some words from Sri Aurobindo - a veil behind the heart.....
A veil behind the heart, a lid over the mind
Divide us from the Divine
Love and devotion rend the veil
In the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes
The Adventurer
I have left behing the familiar shores, lakes and torrents, harmless shallow river ways.
Higher than the higher peaks of mind which no man can climb
Deeper than the deepest abyss of life which no diving whale can fathom,
Further than the fancy's utmost extended range
Waits the new world of million tuned harmony.
My keel is on the unchartered ocean, I have thrown all useless cargo overboard
Haeven's blessings, the pouring rain have cleansed my deck of the petrifed slimes of the ages
O Supreme Being, my Captain, I have faith in Your skill I am wholly yours,
I fully trust You , the wheel of my destiny is safe in Your hand
But for You O Knower of the unmarked open sea lanes,
Each moment would be a near disaster in the adventure of the unknown
Beyond the tracherous sharp edges lies the promised land where the Golden Sun never sets.
Your name be thrice blessed, By Your Grace my fragile boat is now on the port
On the other side of the ocean enjoying at last freedom.
You have lifted the veil over my soul, my heart kneels down before You in gratitude.
Inside, outside, above and below I meet Your reassuring eyes.
Peace has flowed into my body, life, mind and soul.
A handful of common sand witholds in it unborn divinities.
My life is now an unbroken song of glory pulsating somewhere in the immesurable Spirit-Space
Such is Your mystery,
even if all were abolished, You remain undiminished
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In this solemn hour,
some reckless souls, enchanted by the call of the eternal Mother,
Unoticed are crossing a secret barrage of mystic fire
To emerge into the vast supermind ruled by a golden Sun
Where all is spirit, sorrow impossible, joy the substance of life.
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
Some words from Sri Aurobindo
A veil behind the heart,
a lid over the mind divide us from the Divine.
Love and devotion rend the veil,
in the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes.
To know the highest Truth and to be in harmony with it
is the condition of right being,
to express it in all that were, experience and do
is the condition of right living
Messages from the Mother
Blessed are those who take a leap towards the Future
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Don't speak - Act
Don't announce - Realise
What is Yoga
In India from the most ancient times, the view is held that one needs many, many years to be in contact with the Divine. One has to do a long and difficult sadhana to arrive even at a partial realisation.
We can read the lives of great Saints in all countries, the God-lovers, and they all tell us the same thing: there is no easy road to Heaven. The greatest and the most arduous effort with limitless patience and endurance is promised to those who would undertake the discovery of the Divine. We want something that would radically change the human life into a spiritual li.fe The call on us is a rare privilege granted to daring and dedicated souls.
With all the hope and ardour and love we have to look up at the golden sun and open ourselves, all our centers, all the cells of our body to its transforming, divine rays. This is the true liberation, true regeneration. The plant is a visible symbol of the spiritual aspiration. How it reaches out to the sunlight, how it depends on the light for its existence, how it struggles to catch a glimpse of light of the sun.
For the sadhak of the integral yoga, there is no repose, no rose-bed, no cosy inn or tavern where he can rest too long. We have many battles to wage, many wars to face. So let us steer our determination, march forward unburdened by the load of desires and attachments, fired by the inextinguishable flame of divine conquest. This is the role that has been assigned for the disciples of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Too often, there are some persistently wrong ideas about yoga. The yoga in India means union with the Divine or the Absolute and the discipline followed in order to arrive at the Realisation. The aim of personal happiness, to be happy, to love and distribute love all in a human way belong at best to ethics and has nothing to do with the yoga.
The Gita is the synthesis of all forms of yoga practiced in India. Sri Aurobindo's yoga begins where the Gita ends. To be aware of the Divine, the spiritual reality, to be aware that all is divine, to be aware that the earth and the evolution are a conscious self-manifestation of the Divine, to become aware of the One Divine and his will in the world, to be moved by Him, to live in Him, to be possessed by Him, to be progressively transformed by the divine consciousness into a divine being, these are the steps in ascension towards the divine life. This is a vast and complex subject.
More than any intellectual knowledge contained in a thousand books, a single true and profound experience, the touch of grace is far more convincing to the seeker of truth. One should constantly cultivate humility, self-offering to the Divine. Submission and a glad surrender to the divine guidance, once He is seen and recognised, is the most secure way for the seeker. Only the fortunate soul which has been prepared through a thousand births can readily take this path of dependence on the Divine and surrender to his will, love and knowledge.
ut we can all prepare ourselves, make ourselves fit for the state of grace which the surrender brings, the presence of the Eternal, his possession of our being, our life and action.
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N.Guha Roy
Prayer for the animals
Om Douce Mère
May Your protection be with all the animals on this earth.
Shelter them all in Your Heart and give them the protection
And love they need on this violent earth.