The bells announce the Victory
Far away from this civilisation
Where money is the king, pleasure the only aim, and success the highlight of life.
Far away from the relentless fights,suicidal competitions, from the passion of the blind pride,
Far away from a society dominated by the lord of falsehood,
Invisible, not recognisable, a group of beings of another race, superhuman, still children grows in the Light
Without disturbing desires, they do not look for either money or human comfort,
Conscious of their divinity, they suffer in the animal body.
As man is not jealous of the cow grazing the luxuriant herb, these beings watch with dismay
people running everywhere like fools in search of money, pleasure and imaginary power.
Man, tormented by his animal nature,
His mental consciousness closed to heaven is incapable to see the universal unity.
Conflicts, fights, divisions, , barriers, oppositions, contradictions of others are real to his spirit.
Collaboration, association, true brotherhood, union are foreign to him.
He is at ease inside his limits; his happiness lies in a restricted enclosure.
But Nature is never at rest,
she lets the people sing their requiem, bathe in the warmth sun of the mortal golden decline.
She lets them play in an alley without exit,and advances in giant steps
Towards the glittering future of a happy earth burning with a mystic fire.
The knell rings for the opponent
The bells announce the victory of the Mother.
Nature is only an opaque facade of the eternal Mother,
The supreme force has always directed in detail the great earthly evolution.
She leads all the creation from division towards the unique Origin, the One
From suffering and death towards the immortal felicity of the divine life.
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N.Guha Roy
That alone is the Reality
I have become intensely aware of a Reality, the One.
Compact totality where everything exists eternally, immortal.
Individual, identical, one with all in essence, part of the One.
There is no distance, there is no death, loss or separation.
Each one is That who is the eternal Actor, the conscious being in all.
Unaffected by the play, undiminished, ever pure, always whole and integral, in movement ,
An unending Lila of self discovery , of self manifestation in infinite roles.
This is the Permanent, the adobe of truth, the divine Reality.
Beyond the clasp of time, division and suffering
Even time and space have a completely different significance.
Through any point in space, one emerges into infinity,
The point itself being infinite,
The whole of Infinity too is a point.
The past extends in a huge retrograde movement and emerges in the future,
The future curves into the past through a vast movement in time.
The present is an eternel unfading immobile scene of action
Of a vast infinite eternal Consciousness of being.
It is a seed, yet the tree,
The ocean yet the stray droplet of water,
The ray yet the whole sun
One single million hued Felicity inaccessible to the words
Yet a luminously vibrant Existence of unfathomable mystery.
That, That alone is the Reality
To Thee , O mysterious Presence, our heart's gratitude.
****
Niranjan Guha Roy 1967
The New Power
There are more and more signs that forced and compelled by worsening circumstances, tension and violence, the nations might seek another lasting solution.
Politics everywhere in the world is perhaps the worst form of human ignorance. Society has lost its moral and ethical values. There is no security for anyone anywhere. Violence is the order of the day, religion at best inefective. All cherished value are going down to the drain. Pornography, violence, horror are all permitted, profitable highly exploited commercial articles. It seems that even those who had some idealistic approach to life are being sucked in the tremendous and powerful whirlpool of dark influence. Mankind is like a rudderless ship driven by a mad hurricane towards seemingly a disastrous rocky shore. That is why the Mother in one of Her messages said something like this " Men, countries, continents the choice is imerative, choose the Truth or perish"
A new formidable power and consciousness has come in the evolutionary play on the earth. What cannot change, what resists and refuses the call of the soul, what is unwilling to respond to a greatez demand for Truth, peace and harmony , all that stands in the way of the new manifestation, all that wants to cling to the ordinary human way will come under the greatest pressure of this force of truth. They must change or gradually disappear and make way for the new realisation.
