The Supreme Artist. Everyday He works on an immense canvas hung on the sky
Every day, He works on an immense canvas hung on the sky.
Ages marches past, each leaves its track in the huge picture.Read more
The Angel of Fire -I am the shining white-winged angel of fire.
I am the shining white-winged angel of fire.
On the far-seeing flank of an inaccessible summit,
A long way from the busy and glamorous cities,
I have built my retreat and observation post among the trees.
From a great height, I watch over the pilgrim souls
Going their way on the eternal road in an unending flow.
The distance between hope and the goal,
Sundown and the morning star is often too long to bear
Even for the seasoned travelers, explorers of the hidden Light.
I rekindle their faltering hope and strengthen their faith.
This unhappy world in love with war and disaster,
Violence and power, if denied its daily portion
Of burning wine of hate and poison, murderous excitement,
Fatal drugs and pills and one-eyed suicidal freedom,
Will fall back into apathy, exhausted slide into extinction.
I drive gently men and women, slaves of desire, animals by nature,
Towards a high and noble passion, I light a spark in their soul.
This violent, unsatisfied brute is yet a crude image
Of a Supreme Divinity, habitation of the delightful Shakti.
As the lotus blooms in the pale rays of a silver moon,
So too, the soul in man still an animal grows every hour
Illumined, purified, sublimated by my Radiance.
In the secret heart of things, I have built my garden of roses
I am the pathfinder, guide on the road to Immortality.
Tears, I transform into glistening pearls of the rosary,
Utter disaster, ruin, shame and agony into Bliss and Harmony.
Friend of the aspiring soul, I lend him my wings to fly to the goal
If he stays too long in an oasis, I dry up the fountain and the green leaves.
I leave him no rest; prod him, often with strokes of lightning.
I ignite in his heart a divine frenzy, he cannot sleep anymore.
When I am invoked, centuries are compressed into a dazzling lifetime.
I am friend of the gambler, the reckless adventurer and the hunter
Who would throw away all prudence and gingerly step into Fire.
O hero worshipper of the Great Mother,
Do not relax until you win.
Jump in the furnace of love in fusion
Till all is reduced to gold.
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N.Guha Roy 1993
About Work
Outward work is very important for our growth. Whatever the work, we must do it as perfectly as possible with a sense of beauty, harmony and respponsibility. In this way we bring order, cleanliness and discipline in our life through work. The work well done increases our capacity for concentration and there is an awakening of consciousness. Whatever work we undertake becomes a work of art. We know how it has to be done. We discover new possibilities in the same work. As our consciousness develops and our surrender grows, gradually we find more and more that we are involved in the work best suited to our temperament and inner nature. We should not neglect in any way the work given by the Divine. We must do it for Him as an offering.
Our house should be like a little Temple where we feel the atmosphere of prayer and aspiration.
The most reliable and faithful friend, the most loving person is the Divine.
Let us turn to Him alone.
Niranjan Guha Roy 1978
surrender and the inner law. Only in the Divine is the true security
We are here to serve the Divine according to the inner truth of our being. When our aspiration is free from all taint of ego, then the inner law of our being exerts itself. Our outer physical nature is an ever‑changing, unstable flux. When through a growing surrender we perceive the inner law of our being, then we have a sense of stability and certitude regarding our life and work. As long as we keep changing constantly, as long as we feel frustrated, as long as we feel our talents are not being utilised, it only means that we have not yet found the inner law of our being. As long as the surrender does not become complete, even the inner law of the being seems or remains unacceptable. So the real work is to develop the will to surrender entirely to the Divine and his will. Thy Will be done. We must be able to say it a thousand times in all sincerity and feel at the same time that his will only leads us to a greater height and consciousness.
To turn every movement Godward tout ourself exclusively in the service of the Divine, this is what we are trying all the time. Then we will never feel frustrated.
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Only in the Divine is the true security
The Divine is doing for each one according to the soul's aspiration in each. It is my deepest conviction that we must only seek the Divine, and then only we have, finally, the chance of coming out of all difficulties and problems. The Divine takes charge of our life and work. As long as we run after things, however wonderful, we are not yet on the straight sunlit path. When we want to live in full presence of the Mother Divine, guided and inspired by Her at all moments, and live in the world to serve Her to serve Her as faithfully as we can, then we have nothing to fear. Then whatever happens is invariably for our highest good. We must always pray for a higher consciousness. In the divine consciousness, there is a natural, constant joy and knowledge, and a deep serenity unaffected by any outward conditions and happenings. Only in the Divine is the true security.
Our sole aim is to grow in the true consciousness,to be fully plastic and let the Divine decide for us all.
