Paintings- faces, reflexion of the soul
Serenity
Ananda
The Innocence
Guha Roy
The Same Divine
As long as I see others and not the same Divine in all,
I am hopelessly in love with ignorance.
As long as I work for others in the name of God,
I am tied forever to pride and self-deception.
As long as I live for others and not for the Divine,
I am still much human, unable to bear the rays of the Sun.
As long as I feel haunted by death and oblivion,
I live shut away from the eternal Life Divine.
As long as I have a separate body and soul, like a lone star,
I am stone-blind to the Reality of the wonderful One.
There is only One body, One life, One soul,
One consciousness, One infinite Eternal Being,
One living Reality, One nameless Bliss.
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N.Guha Roy1960
Sarvamangala
My highest aspiration finds its full satisfaction
As soon as the Mother Sarvamangala, appears in my consciousness.
It is the Mother of whom every gesture is a blessing,
A supreme good, a divine present full of divine, eternal wealth.
At the contact of the Mother, Sarvamangala,
One becomes, an ocean of kindness;
Everything becomes the Love, Beauty, Harmony.
All existence is in the tight embrace of the Divine Mother,
A quiet bottomless kindness, without border,
A quiet happiness which cures in an instant any darkness, suffering,
Separation among the Creator and His Creation,
The Mother and Her incalculable children.
Manifest Yourself in my soul,
Dominate and guide my whole being.
Om Douce Mère, sarvamangala,
Kindness transcendental absolute.
Om namo Bhagavate.
Om Sri Aurobindo, benevolent Master,
Faithful Friend of all the beings.
N.Guha Roy 2002
On the unsinkable boat steered by the Divine Mother
A time will come when the aspiring soul on the Road to the home of Light
will become more and more conscious of the Great Mother leading the way,
not so much from outside but from the psychic soul deep within.
A vast migration has started, the world will never be the same
Gradually the darkness will recede into oblivion.
Suffering, violence, cruelty would seem to be myths and legends of an external civilisation..
Some souls feel crushed and hopelessly desappointed in the present human society and hostile environment
But there is no reason to give up hope. The promise of a divine life on earth made by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo
is not a mirage in the desert but more true than our outer existences.
Let us become peaceful, find in the soul our infaillible Leader and Guide,
the Sweet Mother waiting to manifest in our mind, life and body.
Let us pray with love and humility with a call for the saviour Light.
Then a miracle will happen and all the crushing stones around our souls will fall away like a castle of cards
and suddenly from darkness we will emerge into an everlasting Light on the soothing bosom of the Mother Divine.
Let us pray, comrade souls, the road is long but the miracle is the order of the day.
In a magic instant, the prison will transform itself into a high sky-kissing Temple to the Mother.
Let us pray with love and trust, the Mother Herself will remove the blindness of our eyes and we will see the bliss of Her smile.
The journey is rough through tempest and hurricanes on a sea gone mad
but we are on an unsinkable boat steered by the Mother Divine Herself.
Let us have no fear. Her blessings are our armour, our force and our courage.
Om Sri Aurobindo, give us strenght, faith and courage to follow the Mother to the end.
Pranam, pranam, pranam.
Niranjan Guha Roy
The psychic beings and the islands of Light
The mass of humanity remains plunged in painful ignorance and obsolete religions and tribal conflicts.
Men of goodwill have come to the summit of intellectual effort and material development and are unable to create peace, harmony and unity in themselves , in the community and the country or the world. The mental man is facing an evolutionary impasse or challenge.
The supramental is a consciousness of the One and of a Totality infinitely multiple. For its fuller manifestation, it needs a global vast foundation, a new humanity. The ordinary man has to become conscious of the divine goal in the earth evolution
There is active now in the earth atmosphere a supreme divine power and consciousness made dynamic here by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Avatars of the supramental Creation on earth. . The psychic entity is present in all human beings in a very rudimentory stage. This is the immortal element in man which when fully developped aspires for the Divine, His light, peace, harmony, love and unity in the world
.Happily in the humanity there is a small minority of beings who have a well formed psychic entity in them. These beings will in course of time assemble here and there and create islands of divine light, power, harmony, love and unity. These islands of light, as they will blossom and grow in number will gradually eliminate all disharmony, all violence, cruelty, conflict and intolerance from the human society. Not the growth of intellectual capacity but the inner soul where resides the Supreme Divinity must be the sole aim of all education for creating a divine world of peace, harmony, love and beauty.
Om namo Bhagavate
Om Douce Mère, Om Sri Aurobindo
Pranam, pranam, pranam
N.Guha Roy 2000
Surrender and collaboration with the Divine
How can we from our side collaborate with the Mother so that She can gradually shape, mould and build the image of Godhead in us, in her perfect vision and power? At the moment in our ignorance with all the goodwill we try to become at best what She wants us to become, but we forget that wee not the Creator or creators, we are a creation. How can a glass decide what color, shape, utility or qualities it will have. It is absurd. It is the Divine Mother who is preparing strong cups which can hold the Divine nectar without breaking down. We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are creations.
One day by the Grace of God when we shall become conscious that we are going to be one day a gnostic being, not by our own power but by the shaping hand of the supreame creative Force, then only a new life will begin. A life free from ego. We will have no separate existence or power or work. We are instruments for Her use. This is the state of liberation we must seek at all costs. This is the sense of total surrender to the Mother Divine so that nothing is us shall resist Her shaping hands. The Supreme Musician will play his marvelous rhapsody on a stradivarius of his own creation. The fulfilment of the violin would be intolerable ecstasy when being played by the Master Musician. Let our surrender be as complete as possible.
May we be conscious that there is no one else here or anywhere, nothing else but the supreme creative power of the One May we live always in Her, by her and for Her delight.*
N. Guha Roy 2004
15 August Sri Aurobindo
Abandoning all dharmas take refuge in Me alone
Om Sri Aurobindo saranam mama
Pranam, pranam, pranam
Prayer : the most direct method to bring out the psychic being
This battle between the outer unconscious mental vital being and the emerging psychic personality, non-stop day and night is very real and extremely painful to the physical being. There is no suffering in the psychic being. It is the representative of the Divine, His light, Power and immortal Bliss. The immortal soul in us all takes delight in each and every experience in life. But our physical being, mind,life and body are not aware of the soul deep within us.
Prayer to my experience is perhaps the most direct method of bringing out the psychic from our hidden depths to the forefront of our life. The Mother Divine who resides in our soul will reveal Herself more and more and take up our effort and yoga and take us over the frontier into Her domain vast and luminous where sorrows, suffering and death and separation have no entry.
Even in a fragile perishable body we will enjoy our true immortal existence and the Bliss of the Eternal.
Niranjan Guha Roy
The Islands of Light
Men of goodwill have come to the summit of intellectual effort and material development. They are unable to create peace, harmony and unity in themselves, in the community and the country or the world. The mental man is facing an evolutionary impasse or challenge. There is active now in the earth atmosphere a supreme divine Power and Consciousness made dynamic here by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Avatars of the supramental Creation on earth.
Happily in the humanity there is a small minority of beings who have a well formed psychic entity in them. This psychic entity is present in all human beings in a very rudimentory stage. This is the immortal element in man which, when fully developped, aspires for the Divine, His light, peace, harmony, love and unity in the world. These beings will in course of time assemble here and there and create islands of divine light, power, harmony, love and unity. These islands of light, as they will blossom and grow in number will gradually eliminate all disharmony, all violence, cruelty, conflict and intolerance from the human society. Not the growth of intellectual capacity but the inner soul where resides the Supreme Divinity must be the sole aim of all education for creating a divine world of peace, harmony, love and beauty.
Om namo bhagavate. Om Douce Mère, Om sri Aurobindo
Pranam, pranaml, pranam
N.Guha Roy 2000
The eternal Presence
During my stay in the Ashram, there was a small quotation by Sri Aurobindo displayed in all the offices and departments of the Ashram including the dining room. The text is more or less,
“Behave as if the Mother is looking at you, for indeed She is always present.”
It was a constant reminder to the sadhaks that the Mother in Her universal aspect is always present everywhere.
The Mother in Her physical being was looking at everybody and at any moment through concentration would respond to the call of any disciple in the Ashram or elsewhere. But also, The Mother or the Divine Consciousness is always around us anywhere, through eternity. It was there before the formation of the stars, it has presided over the growth and development of the stars and universes, and even if all this material universe were to disappear, She would be totally present filling all time and space with Her mighty, unalterable, absolute, infinite Presence. Millions and millions of universes rise and fall like waves on a vast ocean, on Her vast boundless bosom of love and beauty and felicity. She is the changeless, immutable, unfathomable, the mysterious, eternal Presence, stable, unalterable, eternally the same, absolute Presence and Being. She is the ocean, calm, immobile, the waves are Her own movements, all the beings, forms, names, movements, energies, all that we can see, feel, touch and hear, all that we can conceive of, all that we cannot conceive of, all that was, all that is, all that will be, is that Supreme Divine, the Mother, always present, always looking at us. We are part of Her, part of Her own body and existence. We have no existence outside Her. All these million names and forms all around us are only fugitive mysterious, marvellous faces, forms and dramas of our infinite, eternal Mother. All is She. If we cannot see Her, it is because She hasn’t as yet opened our eyes. We are like the baby cats just born, we can feel the Presence of the Mother, Her touch, Her warmth, Her love, we are nourished by Her. One day She will open our eyes. Then we shall be admitted into the Reality which is forever. God, God alone everywhere in the minutest worm and insect, in the saint and the titan, the murderer and the slain. All the sweet and terrible dramas of life, the clash of galaxies and communities and nations are His own play with Himself, like mountain waves racing with passionate fury against one another, whipped up by the hurricane, embracing, crashing, tearing, destroying one another, sending up iridescent clouds of mist and sprays of hopes and desires, dreams and nightmares, soon falling into a vast meditative peace like a giant reverential carpet spread over a glass floor inviting the daring pilgrims to explore the infinity. Images, dreams, delirium, God without limit, without bounds, playing with Himself, breaking Himself in a million fragments, combining Himself in impossible combinations. Everywhere the vast infinity so intimate, all you touch is That, is all around you, pressing you, crushing you, life of your life, breath of your breath, love and vision of your heart and mind and soul. You lose yourself in that boundless, vibrating, single existence. Whomever you see is your God, whatever you feel is His very body.
Yet the yearning heart full of gratitude and love and adoration prays-
O Lord, Thou art the only existence beyond all our comprehension, the Fathomless.
I do not know who You are, nor do I care to know.
May I sing Thy name as long as you permit me to be.
May I be allowed to live in this illusion of a separate being as if a cell has any individual existence in a body or apart from the body.
May I love You, adore You, above me, below me, all around me.
Thy name be hallowed, Thy name be echoed and reechoed in all aspiring souls. Like an immense choir, the whole existence sings a hymn of glory to thee, O thou forever unknown, no one yet everyone, still, above everyone, O Mother Divine.
May we become conscious of the vast luminous love and felicity overseeing the whole creation.
Om Sweet Mother, Om Sri Aurobindo.
O Lord Supreme Thy will be done, Thy dream of a kingdom of Love Divine be realized...
Only those who realize the Divine will find true peace and harmony. Only by realizing the Divine we can bring some solace and comfort to people around us. We must learn to surrender ourselves to the Divine Will, otherwise we only create complications by wishing wrong things in the wrong way.
The best attitude in all circumstances is, “Thy Will be done, not mine.”
In this way life can become smooth and luminous.
May the Divine do whatever is best for us.
May the Divine give peace and equality.
Niranjan Guha Roy 1992