All the souls who yearn for a new life of truth, beauty and harmony even so little are candidates for a new divine race. But their attempt will be very difficult in a world totally hostile to any true light, any divine power and manifestation. This new power manifesting on earth is the all conquering will of the Divine. It has the power to transform matter. and the power to crush and silence all oppositions to the new creation. But we are just at the beginning of this new evolution. This new consciousness is like a new born child on the earth ,l one day he will be the supreme Conqueror.The world is under tremendous pressure of this Force which demands transformation, a new orientation towards the noblest aims
Let the Mother of beauty, knowledge, love, force and invariable joy be established in our hearts.
She is sending invitations to Her yearning children to enter this wonderful new life.
She will arrange the very best for each one so that one may grow towards the divine Truth at his own pace, in his own distinct way.
***
N.Guha Roy 1979
Sunrise of the new world
Sunset of the old world and sunrise of the new meet in a crimson glow.
The gigantic unsinkable ship is slowly sliding into an incurable amnesia.
Farewell, farewell to all that has been, thrice welcome to all that is to come.
The imperial new world of immortal felicity is still a submerged island
Rising everyday by inches , lighting up aspiring souls with hidden rapture.
Sing a requiem for the dying and a hymn of gratitude for the infant Godhead.
The wheel of Destiny takes the earth far away from the crowded lanes on sea,
In an unprecedented adventure to lands unexplored of bliss and beauty.
N.Guha Roy
Open wide the locked doors of your soul
Look in your soul, you lived thousand lives in the past.
Since ages, you have crossed all the countries, all the oceans.
Your journey is a fantastic epic.
You knew so many mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbours, finally the whole earth.
Go back with courage on the river towards your original Source,
You will find your brothers and sisters in all levels of the sea.
You carry in your soul the sacred fire, the creative Force, the divine Mother.
Open wide the locked doors of your soul.
Only the divine Love can heal the world
And establish peace and lasting harmony,
The kingdom of God on earth.
Discover your soul and your true relationship with the whole creation.
The sea is your cradle, the earth your playground, the humanity your great family.
Closed borders do not exist any more for a pure soul.
Turn your gaze to your soul, the divine Love will flood your body and your spirit,
Your island and all the continents.
Open wide all the locked doors of your confined soul
Let us leave our fate between the hands of the Divine
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N.Guha Roy
The compact Totality
I have become intensely aware of a Reality, the One.
Compact totality where everything exists eternally, immortal.
Individual, identical, one with all in essence, part of the One.
There is no distance, there is no death, loss or separation.
Each one is That who is the eternal Actor, the conscious being in all.
Unaffected by the play, undiminished, ever pure, always whole and integral, in movement ,
An unending Lila of self discovery , of self manifestation in infinite roles.
This is the Permanent, the adobe of truth, the divine Reality.
Beyond the clasp of time, division and suffering
Even time and space have a completely different significance.
Through any point in space, one emerges into infinity,
The point itself being infinite,
The whole of Infinity too is a point.
The past extends in a huge retrograde movement and emerges in the future,
The future curves into the past through a vast movement in time.
The present is an eternel unfading immobile scene of action
Of a vast infinite eternal Consciousness of being.
It is a seed, yet the tree,
The ocean yet the stray droplet of water,
The ray yet the whole sun
One single million hued Felicity inaccessible to the words
Yet a luminously vibrant Existence of unfathomable mystery.
That, That alone is the Reality
To Thee , O mysterious Presence, our heart's gratitude.
****
Niranjan Guha Roy 1967
Sri Aurobindo - 15 August
Sri Aurobindo
Many are touched by Thy prophetic vision,
Many are inspired by Thy passion for the Reality,
Blessed are they who worship Thee
As the Master, Friend and Guide,
Twice blessed the few who perceive
The Lord incarnate in Thee.
But to me Thou art also
The timeless Sadhack of the Eternal Shakti.
Thou art one with Her
Like the crimson aspiration with the early morning.
May we become even as Thou art,
Timeless sadhaks of the Eternal Shakti.
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Om Namo Bhagavate
Om Sri Aurobindo saranam mama
Pranam, pranam, pranam.