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1987
N Guha Roy
When my consciousness is full of Thy Presence divine, everything becomes simply pure delight.
Each moment is a preordained movement in an epic-drama.
God pursues His unobstructed manifestation in bliss.
As the growing plant contains the flowers and the fruits, each hour contains the inevitable sequence, what is to come next.
When we live in the eternity of the Spirit, no veil hides the reality which is forever the same, an infinite living Mystery full of inexhaustible splendour.
Our soul, a deathless portion of the immortal Spirit does not suffer anymore for nothing is denied to it.
Our mind and life also share to some extent that felicity.But our body is fragile, a brittle toy in the terrestrial play, bound to soil, a helpless prisoner of dull matter, incapable of responding much to the incoming Light.
Spiritual seekers are nowhere safe on earth as yet, for we ourselves carry the most dreadful enemies within us who rage a relentless merciless battle against the Divine.
O Sweet Mother, You are our most reliable friend, guide and shield.
In the calm divine vision, everything promised is already realised.
Tell us, Mother Divine, how can we best serve You now, in this strange world?
Pour down Thy bliss, amritam, into fired jars for distribution to thirsty souls.
Only Thy healing Sweetness will change this life into a heavenly carnival.
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N. Guha Roy 1997
One single consciousness : the Mother of Love, the Being of Love, Mother indivisible.
One day I found a phrase in Prayers and Meditations of the Mother that was more or less less this « May Your law of Love which is the supreme Will be done » My soul was very happy with this discovery that the supreme Will was a movement of the supreme Love. But the comprehension or rather the vision was escaping me and it is only a few days ago during the music that I could climb and emerge in a consciousness far beyond all that I had felt uptil now-
It was the substance of Love, there was nothing else but an indivisible Love.
One single consciousness : the Mother of Love, the Being of Love, Mother indivisible.
There was not even the Will, it was Love, Love infinite, perfect harmony.
By its presence, by its only presence, a supremely beatific order, inevitable, spontaneous was created.
There was no Will, no action of Will.
Everything was bathing, or rather is bathing in this ocean of Love, all is impregnated with Love, all is substance of Love and my soul was intensely aspiring to become that Love, to merge myself in this ocean of Love and it became this Love in the summit of my being. This infinite Love has become the reality of my being. The Will is absent.
There is one aim – this Love and a prayer has become the symbol of this state but I cannot formulate it but only « Thou, Thou, Thou eternally, Love, Love, Love, Thou art the only reality »
I have had a little glimpse of the Mother Divine.
She is eternally the Whole, far beyond all.
She is the inexprimable Love. This all healing Love, the liberator eternally victorious, the permanent abode.
The Mother Divine is the supreme Magnet and all is organised around Her in beauty, harmony, spontaneously, automatically.
She is here and that is all the truth.
Love, love, love, come to us more and more and consume us.
Niranjan Guha Roy - 1972
The soul sees the Supreme Mother behind the acts of Nature.
The soul sees the Supreme Mother behind the acts of Nature.
The earth becomes the living throbbing body of the Eternal.
A mystic Presence fills the sky and the infinite Space,
An immaterial body made of some absolute consciousness,
Containing limitless oceans of sweet, violent, intolerable,
All-daring, all-conquering, inalterable delight substance
Blots out the concrete material existence to utter
Nothingness, yet the human heart longs for a mortal Divine,
The Supreme incarnate in a human form, close to the soil.
Love in the soul demands an ideal Image to adore.
O Mother Divine, Thou art enthroned in my inmost soul,
Even then my earthly nature yearns for Thy visible Presence
In all its glory embodied in a breathing frame of clay.
O Mother Divine manifest Thy radiance in a human instrument.
May I see Thy supreme body of heavenly light and rapture,
More concrete than matter in all beings and things at all times.
Thy Face, my priceless treasure, Thy hands, my source of energy,
Thy feet, my secure refuge, Thy Presence, the whole meaning
Of my existence. I do not know anyone else but Thyself.
Heaven has no charm for me. Any personal salvation
I do not seek. In Thee I have found all I need in life.
Take possession of my body, life, mind and soul,
Until Thou alone art alive in this clay mould.
At least fill me up with the victorious love divine,
So that I may love Thee, serve Thee in all I meet.
Ignite a huge fire in my soul, the thirst of a burning desert,
An unsatisfied yearning which will keep me running
Through eternity in pursuit of Thy unknowable Presence,
In all forms and beings from the tiniest specks of life
To the most magnificent divinities in the highest heavens.
