
... Goddess Savitri's promise of the birth of a daughter. Book I, Cantos 3-5; Book II, Cantos 1-15; and Book. Ill, Cantos 1-4: all these describe Aswapati's yoga, the Vision of the Divine Mother and the promise that, "One shall descend and break the iron Law." Page-254 Canto 1. Birth of Savitri ...
... ess of Sri Aurobindo and the other and still he is with us with his simplicity and love. He is a perfect example of devotion, love, humility and service to the Divine. Our ardent prayer to the Divine Mother is for his long life rich with his devotion that would enlighten the paths of aspirants to a higher life. Our humble salutations to Champaklalji on his 89th birthday. Page xviii ...
... and he is making an effort to embody higher and higher values of life so as to find out what is the goal of man -that is what Aswapathy is after. And Savitri is born to him as a gift from the Divine Mother because he pleaded in the House of the Spirit, in the house of the Divine, when he reached by his development the divine consciousness; "he prayed to the Divine for an emanation of the Divine to ...
... Savitri SECTION C 'THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE MOTHER' I THE PURSUIT OF THE UNKNOWABLE' The whole adventure of Evolution, the long weary climb of man himself up the steps of civilisation and culture, the castles of achievement and the inns of tranquillity on the way, all have made Aswapati what he is—the ...
... many times did They allude to this with some sadness—and we, like spoilt children of a rich man, wasted all the wealth away.” When Sri Aurobindo announced that this Mother was the same as the Divine Mother and He Himself then retired into intense sadhana, a few old sadhaks did not readily accept Her as the “Mother”, some of them even revolted. Sometimes in the evenings, Nolini-da used to read out ...
... world is born, The things that were promised are fulfilled. We used to recite this prayer of the Mother every morning and we still do. At the very beginning of the prayer She addresses the Divine Mother: O Divine and adorable Mother, with thy help what is there that is impossible? After the manifestation of the Supramental Light, the Mother finally revealed Herself to the earth. Thou dost ...
... accept life as real. Sri Aurobindo : That is to say, you have to give life a place in the Reality. Disciple : And we are supposed or expected to do everything for you and the divine Mother. But in our nature we are full of ego and ignorance. So our surrender is also full of ego. Sri Aurobindo : But you are supposed to make the surrender without the ego-sense. The law is ...
... instrumental music, to the best of their ability. What is beyond our means, we will leave out. We will focus on things that are within our reach and play records of well-known artistes as examples. Divine Mother, we would like to try this out to see if it benefits us in some way. When you asked me to start the Music section, you specifically told me to make students listen to good music. These programmes ...
... Living in The Presence Bengali Dramatic Section Here is another letter I wrote to the Mother: 9.1.1967 Divine Mother, In order to familiarize students with Bengali literature and deepen their knowledge of it, we wish to create a Dramatic section. This section would present to the lovers of Bengali literature the poetic ...
... Living in The Presence A Letter Divine Mother, Some students have asked me on several occasions about doing a drama with them at the Theater. I thought that next year when they are in my class I could start at the very beginning of the session (1966) working regularly on the drama, fix a day with Vishwanath-da and Pranab-da and inform you accordingly. Now ...
... Divine Power and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of Divine Nature. 43 While, in the language of Yoga, the key role is thus given to Shakti or the Divine Mother, in the language of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy a like role is given to the Supermind. It is the coming or the bringing down of the Supermind that is destined to effect the desired total integral ...
... people. As experiences accumulate, one should observe, discriminate and repeat them where necessary. Man is indeed weak, yet hasn’t this same man been created in the very image of God and the Divine Mother? He has been created to taste all kinds of experiences.” * Once in 1907 or 1908, a non-Bengali gentleman came to Sri Aurobindo’s house in Calcutta. He wanted to see ‘Aurobindo-babu’. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Mona: Still, I remember her quite well. Once when she was ill, she called me to her side and talked to me asking me not to repeat it to anyone. “Your place is in Pondicherry, in the lap of the Divine Mother. I have told the Mother and have arranged everything for you. When I leave the body, you will go there; in fact, all of you will go.” The Mother: You see, she was right. It is true that you received ...
... Mother. She is yours." Baba now sat on the sandy ground and bowed his head on the Mother's feet. Then we came back home. He at once went to Ma and told her, "You know what happened today? The divine Mother told me, 'Your daughter is very fine. She is progressing very fast.' I don't have any more worries Page-39 about you or Khuku. I had come to see how you were and ...
... flabbergasted! I could never have imagined that a human being could think of such things sitting near the Samadhi! I stood up exasperated and very bluntly told the lady, "Our mother here is the Divine Mother. I will tell Her about you." And with a visible huff I marched off. That day was a Sunday. The Mother did not see me on Sundays. I was to go to Her, as usual, on Monday evenings. However ...
... with my own efforts. How did you see so much that's positive in this programme? What was it really that you liked? I thought many times of asking you but never plucked up enough courage to do so. Divine Mother, you are Mahalakshmi, you are the symbol of perfection! How did you see beauty in this programme? The Mother laughed a little and then stayed silent for a while. Then, She spoke: ...
... men, things, events, behind the phantasmagoria of the phenomenal world, he was able to see Vasudeva everywhere and in all things, he was able every moment to feel the protective embrace of the Divine Mother. The realisation at Baroda of the silent, spaceless and timeless Brahman had followed an abiding stillness of consciousness, a sense of the total unreality of the world, an immersion in a nirvanic ...
... with white egrets, and again millions and millions of swarming people. I did not lose heart, not yet, I spoke to Sujata of the "Breton explorers" and I told her that the Bretons worship the divine Mother unknowingly, since they worship "Marie" and there is also Sainte-Anne, their patron.... Three minutes later, we were stuck behind a lorry with its name written in big Page 270 letters: ...
