Daily Prayers

Sweet Mother, Mother Divine, how much time is wasted in all these scholastic discussions and academic research, these debates and discussions, when a drop of Your Love, a single Ray of Thy Light can reveal in a moment what volumes of library cannot. Perhaps all this is needed at a stage to churn the dull inert mind into thinking. If the mental substance is ready it may lead sometimes to mental wideness and suppleness. This in itself can prepare the mind so that when Knowledge awakens or is received, the mind is ready to express it. But how vain and foolish it would be to believe that reading books alone or discussing the concepts can be knowledge. For true Knowledge is like concentrated Light within us. It leaps if the door is open. Then later it assumes words and figures of speech. But its birthplace is in the silent sanctuary of the Soul where it comes from its high Origin beyond the Mind.

Maa let the door of true Knowledge open for all so that man may be freed from ignorance and Thy Light flood the earth, reign upon the world and, darkness may be removed from the lives of men..

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa when we glimpse the places that man has not yet made his habitation and compare it with human settlements, one can see what the mind has done with nature and with life upon earth in general. Worse still, what man has done to himself, his own life. Our mental intelligence colluding with an animal nature has made human life so much worse. There are medicines and sophisticated surgery but less and less natural immunity. There are complex designs, bridges and buildings but man lives within these as if trapped in the prison of his ego. He has gathered so much knowledge of the processes of life but not yet its purpose and, while his knowledge has helped him in certain ways, it is at the expense of other, often more crucial things. His means of communication has only estranged him further as he finds himself alone in a world full of people. A multiplication of comforts have robbed him of inner Peace and the joy of being in nature. To acquire more comforts and latest gadgets he is caught in a race held in the noose of money that has become the measure of success and even the basis of relationships.

Poverty, poverty, what an abject darkness and poverty this civilisation has been plunged into in the name of success and progress. On the brink, it is staring at the abyss. What a net of falsehood that has wired the cities with all its amenities and comforts. Yet amidst all this, Thou art here, Sri Aurobindo is here, and Your immortal message that beckons us to rise to a greater higher diviner life. O Hope of hopes, O hope of this lost civilisation, in the name of Earth and its creatures, we implore Thee to save us from this self-chosen doom.

O Hope supreme, O refuge of the lost world and a humanity that has strayed from its straight path. Pull us out of these artificial glares we mistake for the Sun.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, let us nestle in Thy arms of Love, free from all fears and cares for Thou art here. Behind all the turbulence and the turmoil You are here with Your hand lifted in a gesture of benediction liberating us from all anxiety and fear to which this human creature is most prone. Though at the apex of earthly creatures, man is also perhaps the most miserable because he, of all beings, carries the burden of an unseen future. Yet behind all the struggles and difficulties there stands Your luminous smile that saves and heals. Amidst all the bitterness and cruelty to which human beings subject themselves and others, You are here lavishing Your boundless Grace upon all if only man could get rid of his self-conceit and open to Thee with humility and learn to receive.

You are here and Your Presence is the assurance that all will be well and that mankind has a beautiful future despite the present clouds and dark appearances.

May all open to Thy Grace. May all respond to Thy Love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Mother of Love and Beauty and Harmony, Maa may life blossom harmoniously in all its complexity and beauty. May all discordant notes dissolve in the sweet harmony of love. May all that resists and grates and opposes be washed away in the swelling tide of Thy Love. May all be smoothened and released from smallness in the expanding circle of Thy Love. May all division be healed by the sweet and soothing smile of Thy Love. May all that is crude and ugly be refined and purified by the dissolvant of Thy Love.

May Thy Love open for us the way and lead us all the way.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet and infinite Mother, Mother Divine, when one travels through different countries one perceives how humanity has evolved and is still evolving along different lines stressing upon one or another aspect of our humanity. The clash of different groups of mankind is often like the internal conflict and contradiction between different parts of our nature. As long as we try to solve the conflict through the mechanisms available to the national ego the semblance of peace and unity will always be precarious. It is only if nations engage in discovering their national soul, the deeper aspiration and true ideal, the dharma of each group that we can hope to arrive at true unity.

At the same time, behind the mask of differences, one discovers that humanity is very much the same everywhere with similar internal conflicts and challenges, at the root of which there is always the human ego and the desire to grow and expand by devouring the other units or flattening all into equality by the power of the State machinery. Both methods end up finishing the diversity.

Maa, perhaps the time is drawing near for each nation to find its soul, for each group of humanity to discover its true dharma that goes beyond the professed religion and ideology, and for humanity to wake up as a whole to its deepest Self, the Divine Self and live to express Its Glory in our everyday life and dealings.

Maa, let Thy Kingdom come, the Divine Kingdom where all outer means are replaced by a spontaneous intuitive awareness of Thy Will and actions aligned to it. Shedding all hypocrisy and duplicity may we grow always more and more sincere. Let our actions speak more than the words for man seems to have perfected the art of saying one thing and doing another. May the nations grow sincere in their speech and actions.

In sincerity lies the key, the key to the kingdom of the Spirit, the key to harmony and unity and peace.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa,

May our days be a constant ascension towards the Sun of Truth, Beauty, Power, Life, and the Sun of Divine Consciousness that governs all existence.

May our noons be akin to the labour of the gods, shrinking from no battle that Your work may require, no service that may be demanded of us, no sacrifice that may be needed for Thy Divine Manifestation, no activity that may be needed as part of Thy New Creation.

May our evenings be deep and meditative with the sweet whispers of Thy Love drawing us inwards in a concentration, solemn and silent. May the sun descend into our heart cave and illumine our inner being as it withdraws from the outer sight.

May our nights be restful and assimilative of all Thy countless gifts of the day restoring us by Thy healing and soothing touch for the new and greater dawns to arrive. Wherever our body may be, may we lie in Your lap, nestle in Thy heart, held by Thee in Thy sweet embrace.

O Supreme Love, fill our moments with Thy beatitude, fill our life with the fragrance of Thy wonderful Love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa,
human life, especially in the cities is so cramped up psychologically. Man lives as if wearing a mask of fears and anxieties or attachments and pleasure-hunts that cover and blind his eyes, isolate him from all the beauty and joy around. He is shut to the inner peace and joy and closed in a narrow cage of thoughts and feelings and efforts centered around his little self and desires, he has totally lost the natural harmony with the rest of creation. He is shut up, as it were in the prison of an ignorant mind and limited senses that conceals much more than it reveals. A limited mind and limited effort build the psychological house we dwell in. But Thou wouldst want us to be wide and supple, equal and in harmony with all this that is.

Maa, may all our inner doors and windows open to Thy vast Immensity and stepping out of the prison of the ego may we lose our separate self and rediscover ourselves in Thee, breathe Thy infinity, live in Thy eternity. May we recover the lost harmony on a new and diviner basis. May we be nothing so that we may be one with all in Thee.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
a strange and inexplicable peace, a subtle joy and harmony, the gentle throb of a sweet love can be easily felt wherever the human footfall is few. It is so easy to feel Thy majestic Presence wrapped in an inner Silence in the forest, in wilderness, in the desert sand dunes, in the mountains pouring their heart of love in streams rushing towards the plains, in the stars moving quietly in space. From the minute to the vast, all speaks of Thy Presence. But the coming of man, the intervention of the human mind, even when it tries to create beauty, disturbs this spontaneous harmony. Our idea of beauty is something seen or felt in isolation whereas the beauty in material nature is as if flowing into each other, merging with the backdrop as if woven with threads of a vast universal love. It is like the difference that one feels while seeing a beautiful garden or landscape built by human hands and the wild blooming of the flowers and plants with creepers and animal life and the various fragrances blending into each other. Nothing is unduly prominent, each element is as if the part of a wholeness, as if the canvas itself is beautiful with all its asymmetry and free flowing patterns. Even the best of human art is a good imitation.

And yet, man is Thy chosen vehicle who carries the burden of a high and luminous future. He is the instrument of Nature through which she hopes to climb to her own origin, the Divine Supernature. Man is the means built by nature through which she hopes to discover her Lord whose image she has sheltered in her heart. May man rise up to his real purpose and crossing the perilous bridge discover what he always carried within yet seeks outside. May our life fulfil the great purpose for which it has come into existence.

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Mother Divine,
Looking at how much of needless complexity we have introduced in life, I wonder how far the human experiment will stretch before it bursts into the fully conscious divinity held within its human seed. It was needed as a passage in our journey out of the unconscious animal simplicity into a fully conscious divine simplicity. But now it has prolonged over a million years or more. It is time now to ascend beyond the mental curve into a new kind, a new species. Short of that there is little hope of a collective emancipation.

Maa, give us the will of a conqueror for whom it is now or never, the energy of an indefatigable swimmer willing to cross the Atlantic, the strength and perseverance of a climber who would scale the highest summits, the faith of a man who refuses to give up in the face of a blinding storm threatening his little boat that has ventured far into the sea.

With an unwavering faith and surrender we give ourselves to Thee and Thy Work, O our supreme Hero and Queen in the great battle of the future. May we always fight under Thy banner, whether as a sword in Thy hands or steel and wood in Thy chariot.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa