In the Kingdom of the Heart
In the kingdom of the lotus of the heart
Love chanting its pure hymeneal hymn
Made life and body mirrors of sacred joy
And all the emotions gave themselves to God.
[Savitri: Book Seven Canto Five]
Prayers and Messages
Value of Art for Transformation
As for transformation, I would be glad if you could show me an instance; I would be glad to see it. One example. Whatever the way one follows, whether it be the religious way, the philosophical way, the yogic ways, the mystic way, no one has realised transformation.
Since art does not arrive at transformation, it is not of much value!
But who has ever reached there till now, will you tell me? Neither philosophy, nor religion, nor yoga. If you put the value in realisation and in the transformation of the world, for example one single individual transformation, admitting that it is possible, and I do not believe it, then nothing has any value, because nothing has ever reached there till today. Don’t you understand?
Yes, I understand that.
Then why do you suddenly say that art has no value? Nothing has any value, because nothing has led to that? But everything helps. The whole universe is helping the transformation.
[The Mother: CWM 5]
From Their Writings
What Matters
It is altogether unprofitable to enquire who or what class will arrive first or last at the goal. The spiritual path is not a field of competition or a race that this should matter. What matters is one’s own aspiration for the Divine, one’s own faith, surrender, selfless self-giving. Others can be left to the Divine who will lead each according to his nature. Meditation, work, bhakti are each means of preparative help towards fulfilment; all are included in this path. If one can dedicate oneself through work, that is one of the most powerful means towards the self-giving which is itself the most powerful and indispensable element of the sadhana.
[Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga]
Songs of the Soul: September 23, 2026
Sweet and infinite Mother, Mother Divine, Maa, all our being is offered to Thee with gratitude. Maa, gratitude for not only giving us enough to maintain our physical existence but much more so for awakening us to the true spiritual life without which none of the material gifts have any real value. Maa, we are surely not here, only to somehow exist, driven by the moment’s needs or the sting of desires. We are here to strive for the Highest, the Truest, the noblest the most Beautiful. The birth of this aspiration itself is such a joy and a privilege. Without it, life would be so absurd and meaningless. Gratitude for igniting this aspiration in us.
Maa, gratitude for granting us the greatest of all treasures, the gift of faith. For without faith human life is such a misery. Faith makes us strive for the seemingly impossible. Faith indeed is the secret driver of the flame of aspiration.
Maa, above all gratitude for awakening us to Love, love for Thee in our heart and even more so Thy Love for us. Maa, these three, aspiration, faith, love open the doors of Thy infinite Grace and nothing seems impossible with these powers that are indeed indispensable. Without them life is nothing more than another form of animal existence. With these, life gets empowered to grow beyond even the human to the divine superhuman heights.
Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa
Notes and Reflections
Notes and Reflections (9 of 19)
Sri Aurobindo hints at this ‘something else’ in the Synthesis of Yoga. He writes, ‘The supreme Shastra of the integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every thinking and living being. The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn towards the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degree, of the Infinite. All life, all thought, all energising of the faculties, all experiences passive or active, become thenceforward so many shocks which disintegrate the teguments of the soul and remove the obstacles to the inevitable efflorescence. He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. He has received the divine touch without which there is no awakening, no opening of the spirit; but once it is received, attainment is sure, whether conquered swiftly in the course of one human life or pursued patiently through many stadia of the cycle of existence in the manifested universe.’
Question of the Day
Please explain what is the heart where the Chaitya Purusha can be found?
The heart, in the spiritual sense, means the heart centre, the Anahat Chakra. It is located in the chest centre, in the subtle body near the physical heart. Hence it is also called as the heart chakra. But the psychic being is still deeper. It refers to the inmost soul within us and is the psychological centre of the human being. It is our true being, our true individual self, a portion of the Divine within us. One of the ways to discover the psychic being is concentration in the chest upon the Divine Presence.