... suddenly, just as when one enters a place with another temperature or another altitude. 6 And, perhaps on her part, expectant Bhaaratvarsha, our India, felt something like the promise of the Divine Mother, in Sri Aurobindo's epic, King Aswapathy, the father of Savitri: One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature's doom by the lone Spirit's power. ... And in her body as on ...
... . The vision is clear and precise .... 24 The very next day, however, Mirra records another marvellous experience. Page 115 She had completely identified herself with the Divine Mother, so much so the "we" became a single power: Then in the silence of our mute ecstasy a voice from yet profounder depths arose and the voice said, "Turn towards those who have need of thy love ...
... She has led me by the hand along the path of the new Consciousness and new Life that She Herself has opened before us. This day I call out to Her, from my inmost being, in all consciousness: "O Divine Mother, come and take your seat at the altar of my heart. Lead me by Your hand on that sunlit path we can dream of only because You have put us on it. Hard as that path might be and in spite of the innumerable ...
... I am but a spark. At this most auspicious moment in the history of the Earth, if I have been able to touch Your feet and receive Your blessings, it is because my Lord Sri Aurobindo and You, O Divine Mother Mira, sublimely radiant Twin divinities, have manifested down here. I am, thus, forever blessed. I pray humbly that I be able to keep myself forever open to the shower of Your divine Grace. ...
... Parul Chakraborty (then in her early teens), relates how in such circumstances started what later became the Mother's celebrated Wednesday classes: On my birthday, 9 January 1951, the Divine Mother presented me with her Prières et Méditations de la Mère. She spoke to me in French and said that I should read this book and whatever I did not understand I should not ask anyone for explanations ...
... near us with a protective envelope simply by developing the right consciousness and placing total trust in the Divine. As regards the avatar, for example Savitri who is the incarnation of the Divine Mother since she has come to partake of human nature, she - even she - needs must seem to accept her full share of human sorrow and pain: If she remained in her supreme consciousness where there is ...
... by the Om chant and the radiance of the small lamp beside the Mother. This little lamp's glow was multiplied a hundredfold, and flooded the room with light! In that flood of light, there was the divine Mother and myself seated in a prayerful state at Her feet. Then, I raised my head and looked at the Mother. She ended the Om chant. A wordless silence reigned for some time. The lingering trail of the ...
... creation' 100-6 mediatrix, collaboratrix, creatrix 100, 105, 117, 156 launching the Arya 101ff Kundalini experience 111 as 'the golden bridge' 115, 293 identification with the Divine Mother 116 vision of Kali, danger to Paris 116-7 as 'paraclete' 122, 138, 242 perfect self-offering 124 departs for France 134 Dark Night of the Soul 134-5 experience in Lunel 136-7, ...
... see through and through. How often have I not seen this radiance, when he used to sit up writing, or when he would rest in his chair, or when he was lying on the bed as if on the lap of the Divine Mother, with unclad shoulders and chest, the hands held together behind the head, the lips smiling in a wakeful dream? Every part of the body presented the picture of a god in human guise... 2 ...
... body in the material world. It is full of love and devotion for the Divine, and aflame with an aspiration for the manifestation of His Grace and Glory in terrestrial nature. It is the child of the divine Mother' descended into the evolutionary experience, and immediately, intimately aware of Her Will in itself. ¹ The Life Divine, by Sri Aurobindo—Vol. I, Chapter XIII. Page 157 ...
... impurities, no panicky obsession with them, no concession or quarter to them in any form, but a silent, unflagging will of rejection, mighty and masterful in its confident reliance on the Force of the Divine Mother, is the secret of purification. The more calm one is in one's rejection of impurities and withdrawal of sanction from them, the stronger one becomes. The Vaishnavic and Christian pre-occupation ...
... barred it. Her love for me had a much deeper origin than my growing, unsteady, adolescent mind could even conceive. The fact, however, came back to me with great impact that she was not only the divine mother, she was my physical mother as well. There was a blending of the human and the divine, which far transcended the human relation of a mother for her offspring or a spiritual relation of a guru with ...
... its outward aspect. She gave us an amusing description of the room where she had been put up - an old tumble-down room, as dirty as it was dark, and infested with white ants. Thus it was that the Divine Mother, she who is fairer than the fairest and lovelier than infinite beauty, has had to come down and enter into the dirt and muck of human life; how else could we, helpless mortals, have a chance of ...
... Goddess who in all beings abides in the form of mother, to her salutations, to her salutations, to her salutations, salutations, salutations. (Translation by Sankaranarayanan) Glory of the Divine Mother , pp. 194-99 उदस्तम्भीत् समिधा नाकमृष्वोऽग्निर्भवन्नुत्तमो रोचनानाम् । यदी भृगुभ्यः परि मातरिश्वा गुहा सन्तं हव्यवाहं समीधे ॥१०॥ इळामग्ने पुरुदंसं सनिं गोः शश्वत्तमं हवमानाय साध। स्यान्नः ...
... Goddess who in all beings abides in the form of peace, to her salutations, salutations, salutations. Devimahatmyam Ch.V, 71-73, unknown, 47-49 Translation by Shankaranarayanan Glory of the Divine Mother 199, 197 आ ते अग्न इधीमहि द्युमन्तं देवाजरम्। यद्ध स्या ते पनीयसी समिद् दीदयति द्यवीषं स्तोतृभ्य आ भर ॥४॥ आ ते अग्न ऋचा हविः शुक्रस्य शोचिषस्पते। सुश्चन्द्र दस्म विश्पते हव्यवाट तुभ्यं ...
