Even as Savitri meets her being of Light, she hears the echo from the lower human planes, that divert the message of the Light and the gifts it brings for its own small purposes.
At the Feet of The Mother
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Savitri passes onward towards her secret soul. Before entering the secret cave of her soul she encounters her being of Light, the Madonna of Light, Mother of Joy and Peace.
An opening class of the Savitri Study Camp No 20
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"There is a need within the soul of man
The splendours of the surface never sate;
For life and mind and their glory and debate
Are the slow prelude of a vaster theme..."
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
"... The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance,
He turned to find that wide world-failure’s cause.
Away he looked from Nature’s visible face
And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast,"
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"On the waters of a nameless Infinite
My skiff is launched; I have left the human shore."
A Talk in Hindi (video)
A talk of Dr. Alok Pandey in Hindi at 38th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Women’s Study Circle Conference. Matru Sikshya Kendra, Taharpur, Jajpur, 2017.
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A conversation between Dr Alok Pandey and Narad (Richard Eggenberger) on the recent world events and the Wisdom working behind the external appearances. (CN22)
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A video recording of the second conversation on Auroville and spiritual significance of its founding by Alok Pandey and Narad. Recorded in Pondicherry in 2014. (CN15)
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A video recording of a conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad in 2014. (CN14)
The strength to save turns into the realm of our ego, the strength to plunder for our own sake, to love for our own sake, to use resources of nature for our own sake. At its extreme it creates in us the tyrant and the arrogant self-aggrandising Asura.
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"Thy golden Light came down into my throat,
And all my speech is now a tune divine,
A paean song of Thee my single note;
My words are drunk with the Immortal’s wine."
Passing further on her nature’s upwards route, Savitri’s being encounters the Madonna of Strength, the Mother of Force and Might who brings the crown of victory and protects us on the paths of life as we move in our ascent towards yoga. She is Durga and Lakshmi, who endow us with the Kshatriya and Vaishya power.
A short composition, based on photographs of The Mother, a vision of Nolini Kanta Gupta, music by Sunil Bhattacharya, and paintings by Priti Ghosh. Produced on occasion of The Mother's Darshan of February 21, 2017, in Pondicherry.
Even as the pristine pure Ganges flowing from its mountain tops is polluted as it enters the inhabited plains, so too the forces of higher Nature supported by divine Powers, daivi prakriti, are twisted as they enter into the narrow and limited scope of human nature. The distorting elements are the Ego and Desires.
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"I housed within my heart the life of things,
All hearts athrob in the world I felt as mine;
I shared the joy that in creation sings
And drank its sorrow like a poignant wine."
Savitri now enters the strands of Nature to swim to its Source. At first Savitri encounters the Madonna of Suffering who absorbs all earthly suffering and puts a balm over our pain. She gives us the strength to endure the trials of our life even though she has not the strength to save.
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Alok Pandey in conversation with Narad speaks about a mystery of the Divine Mother's accepting birth in a human body and then leaving it, and practical consequences of this for spiritual practice of Her devotees and followers. (CN13)