Our gratitude, our salutations
Courage to cross the border
From the President to the road sweeper, there is not much difference. They are all terribly human .Prisoners of the mental vital ego, they are going round along the same tracks, actors in a perennial tragi-comedy repeating the roles endlessly, hopelessly eyes glued to the material reality always deceived in love and game, the cup of nectar hardly raised to his lips constantly snatched away, his idea of a heaven on earth turning into a mirage at every attempt yet undaunted he ever runs after a brilliant chimera, picks up thousands of pebbles in order to discover a gem one day. He is inexorably driven by fate, God's delegate through thousands of births and deaths till he becomes satiated with the success and failure, joys and agonies of the ordinary human existence.
But if he is offered a new home in God's house will he accept? Most certainly not. A life of peace and harmony without blood, sweat and tears will be an excruciating prolonged boredom, or bleak existence without an issue. Man would be yearning for the habitual food and poison, praying for the lashing which cuts his back to ribbons. Such is the nature of God's magic. Until He releases the soul, no one can escape, the soul must grow in stature, must become mature. Rejecting the ever repeating rise and fall of his destiny, he must prepare himself to endure unbroken bliss, to look with equality, serenity, peace on worlds disintegrating and reforming constantly to take part in God's ever recurring play. God's touch awakens a soul here, a soul there. Then one seems to wake up from an unreal dream. The material world cannot rival his attention onto it anymore. One seems to have crossed beyond the stone wall of matter.
Other vast horizons pass fleetingly before the gaze of the enraptured soul. Man discovers the soul in hidden recesses of his heart, beyond the upper ceiling of the mind, a glorious irresistible adventure, forces the soul to cut all the ropes and draws it into the unknown depths and distances alluring, dangerous and challenging. God unveiled is the Guide, Master and Captain of the awakened soul. It no longer belongs to the human race though to the ordinary eye, the man with the illumined mind and heart is no different in appearance from any human being, yet to another awakened soul, he is as distinct from man as man is from a monkey. For many, the transition from human to the divine state is short and quick but for most of the aspiring souls, the transition is a long period of struggle, indecision, swaying. to and fro, hesitation and tormenting uneasy adventure. Seeing, they refuse to see, hearing they refuse to believe, knowing the right path, the upward safe and luminous way, they take the tortuous dangerous familiar old trails. The Great Mother is not discouraged or offended. She is always with the aspiring souls unable as yet to bear Her touch and constant Presence.These unhappy travellers in a murky no man's land refusing to cross over to a safer zone of light and protection wistfully hang on to their old familiar treasures thus prolonging their own torments. As the Light grows, as the strong souls emerge into the authentic consciousness, the nomads in the hazy lands will find strengthand certitude and take the sure path of ascent to the Truth.
Come, ye hesitant souls, rise, have courage and lo, the Mother is there leading the victory march. Do not look back to the dungeon from which we have been freed after ages. Let us get used to the freedom of the Spirit. The nightmare is now forgotten. Shine, ever radiant and glorious, O Mother Divine in our soul.
N.Guha Roy
The Mother is the Golden Bridge
The Mother is the Golden Bridge between the Supreme and the soul of man. She came down in an earthly body as the incarnate word of God. She manifested in a frail human body some absolute Power of God.
Every second of her existence has taken the earth light years ahead in its evolution. She has prepared the earth for an inconceivable divine transformation. Her physical form was a point of concentration of the infinite original consciousness which She is eternally. Every moment of her life has been a ceaseless terrible struggle and a fierce painful battle against the formidable powers which rule the earth-nature since the creation in order to lay the foundation of a divine life on earth. Every word She has expressed is a priceless gift of the Supreme to man and earth.
Although now She is no longer present in her body, She is always present everywhere for there is nothing else except Her anywhere. When we are sincere, when we are simple, when we love Her truly, then we become aware of her presence, her tenderness, her help and guidance. To read her books is to communicate with the absolute wisdom. To look at her face in a photo and specially to look into her eyes is to enter into the fathomless heart of divine love. We feel then her all-comprehending sweetness and compassion. No one anywhere can ever give us so profound and lasting satisfaction as when we are with Her. She is so utterly good to everyone without exception that each soul feels fulfilled in her presence.
Love of truth, beauty and harmony will inevitably lead us to the secret Temple in the heart where She is forever installed, in all her glory, her hand always outstretched in the act of blessing. Our little life and existence is no better than the life of a firefly. If we can annul ourselves totally, realise our absolute nothingness then we are admitted into the resplendent vision of the One, the eternal Mother Divine. Verily, all is that Supreme Reality. We become dumb before that supernal Mystery.
O Mother Divine remain bright in my soul, become brighter in my consciousness so that I see only You and no one else.
May we become whatever You want us to be for You always work for our highest good.
May we remember You in every breath of our life for that brings the sweetest intimacy, the silent ecstasy, Om, Om Supreme Goodness.
Niranjan Guha Roy
The best attitude for yoga: a glad surrender
There is often confusion or wrong conceptions in our first approach to the yoga, our search for the Divine, then our path could be very uncertain, very mixed, dangerous and even frustrating.
Why do we want to do the yoga? Is it from some vital, physical or mental motive? Is it for the realisation of some personal dream, some, ambition, even some sublime altruistic aim? Is it for my material well-being, protection and happiness for me and for my family and my country or the world? Why do I want the Divine, what is my aim? Is it the acquisition of power over elemental forces, people, the world? None of these aims qualify one to do the yoga. The noblest and truest aim of the yoga is the irresistible attraction that one feels somewhere deep in oneself, an attraction for the Mystery, for the Origin, the Source of our existence, God, the Eternal, the Mother who calls us from beyond, a call so irresistible that no price is too high to pay, no attachment too great to break, no undertaking too heavy to undertake. We are ready to do anything and everything, whatever is required from us, however long the journey might be, however difficult and dangerous the path might be. We feel the irresistible urge to leave behind everything, to follow blindly, joyously the supreme Piper of Hameline. Then, we are sure to reach Him. Unless we have heard his call, the strains of his flute playing his music; unless we have felt his intoxication, that mysterious call which goes out to the explorers for the adventures, for the fathomless Infinities; unless we have had a glimpse of his ravishingly beautiful face and limbs molded from the substance of delight; unless we have heard his voice which takes away all smug peace , his command, which is a persecution and a frightful torment unless executed; unless the Eternal has touched us with his magic wand, we cannot be awakened, we cannot pursue the path. So, for this yoga, one has to be absolutely sure that one has been called, that one is predestined, that one has eventually no other work, no other commitment, no other duty except to follow the yoga, to serve the Divine, to become a simple and pure instrument. This must be the goal, whether achieved in a short time, or even in a few lifetimes. Unless one can take this attitude, or more correctly one has this attitude, one cannot be called fit for this yoga.
But if one has even in the smallest degree the aspiration to belong to the Divine, to obey and serve the Divine, to surrender to Him his life and works, his past, present and future, a willingness to be broken and gradually remolded by his vision and power, a yearning to be close to Him, to live in his Presence, to serve and love Him, to possess nothing, to be nothing, then also is justified the undertaking of the yoga - for the little submerged aspiration will grow with the true attitude, a glowing fire of self-sacrifice.
The path of yoga is extremely difficult and dangerous because all the established world forces in this world or in invisible worlds are against the divine realisation, for it means the end of their domination and sovereignty; but if one has the true call and the right attitude, then the absolute Divine protection is with us, his love and guidance and above all his joy. Not that the battles, the encounters or prolonged wars would be completely eliminated, but they will be more as adventures as the odyssey of the soul in company with the Creator, the Divine, the Mother. This right attitude is so important in this yoga that we have to constantly re-establish it in various parts of our being until finally our whole being would be in a state of glad surrender and total submission to the Divine. We must have patience for it is a long and difficult work
The Success is for the one who can endure says the Mother
Niranjan Guha Roy