... short life to one of the most remarkable and forceful personalities of the age, her life had nothing extraordinary about it. "Nothing happens in the world without serving some purpose of the Divine Mother, and no doubt she came and lived to fulfil a Divine purpose which we may guess but can never know. "For some time before she passed away, she had been selling her ornaments and giving away ...
... myth is realised is the festival of the gods... The gods are at hand, supreme realities of the here and now..." The myth of Demeter and Persephone speaks of the separation of the soul from its Divine Mother-Consciousness and its descent into Matter, (the Greek "hyle"), into Hades. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, called also "the Nether Zeus", is the entire material Nature which imprisons the soul until ...
... felt it continuously. To help all was my heart's tendency (3) That service I offered at the Divine Mother's and Lord's Feet (4) At Their Feet, at Their Feet, at Their Feet. Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma.... O mind, repeat Thou the Mother's name This name makes all auspicious And changes all that is undesired. ... The Compassionate Mother's Grace descended, (2) At a tender age the Mother called me, (2) Always had I yearned for the Mother's remembrance and service, (2) And hoped for living a life in that manner. I experienced then the boundless Grace of the Gracious Mother, (2) And felt it every moment, (3) I experienced then the infinite Grace of the Gracious Mother, (1) And felt ...
... Child. The expression of the Virgin is perfect love, compassion and care. The Child in her arms is content, care-free, self-giving. His left cheek touches his mother's right cheek. Amazingly the features of the Virgin resemble our Divine Mother's in her young age. In transit the sheet has got slightly pressed down instead of being fully raised. At its bottom there is in the middle a short inscription... name given by the Mother. Padma had received the Icon from her friend Christiane Roll-Mackie—the Mother had named her "Sahadja". She had a friend called Georges who got this Icon from a Ukrainian friend of his, who in his turn had received it from the Patriarch of Moscow. This Icon came into Sahadja's hands in 1959 and she gave it to Padma in 1961. Padma offered it to the Mother on 25.11.1961. On... 1961 My Savitri work with the Mother 25 November 1961 On the morning of the 25th, when I went to the Mother, she received me cordially and with a smile she lifted from a nearby stool a Russian art-piece—an Icon—the Virgin of Vladimir and the Child. She informed me: You see, my child, how beautifully an artist has painted these images. This precious ...
... 1958 White Roses 01 April 1958 Work only for the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: The Divine Is with You ...
... 1958 White Roses 28 March 1958 Think only of the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Quarrels ...
... 1958 White Roses 06 April 1958 Only adore the Divine. The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 10 June 1964 ...
... 1958 White Roses 29 March 1958 Live only for the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Face and Overcome Difficulties ...
... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Beware of Downward Pulls Beware of what pulls you downward. Do not yield to any lower instinct. Keep intact your aspiration for the Divine. The Mother ...
... was lying in bed after his walk, there was some conversation. PURANI: Dara has written a poem on The Life Divine to celebrate its publication. SRI AUROBINDO: What sort of poem? "Life Divine, full of wine?" (Laughter) PURANI: Yes, you have caught it. It goes: Life Divine Mother's Wine The book is out, Let us shout! The subject then changed to the war. PURANI: Everybody is indignant... NIRODBARAN: In feeling the personal Presence, is it like feeling the Presence of Krishna everywhere? SRI AUROBINDO: As I said, the Presence maybe personal or impersonal. It may be the dynamic Divine with a personal appearance or the still, immutable Brahmic Consciousness which is impersonal and universal. Form is only a certain manifestation of the Presence. You can see Krishna everywhere as a ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Bad Conduct That one feels sad for one's own faults, — this may, if necessary, be useful to strengthen one's resolution to correct them. But that one can be offended by another's bad conduct, this has truly nothing to do with the spiritual life and the service of the Divine. The Mother ...
... Sri Aurobindo The divine Will But why do we do this divine Work? It is to make ourselves... No, not at all! It is because that's the divine Will. It is not at all for a personal reason, it must not be that. It Page 90 is because it's the divine Will and it's the divine Work. The Mother Belonging totally to the Divine That is why, rather... rather than to serve, it is better to belong totally, absolutely to the Divine. The Mother The aim To exist only for the Divine. To exist only through the Divine. To exist only in the service of the Divine. To exist only... by becoming the Divine. The Mother Soulhood The culmination of Karmayoga is a yet higher and deeper state that may perhaps... reason for the existence of the universe. The Mother Inner growth The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker. Sri Aurobindo Only for the divine work Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo The heavens within The heavens beyond are ...
... words from the Mother about Progress: Progress: The reason why we are on earth. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Progress The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Progress Youth: Eternal Youth: A gift that the Divine gives us when we unite ourselves with Him . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Immortality... offers to the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Wealth and Economics Utility: Usefulness of the New Creation: A Creation which aims at teaching men to surpass themselves . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: The New Creation Progress: Power of Progress: Progress is the sign of the Divine influence in Creation. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Progress... Light of Purified Power; Of irresistible simplicity in its power, solely consecrated to the Divine . Life: Conversion of the Aim of Life from the Ego to the Divine: Instead of seeking one's own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life . The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: The True Aim of Life Power: Power in the Service of the Future: Without haste ...
... The Spirit of Auroville It was the Mother's 93rd birthday on 21.2.1971. The following message was given to all: A life consecrated to union with the Divine is the only life worth living . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Darshan Messages Hundreds of people witnessed the laying of the foundation-stone of the Matrimandir on this day. Nolini... Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Matrimandir ... blessing-packets given by the Mother, to place in a recess between the site of the Matrimandir and the Banyan Tree. The holy fire, the symbol of man's aspiration, was lit. At sunrise a recording of the Mother's reading of her message in French and in English was played, along with the music composed by Sunil for the occasion. The atmosphere was enchanting. The Mother's message ran: Let ...
