... that they are the height of inspiration: first, when Aswapathy stands before the supreme Mother and later when he prays to her for a boon. These passages are preceded by a long argument by the supreme Mother persuading Aswapathy not to bother about solving man's problem. When Aswapathy is praying to the supreme Mother; she appears to him and says: "What you have attained is yours, but ask no more,... from above. These three positions are the positions of one omnipresent Reality. It is one Reality which is present in all the statuses. Aswapathy realizes this and gets a boon for mankind - the supreme Mother sends an emanation of herself in the form of Savitri, the daughter of King Aswapathy, to save mankind from ignorance and death. That is where we were. Now we shall go a little further. ... is what it comes to ultimately: you should not ask for a divine intervention in a hurry because humanity will not be able to bear the descent of the higher power before its time. That is why the supreme Mother is asking him to continue to work in the light which he has received for some progress for mankind, for some service to knowledge. Aswapathy replies to her: How shall I rest content with ...
... Bhagavati Bhagavata . There is a marvellous description of the Supreme Mother and Her abode. It is on a coral island surrounded by tall trees, waterfalls, varieties of fragrant flowers, plants and hillocks. Animals wander fearlessly. Colourful birds continuously chant Her name melodiously among the splendours of magnificent nature. The Supreme Mother reclines on a unique divan supported by Brahma, Vishnu,... portrait with so much concentration and serenity. Time and again her lips were touched by sweet smile. After completing it, and handing the sheet of paper to me, she said joyously: Ah! Voilà! the Supreme Mother herself came and showed her face. In this picture dwells my soul, and I give it to you. Indeed, you are a very lucky girl! I was so much moved that I could not utter a word. She took my face... glow in her eyes with an exceptional charm I had never seen before. Then she drew me closer and pressed my head against her heart. I felt immense relief and peace. Here is the portrait of the Supreme Mother. After our work the Mother and I usually talked about one subject or another. Often the subject was Auroville—especially the Mother's Shrine. I have kept a record of all the Mother's ...
... Supreme Love would be infinitely more presumptuous than to debate a hurricane in full force. The passage that follows could only have ensued from Sri Aurobindo's own tremendous experience of the Supreme Mother—not a secondhand account of someone else's. 7 Refer Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3: the Mother's experience of the "great pulsations" of Divine Love (13 April 1962). 8 Mother's Agenda... almighty Love without shattering into smithereens. We recall Sri Aurobindo's admonition: "You must keep the temple clean if you wish to instal there the living Presence." 14 Well did the Supreme Mother warn Aswapati: I am the Mystery beyond reach of mind, I am the goal of the travail of the suns; My fire and sweetness are the cause of life. But too immense my danger and my joy... For it is a "tomorrow" that contains in itself past, present and future in an everlasting Now. Savitri is the epic of the triumph of Love over Death. The human embodiment of the Supreme Mother, Savitri pursues that dread God, who has taken possession of the soul of Satyavan into ever deeper, darker layers of the Great Inconscient. That pursuit and its outcome make for the incredible ...
... in the One, but on condition that you do not stop there, taking it as the highest Truth, but proceed to realise the same One as the supreme Mother, the Page 57 Consciousness Force of the Eternal. If on the other hand you approach through the supreme Mother, she will give you the liberation in the silent One also as well as the realisation of the dynamic One and from that it is easier to... The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature The Mother with Letters on the Mother The One and the Supreme Mother The Shankara knowledge is, as your Guru pointed out, only one side of the Truth; it is the knowledge of the Supreme as realised by the spiritual Mind through the static silence of the pure Existence. It was because he went by this side only ...
... Christians do not think in terms of God, the Mother. It may be pointed out that Vak, corresponding to Logos, the Word, is not strange to Indian tradition. Actually in Lalitā Sahsranāma, the Supreme Mother is addressed as Vak in her four planes of operation, Parā, the Transcendent, Pashyanti, the Seeing One, Madhyama, the Middle or the subtle One, and Vaikhari, the Gross. 5 But Sri Aurobindo... my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 10 If there is an identity between Jesus and the Lady Wisdom as the Word of God, there seems to be a close link between the Lady Wisdom and the 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... advent at the start lead us on to another aspect of our subject. Till now we have been stressing the identity of Word of the New Testament with the Wisdom of the Old Testament and both with the Supreme Mother and her Avatar in Savitri. It was pointed out even at the start that Savitri is also associated with the Christ-figure. She is the Word and the Saviour as we notice from the very beginning of ...
... Make us all do it, make us all do it, (3) Keep us constantly awake always. (3) Gracious Mother, Blissful Mother, Mother of Consciousness, Mother of Truth, Supreme Mother, Supreme Mother, Supreme Mother, (3) Guru is Brahma (Creator), Guru is Vishnu (Sustainer) Guru is Maheshwara (Great God), Guru is God incarnate, I bow to that Glorious Guru. I bow to Guru; I bow to... Prayers and Aspirations O Our Supreme Mother and Lord O our Supreme Mother and Lord (3) O the Mother and Master of everyone's heart (3) Victory, victory to Mother Mira, Sri Aurobindo, (3) Victory to the sweet Mother, sweet Father. [^] On this good, sacred, auspicious, purifying, joy-giving Gurupurnima day, Your Champak prays, (2) ... Seeing whose feet, I bow to that Gracious Guru, I bow to that Gracious Guru. (3) Sing the name of the Supreme Mother and Lord, (3) Giver of devotion and liberation, Protector of all worlds, (3) Sing victory, sing victory, sing victory, (3) Sing victory to the Supreme Mother and Lord. (3) Remain absorbed, remain absorbed, remain absorbed, Always, constantly remain absorbed ...
... be compassionate, Day and night shower Your Grace. O Ma,...O Ma,...O Ma,... O Ma,... O Ma,...O Ma.... O Supreme Mother and Lord, O Supreme Mother and Lord, Manifest, manifest, manifest, manifest, O Supreme Mother and Lord, manifest, O Ma, O Ma, O Supreme Mother and Lord, manifest, manifest. O Ma,...O Ma,...O Ma,...O Ma... Shower Your Grace, day and night, shower... What's the use of just regretting... (2) If inner experiences don't come to the forefront ... (3) Don't come to the forefront If in life the Supreme Mother and Lord do not manifest... (3) This life is like death... (3) O Ma... O Supreme Mother Ma... O Ma... O Ma.... Shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace, Day and night shower Your Grace, day and night shower ...
... problem. So he appealed to the supreme Mother and asked for the boon that an emanation or a part of her, so to say, would be sent down to earth to help mankind overcome the limits of ignorance and death. That is the solution to the problem, and the story as we recounted it yesterday is that Savitri, the young princess in the legend who becomes the emanation of the supreme Mother sent down on earth, is here... universe in which he is living. That is the third book where Aswapathy reaches this House of the Spirit, meets the Supreme Mother, carries to her the whole aspiration of mankind for the earth, and asks for a boon - an emanation to be sent down to the earth. The Supreme Mother grants the boon and Savitri is born. Savitri is not, therefore, only a princess born to a childless king but she is... intellectual consciousness, and go to the potential universe, called the House of the Spirit. This is the third book of Savitri, the House of the Spirit. Aswapathy enters there and meets the Supreme Mother of the universe, the creatrix, or simply the Mother - we shall call her the Mother of the universe - and he prays to her: "We want to solve the Page 35 problem of man here and ...
... Supermind can know Ananda. Because I did not know it, I was told about it. Yes, that is why I was told that it was Ananda that had descended. 11:05:1994 I was in the body of the Supreme Mother. I could very clearly see that, that I was in her; I was in her but then I could not see her face,—I do not know whether it was there. I looked so small in her; I was so small in her. ... it. In fact, in the night, before going to bed I had to take a sleeping tablet. Next day I took some flowers and went to Sri Aurobindo's Room. I do not know who in me had asked the Supreme Mother to mould herself and come into my human groove. The psychic being or the spirit? Must be the psychic being. 14:05:1994 Remain in Pure Existence. The work is being done at the... me. I am told about it now. Page 9 28:05:1994 I was told that the work is over. My consciousness is free, free from the lower nature. This was done by the Supreme Mother. When I went to the Samadhi, I saw the consciousness going up from the crown of my head, rising up; yes, going up. It went high, very high,—I do not know where. I have no idea. ...
