At the Feet of The Mother

Weekly Readings in Savitri

The Path of Tapasya, pp. 280-281

Dec 14, 2020

Text in English

Two are the paths through which man can climb towards Godhead. One is through his secret by discovering his psychic being through love, devotion, surrender. Another is through the mind climbing up through higher and higher planes by tapasya. Human strength and will are still too weak to take up this climb.

Other Side of the Stair, pp. 279-280

Dec 11, 2020

There is another route as well that climbs from the mind towards the House of Truth - the path of arduous tapasya towards the High Beyond.

Secret Worlds of Splendour and Bliss, p. 279

Dec 4, 2020

A world of beauty and bliss awaits our discovery in the secret heart. This path of love climbs through the inmost heart and opens upon the supramental world passing through worlds of beauty and bliss.

The Path of Surrender and the Bud of Love, pp. 278-279

Nov 29, 2020

The bud of love awaits its hour to blossom in the human heart, and when that happens, life turns into a perpetual bliss.

Kingdoms of the Deathless Rose, pp. 277-278

Nov 26, 2020

These are worlds where Love blooms with beauty and delight as its accompaniments. One can enter this high realm through the psychic door in the heart.

The Luminous Heavens of the Mind, p. 277

Nov 23, 2020

Aswapati now begins his ascent to still higher luminous kingdoms at the summit of the Mind worlds. The very first steps into this realm of luminous heavens are so intoxicating that it is easy to stop and let our journey cease there.

Opening Remarks for the Canto Twelve, The Heavens of the Ideal

Nov 15, 2020

Aswapati now climbs further to the summits of spiritual Mind. This is the Heavens of the Ideal where one finds the different aspects of the One, each king of his own empire governed by a single Idea-force.

The Infinite Mother, p. 276. Closing Remarks for the Canto 11.

Nov 11, 2020

Man tries to limit the Divine according to his conceptions and experience but the Divine always exceeds all that we can ever think, conceive, understand or experience Him.

The Grace that Leans Down, p. 275

Nov 8, 2020

The Divine Mother, out of her infinite Grace leans down towards creation and even consents to limit herself sacrificing her infinity so that man can be pulled up towards the Eternal and the Infinite.

The Heart’s Beloved, pp. 274-275

Nov 4, 2020

The powers of the Greater Mind not only grant a deeper wisdom but also change the heart into a dwelling place for the Divine Mother’s aspects and powers.

Bright Gods of Thought, p. 274

Oct 30, 2020

This realm of bright gods who inspire our thoughts from the heights have their station here, in this Kingdom of the Greater Mind. Still it is the Mind and hence the ultimate reconciliation cannot be found here.

The Limits of Mind’s Wisdom, p. 273

Oct 26, 2020

Passing beyond the limits of human mind of reason there are the higher levels of mind climbing further through zones of increasing luminosity. Yet a limit comes, a border that the mind cannot cross. Here its wisdom stops.

The Hidden Truth, pp. 272-273

Oct 21, 2020

The spirit’s truth is hidden behind appearances. It needs an inward turn and an intuitive eye to discover it.

The Workings of Truth, pp. 271-272

Oct 19, 2020

This Divine Presence hidden in the depths of creation, working even in the depths of the Inconscience is the hope for all things. The seed-idea has already been sown in the soil of nature and with passage of time it must bear fruits and flowers and disclose the divinity that is latent within it.

Intuitive Mind, p. 271

Oct 17, 2020

Aswapati’s steps now lead him to the intuitive mind where intuitions and revelations pour in freely as fire-intimations from the Truth Above. The intuitive mind is the realm where the rays of the Supramental Truth enter first and spread out as the many seed-ideas.

The Mighty Mother’s Plans, pp. 270-271

Oct 11, 2020

With his characteristic humour Sri Aurobindo reveals to us how we may be misled into the illusion of absolute Knowledge as we climb up the stairways of the Spirit. A last step remains even at the highest reaches of the Mind.

Design of the gods, pp. 269-270

Oct 8, 2020

Sri Aurobindo in his own characteristic way shows to us the greatness of these gods and the beings I contact with them and yet he also reveals their limitations. Each has its own place and station and working in this vast and complex creation. But the ultimate secret, the last secret is not found here.

The Birth Place of Formulas, p. 269

Oct 2, 2020

Commentary on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey

The Divine is Infinite but in the spiritual Mind His Freedom is fixed into formulas and rules through which He acts. Layer by layer Sri Aurobindo is revealing to us the Divine Working in this lower triplicity of creation where truth is being worked out through ignorance, error and Chance.