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Niranjan Guha Roy
concentration on the external being and on the divine being in us
The difference between a genius and an ordinary man is the concentration that the genius brings to his work, whatever he may be doing. The genius does not waste time. With his power of concentration he learns a lesson, does a work which an ordinary man with a dispersed mind would take far longer to do. In this way, that is to say, by developing your power of concentration you can shorten the time of learning or working and thereby gain more time to increase your power of expression and your capacity for work. There are many methods of developing your concentration, but as far as I know the best method is to concentrate with all your mind and heart and body on the work you are doing at the instant, on the lesson you are learning at the moment with an insatiable thirst for perfecting what you have already learnt, what you already know, what you can already accomplish. Your creative abilities and your efficiency in work are your true invaluable assets.
Alongside this concentration on your external being there must be the concentration of the development of the divine being in us. We should concentrate in a prayer for a purification of our being, rejection of all that is undivine, most of all, rejection of violence from every part of our being. Our thoughts must be truly benevolent, the heart large and wide which has no enemy, the body full of peace and harmony where the least manifestation of anger, jealousy, envy, hatred, greed, ambition, lust and violence must be gradually eliminated till there is only a joyful peace in the body. This is the best condition for the growth of the Divine Being in us. Violence and hatred must be at all cost eliminated from every part of the being, however long that work might take. It is when the violence and hatred are practically eliminated from our consciousness by the inflow of the Divine Force in our entire being that the true Divine Life can begin. It may take a lifetime or the work may be spread out over a number of lives but as long as the violence is not totally eliminated from the being, the instrument cannot be satisfactorily used for the greater Divine purpose.
Niranjan Guha Roy
Thoughts and meditation - We travel from ignorance of our identity to the absolute Consciousness.
There is one Being, one existence, one movement, one will.
The Being in its totality is the absolute consciousness, force and delight.
The material universe is the same Being indrawn, self-oblivious, self-absorbed.
The journey is from the Being self-absorbed in the material existence to the Being of absolute consciousness through a gradual, progressive manifestation of the consciousness.
We travel from ignorance of our identity to the absolute Consciousness.
We travel from infinitesimal consciousness to the infinite indivisible Consciousness.
We travel from limited, divided, separate consciousness to infinite, eternal, one and unique Consciousness.
All limitation is suffering, falsehood, death, and denial of inalterable Bliss.
Man, as a race, is the highest point reached in time by the material universe in terms of consciousness which is the universal Spirit or the Absolute involved in matter.
The matter also is an ascending form of inconscience or the ultimate nescience or the Absolute self-absorbed and indrawn.
But man lives in the mind which is a limited consciousness unaware of the original identity with its source and others.
So, man, as long as he remains man in the mental consciousness cannot be free from falsehood,, death, suffering, incertitude, conflict and division.
When man discovers his identity with the Transcendent and the Absolute, he discovers at the same time the One existence, the one Will, the one movement
He discovers his identity with the u niverse, with all other beings.
He discovers that at every instantthe universal Being or the total manifestation is moving towards a greater light, consciousness, power and joy.
Nothing and nobody can intervene or deviate the universal Being from its appointed course or journey.
At every instant, for every element in the universe, whatever may be the appearance, it is the very best that happens individually, collectively, in a global universal way.
The universe as a whole is proceeding from darkness to the absolute Light, from suffering and death to immortal delight of existence.
In this universal movement, there is no chance-action, no error, no deviation in the absolute sense.
The Divine Himself is becoming conscious in a few human beings who will form the nucleus of the Divine race who shall inhabit the earth.
The aspiration is the presence of the rising Divine.
The surrender is the path and the journey.
The perfection of surrender is the yoga of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
To see, to know, to feel and to accept that whatever the Divine is doing for us and for the world is the best under the universal conditions at the moment, is the heart of surrender.
A surrendered soul and being is the most powerful instrument for the manifestation of the Divine on the earth.
A loving confident ever-progressive surrender to Mahashakti, the Force of the Transcendent, is the Key, the passport, the magnificent journey and the supreme consummation of the yoga.
N.Guha Roy -1978
Some quotations
The grace is pouring down into each heart, mind , body and soul
and our physical being nailed to the cross of unconscious matter
will be freed forever from the least trace of animality.
Let us remain as open as possible
to the incoming light and do nothing to prevent its transforming action.
There is a great joy, a pure delight in wishing the very best for everyone
O boundless love, unite us all
O imperishable Light, give us the true sight
As the presence of the Light will grow,
pain will be replaced first by peace
then by a deep serene delight of existence.
Only the soul in our deepest heart
responds to the Light spontaneously
as a sunflower to the sun.
So first of all we must discover the inmost soul in us.