... extremely angry. ( Laughter ) For this—much time is needed to be transformed. And then? Sweet Mother, here you speak of the Supreme Mother. Is she the same as the one Sri Aurobindo speaks of in "The Mother"? Yes. Then the conception of the Supreme Mother is purely human? Or she too in her origin has no gender? No. Page 154 But I have never said that it was purely human... problems, not only this one—and as the prototype of the supramental creation. Sweet Mother, here you have said that the Supreme Mother is the creatrix of the universe. But in India usually it is said that Brahma is the creator. But Sri Aurobindo has said that the Supreme Mother is the mother of Brahma. She is the Mother of all the gods. The genders of the gods and goddesses are also human formations... is not necessary that it should happen so fast. Why are you in such a hurry?" That's what she always answers. She likes to roam about. What is Nature? That is, what is her relation with the Supreme Mother? I think that Nature is the most material part of the creative force Page 160 which is concerned with the creation specially of the earth, of the material world as we know it upon ...
... our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour. × Ganapati, or Ganesh: the son of the supreme Mother, god of material knowledge and wealth. He is represented with an elephant's head. × Italics indicate... Mother in English. × There are four aspects or "sides" of the universal Mother: Maheshwari (the supreme Mother), Mahakali (the warrior aspect and the aspect of love), Mahalakshmi (the aspect of harmony and beauty), and Mahasaraswati (perfection in the arts and in work). ...
... the Ashram Exhibition Hall under the name: "Dolls and Idols Exhibition." I was in charge of the idols. During that time the Mother explained to me in detail about the symbols and powers of the Supreme Mother and Her four Aspects—as well as other Gods and Goddesses. This is what she has revealed to me: Mahalakshmi: Kindness and Beauty Mahasaraswati: Integral Perfection Maheshwari: All-knowledge... disclosed the colours of their attires: Mahalakshmi: Pink, green and mauve, all pastel colours Mahasaraswati: White and red Maheshwari: Royal blue and gold Mahakali: Red and gold. Supreme Mother: White and gold I received a beautiful greeting card from the Matrimandir for New Year 2001. But I regret to say that the description on the back cover of the card is not at all what the Mother ...
... Sachchidananda); the second was Ananda and Love; the third was Life; and Truth was the fourth. Then, so the story goes, conscious of their infinite power, instead of keeping their connection with the supreme Mother and, through Her, with the Supreme, instead of receiving indications for action from Him and doing things in proper order, they were conscious of their own power and each one took off independently... understood and felt the thing immediately. And once the world has become like that, has become the vital world in all its darkness, and they, from this vital world, have created Matter, the supreme Mother sees ( laughing ) the result of her first four emanations and She turns towards the Supreme in a great entreaty: "Now that this world is in such a dreadful state, it has to be saved! We can't just ...
... that it had hardly the strength to climb to the Supreme; but the supreme Mother responded and offered him the boon he was yearning for. He now achieved the victory of his toil. He raised his brow of conquest to the heavens Establishing the empire of his soul On Matter... 11 3. The Descent of the Supreme Mother We come to the second part of the epic, describing the birth ...
... human and earthly environment. The subtle world withdraws behind a luminous veil of inner sight and Savitri experiences within her the harmonising oneness of life, mind and soul. She invokes the Supreme Mother to descend into her earthly body and make of it the temple of her 54 Ibid., p. 526. 55 Ibid. 56 Ibid. 57 Ibid. 58 Ibid., p. 527. 59 Ibid. Page... is pitched in human time. 62 Savitri finds her soul, the soul that is both cosmic and supracosmic. She "passes beyond Time into eternity" and living eternally in consciousness of the supreme Mother, Prepares to meet her Fate. V. MADHUSUDAN REDDY 60 Ibid., p. 528. 61 Ibid., p. 529. 62 Ibid., p. 531. Page 442 ...
... welfare of all. Always adopt this path for becoming happy, (2) This path for becoming happy, (2) Offer everything with all devotion at the feet of the Supreme Mother and Lord (2) At the feet of the Supreme Mother and Lord. The love divine is always constantly flowing from the heart towards everyone (2) Is flowing, flowing, flowing, (2) Is always constantly flowing ...
... Seeing and hearing which I am delighted. They fill me with wonder. Then everything turns to Thy Feet. Victory, victory, victory. Mother, victory to Thee! Om Supreme Mother of Bliss, Consciousness and Truth Om Supreme Mother of Bliss, Grace Consciousness and Truth. (3) (2.8.84) ...
... The instrument is not yet ready. It is only the beginning. _____________________________ ¹Here Mother begins speaking French. ²Glory to You, Lord, Triumphant One supreme. Page 145 Mother later added: The experience lasted at least four hours. There are many things I will speak of later.¹ Mother enlarged upon the above experience on May 13, 1962, follows:... gradual reduction of substance resulting in dissolution. What has been sublimated or removed has to be replaced by something which is the true Vibration, the one that comes straight from the Supreme....' ² Mother did not eat anything this morning. Page 164 simply noticed I had been fed, given certain foods). And with the visions I had the two preceding nights, I knew that at issue were ...
... sublime spiritual perspectives of the poem. The first emanations from the Supreme Mother - Consciousness, Bliss, Truth, Life - lose contact with their Origin, get immersed in Darkness, and in consequence dwindle into Unconsciousness, Suffering, Falsehood, Death. To redeem these four perverted and lost emanations, the Supreme Mother sends out a new series of emanations, the Gods. The exordium thus describes ...
... indefinite, compounded of the mind's ignorant thoughts and the heart's selfish emotions; but as it grows, it develops into selfless love with a steady will flaming in its centre. It turns to the supreme Mother, the divine mahāśakti , who sums up for the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga all the aspects of the Divine to which the aspiring human consciousness may feel a natural attraction. "From the beginning... particular care from the very start to put it into the hands of the Mother and gear it to Her supramental Force, so that it may steadily progress towards the splendours of a divine Perfection. The supreme Mother will reveal to our vision and transformed consciousness the Face and Body of the supreme Divine tanum swām. ¹Essays on The Gita by Sri Aurobindo. Page 340 ...
... The inauguration of the reign of the Supermind in Matter cannot be done by the mental man, however high his soul may have soared in the realms of Spirit. It is the incarnate individuality of the Supreme Mother that alone can "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... subterranean bases of human existence and nature in order that one day man may grow unimpeded into his regal godhead and the face of the earth beam with the beauty and bliss of the Divine. The supreme Mother in Her individual poise is closest and easiest of access to our physical being, whose transformation and conversion is the most important condition Page 99 of supramental manifestation ...
... had already entered. After this, John Walker, an American living in Auroville, gave me a Sri Chakra, a Tantric yantra [geometrical object used in ritual worship] related to the worship of the Supreme Mother, the Shakti in India. Just holding it I experienced waves of ananda or bliss emanating from it. I wondered how a geometrical figure could give such a spiritual experience. Exactly then an unpublished... that over the last few years, this state of inner happiness and joy has been growing and remains for me the only base for stability in an increasingly chaotic world. For this is the touch of the Supreme Mother, the grace and guidance that uphold us through all the vicissitudes of life. Matrimandir Auroville 2002 The Auroville Rose Garden – Jan. 2004 All that ...
... each other. (2) I cannot forget, cannot forget, This sugar-coated self-deception. 1 (2) Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... O... Ma, shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace, O Supreme Mother and Lord, shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace, Day and night shower Your Grace. I have seen, seen, seen, in many places, I have seen. You have shown to me. You have shown to me... self-praise, self praise, flattery of others, flattery of others, Tastes sweet, tastes sweet, tastes even sweeter than honey, (3) Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... O... Ma! O Supreme Mother and Lord, Your Champak prays Today, on this good, auspicious, pure, sanctifying Darshan day, Free me, free me, free me, Free me, free me, free me, Free me from this, constantly, always ...
... without, (2) Bliss, bliss, bliss, (2) Sat Chit Ananda, Sat Chit Ananda, Sat Chit Ananda. (5) Om... Om... Om.... Om Supreme Mother of Bliss, Consciousness, Truth, (4) Sing victory, sing victory, sing victory, Chant victory, chant victory to the Supreme Mother and Lord. (4) Victory, victory to the Mother Mira, Sri Aurobindo, (3) Victory, victory to the Mother Mira, Sri Aurobindo ...
... silent zone. No vehicles should move in this area, there should be no noise of any kind. The Park of Unity will be divided into twelve gardens which will represent twelve Attributes of the Supreme Mother and her four Powers. In these gardens I would like to have varieties of flowers—specially the different kinds of Hibiscus—the Divine Consciousness. On the other side, towards the boundary... Shrine. I will explain to you more when I have spoken to the architect, who will come in September. As a matter of fact, the exquisite plan had already been made by the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Mother. I was no more than a mere instrument. ...
... signifying the four Powers of the Supreme Mother, Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati. Around these four petals are twelve more signifying the twelve Attributes of the four Powers. The Mother also indicated the colour of the lotus: " Marbre rose ou blanc " —pink or white marble. In the centre of the lotus there is a seat of the Supreme Mother. The Mother wished youngsters to ...
... had all the eternity in front of Her. Her smile received the debates, the conflicts and the corrosive doubts And dissipated them immediately in a soothing harmony. 66 The Supreme Mother inaccessible even to the Gods, so great and so distant, Unthinkable divine Reality made Herself small, insignificant, passed unnoticed. We ignored Her very often in our blind impertinence... Mother When I play music. She is my listener. Music is my communion. I feel Her Grace flowing through Me in the form of music. It is an ardent prayer rising to the Supreme Mother and at the same time Her sweet powerful response, Her Love and Blessings. This prayer is most often for the Manifestation of the new world of Peace, unity, beauty and ...
... highest creative energy of which the physical world and other worlds which are behind it are expressions. Tantra aims. at enabling the individual soul to unite with the supreme creative energy, the Supreme Mother, who is also in her depth one with the supreme Lord, Shiva or the highest Purusha. The Tantric Yoga, as it rises from state to state, manifests not only aṣṭa siddhis but increases and manifests... effective works begins to become more and more fruitful, the seeker learns more and more the secret of offering and sacrificing oneself and effecting progressively more and more total surrender to the Supreme Mother, who is experienced as power of Grace that uplifts the seeker into the realms of ananda, of knowledge, of the Supreme Being. As we turn to three major systems of yoga and yogic experiences ...
... highest creative energy of which the physical world and other worlds which are behind it are expressions. Tantra aims at enabling the individual soul to unite with the supreme creative energy, the Supreme Mother, who is also in her depth one with the supreme Lord, Shiva or the highest Purusha. The Tantric Yoga, as it rises from state to state, manifests not only aṣṭa siddhis but increases and manifests... become more and more fruitful, the seeker learns more and more the secret of offering and Page 24 sacrificing oneself and effecting progressively more and more total surrender to the Supreme Mother, who is experienced as power of Grace that uplifts the seeker into the realms of ananda, of knowledge, of the Supreme Being. (d) Yogic Experiences in Karma Yoga Yoga of divine works ...
... 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 supreme Mother in her infinite grace gives Aswapathy a boon that a human manifestation of her Grace would be born on earth. "A new light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born, things that were... wherein cosmic purposes and intentions, the destiny of the human being, are brought into play. The delineation of Savitri 's character in Books IV, V, and VI maintains the dignity of the boon of the Supreme Mother given to Aswapaty in Book I Canto IV. In the original legend, as also in the symbol, Savitri faces Yama, the God of Death. But in the legend the conversation which takes place between Savitri and ...
... outer as an instrument; one feels the universal Force doing one's works and the Self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant referring of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By ...
... Himself that is around you. Of course, the Divine is something much more; many other things besides and in them all a Presence, a Being, a Divine Person; for the Divine is Krishna, is Shiva, is the Supreme Mother. But through the Ananda you can perceive the Anandamaya Krishna; for the Ananda is the subtle body and being of Krishna; through the Peace you can perceive the Shantimaya Shiva; in the Light, in ...
... force of the Divine and it is by grace of her fire and passion and speed if the great achievement can be done now rather than hereafter. Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the supreme Mother; there is a subtler mystery of her nature and without it Wisdom and Force would be incomplete things and without it perfection would not be perfect. Above them is the miracle of eternal beauty ...
... Letters on the Mother The Universal Mother and the Individual Mother The universal and individual Mother are the same—these are two aspects of the Supreme Mother—but the differentiation is for the multiple action and play. So also one feels the self as one's own self in an individual way but also that there is the same self Page 50 individualised ...
... 24 June 1933 You have written in The Mother that the Mother is the consciousness and force of the Ishwara, but here my experience is that the Ishwara is the consciousness and force of the Supreme Mother. Could you please make it clear to me? The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Divine—or, it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness-force. The Ishwara as Lord of the Cosmos ...
... Mother There are many Mothers in the cosmic and spiritual planes who help people in their search for the Divine. Above them, I have read, is the transcendental Mother and above her comes the supreme Mother. X and Y profess to have seen and spoken to the transcendental Mother in her embodied aspect. This is hard to believe. There are not many Mothers, there is One in many forms. The transcendental ...
... will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the ...
... always, for there is a greater supramental possibility. It is possible to rise beyond spiritualised mind and to act spontaneously in the living presence of the original divine Truth-Force of the Supreme Mother. Our motion one with her motion and merged in it, our will one with her will, our energy absolved in her energy, we shall feel her working through us as the Divine manifest in a supreme Wisdom-Power ...
... an invocation of the Divine who is above the mental level together with the Divine who is 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 ...
... to illustrate the symbol of Infinity, the figure 8, which Mother explained in the conversation of May 11 : the infinite play of the Supreme reaching down to Nature and Nature rising toward the Supreme. Mother speaks in English in the presence of a disciple, who is a painter, so that he may convey her explanations to H., the disciple who is preparing illustrations for "Savitri". ) Of course, all these ...
... Chinnamma had left her body a few days back. The telegram reached them a day or two after Dara’s vision, dream — or whatever! It was now possible to explain what Dara saw. Chinnamma approached the Supreme Mother, for Her permission to get dissolved. The Mother relented only after much persuasion and prayer. Chinnamma then took off in ecstasy into dissolution. Dara was shifted from Ressuscité to a house ...
... in their vital enjoyments and their egos. It is not a tourist spot, either. It is a place for absorption of Truth, Love, Beauty and Peace. The whole world can find its home in the Heart of the Supreme Mother. These lines from Savitri are very appropriate: A deep of compassion, a hushed sanctuary, Her inward help unbarred a gate in heaven; Love in her was wider than the universe, The whole ...
... the sketch according to what the Mother had explained to me. I sent it to her together with some other sketches. She wrote: The sketches are all right. I have only changed the place of the Supreme Mother behind Savitri , because She must be touching the back of Savitri . Here, I must write that the Mother herself had chosen the hair-do of Savitri when she set out. ...
... of my rapture’s widening noose, Become my cord of 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 ...
... Mother and I know that You understand me perfectly well. What You have said about the secret chambers in the Matrimandir, is perfectly right. I myself feel within me that the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Mother do not need any human devices. So it is all right. But I hope that the beautiful gardens, rockeries, small waterfalls and tall trees will be retained. You have confirmed to build my house in ...
... day I have been drawn to an unfathomable ocean of the Mother's Love, which I cannot forget or forego. I pray to the Mother to lead you all towards her Love. The Mother is the Truth—the Supreme Mother herself. Her actions are beyond our comprehension. Please don't ever listen to anybody who has no belief in the Divine. Have faith in Him. Let us all proceed on the path of Truth. Let us have ...
... will be hillocks with fir and pine trees. The Mother's Shrine will be on an island . After a pause the Mother continued, The city will have four zones representing the four Powers of the Supreme Mother . I want that in each part of the town, houses should be built in particular shapes: Square, Hexagon, Round and Triangular. Each shape will have a special colour: Rainbow, Orange, Gold, and ...
... 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 very carefully. You see, it is not possible for me to read and choose the verses for the paintings. I can understand when I read the passages by myself I ...
... sending you two copies of the symbol. On one symbol I have explained the meaning, My love and blessings. Here is the correct design of the symbol. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes. It was still raining. The dance-drama "The Story of India's Spiritual ...
... you attempt to make it take one step forward—oh, not even a real step, just a little step!—everything starts grating; it's like stepping on an anthill ... And yet the presence, the help of the supreme Mother, is there constantly; thus you realize that for ordinary men such a task is impossible, or else millions of lives would be needed—but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana ...
... dreadful Asura, it will come to a good end! It doesn't matter, it's not important. That's why this morning, even when I heard what X said about Z, it was the same thing: this great Light of the supreme Mother going out towards Z. His magic is not important, but if he indulges in it, too bad for him. It doesn't concern me: it's X's business and X is doing what's necessary—and I believe ( laughing ) he ...
... petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her work. Page 63 The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes. 1955 It is the symbolic design of the white Lotus of Supreme ...
... tantric discipline with another guru who will henceforth be called X in the Agenda .] The mantra written upon each of the souvenirs 1 from the Himalayas has a strong power of evoking the Supreme Mother. At the Thursday evening meditation, he appeared as the 'Guru of Tantric Initiation,' magnified and seated upon a symbolic representation of the forces and riches of material Nature (in the ...
... recognising that soul-quality by a similar presence in me that I write this letter. Perhaps you will query: "How can the Divine give thanks? All is rightfully the Divine's!" But surely the Supreme Mother has concealed her divinity in the shape of an ignorant universe striving towards light and, whenever a spark of success is struck, a smile of humble bliss gleams out from her hidden greatness. ...
... dissolution. What has been sublimated or removed has to be replaced by something which is the true Vibration, the one that comes straight from the Supreme." × Mother did not eat anything this morning. × Mother ...
... unexpected way"] is a bit cold and dry. "Et sans s'y attendre, la Terre deviendra divine..." × Maheshwari: the supreme Mother. × Let us recall that Mother's written notations often act as occult instruments: she keeps them ...
... paintings of Savitri ? Once more she lapsed into a profound trance. She awoke, took a piece of paper and a pencil and drew a cover picture. She explained: Show the descent of the Supreme Mother. A flash of white Light forming the feet which rest on the globe of the earth. Don't forget to paint the outline of a lotus, which must be mingled with the white Light. She also made me ...
... its mortality And underwent a new and bourneless change. 8 In a less sweeping and more controlled yet equally powerful language Sri Aurobindo gives us Savitri, the Avatar of the Supreme Mother, confronted by a mysterious Presence who works in the dark depths of our evolving universe and demands of her a sacrifice suited to her divine humanity: One dealt with her who meets the ...
... kind regards, DON FISHER A Request: ”“This is not poetry, it is not song either, these are only my inner being's utterances. I have not written them, the Supreme Mother and Lord have made me write them. Whatever I have had to say I have said in these lines.” Champaklal ...
... is through consecration and surrender and it is through all activities of life that consecration and surrender are to be made. 26.11.67 Until now, my spontaneous attitude was that of the supreme Mother who carries the universe in her loving arms, and I was dealing with each one as with the child from whom she tolerates everything equally; and all what the people here were doing to please me I ...
... that keeps burning. The one flame alone that keeps burning constantly and for ever,(3) Which alone is changing the entire life. (2) The whole life I surrendered at the feet of the Supreme Mother and Lord, (4) Then what more is left for us to do? (2) Champak prays with one objective alone, Give me Your unshakeable, one-pointed, desireless, unique bhakti, (3) Keep the ...
... suppressed in the secret cavern", of Kumara (the individual soul), of the immortal in the mortals, martyesu amrtah. Immortality of the inmost soul is derived from the immortality of Aditi, the Supreme Mother who is one with the eternal and immortal Purusha. What is described in the Rig Veda is described here in the Kathopanishad, in a less veiled and with a very vivid figure of that soul as "no bigger ...
... are two poles of being whose essential unity is the secret of existence and that is the supreme affirmation of the Tantric yoga. These two poles of being can be variously termed, such as Lord and Supreme Mother, Shiva and Shakti. Shakti is the power of Shiva or rather Shiva is Shakti, considering their essential unity. It is Shakti that has manifested in the universe and, at the human level, we experience ...
... experiences of the "boy suppressed in the secret cavern", of Kumara, of the immortal in the mortals, amartyeshu amritah. Immortality of the inmost soul derived from the immortality of Aditi, the Supreme Mother, who is one with the eternal and immortal Purusha, revealed in the Veda is described here in a less veiled language and with a very vivid figure of that soul as "no bigger than a thumb", a figure ...
... as an instrument; one feels the universal Force doing one's works and the self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By ...
... played the drama of Savitri and Satyavan, which is profoundly moving in the original legend, but here acquires a further spiritual dimension. Savitri is really the incarnation in human form of the Supreme Mother; there is the first test of her faith in love when Narad tries to warn her against marrying Satyavan, but she stands the test and is firm in her resolve. There is the later impact of Fate, the ...
... Falsehood Falsehood is the agony of the Supreme—so said the Mother. And to cure and dissolve this falsehood, the supreme Lord and His conscious-force, the supreme Mother, descended into the very depths of the abyss of creation. The radiating sparks of that supreme divine Presence are the souls on earth. Man, the human being, is nothing but that divine spark ...
... noon? It was as homage to an ideal mother and, through her, to all self-sacrificing mothers. But much more truly, even if subconsciously, to that stream of surrender rushing to merge into the Supreme Mother, who In her deep and great love for her children…consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the ...
... power, the force of the first burns, the Asuras. "And once the world has become like that, become the vital world in all its darkness, and they from this vital world have created Matter, the supreme Mother sees," sparks of merriment danced in those great eyes, "the result of her first four emanations and she turns to the Supreme in a great entreaty: " 'Now that this world is in such a dreadful ...
... Force; but the next step beyond, the crucial step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast (satyam, rtam, brhat) van only be a gift of the divine Grace, a crowning boon and blessing of the supreme Mother, and never an achievement of the will and force of man. The ascent to the Supermind is an ascent to the eternal home of the supernal Light and Force, the all-comprehending and all-controlling ...
... to change the world, If Might comes not to give to Truth her right. "Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit's force Then will I give back to thee Satyavan." or if you are the supreme Mother show me her face. "Let death- less eyes look into the eyes of Death". Then thy dead can return to life and earth feel near the secret body of God. Savitri looked at Death, and answered not. ...
... Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1910 Collected Poems The Mother of Dreams Know more > Goddess, supreme Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest, Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting? Dream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the ...
... empire of sorrow . . . 666 From the quickened womb of the primal gloom 5 Glory and greatness and the joy of life 321 God to thy greatness 675 Goddess, supreme Mother of Dream . . . 273 Gold-white wings a throb in the vastness . . . 547 Hail to the fallen, the fearless . . . 676 Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale ...
... in Sri Aurobindo's Light, and his psychic is constantly nestled in the Mother's loving arms. That is the reason why I always see Amal as "The Clear Ray". May the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Mother fulfil all his highest aspirations. IN THEIR LOVE Page 61 ...
... Christians do not think in terms of God the Mother. But if there is an identity between Jesus and Lady Wisdom as the Word of God, then there seems to be a close link between the Lady Wisdom and the Supreme Mother and her incarnation as Savitri. It is she who is "the Incarnate Word of God" in the poem. She is the Saviour. While speaking of her Narad brings before us the magnificent vignette of the Crucifixion ...
... with the baby, building sand castles as a little girl, playing 'house' with tiny utensils and winging to-and-fro in a golden swing. The sacred and the secular, the familiar baby at home and the Supreme Mother are thus brought together into an incandescent whole making us very, very close to divinity. Sri Aurobindo follows this idea and we have the canto the Birth and Childhood of the Flame ...
... Death realises that he has been waging a losing battle against Savitri and asks her: "You have Knowledge and Light but have you the power and the strength to conquer Time and Death? If you are the supreme Mother show me her face. Let deathless eyes 29 Savitri, p. 621. 30 Ibid , see pp. 589-94. Page 356 look into the eyes of Death." Savitri looks at Death and a mighty ...
... learning their intrinsic law of being (swabhava) and expression (swadharma). The Second Book of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri deals with this journey, eventually leading to the emergence of the Supreme Mother out of the heart of the Unknowable and the offering of Her boon of transformative Incarnation to Aswapati. As Aswapati traverses the World-Stair, Sri Aurobindo explores the aspect of consciousness ...
... through consecration and surrender and it is through all activities of life that consecration and surrender are to be made. 26 November 1967 Until now, my spontaneous attitude was that of the supreme Mother who carries the universe in her loving arms, and I was dealing with each one as with child from whom she tolerates everything equally; and all what the people here were doing to please me I was ...
... power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Ruru recovers Priyamvada from the dark nether regions of Death by the power of the charm of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love are affirmed. It is in Savitri that Love divine comes as the embodiment of the Supreme Grace to deliver ...
... are placed in, regard them As the most valuable gift, the priceless gift, The Supreme Mother's and Lord's priceless gift, (2) Accept with all love and devotion, (3) This priceless gift of the Supreme Mother and Lord, (2) Welcome it with joy, accept it, accept it, welcome it. Accept this priceless gift of God, (2) Gift of God, gift of God. ...
... abundant Grace, Abundant Grace, (3) Is making a staircase, Is making a staircase for us. (3) This is the Gracious Mother's limitless Grace, (3) limitless Grace. (2) Om the Supreme Mother of Bliss, Consciousness and Truth. (3) (21.3.84) ...
... whomever I called, I would be able to speak to you all the time. It is very hard, isn’t it, Mother, to gain a friend as dear as the Divine? I have no one. That is why I recognise you as my supreme mother. I would like to be guided by you. I depend entirely on you and I count on your guidance in the minutest actions of my life. Without that, I am lost. The mirror of your heart is the best you ...
... Prayers and Aspirations Always Remember Remember always and at every moment the Supreme Mother and the Lord (3) With a heart full of love, with a heart full of love, With a heart full of love. (2) This is our prayer (2) May we never forget Thee (2) May we never forget Thee. Ma... Ma... Ma... This alone is our prayer May ...
... alone will stabilise all. (3) The Mother of Compassion, Bliss and Peace Will establish Peace everywhere. (3) Victory, victory, victory, Victory to the Gracious Mother, (3) Om the Supreme Mother of Bliss, Consciousness and Truth. (3) All your actions are for the Mother alone, Then why do you involve yourself in all these arguments? (11.8.84) ...
... Always keep us constantly at Thy feet. Sing victory, sing victory, sing victory Chant victory to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo (3) Chant victory to Mother Mira. (3) Om the Supreme Mother of Bliss, Consciousness and Truth (3) Om... Om... Om... Om... Om... Om... Om... Guru is Creator, Guru is Sustainer, Guru is god Maheshwara, Guru is God incarnate, I bow to that ...
... shall be free, we shall be free from this. (2) She alone will free us. (2) Always invoke the Compassionate Mother's Grace, (2) Always, the Compassionate Mother's Grace. (3) Om the Supreme Mother of Ananda, Consciousness and Truth. (3) ...
... Himself that is around you. Of course, the Divine is something much more; many other things besides, and in them all a Presence, a Being, a Divine Person; for the Divine is Krishna, is Shiva, is the Supreme Mother. But through the Ananda you can perceive the ā nandamaya [all-blissful] Krishna; for the Ananda is the subtle body and being of Krishna; through the Peace you can perceive the śantimaya [ ...
... running into the world around. Upon that stream every happening and everyone we come across are felt floating as a spontaneous Page 280 offering from us to the Universal Lord and the Supreme Mother. No personal ego-sensitive reaction takes place and whatever we meet receives a silent blessing, an undemanding love. Not that we cannot discriminate between the good and the bad in the world before ...
... - the giving of trailing clouds of more than human glory to the person of one's mate and the emotional aching to merge oneself in it - foreshadows the cult of the Saviour and the Avatar, the supreme Mother and the All-Creatrix, the biune Godhead of Shiva and Parvati. It is the half-way house to the religion of the devotees, the bhaktas, the Sufi singers of the perfect Beloved. I think that ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Light and his psychic is constantly nestled into the Mother's loving arms. That is the reason why I always sec Amal as "The Clear Ray". May the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Mother fulfil all his highest aspirations. In Their Love HUTA Page 227 ...
... four petals with small semi circles between their divisions. They are meant for Civil Services like Post Offices, Banks, Telecom, Telegraph and so on. The four petals represent four Powers of the Supreme Mother. They are Mahakali, Maheshwari, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati . Mahakali: Industrial area. Small industries will be in this place. The big ones will be on the seaside. And further towards Madras ...
... pillars of the Matrimandir as follows: Mahakali — North Maheshwari — South Mahalaksmi — East Mahasaraswa — West Each pillar represents one of the four powers of the Supreme Mother, Aditi. Sri Aurobindo has written in his book The Mother : Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this ...
... put in the recess of Mahakali's pillar in the Matrimandir. You have been giving me the sacred things for the last two years and the effect of their working is marvellous. We all pray to the Supreme Mother to release Her Force in full, to set everything right in the Ashram, in Auroville and in the whole world. I am ever thankful to you for your goodwill and support. With warm regards, In ...
... it is a beautiful book. Regarding the Mother's symbol, she wrote to me on 2.12.55: My dear little Child, Here is the correct design of the symbol. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes . ...
... will, numerous obstructions took place. Despite this, all the four pillars—Mahalakshmi, Mahakali, Maheshwari and Mahasaraswati—received our humble offerings. I felt that it was the Victory of the Supreme Mother. ...
... us: Yes, my dearest little child We are here to bring upon earth the victory of Truth and Love—and it will be done. My profound gratitude and love to the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Mother. Huta You can be absolutely sure that the Lord is always doing the very best for the Truth. Auroville wants to be the first realisation of human unity based on the ...
... as an instrument; one feels the universal Force doing one's works and the Self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By ...
... 2 June 1933 In The Mother you write that the Mother is the consciousness and force of the Ishwara [ p. 28 ]. But my experience here is that Ishwara is the consciousness and force of the Supreme Mother. Could you please make it clear to me? The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Divine—or, it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness-force. The Ishwara as Lord of the Cosmos ...
... this knowledge by beginning with the experience of dissolution in the One, but on condition that you do not stop there, taking it as the highest Truth, but proceed to realise the same One as the supreme Mother, the Consciousness Force of the Eternal. If on the other hand you approach through the supremeMother, she will give you the liberation in the silent One also as well as the realisation of the dynamic ...
... full-blown golden lotus with two rows of petals, four inside and twelve outside, at the exact centre of a silver-blue square. This blue is the blue of the spirit and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies the illumined physical consciousness. This flag was originally chosen as the flag of the J.S.A.S.A.; 1 but later, when we celebrated India's ...
... contrasts, which can nevertheless be resolved by a very wide and comprehensive synthesis. Indeed, is it not in India that we find the most intense adoration, the most complete veneration of the Supreme Mother, creatrix of the universe, conqueror of all enemies, mother of all the gods and all the worlds, dispenser of all boons? And is it not in India too that we find the most radical condemnation ...
... the power into it. How do you conceive of my relation with you? Are you not the son of the universal Mother? 25 July 1970 Until now, my spontaneous attitude was that of the supreme Mother who carries the universe in her loving arms, and I was dealing with each one as with the child from whom she tolerates everything equally; and all that the people here were doing to please me I ...
... into divine realisations. 15 January 1933 Divine Grace, Thy goodness is infinite. We bow before Thee in gratitude. Mother, What is the rationale of Divine Grace? Is not the Supreme Mother always ready with Her Grace for those who can call it down? Yes. Is it not true that even most of the seekers after God cannot call it down? And yet they can receive it if someone, a guru ...
... ) But it is within the Infinity of the Becoming. And with none of the harshness, none of the shocks that are ordinarily experienced in life. The art of letting oneself be carried by the Supreme ( Mother clasps her hands together ) within the Infinite Becoming. ( long silence ) Whatever comes from here ( Mother touches her forehead, her face )... from here onwards it's all harsh, dry, crumpled ...
... is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.' × Ganesh (or Ganapati): The first son of the Supreme Mother, represented with an elephant trunk and an ample belly. Ganesh is the god who presides over material realizations (over money in particular). He is also known as the scribe of divine knowledge ...
... course I am not at all speaking of the human, physical quagmire; I am speaking of the most wonderfully beautiful and pure Love imaginable. This Power is the origin of that Love, and it is in the Supreme. ( Mother sits at the organ ) And it has always been said that That and That alone could bring the adverse forces to a halt. ( Music ) Page 415 ...
... ess and Will on earth—declared me to be, that is, the supreme universal Mother; and on the other hand, there is what I am realizing in my body through the integral sadhana. 2 I could be the supreme Mother and not do any sadhana, and as a matter of fact, as long as Sri Aurobindo was in his body, it was he who did the sadhana, and I received the effects. These effects were automatically established ...
... present pujas is Durga. × Annapurna : 'She who nourishes the world,' wife of Shiva, one of the aspects of the supreme Mother. ...
... It widens you, it fills you—it's THAT, in a word! So, would you like to stay [to meditate]? You know, Mother, ever since you've become supposedly powerless, I have started to feel the supreme Mother. When you had all your powers.... But I know it's my body... this body.... Look, I have accepted—the Lord asked me if I wanted to undergo the transformation , and I said yes (I would have ...
... numerous reprisals against the Muslim communities there. × Kali : the warrior aspect of the supreme Mother. ...
... like this ( gesture towards the Supreme ) and of being a little imprecise for people, it goes like this ( towards Mother ), it's gathered here ( in Mother ), and it goes there ( towards the Supreme ). ( Mother draws with her two arms a sort of path going towards her, rising upward, then coming down again through her towards the people. The whole path looks much like the silhouette of a single Being ...
... nation's soul - perhaps those depths never found tongue with such perfection as in a little known poignant lyric of his which expresses the brave confidence of the luminous warrior-child of the Supreme Mother and at the same time the tragic puzzlement of one whose intellect discovered not the master-key to life's riddle. A quintessence of the Vivekananda who inherited the world-enlightening mission ...
... the Mother of Dreams may bestow upon us, if only we care to court Her favour? Page 219 Appendix THE MOTHER OF DREAMS * Sri Aurobindo Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest, Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting ? ...
... Book Six, Canto 1. She wrote: The sketches are quite good. I have only suggested a change for the revelation of Savitri, to make it more impressive... No precision of form of the Supreme Mother. Just a mass of Light with a faint outline. When Book Six, The Book of Fate , was in progress, I did the painting of Savitri's mother. I did not cover her head with the sari, so she lacked ...
... lotus in gold with two rows of petals (4 inside and 12 outside) exactly in the centre of a square field of silvery blue. This blue is the blue of the Spirit, and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies an illumined physical consciousness. The flag was originally intended to be only the flag of the J.S.A.S.A.; but later, on the day when ...
... (Correspondence with Jayantilal) Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother 7 April 1939 Mother, What is the rationale of Divine Grace? Is not the Supreme Mother always ready with Her Grace for those who can call it down? Yes. Is it not true that most of the seekers after God cannot call the Divine Grace down, and yet they can receive it if someone ...
... finished some paintings of Savitri ? Once more she lapsed into a profound trance. She awoke, took a piece of paper and a pencil and drew a cover picture. She explained: Show the descent of the Supreme Mother. A flash of white Light forming the feet which rest on the globe of the earth. Don't forget to paint the outline of a lotus which must be mingled with the white Light. She also made me ...
... Thine, no other will than Thine, no other consciousness than Thine. Let me ever wear the perfume of Thy Divine purity. Be ever present at all moments, I invoke Thee with the fire of my being, O supreme Mother, in every thought and feeling, in every movement and impulsion, in every cell, tissue and nerve - every atom of my being - so that I may become Thy worthy servitor. *** Mother Divine: Thy ...
... bind these two worlds and without me it would not be possible. You understand, I am like the telephonic connection. But I have no separate action from Him. The Mahashakti has become one with the Supreme. Mother; this I do not understand. You say that You are the Mahashakti and that You have abandoned everything to the Lord and that You do not have a separate will from Him. You have become one with the ...
... The Supreme MOTHER – THE SUPREME Mother – The Supreme Bonjour! Bonjour, Douce Mère. Is everything all right? Yes, Mother. You had told me on my birthday about the Supreme…. But, Mother, for me You are the Supreme. My child, that is saying the same thing in one way and in another…. What, you do not understand? No, Mother. Look here, in fact it ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... attempt to make it take one step forward — oh, not even a real step, just a little step! — everything starts grating; it's like stepping on an anthill ... And yet the presence, the help of the supreme Mother, is there constantly; thus you realize that for ordinary men such a task is impossible, or else millions of lives would be needed — but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana ...
... no doubt familiar to all of you and some may even know it by heart. The arrangement of pauses in every line, the internal rhymes, the swift flowing movement are all superbly done: Goddess supreme,/Mother of Dream,/by thy ivory doors when thou standest, Who are they then/that come down unto men/in thy visions that troop,/group upon group,/down the path of the shadows slanting? / ...
... the power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Rum recovers Priyamvada from the dark nether regions of Death by the power of the charm of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love is affirmed. It is in Sāvitrī that Love divine comes as the embodiment of the Supreme Grace to deliver ...
... Of whom the world is the inscrutable mask". His own spirit was made a vessel of Her force and Aswapathy felt a passionate will and "outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer". Then the supreme Mother, in her grace, uncovered to him half of her face. Aswapathy was overwhelmed by the light and bliss, by the sweetness and power and "Drunk with a deep golden spiritual wine, He cast ...
... Savitri knew all this "not by some thought" but "by the self", by identity. She passed from room to room of the soul and felt one with everything. "She knew herself Beloved of the Supreme: "Mother was she of Beauty and Delight, The Word in Brahma's vast creating clasp, "The Master and the Mother of all lives "And Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss". ...
... Bengali seer, first saw this Mantra as the cry that must come to the sons of India in order to get their freedom. But it doesn't speak of freedom at all. Bande Mataram is a salutation to the Supreme Mother India, that's all. It only speaks of concentrating the will and the attention of the people on an objective: the collective entity, Mother India, the Bharat Shakti, as they call it. The attention ...
... wealth and money. All worldly realisations are in his control. There are innumerable stories about Ganesha. One of these stories is very well-known but I still feel like telling it to you. The Supreme Mother told Ganesha and Kartik: “Let me see, who can go round the universe and return to me first.” Kartik at once mounted his peacock and set off. Ganesha sat on his vehicle, the mouse, and ...
... does it mean? You understand, she was not only a woman with a tremendous force: there was something of Mother, an emanation of Mother there. Yes, as Sujata says, it was an "attribute" of the supreme Mother that was there. And they killed her. They can kill her. What does it mean? They killed Mother, they killed Kennedy and they killed Ludmila. What does it mean for the Earth? Yes, I think ...
... in The Presence My Pranam My whole being bows down in a profound, inner surrender at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. O Supreme Mother Divine, in the midst of these millions and millions of humans, 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 ...
... in gold, with concentric circles of 4 and 12 petals respectively, and centred in a square background of silvery blue: This blue is the blue of the spirit and the gold is the colour of the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies the illumined physical consciousness. 1 The Bulletin was the Mother's own paper, and over a period of twenty-five years she helped to ...
... achieve its end, which is the inevitable end of evolution itself. What appears impossible to the limited capacity of the human mind need not be impossible to the omnipotence of the divine Force, the supreme Mother. What our personal effort may fail to achieve, the Mother's force will surely accomplish, if we can realise an integral surrender to it; for, that Force is no other than the vijnāna śakti or ...
... fall into their proper places without creating the confusion which not unoften bewilder the beginners on the path. According to Sri Aurobindo,—and he is here at one with the Gita—it is the supreme Mother, the parā prakṛti, who has become all these numberless Jivâtmâ, these multiple centres of the one transcendent and universal Consciousness— par ā prakṛtirjīvabh ū t ā . Each Jiva or Jivâtmâ ...
... that the surrender of the aspirant should be ungrudging, unreserved, integral and absolute; and it must be a surrender to the supreme Consciousness-Force of the Divine, the eternal Mahashakti, the supreme Mother. We have now to proceed to consider who this Mother, the sole Pilot of the Integral Yoga, is, and how best we can surrender all ourself to Her transforming Love. Page 85 ...
... for political Sannyasis and call it Bhawani Mandir. We Page 251 thought he meant that, but later I understood it as 'Make a temple within.'" Bhawani is one of the names of the Supreme Mother. "This," revealed Sri Aurobindo, "gave me the final push to Yoga. I thought: great men could not have been after a chimera, and if there was such a more-than-human power, why not get it and ...
... Prayers and Aspirations Without Thy Grace 1973-11-13 Without the Supreme Mother's and Lord's will, (2) Nothing ever happens in the whole universe. (2), In vain carries man the burden on his head, (3) Without Your Grace, nothing ever happens. (3) Even Your constant remembrance can only come by Your Grace, (3), By Your Grace alone it comes ...
... The Spirit of Auroville On 5.11.71 the Mother gave this message to the Matrimandir Nursery: The flowers are the prayers of the vegetal world. The plants offer their beauty to the Supreme . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Community Affairs ...
... unto the last. Oh Saraswati, thou art the great destiny, the supreme Knowledge, oh Beauty with lotus-eyes! The universe is thy form, thy gaze ranges wide, Oh Goddess, give us the Knowledge, I bow to thee. May she dwell on our tongue—she holds the Vina and the Book, The consort of the Supreme, the Mother Divine, gleaming white, O Saraswati! Page 58 ...
... all your life be entirely and exclusively governed by the Supreme . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Your Life My eyes were filled with grateful tears. Then we had a long meditation. I felt strongly that all that the Mother had done was full of occult and spiritual meaning. Indeed, when our life is governed by the Supreme, the Future World cannot but manifest and the old world disappear... The Spirit of Auroville On November 1, my spiritual birthday, the Mother said: In September I gave the card of the world as it is. Now this card is of the Future World. (She pointed at the cover which was of an ethereal colour—a beautiful mixed marbling of soft pale blue, pale green and silver.) This World must be like this ... Then she opened ...
... 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 heart, then surely people will think that Aswapathy had fallen in love with a woman... twice the same lines appeared. The lines were: There was a voice unheard by ears that cried: Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again; For now from highest being looks at thee The nameless formless peace where all things rest... || 153.36 || The Mother passed some remarks which I cannot recall now. First she opened the book, then I did, again she did it. Thus, we opened it... difference was, I used to go to the Mother three times a month or sometimes four times; all depended on her 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 ...
... the aggressive force of the Truth seeks the cows of Light and goes breaking through (the enemy); for Truth the two wide ones (Heaven and Earth) become multitudinous and deep, for Truth the two supreme Mothers give their yield," ṛtena gāva ṛtam ā viveśuḥ;̣ ṛtaṁ yemāna ṛtam id vanoti, ṛtasya śuṣmas turayā u gavyuḥ; ṛtāya pṛthvī bahule gabhīre, ṛtāya dhenū parame duhāte (IV.23.9-10). Page 231 ... They may also be connected with the symbolism of the three Aryan peoples led by the light and the three luminous worlds of Swar; for the attainment of the supreme knowledge-vision, upamā ketuḥ , is the final result of their action and this supreme knowledge is that which has the vision of Swar and stands in its three luminous worlds, rocanāni , as we find in III.2.14, svaṛdṛśaṁ ketuṁ divo rocanasthām... shining cows who have in them the triple nature of the supreme world, tridhātubhir aruṣibhīr , and by whom Soma holds the birth or wide manifestation of that Truth, 2 are the thoughts which realise the Truth. This Swar with its three shining worlds in whose wideness there is the equal fulfilment of the tridhātu , a phrase often used for the supreme triple principle forming the triune highest world ...
... quite right. Yes, but then I wonder if it isn't egoistic? No, mon petit! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me, "The Divine is the supreme egoist!" ( Mother laughs and everyone laughs. ) ( long silence ) There's something I wanted to read to you, but... ( Mother looks among the papers beside her, without success ). The external circumstances have become intensified, as if there were a pressure... November November Mother’s Agenda 1971 November 10, 1971 Well, do you have anything? I have something, but what about you? Me... for the moment.... ( Mother seems tired ) I don't know if something will come later. The consciousness [of the body] is changing very fast. I'll see later if something comes. ... pressure, you know; so the equilibrium in which things were being kept is totally demolished. There's a kind of hatred against the Ashram.... But the Ashram needs to be purified, Mother! Yes, oh, yes! ( Mother nods vigorously ) That's exactly it, I know! As a matter of fact I wondered if there wouldn't be a new attack on the Ashram, just to purify it. They had organized one [against the ...
... nothing else to be done. And the only way is... you understand, it's to cling to the Supreme Consciousness ( Mother clenches her two fists ), and to cling to such a point that It alone exists—not to be directly conscious of the surrounding ill will. That's very important. You see, there is NOTHING but the Supreme, all the rest doesn't exist, isn't true. Like this ( same gesture with clenched fists... against things.... Why is it like that? What can dissolve that? Oh, is it like that? Yes. What can dissolve that? The Supreme's consciousness, the true consciousness. Yes, but then you feel as if you close your eyes and are someone else, and that's that. ( Mother gasps for breath ) It's true, I spent years and years and years changing that—that is, having the consciousness remain conscious... ( Mother laughs ) It means you're doing well, things are doing well! Good! Page 423 × "He thinks," that is to say, the doctor looking after Mother thinks. × That was the time when, in France, Mother spent ...
... you is whether you may not have something more to say on the subject - which at least to me is of supreme interest and importance - than what you have already hinted at.... "Sri Aurobindo, as was indicated to us, could afford to leave because the Mother was there to continue the work. The Mother was in the same position after the Manifestation of February 1956 as she herself stated shortly... long these lower limbs will drag me on is anybody's guess. Possibly much will depend on the way the rest of Amal's body fares under the influence of that part of his consciousness which is the Supreme Mother's child. Let us look forward to a progressive "second childhood" of this sort accompanying his advance towards a tottering, though hopefully not doddering, nonagenarianism. Here you may... intense earnest, the attention given to physical cells will be a side- Page 32 track and prove to be a blind alley. I know that the Mother was concentrating on them during the last years of her earthly sojourn, but with the background of a supreme divine consciousness held within her body and acting upon the cells from its profundity and its altitude and its circum-ambience. Without overlooking ...
... 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... But in the Veda there is a very interesting story. Mother sometimes told that story. She said that a time came in the 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... step farther. Mother told me that Sri Aurobindo is not a logical continuity of the past. It is not as if you continue what they were doing and then you get Sri Aurobindo's path. No. It is something newly discovered. That is why Mother said: Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past or to history. He is constantly fabricating the future. It was not known that apart from holding the Supreme Light in the ...
... July July Mother’s Agenda 1962 July 18, 1962 ( Concerning the vibration of supreme Love Mother experienced on April 13 : ) Matter needs quite a preparation to make it strong enough to hold those vibrations, and... and the body seems to be given a trickle to see how much it can bear. But there's such an immediate intensity... everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesn't come from the universal consciousness (which I don't really think is so wise!), it's infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlook—a wonder! ( silence ) We mustn't be in a hurry. It's hard to imagine how a physical... all of a sudden... ( Mother makes a gesture as if she were unable to speak, or as if suddenly held by silence ). At other times it pours out like it's doing now. And I don't "hear" an order, I don't "feel" an order: I LIVE the Order; and it's so patently the Lord's that it seems stupid to even mention it. Oh, such humorous things happen.... The other day I saw T. Her old mother lives in Moscow; she's ...
... and the Mother consider temples and churches and mosques superfluous. Ordinary life needs such supports and they have a place in the evolution of consciousness. And the religious instinct of prayer, worship and self-offering is very valuable. In its essence - shorn of egoistic and materialistic motives - it has a place even in the highest Yoga when the being is turned towards a personal Supreme and seeks... us for the idea that, instead of being our own zero with delusive egoistic hopes of becoming big by falsely assumed riches of the godhead, we should become that godhead's total possession: the Supreme Mother's zero, Her "nothing". On p. 3 of your letter you have the statement: "I am insincere, so suffering." This implies on the one hand that we suffer because we are insincere and on the other... your question has no bearing on your own life which is devoted and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: you have posed it just "to know and let others know". Your inclusion of Krishna in the list you have given is not quite proper. According to Sri Aurobindo, Krishna is the Supreme Divine who incarnated as the Avatar on earth through the Overmind formulation of his manifold being. He ...
... Entretiens, 5.27.1953 × La Decouverte Supreme × Mother’s Agenda III, 1.21.1962 × Entretiens, 12... something else ... something divine, She would say. A supreme conjunction in which Spirit and Matter merge into a third thing ... which is the secret of the Future. And which is perhaps total being. Something that transmutes all opposites: life-death, stillness-movement, time-eternity, being-becoming, high-low, you-me, here-there ... A supreme and powerful conjunction that contains the real power... × Mother's Agenda II, 6.27.1961 × Mother’s Agenda V, 9.16.1964; IV, 1.14.1963 × Mother’s Agenda II, 12.20.1961 ...
... solution. From your personal point of view, you were quite right. Yes, but then I wonder if it isn't egoistic? No, my child! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me, "The Divine is the supreme egoist!" (Mother laughs and everyone laughs) Page 230 ... suddenly felt I had lost my influence over those people. I tell them things — they couldn't care less. You could speak to [the architect] and see. Yes, Mother.... But [the architect] says, "Mother doesn't want to interfere. Mother doesn't want to make any decisions. " But Page 223 I think perhaps it's up to him to make a decision. But no one will listen to... Auroville references in Mother's Agenda January 27, 1971 MA XII-37 ... Well, do you have the next chapter? Yes, Mother. I've called it "The Sociology of the Superman". It's Auroville without naming it. Ah!.. But a very ideal Auroville! Yes! (laughing) Far from what it is. (The disciple reads a few pages of the ...
... can be all-effective without needing an outer expressive body—a miracle that has become eminently accomplishable when the body has given itself up in a complete surrender to the Will of the Supreme. The Mother, at the end of 1972, has clearly previsioned that such a miracle may happen in 1973. And nothing said later goes really against this foresight. For, she always leaves the future open: "I am... The Mother - Past-Present-Future The Mother's Victory * THE PRESENT AND FUTURE RESULTS OF HER PASSING The passing of the Mother at 7.25 p.m. on November 17, 1973, from the visible scene whose luminous centre she had formed ever since November 24,1926, when Sri Aurobindo put his Ashram in her hands and himself withdrew from common contacts in order to... necessity to do so after the Mother had set her seal on the article—we had the authorised report of the talk between her and Sri Aurobindo some months before he left his body on December 5, 1950. They had envisaged the contingency * Mother India, January 1974. Page 20 of one of them having to leave the body in the interests of their work. The Mother had said she would do it. Sri ...
... in the unconscious universe". It was this Beauty and this Presence that "justified the labour of the suns." He found that "A Mother Might brooded upon the world." She was "The Mother of all godheads and all strengths Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme." Then, the riddle of the world was solved for him and Nescience was killed. There was hidden, but all the same present... Goddess moved in her cosmic house "Sporting with God as a Mother with her child: To him the universe was her bosom of love, His toys were the immortal verities." It was a new world in which there was no opposition between thought and will, between eternity and time. Life was an unwearied sport. The supreme Divine Mother Page 237 Untired of sameness and untired of change... last secret of the cosmos. But it was, really speaking, the first entrance into the realm of timelessness which would be a beginning of his discovery .of :God. "There is a zero sign of the Supreme; Nature left nude and still uncovers God." This zero is not a void without content nor is the Nature an illusive manifestation without a mystery behind it. This silence of the Divine ...
... go to get dissolved in the Lord" was an error; the only solution, she said on the 28th, was "the direct contact of the physical with the Supreme". The Mother's own body had "taken its stand", and it was time that others did so too. On 31 May, the Mother confided to Satprem that she had spent more than three hours with Sri Aurobindo on the night of the 29th, showing him Auroville as it was... gymnasts. 19 When the Mother was asked whether there would be family life, religion, atheism or social life in Auroville, she answered cryptically: "If one has not gone beyond that" 20 - but nothing would be compulsory. Again, when she was asked who had initiated the construction of Auroville and who would be financing the project, the Mother merely said, "The Supreme Lord." Auroville would... an unshakable faith in the help received from the Guru. A sadhika wrote that, whenever she heard about the Mother's ill-health, she felt as if broken herself; and the Mother replied - It is not a question of health, it is a question of transformation. And it is always the Supreme's Will that is realised. Never forget that, and you will be in peace. 30 Or, when there was the request ...
... golden dream. 113 Festival of the Birth of the Eternal Light OM Anandamayi, Chaitanyamayi, Satyamayi, Parame' OM Mother of Delight, Mother of Consciousness, Mother of Truth, O Supreme Jayastute' namastute' Victory to Thee, Salutations to Thee Sarvam Khalhidam, Brahman: All is verily divine; the Divine is truly all; Rises a rich-textured... undying flame. Someone who came for a brief spell to walk on our soil Has never left -- for Her, there is no coming or going. There is none here or anywhere ever but the Supreme Shakti. Mother Divine, accept our surrender unequivocal, total, Uncompromising, full of love, devotion and trust unwavering, May our whole being become an open unobstructive channel For... embrace of the Mother Divine. Bodies possessed by the divinities of beauty and harmony and the Soma wine Dance intoxicated as in a trance and oblige the psychic buds to blossom by their charm. The soul repeats the mantra; May I be Thy slave, May I be Thy slave: Yogis and saints, sculptors, poets, musicians and painters Followers of the Truth, lovers of the Supreme and His Avatars ...
... and closed.” And the two doors are ONE. In the body. It is the supreme Door. × Mother’s Agenda XII, 25.8.71 × Mother’s Agenda XI, 11.4.70 ... A Dangerous ... Unknown Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III 16: Overlife This book is a challenge, all of Mother’s enterprise is a challenge, Sri Aurobindo’s silence was surely very wise, but what? I am trying. This is my own challenge and I have not finished looking into that stammering of a new world, I struggle with Mother’s forest just as She fought... And suddenly, that “other side,” so familiar, was becoming as if unknown. What did it mean? What was happening? What change was taking place in Mother’s structure, which made that it was not as before? A new state of Mother?… What state? And Mother continued: I remember a time when the memory of past lives, the memory of night activities was so very concrete; the so-called invisible world was ...
... 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 manifest... quest for the 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... mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. ...
... been touched upon: the explanation of how a world like ours is the result of God’s workings – and can only be such a result, as there is nothing else but God, or That, or the Divine, or the Supreme. The Mother talked about a ‘very old Tradition’ several times, always emphasizing that the story, as narrated by her, sounded like a children’s tale, but that its symbolism was profound and referred to the... Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL 25 p. 371. × Sujata Nahar, The Mother’s Chronicles III, pp. 166-67. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM 6 p. 55 ff. ... × The Mother, Words of Long Ago , CWM 2 pp. 12 ff. × See the chronology of the Mother’s life in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar’s On the Mother , p. 848. × ...
... dumb wisdom's points, Using the unthought inevitable Idea, It did the works of God's intelligence Or wrought the will of some supreme Unknown." Book II, Canto 5. Page 145 "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 unconsciousness Divinity's lapse from its... as an adept of the great spiritual and mystic realisation of the past gives us a wonderful picture of man's growth from mental consciousness through various intermediate stages to the Supreme Divine Mother Consciousness. "The Yoga of the Soul's Release" is the subject of this Canto. Here for the first time it becomes clear that this great epic deals with the spiritual odyssey of... not an exact foreseeing of the future but a sort of feeling that a change would come. 8. The image of the Mother is very beautiful. This Mother- the universal Mother was before now the "heedless mother". But the newly born stir, the vague aspiration "clutched the heedless mother" and the maternal love vaguely awoke in her apparently unconscious breast. She was reminded of the "endless need" ...
... vibration of his life-force, in every cell of his body. In all the workings of his force of Nature he would be aware of the workings of the supreme World-Mother, the Supernature; he would see his natural being as the becoming and manifestation of the power of the World-Mother. In this consciousness he would live and act in an entire transcendent freedom, a complete joy of the spirit, an entire identity with... It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation... but also its absolute truth of itself and power of that truth of being; these two things repeat themselves in the life of the spirit in supernature. All action there is the action of the supreme Self, the supreme Ishwara in the truth of the supernature. It is at once the truth of the being of the self and the truth of the will of the Ishwara one with that truth—a biune reality—which expresses itself ...
... it's atoms, it's the galaxies – it's... everything that is. Towarnicki: So one could say "the Supreme Being" or "the Being"? "The Being." Yes. That's it. Yes, "I salute the Supreme Being." Towarnicki: And even "Satprem" is... Indeed! Not a Supreme (as Mother says), not a Supreme out of reach! He is here! He is here! Towarnicki: Precisely. It beats in our chest. It's... still don't have a translation! The first translation we can give is the mental translation. That is, literally: "I salute That which is supreme." 5 But that "supreme" is obviously not a celestial Supreme – that is the opposite of the path followed by Mother or the Vedic rishis or Sri Aurobindo. It's what matter really is. We have looked for it up above – and we have called it "the Spirit... scientist, of biologist or Christian. But beneath those habits is something bursting with honey and sunshine, which is what we are. We can call it "the Supreme," or just "supreme," but that's a poor mental translation. So when Mother invokes... when she salutes the "Bhagavate," she doesn't mean a God, of course! It's the very being of the world. But its TRUE being. The one a child knows ...
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