... sound of our Divine Mother's car-horn. In a hurry I went down to the ground floor and reached the front door. The car was standing in front of my house. Pavitra very respectfully opened the door of the car. The Mother got out and smiled. Closely following her was Chinmayi. From the front portion of the car (i.e., from the driver's side) Amrita got out. I was standing in front of the Mother with folded... compassion, eyes shedding grace, as if all divine beauty had burst out as a divine smile on her lips, the Mother once agam put her hands on my head and blessed me, and gave two huge lotuses, one red and the other white. In a graceful voice sweeter than nectar she addressed this unworthy being and enquired whether I was comfortably lodged in that small room. "Mother, all my wants are fulfilled by Thy Grace... hall, in front of the Mother's sacred bed (the bed on which her pure and holy physical sheath had been kept for some days after she had assumed the inner golden body), I was meditating. With open eyes and not in an inner vision, I saw the Mother sitting on the bed with a glowing divine golden body which looked most concretely physical beyond a shadow of doubt. Source: Mother India, June 1980, Page ...
... n the first thing needed is complete sincerity, not only to speak the truth, this goes without saying, it is an indispensable elementary condition, but to be always true to oneself and the Divine. The Mother ... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II To be True to Oneself What has happened was more or less expected. Each one in life acts according to his own nature, and those who are not steady in their faith cannot be steady in their love either. Surely I am not angry with you and my help is always there whenever ...
... were many people and no one did anything.... ( Mother nods her head ) And I told someone to go and get some pomegranate juice.... 1 ( Mother smiles and plunges in again ) × The pomegranate tree is the symbol of Divine Love; Mother called the fruit "Divine Love Spreading over the World." ... July July Mother’s Agenda 1970 July 8, 1970 ( Mother looks tired. Her face is still swollen. ) Difficult moments... ( long contemplation till the end ) Do you have anything to ask?... ( To Sujata: ) And you? You know, Mother, it's very strange, three nights in a row, I dreamed of you and of food. Did you feed me? I fed you, or else ...
... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Lights The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Diamond Light (a) It [ the diamond light ] means the essential Force of the Mother. Page 266 (b) The diamond light proceeds from the heart of the Divine Consciousness and it brings the opening of the Divine Consciousness wherever... wherever it goes. (c) The Mother's descent with the diamond light is the sanction of the Supreme Power to the movement in you. (d) The Mother's diamond light is a light of absolute purity and power. (e) The diamond light is the central consciousness and force of the Divine. The Mother's light is white—especially diamond white. The Mahakali form is usually golden, of a very bright and strong... October 1935 The diamond is the symbol of the intensest light of the Mother's consciousness, so your visions indicate that you saw her full of that light and radiating it. Other jewels must be symbols of other forces, the ruby indicating power in the physical. 23 February 1936 The diamond is the symbol of the Mother's consciousness; the colour depends on the particular force which her con ...
... ABSOLUTELY—absolutely and uniquely—on the divine Will. If He has decided we will be transformed, we will be transformed. I can do nothing—there is no "I," it doesn't exist as this! ( indicating her body ) For those who cling to me, it's the same as clinging to the Divine, because... ( Mother smiles exquisitely ). Ultimately, what happens is His will. ( Mother goes into contemplation for forty minutes... 1972 1972 May Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 May 24, 1972 You are... ( Mother holds Satprem's hands ). I don't know if you are aware of it, but you are associated in all this work of transformation, like this ( gesture of being carried along in the wake )... as if you were fastened to it. ( silence ) But the work is taking... minutes, while holding Satprem's hands. That day there was realization. ) Mon petit.... ( Mother opens her eyes wide ) Page 189 ...
... the bondage, fulfils and creates a Divine Kingdom. The Mother Divine had been very gracious to use the Key of the Divine Grace to arrange, organize and mould my life and transform it into a successful instrument. Under the training of the Divine Grace, the divine intervention is very natural and one is to face it joyfully at every step of life. The reader has come across many such incidents fulfilled... before her for the divine intervention. I suggested to my friend also to pray to the Mother for her help. A letter sincerely praying for the Mother's help to solve the problem was sent by registered post with a copy of my friend's photograph. I was to go to Pondicherry soon after the letter was dispatched. So, I took with me a copy of the letter and the photograph. When I met the Mother personally, I... promissory note every three years. I was sure of the action of the Divine Grace. It went on improving the condition of my friend. We met to change the promissory note in October 1976. He signed it and informed me that the Mother's Grace has improved his business and he will be able to return the money soon. The Divine Mother's intervention and constant help, solved the problem, and my friend returned ...
... the Mother is doing the very opposite of what she is doing. Very often when she has concentrated most to help them by pressing out their difficulties, they have written to her, "You were very severe and displeased with me this morning." The only way to avoid these wrong reactions is to have full psychic confidence in the Mother, believing that all she does is for their good and out of the Divine Mother's... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother Meeting the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Hand at Pranam If the Mother does not put her hand on my head or keep it there for long, does it mean that I was not in a fit condition to receive well? No, it means only that these days there are nearly 140 people and Mother has to do it... quite mistaken. Some time ago the Mother failed to put her hand on the head of a sadhika at Pranam for two days. People mocked at her and looked down at her. As a matter of fact she was having remarkable realisations and getting more power from the Mother at Pranam than on ordinary days. The whole idea is an error. 2 August 1933 I could not understand the Mother's intention in not blessing me with ...
... prayer to the Divine. The Mother Praying with the body To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. The Mother Progress through work One can progress through meditation, but through work provided it is done in the right spirit one can progress ten times more. The Mother The surest... The Mother Work as offering Consciousness develops best through work done as an offering to the Divine. The Mother Page 2 Work is yoga I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender. The Mother The body's... time for that. We are here... to prepare the way for the new creation. The Mother Work, bhakti and meditation I have always said that work done as sadhana - done, that is to say, as an outflow of energy from the Divine and offered to the Divine or work done for the sake of the Divine or work done in a spirit of devotion is a powerful means of sadhana and that such work ...
... disgusted with its falsehood?" It's terrible! ( long silence ) There is only ONE remedy—there is only ONE remedy—to rely only on the Divine Grace. ( Mother takes Satprem's hands ) The only remedy: to put oneself entirely in the hands of the Divine Grace. × The Indo-Russian pact which has just been signed... August August Mother’s Agenda 1971 August 11, 1971 ( Mother gives Satprem a note she has just written. ) "When men become disgusted with the falsehood they live in, then the world will be ready for the reign of Truth." ( Then another note she had had read to K.K. Birla, one of India's foremost industrialists. ) "Truth is within men's... care nothing about Truth." You have something to say? What is happening right now? ( Mother sits with her eyes closed, tries several times to speak, then goes back within until the end ) You have nothing else to say? How do you see that pact? 1 Page 214 ( Mother shakes her hands vigorously, then after a silence ) It's as if you asked me, "What will it take for ...
... when Falsehood is gone (even in a single person—when not a vestige remains...), there must be Light, Peace... ( Mother stretches her arms out )... Vastness... perfect understanding... the TRUE vision of our world and things, and union, a conscious union with the divine Consciousness. ( Mother plunges in ) × All salted... Oh, at least... thirty years! ( Mother laughs ) Try some, and see what you think. Right, I will see! ( silence ) I brought you a flower from the garden: "Surrender of Falsehood." 2 Oh!... ( Mother immediately takes the flower and puts it on her forehead, where she holds it a long time, silently ) I take it in the largest and most profound sense.... ( silence ) Nothing... 1973 1973 March Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 March 24, 1973 Good morning!... Do you eat caviar? Caviar! It is a very good food.... I'm sure! I used to eat it, but now I can't.... Not so long ago I used to eat it, but it made my eyes swell. 1 So I've stopped. How long since you last ate caviar? Oh ...
... 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... 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 Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Aspiration The aspiration should be for the full descent of the Truth and the victory over falsehood in the world. ... 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 ...
... words from the Mother a flooding pain overwhelmed me from within. And I understood why that day the Mother had flung Her arms on either side in front of the Indian map and exclaimed “ Je suis crucifiée ”. I realised that the Mother was taking upon herself all the pain and suffering and sorrow of creation. And the deep significance of this aspect of the Mother is “the Divine Mother’s eternal sacrifice”... What an exquisitely beautiful flower! The Mother called this flower Divine’s Love and on Kali-puja day She would distribute this flower to us in a packet as Her blessing. What an amazing incident! We had heard this story from the Mother Herself in the Playground. The Mother also told us that this flower was for us a symbol and an expression of the Divine’s Love. This story is a Chaldean legend. ... end he was put on the cross. The Mother told us that Jesus Christ had come down to bring Light and Love to humanity on the earth. But man’s ingratitude was such that man crucified him. But it was for this very humanity that his final prayer went up: O Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do . Many centuries prior to this, another incarnation of the Divine had come down to the earth. His ...
... The Mother sent me a card illustrating white, yellow and pink flowers—zephyranthes. They are named by the Mother: Prayer: Self-giving is true prayer. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Self-giving White flower: Integral Prayer—the whole being is concentrated in a single prayer to the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Prayer and Calling the Divine ... and of the joy of the Divine's Presence in all your being. With love The Mother has disclosed in Vol. 12, [p. 447] about the old Mantra: I am going to tell you my old mantra; it keeps the outer being very quiet: OM NAMO BHAGAVATE . These three words—for me they meant: OM—I implore the Supreme Lord. NAMO—Obeisance to Him. BHAGAVATE—Make me divine. For me that has the... aspiring for transformation. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Transformation and the Parts of the Being Deep pink flower: Vital Prayer—the vital implores for its purification. Also the Mother sent me the following Mantra: श्री माता च श्रीअरविन्दश्च शरणं मम The Mother and Sri Aurobindo are my refuge . In my spiritual diary the Mother wrote: Let this year be ...
... can say is that somehow it was for a greater future benefit to the Divine Mother's beloved children. Your fourth question seems to fumble towards an idea of this benefit, but, according to me, too hastily. (4) "Why has the Mother to reappear on earth — as you envision — in order to supramentalise the human body? Is not the Divine free to complete her mission through any other body she may choose... was the Divine's Will that it should not be possible. Perhaps "possible" is an inadequate term and one could have said: "further was not chosen." Here enters your third question. (3)"Is there any concrete explanation why the new process of 'mutation' culminating in complete divinisation of the body was, as Nolini later declared and as you agreed, 'postponed' when originally the Mother as well as... and error which would prevent all chance of success." 4 "The guidance of one who is himself by identity or represents the Divine is in this difficult endeavour imperative and indispensable." 5 Q. — "Is there any special effect of physical nearness to the Mother? A. — It is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external ...
... down the golden light of the higher consciousness. This person ultimately seems to expand and merge into the gross universe. The Mother now leads Champaklal in the new world, towards the Divine Truth symbolised by the golden sun. The saviour touch of the Divine (the Mother) brings coolness to Champaklal's body and does not allow the intense heat to burn it to ashes. A “Mighty transformation” is felt... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal A Magnificent Mystic Darshan 1984-07-13 In this experience, Champaklal already finds himself with the Mother in the new world (“Futuristic place”) which received the light of the Supramental Consciousness (“golden light”) and from where Sri Aurobindo also could be seen in his, new supramentalised body. ... felt by Champaklal who experiences a “Celestial ecstasy”. The “transformation” can only be experienced, it cannot be expressed. Having transformed Champaklal, the. Mother herself leads him into the Light of the Supramental Truth and Force (the Golden Sun), Sri Aurobindo being its embodiment is there. Champaklal puts his head on Sri Aurobindo's lap signifying his total self-surrender and has the tr ...
... The New Year 1973 started. The Mother's message of 1.1.73 was: When you are conscious of the whole world at the same time, then you can become conscious of the Divine . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: New Year Messages I wrote to the Mother as follows: My dearest Mother, For the New Year I pray for your constant Victory. It is really... be done exactly according to the Lord's "Dream". Mother, I have no right to suggest all this but since you had revealed so many things about the Matrimandir, I can dare to write knowing that you will understand me. Mother, I am neither an Ashramite nor an Aurovilian but a child of yours and a lover of the Divine Beauty, Divine Love, Divine Peace and the Supreme Truth. I am here because of... together and the whole thing can be done before your Birth Centenary which is not very far. So far I have never said anything about having a secret chamber for you in the Shrine. Do you remember, Mother, several times you expressed your feeling about having the carved marble seats with satin and velvet cushions so that you can sit there? I feel that you must have your secret chamber in the Shrine ...
... Yoga The Mother has explained: Jesus is one of the many forms which the Divine has assumed to enter into relationship with the earth. But there are and there will be many others; and the children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge. The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles The Mother also says: All... and strives for a total Truth. It teaches us to enter into direct contact with the Divine . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Religion The Mother wrote in Vol. 15, [p. 32] about religion: Why do men cling to a religion? 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... the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Religion Sri Aurobindo has explained about the religions: The Ashram has nothing to do with Hindu religion or culture or any religion or nationality. The Truth of the Divine which is the spiritual reality behind all religions and the descent of the supramental which ...
... have, that's all. 1 And when I see somebody... ( Mother opens her hands as if she were offering that person to the Light ), regardless of who it is: like this ( same gesture ). ( silence ) It's funny, I constantly feel like a little baby curled up—curled up in... (what term to use?) an all-embracing divine Consciousness. ( Mother remains immobile ) And the slightest contradiction that... back into this physical consciousness. ( Mother plunges in, then seems uncomfortable. Champaklal comes and rings the bell ) Page 375 × This "if I lost the contact" and "that's impossible" leads us back again to the same perplexing question. And we recall Mother's words: "Only some violence could stop the ... 1973 1973 March Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 March 10, 1973 What do we do about the Bulletin ... the "Notes on the Way"? Do you have something? Almost nothing, just two small pieces. Go ahead, read them. ( Satprem reads ) Is that all?... Yes (laughter).... Obviously, you don't feel like talking anymore ...
... The question is not what the Mother is going to do with it but what you are going to do with it. 29 November 1936 These ideas are wrong suggestions that you must throw away. There is no reason why you should be able to do nothing in this life or all should be postponed to another. It is in this life that you have been called and are to reach the Divine. The Mother has not left you to yourself... Letters on the Mother Letters on the Mother The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Personal Effort and the Mother's Help The Mother's help is always there for those who are willing to receive it. But you must be conscious of your vital nature, and the vital nature must consent to change. It is no use merely observing that... put a control on yourself and try to change. The Mother's Force is there to help you, but there must be your active consent and cooperation, your own steady will and endeavour. 1 November 1933 I cannot do anything myself so long as the inertia in me is so strong. May I ask, what does the Mother mean to do with the inertia in me? If Mother's "doing" with the inertia were sufficient, it would ...
... progress that I am going to make today?... I offer all my little person to the Divine. I want it to be a good instrument for Him to express Himself, that I may be ready one day for the transformation." The Mother A perfect instrument Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. The Mother A true instrument Let nothing short of perfection be your ideal... instrument of the Divine. The Mother Psychic instrument Care should be taken that there should be no ambitious or selfish misuse, no pride or vanity, no sense of superiority, no Claim or egoism of the instrument, only a simple and pure psychic instrumentation of the nature in any way in which it is fit for the service of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo Work done for the Mother To observe... Reality instruments which are refined, rich, developed, fully conscious, the work of transformation will be more effective. The Mother Acting always from within You must learn to act always from Within - from your inner being which is in contact with the Divine. The outer should be a mere instrument and should not be allowed at all to compel or dictate your speech, thought or action. Sri ...
... of them represents one aspect of the Mother." "Sujata told me it's Mahalakshmi." "I was hesitating between Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati." Page 148 Mother sat in a reverie where figures shimmered, then came into focus on her mind's screen. "It is clearly taken as a symbol of the gestation of the New Birth, the second birth, the divine birth. That's certain." Then she asked... said smilingly, "It is . . . it's the work of gestation for the birth of the Divine Consciousness. "And seven —7 + 2 — is interesting. 7 stands for realization; 2 is dual —a dual realization. And if you put the two together, you get the number of gestation." She explained. "You see, Mahalakshmi is the Divine Mother's aspect of love.... It is to prepare the earth for receiving the Supreme's ... using a twig of 'Divine Love'!" 2 "Without any cotton-tip? Without anything?" "Yes, without anything," he nodded. "Only a twig which I whittle into a pen." "Are the designs small?" "The image is a rectangle divided into three squares, with numerals and letters —one Sanskrit letter," he amended. "Quite a toil, you know!" "Seventy-two a day! My little child!" Mother laughed comm ...
... had their birthday, 'Today is Shobha's birthday, Mother, would you like to give her any books?' 'Which Shobha? Our Shobha?' the Mother enquired. 'Yes, Mother, our Shobha,' I answered. The Mother thought for some time, and then said, 'Give me The Life Divine and Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother .' I did as told. She wrote in the first book and kept it on Her table. She placed the second book... They all arrived on time. Nolini-da gifted me some of his books along with a sheet of paper, and blessed me. Two lines of a poem were written on the sheet: Hear, O hear, the divine voice intense, The Mother's Light shall Death's darkness end. (Nolini-da) What a matchless treasure was this blessing from Nolini-da ! We all sat down and talked about so many different things... deep-felt emotion I replied, "As long as I am alive, Nolini-da, let this book remain with me. It can be handed over to the Archives afterwards." I have treasured this book as a testimony of the divine Mother's Grace. Page-80 ...
... of his physical. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 9 June 1954 Sweet Mother, What is the role of the soul? But without the soul we wouldn't exist! The soul is that which comes from the Divine without ever leaving Him, and returns to the Divine without ceasing to be manifest. The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul the individual... the physical and vital) ... awaken to the influence of the psychic without even knowing it. That is why those parts adhere to it and begin to aspire also for the divine knowledge, the divine union, the relation with the Divine. The Mother Questions and Answers (1953): 16 December 1953 What is the work of the psychic being? What is the work of the psychic being? You want it to have some... individual and the Divine are eternally one; therefore, to find one's soul is to find God; to identify with one's soul is to unite with the Divine. Thus it may be said that the role of the soul is to make a true being of man. The Mother Some Answers from the Mother: 29 September 1959 ...
... soul, and the relationship between soul, intellect, mind and senses. The first chapter of the second cycle describes the complex relationship between the Supreme Reality, the divine creative Page 13 Mother (Aditi), the individual soul Jiva), and the inner soul, which is described poetically as 'no bigger than the thumb.' The second chapter of this cycle describes what happens to ...
... people. It is absurd to think like this. But, Mother, as they are under me, I am responsible, am I not? My child, nobody in this world is responsible. The Divine alone is responsible for us, (in a teasing tone) unless you have become the Divine! No, Mother. (We laugh) Nobody is responsible. Only the Divine is, for He has the power to change our destiny. What... something in the way you want? It is not possible. That is why you cannot take the responsibility. How can you? Wait patiently. When you have acquired some divine qualities, then I shall give you some responsibility. (Mother smiles, showing a tiny little space between Her fingers) Not much. A little! Page 151 ... only the Divine who can take the responsibility, for it is He who possesses the knowledge. It is He who knows the secret. It is He alone who can inter- Page 150 vene or give indications to avoid the consequences of the destiny because it is He who has formulated them. The destiny of man is to exceed himself. It is to hasten the march towards the goal. And if the Divine sees that ...
... the Ashram and eventually become living examples for the world. The Mother To find the Divine We are not here to lead an easy and comfortable life. We are here to find the Divine, to become divine, to manifest the Divine. What happens to us is the Divine's affair, not ours. The Mother Working eight to nine hours If you worked regularly eight to nine... The Mother Page 22 Entire consecration to the Divine You seem to forget that by the fact that you are living in the Ashram, it is neither for yourself nor for a boss that you are working, but for the Divine. Your life must be entirely consecrated to the Divine Work and cannot be governed by petty human considerations. The Mother Divine Love, Grace... you lose all receptivity. The Mother An ineffable joy Work for the Divine and you will feel an ineffable joy filling your being. The Mother Self-discipline No life can be successful without self-discipline. The Mother Discipline Discipline is indispensable to be a man. Without discipline one is nothing but an animal. The Mother Strict discipline Without ...
... the Mother, it had the effect of opening something in your physical consciousness and the Mother's Force acted. It often happens so—the action of the Mother's Force depends on a certain power of receptivity in the mind or vital or body—and openness is the first necessary condition for the receptivity. 29 May 1933 How to become one with the Divine? Open yourself to the Mother's Force and... and aspire—in time you will become one with the Divine. 15 June 1933 The vital defects and difficulties are the same in all and also the shortcomings of the mind. One has to open in faith and confidence to the Divine; the Mother's Force will gradually put everything right. 15 September 1933 I am overcome with disappointment and depression. After reading your last letter, everything crumbled... qualities that anyone can attain to the divine change; there are only two things that matter, the Mother's force at work and the sadhak's will to open to it and trust in her working. Keep your will and your trust and care nothing for the rest—they are only difficulties that all meet in their sadhana. 13 May 1936 Page 219 I feel the descent of the Mother's peace and power and the action of ...
... certain point, Norman-da suggested that I write a letter to the Mother about it. Let me simply Page 139 share here with the readers my letter and the Mother's reply to it: Mother Divine, We have started our work on The Hour of God. We want our labour to be a true offering to You and to Sri Aurobindo. Mother, I want to bring to your kind attention that this idea of... never informs me about the work, she does not even recognise me at times. Mother, pray remove this unfriendly feeling from us. Mother Divine, I think You are well aware of the fact that S, K, B, and myself are organising the whole programme, that is - each one is composing or directing a portion of the whole. I feel, Mother, it is necessary to have one of us as a general organiser because there... English translation: (Happy Birthday to Shobha with my blessings, so that you can keep humility in your heart, for it is this that takes you most certainly to the realisation of the Divine. The Mother) Page 142 ...
