Daily Prayers

Songs of the Soul: November 25, 2024

Mother Divine, may our aspiration soar like a mounting flame, unstoppable and intense, soaring high above everything. May our faith be such as nothing can disturb or obstruct it. With Your Name as our support may we march constantly towards higher and higher peaks. May our entire being melt in the flame of Thy Love and be reborn as the perfect image of Thy Love and Truth.

How beautiful it is to belong solely to Thee, to love Thee in all things, to give ourselves completely to Thee and Thy Service without reserve or resistance, unconditionally, in perfect joy and love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine all our being is before Thee as a single flame of gratitude.

Gratitude for this Day of Victory when You consented to take up the burden of all of us ignorant humanity. It is the day when Sri Aurobindo entered deeper into the Supreme Mystery to bring down the supramental consciousness for the earth and men. Even as he withdrew within, the Lord brought You to the forefront as our Master and Guide, Mother and Father, Friend and Beloved. This is the day when You laid the inner foundation of this magical wonder that the world knows as the Sri Aurobindo Ashram where each brick and stone speaks of Thy Love and radiates the invisible Light of Thy tapasya. Yet this invisible Light and Force is awakening the blind to a new sight, raising the dead to a new life, opening the passage to a new leap. This is the day when the old was resurrected, reborn to a new possibility. This is the day when Earth crossed a threshold and entered a cusp of the new creation. This is the day when the cycle of Time started preparing for a new chapter and man’s consciousness began getting ready for the leap from the Overmind gods to the Supermind. This is the day when Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna together laid the foundation stone of the bridge towards the future and You took the charge of its construction. This is the day when the cycle of Time entered the cusp from the Age of the gods to the Hour of God Himself.

None of this would be even conceivable, imagined or dreamed off by mankind leaving us little to choose between an earthly life doomed to imperfection and limitations of all kinds and a selfish individual salvation into the Beyond.

But Thou hast opened a new door and all our being is a flame of gratitude singing a hymn of adoration and of new hope.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Supreme Mother, Mother Divine, how much we may ever stretch our thought and imagination, how much we may ever purify our feelings and intelligence, we can never understand Thee. Even our noblest and highest flight of thought cannot conceive of Thee. Our utmost intensity of aspiration is like a little fire burning before Thy Supreme Splendour that lights up the suns. Yet You lean and accept our humblest of offerings lifting the little flame of our aspiration to make it one with Thy Sun.

Thou art the flame and the offering. Thou art the Sun that receives the offering and the Light that leans down to illumine and impel in our journey through the Night.

Thou art the Night and the Day, now concealing, now revealing Thy Beauty and Light. Yet even when we see Thee not, Thou art there hidden in the folds of darkness.

There is in fact nothing that does not speak of Thee and yet there is nothing that can truly express Thee.

Thou art the All and beyond the All, Truth and Beauty and Love Supreme.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Thou art the health and the strength of our body and mind. Thou art the light of our intelligence, the love in our heart, the force that moves our life, the joy that keeps us on the dateless path, the faith that shows the way. Thou art the fire of aspiration in our soul, the will that makes every effort possible, the power that helps us grow sincere, the sweetness of our soul. Our life is but a wave of Thy infinity. Thy wave we call as our self rises to the surface impelled by Thy delight-to-be. Then impelled again by Thy delight it returns to Thy bosom to emerge again in new forms made more and more beautiful and strong to express Thee. Thus it goes on until we have explored all Thy delight and will to be within the limits of creation. Then one day, You carry us beyond the ocean and the waves into Thy utter Unity and Oneness.

Mother Divine, Thou art the ocean and its silent depths, the Force that forms as well as moves the waves.

All is Thyself and Thy Play, Thy mystery and Thy marvel. All is Thy Beauty and Wonder and Delight. All is Thy Peace and Thy Force, Thy Love, Thy Light in myriad forms.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Mother of Might and Bliss, Maa a great churning seems to be going on all over the world under the pressure of the New Consciousness. This is throwing up things hidden for long, things dark and ugly as well as bright and beautiful. New ideas are being cast into the arena of human mind even as some old and dated beliefs that once sat on the powerful throne of outdated religions seem to be making a last ditch attempt to tightly grip the human consciousness and keep it in its stranglehold of rules and beliefs through terror and force. Yet behind all this one can see Thy Luminous Smile that saves, the Smile that once sanctioned the throne, now toppling them over while watching the votaries of the old fret and fume over the corpse of the dead world.
It is like the image of Krishna, the child of the New Creation, dancing over Kaliya, the poisonous serpent hidden in the subconscient.

Maa all this is so confusing to those who are not aware of the Grace that has come and the change that has begun. But those who are blessed with faith or the vision granted by Thy Grace, all this is not only a necessary passage, the steps of the human ascension to the summits of Thy Light and vastness hastening the manifestation of the New World. Such is the faith Thou hast put into our heart and the vision Thou grantest to all who keep their faith steadfast, ready to endure everything for the sake of Thy New Manifestation.

May all grow in this faith and vision.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Supreme Reality, Eternal Truth, Mother Divine, the action of Truth uncovers all the bright and dark passages of our being bringing to the surface beautiful possibilities as well as dark undercurrents running behind and beneath the appearances. Ordinarily the ego keeps them out of our awareness or colours them. All these elements have to be recognised for what they are, removing the dross and the gloss, purified of the baser and crude mixtures, offered to Thee, discarded what needs to be discarded and integrated with the New Life what is ready to change and transform itself. It is a long and complex work. Most often we are not even aware of what lies below the neat surfaces of life. Therefore it is so difficult to understand and appreciate the action of Truth. That is what we see happening in the world at large as well as groups and individuals. What will pass through the crucible and bear the exacting process and what will simply dissolve away, go out of creation, unable to bear the pressure, is something to be seen. But through all this Thy hand of Love is felt holding us, moulding and transforming us. If only we could open the doors to Thy Grace, not shut it off through doubts and blind resistances, if only we consciously and gladly surrender to Thee, to Thy Love, then all will be so much smoother and easier.

Maa may all open to Thy Love with faith and shedding all doubt and diffidence take the leap towards the future.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, to live in division is to be always in misery. It immediately diminishes us with the sense of I ness and My ness bringing with it all the pettiness and smallness to which the average consciousness is easily prone, rather it is the way of life and they cannot conceive of any other way. But to live in Thy Unity, not the unity of an idea or religion which again divide, but Thy Unity is to be released in Thy vastness and infinity, it is to be freed from all suffering and misery that springs from the state of division, it is to be cured of all ignorance and the pain that springs from it.

What a peace and marvel and joy it is to feel Thee everywhere and in everything. True the individual channel lends its own unique turn, a flavour that may or may not appeal to the mind and the senses. But that is a diminution and distortion due to the natural limitation of the human channel. Our vision glued to the surface distortion is unable to get past and hence we too get limited and love and act in a limited way.

Maa may we live in an uninterrupted state of oneness, seeing Thee everywhere and in everything even though dealing with different forms and forces according to their law. May we live constantly in Thy vastness and peace and bliss even while dealing with the smallest instrument and finite forms. May we be pure and perfect channels of Thy infinite Love wanting nothing, expecting nothing, hoping nothing except the joy of loving and serving Thee in countless ways and through countless forms.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

The Mother’s Room

As we cross the threshold of Thy sacred sanctuary, the seat of Thy tapasya for earth and humanity, all our being bows down in spontaneous gratitude before Thee, before all that Thou hast done and continue to do, before the great assurance and the Promise that Thou hast given that ‘The transformation is going to be: nothing will ever s top it, nothing will frustrate the decree of the Omnipotent. Cast away all diffidence and weakness and resolve to endure bravely awhile before the great day arrives when the long battle turns in to an everlasting vic tory.’

These mighty words born out of Thine and Sri Aurobindo’s tapasya, continue to give us the hope and the certitude of the future.

We know we are not ready, humanity is not ready, the earth is not ready. Yet this too we know that Thou art carrying us towards the goal despite ourselves.

Grant, O Mother Divine that all in us be ripe and open, receptive to Thy Force.

Maa, make us worthy of Thy Grace.
May we become worthy of Thy Grace.
Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, as we contemplate upon this very special day, words, feelings, all fall short before the profundity and solemnity of the moment. Nothing seems adequate. All that we can do is bow down before Thee with all our being surrendering all that we are conscious of and all that we are not yet conscious of, all that we are and all that we yet shall be. In that state of complete surrender, as complete as possible, we offer at Thy Feet all our life and lives to come in Thy Service, in Thy Love, in utter gratitude.

May all in us be full of love for Thee. May each cell of our body be a hearth of Thy flame of love. May each feeling be a winged hymn carrying Thy Love everywhere. May each thought be a burning shaft of Thy Love filling the quarters with Thy radiance and bliss. May our heart beat with Thy Love and each breath be a cry of Love for Thee.

O Supreme Mother May we be always conscious of Thee, everywhere and in every being. In each voice may we hear Thy Voice. In each form may we behold Thy Form. In each contact may we experience Thy thrill. In each embrace may we discover Thy Sweetness and Joy. May all things unfold Thy working and all become means to touch Thee, find Thee, discover Thee.

O Supreme, who would say Thou art not here when Thou art indeed here, there, everywhere. May we have the eyes to see Thee, the heart to feel Thee and the mind that knows Thee and Thy Ways and Thy Workings.

O Love Supreme, to Thee our infinite love and gratitude.

Om Anandamayee Chaitanyamayee Satyamayee Parame.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa