At the Feet of The Mother
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A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
It is near to heavenlier heavens than earth's eyes see,
A direr darkness than man's life can bear:
It has kinship with the demon and the god.
Cyclones, earthquakes, upheavals of material Nature have been there since the formation of earth. There are various theories and reasons, - material, psychological, religious, occult and spiritual that have been attributed to these phenomenon. The present talk tries to bring them together, each in its place. Set in the backdrop of the recent Cyclone Thane that hit Pondicherry coast on the 30th Dec morning it is based on the revelatory insights of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo on the subject.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
She stands on a shore in the Illimitable,
Perceives the formless Dweller in all forms
And feels around her infinity's embrace.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
The Children of the unembodied Gleam
Arisen from a formless thought in the soul
And chased by an imperishable desire,
Traversed the field of the pursuing gaze.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
And when that greater Self comes sea-like down
To fill this image of our transience,
All shall be captured by delight, transformed
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
A mystic passion from the wells of God
Flows through the guarded spaces of the soul;
A force that helps supports the suffering earth,
An unseen nearness and a hidden joy.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
We seem to live in a fiction of our thoughts
Pieced from sensation's fanciful traveller's tale,
Or caught on the film of the recording brain,
A figment or circumstance in cosmic sleep.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
He has made into a thick and narrowing hedge
Defending his small life from the Invisible;
His being's kinship to infinity
He has shut away from him into inmost self,
Fenced off the greatnesses of hidden God.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
A marvellous form responded to her gaze
Whose sweetness justified life's blindest pain;
All Nature's struggle was its easy price,
The universe and its agony seemed worth while.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
This huge world unintelligibly turns
In the shadow of a mused Inconscience;
It hides a key to inner meanings missed,
It locks in our hearts a voice we cannot hear.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
A creature insignificant and small
Visited, uplifted by an unknown Power,
Man laboured on his little patch of earth
For means to last, to enjoy, to suffer and die.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
A dream of living woke in Matter's heart,
A will to live moved the Inconscient's dust,
A freak of living startled vacant Time,
Ephemeral in a blank eternity,
Infinitesimal in a dead Infinite.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Our life's uncertain way winds circling on,
Our mind's unquiet search asks always light,
Till they have learned their secret in their source,
In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home,
In the joy of the Eternal sole and one.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
The little deities of Time's nether act
Who work remote from Heaven's controlling eye,
Plotted, unknown to the creatures whom they move,
The small conspiracies of this petty reign
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Absorbed in the little works of its prison-house
It turned around the same unchanging points
In the same circle of interest and desire,
But thought itself the master of its jail.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
It fashioned the life-mind of bird and beast,
The answer of the reptile and the fish,
The primitive pattern of the thoughts of man.