A message from the Mother for New Year
Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee,
Lord, the year is re-born, our prayer rises up to Thee.
Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life
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The Mother - 1934
The Universal Incarnation - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
The Universal Incarnation
There is a wisdom like a brooding Sun
A bliss in the heart's crypt grown fiery white
The heart of a world in which all hearts are one
A silence on the mountain of delight
A Calm that cradles Fate upon the knees;
A wide compassion leans to embrace eath's pain
A Witness dwells within our secrecies
The incarnate Godhead in the body of man.
Our mind is a glimmering curtain of that Ray
Our strenght a parody of the immortal power
Our joy a dreamer on the Eternal's way
Hunting the fugitive'beauty of an hour
Only on the heart's veiled door the word of flame
Is written, the secret and tremendous Name
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Light - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
Light
Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more,
Life's ignorant gulfs give up their secrecy:
The huge inconscient depths unplumbed before
Lie glimmering in vast expectansy.
Light, timeless Light, immutable and apart!
The holy sealed mysterious doors unclose.
Light , burning Light! fom the Infinite's diamond heart
Quivers in my heart where blooms the deathless rose.
Light in the rapture leaping through the nerves!
Light, brooding Light! each smitten passionate cell
In a mute blaze of ecstasy preserves
A living sense of the Imperishable.
I move in an ocean of stupendous Light
Joining my depths to His eternal height
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Sri Aurobindo
Transformation of desire in aspiration
Desire is the tyrannical king of all human beings
Desire is the fire put in man by God in His divine wisdom.
Man roams ceaselessly in search of happiness, always disappointed.
The smoking black fire grows, becomes intense, more and more clear.
Man abandons hunting for a short lived material happiness.
The desire becomes more refined, it pursues a less fragile happiness.
One day when man has tasted, exhausted all the known happiness,
He turns his glance to the unexplored Infinity, to the unknown.
The earthly fire becomes a sacred flame which rises towards the sky.
Desire is transformed into a burning aspiration for the eternal joy,
World is supported by the divine Felicity hidden in the atoms.
Attracting by His irresistible bliss, the supreme Divinity
Leads all the creation towards the sublime metamorphosis.
The being who tasted only once the nectar of immortality roams no more.
The long , mad, painful search stops.
All in him burns as a single flame, a single appeal
" Come my love, O Lord of bliss. "
The ant does not look any more for sugar
It swims in an ocean of bliss.
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N.Guha Roy