... too far afield apropos of the opening words of your poem. I must be on guard against a similar temptation offered by your "Helen"-lines which I have reserved for the Mother India of February 21, the anniversary of our Divine Mother's birthday. They are liable to set me off on another trail of enchanting quotations starting with Marlowe's never-stale ecstatic confrontation of the spirit invoked by... and, without thinking any more, offer" them to the Mother and keep offering them to her until you feel clear and calm. You must also learn to look at their causes - namely, as you say, "not having things the way I wanted" - as carrying secret mes- Page 163 sages to you from the Divine. I have always held that we can let the Divine reach us through everything. And if we look for the... to a stimulus from others or by confrontation of circumstances, has to be raised above that level: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are to be remembered and made the receiving-end of all our doings. Inwardly we must offer to the Divine whatever activity is ours, praying to the Divine to take it up and turn it to a luminous spiritual use in accordance with the highest Vision and Will. Particularly when ...
... accordance with the divine Will? Page 36 One must first know what the divine Will is. But there is a surer way - to surrender money for the divine work, if one is not sure oneself. "Divinely" means at the service of the Divine - it means not to use money for one's own satisfaction but to place it at the Divine's service. The Mother Right attitude... and freely. The Mother True wealth True wealth is that which one offers to the Divine. The Mother To prepare for the advent Those who believe in the yoga of Sri Aurobindo must Page 38 understand that money is not meant to bring money but to help the earth to prepare for the advent of the new creation. The Mother Being rich You... by the money that you give to the Divine Cause. The Mother Money A good trustee In your personal use of money look on all you have or get or bring as the Mother's. Make no demand but accept what you receive from her and use it for the purposes for which it ...
... × He came to tell us this fifteen years later, as a matter of fact, while we were writing The Divine Materialism . × Mother stopped all her activities for twelve days from December 5, 1950, the day Sri Aurobindo departed. ... 1960 1960 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 19, 1960 ( The day before 'Kali Puja,' the ritual festival devoted each year in India to the goddess Kali, the warrior aspect of the universal Mother ) She has already been here for two days and ... Oh, yesterday especially, she was so ... in such a mood!—like a warrior. I said to her, 'But why not change... came to others ... he could remove an illness like that ( gesture, as if Mother were calmly extracting an illness from the body with her fingertips ). That happened to you once, didn't it? You said that I had done this for you—but it wasn't me; he was the one who did it ... He could give you peace in the mind in the same way ( Mother brushes her hand across her forehead ). You see, his actions were absolutely ...
... The Mother Page 57 Patient effort Perfection in the work must be the aim, but it is only by a very patient effort that this can be obtained. The Mother Offer "Remember and Offer." The Mother Open yourself Open yourself more and more to the Divine's force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection. The Mother Organisation... indispensable for all good work. The Mother Regularity Regularity: indispensable for all serious accomplishment. The Mother Doing things carefully Whatever you do, do it always carefully. The Mother Doing something well It is better to do well than to do quickly. . The Mother Page 58 The Divine's work If people could stop speaking... trouble. Here, all work is the Divine's. The Mother Planning Faultless planning of work cannot be obtained except with the consciousness of the Divine. The Mother Boundless capacity for work When the instruments of work - hands, eyes, etc.- become conscious and the attention is controlled, the capacity for work seems to have no bounds. The Mother A work well done Skilful ...
... The Devi is the Divine Shakti—the Consciousness and Power of the Divine, the Mother and Energy of the worlds. All powers are hers. Sometimes Devi-power may mean the power of the universal World-Force; but this is only one side of the Shakti. Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. Ganesh is the... Occult Knowledge Questions of Spiritual and Occult Knowledge The Divine and the Hostile Powers Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The Gods The Gods or Divine Powers The Gods are Personalities or Powers put forth by the Divine—they are therefore in front limited Emanations, although the full Divine is behind each of them. Of course, the gods exist—that... greater manifestation than that ordinarily worshipped as Shiva—the creative dance of a greater Divine manifesting Power. At X 's conscientious hesitations between Krishna and Shakti and Shiva I could not help indulging in a smile. If a man is attracted by one form or two forms only of the Divine, it is all right,—but if he is drawn to several at a time he need not torment himself Page 459 ...
... spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother). Parents and Relatives In these dreams the parents or relatives mean the ordinary forces of the physical consciousness (the old... created by heredity). Mother, sister or other relatives are usually in such dreams symbols of forces of ordinary nature. The exact meaning depends on the context. But all such dreams are not symbolical—a sex dream for instance may bring up the form of any woman known or unknown. These vital dreams are not interpretable unless there is an evident clue. Aunt or mother usually indicates the ordinary... symbols of a rapid progress or forward movement. The railway train at full speed means rapid progress. The railway line is a symbol of rapid progress and the three stars are a symbol of Divine Grace in the mind, life and body. The moving on the sands—it frequently happens in these Page 162 dreams—is usually a sign of an easier movement in the sadhana. Running Away ...
... The Divine and our Dullness — The Mother and Food — Not only Guru but True Mother — Grace towards Youngsters — Freedom and Discipline All of us have aspired for the grace of being allowed physical nearness to the Mother. The possibility to be in her presence hour after hour has seemed the greatest luck. Naturally I once exclaimed to her: "Oh Mother, I wish... inherent in the one world-creative Divine Father-Mother of a myriad manifestation. Indeed, under the Mother the Ashram life, by combining liberty with light never constituted a field of laissez-aller, each member permitted to live entirely as he liked. Outwardly, kindness, courtesy, consideration, the will to collaborate were invariably expected by the Mother. Inwardly, equanimity towards... near the Mother every day from about 9 a.m. to nearly 1.30 in the afternoon. Those hours were the greatest happiness of my life, but I once had to tell the Mother: "I feel terribly depressed because I am getting used to you." Getting used to the marvel of marvels that is the Avatar's existence amongst us may be adjudged the saddest, the most deplorable fact about human nature. The Divine no longer ...
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