At the Feet of The Mother
How humiliating to ask something for oneself from Life or from the Supreme Consciousness which animates it! [...] For all is within our reach, only the egoistic limits of our being prevent us from enjoying the whole universe as completely and concretely as we possess our own body and its immediate surroundings.
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There we can walk and see the gods go by
And sip from Hebe’s cup nectar enough
To make for us heavenly limbs and deathless face.
The game being played between Soul and Nature starts with the utter self-forgetfulness and slavery of the Soul to Nature but ends in Mastery through discovery of our true and highest Self. All the experiences that Nature arranges for the soul, - things terrible and beautiful and dangerous and divine, - are really a schooling and a training for the Soul to grow and recover its lost divinity.
A video clip, based on a poem by Niranjan Guha Roy (1920-2005).
As our being evolves, as we grow in soul-power and soul-consciousness, the relation between Soul and Nature too begins to change and evolve. Slowly the soul begins to discover itself and realizes itself to be the master and lord of nature, Isa.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
Is it always necessary for us to understand what the Mother’s Force is doing in us for the progress of our Yoga?
Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding what the Force is doing — they simply observe and describe and say “I leave all to the Mother”. Eventually knowledge and understanding come.
But immediately the aspiration rises, still more ardent, "Spare this being all weakness; suffer it to be the docile and clear-eyed instrument of Thy work, whatever that work may be."
Since the day before yesterday there is a feeling of a strong Force existing not only within me but around me up to a foot’s distance. The form of the force is very dense.
That is good — it must be the beginning of being conscious beyond the body.
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In all is one being many bodies bear;
Here Krishna flutes upon the forest road,
Here Shiva sits ash-smeared, with matted hair.
But Shiva and Krishna are the single God.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
Celebrating the Centenary of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry on April 4, 1910.
Since this morning there is a warm intoxication fringed with cooler peace. What is this simultaneous experience of the two contraries?
It is the Agni and the peace together.
Why do I have a station in the forehead centre instead of in the heart?The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station.
The Soul and Nature are two poises of One Truth. Indeed Prakriti is the power of the Purusha. She builds for the soul the instruments needed for their play and gives the experiences necessary for the growth and fullness of the evolving soul in creation. This evolving soul is a portion of the Jivatma sent down into the bounds of Time and Space for the replicating the truth of Iswara and Shakti here, in the conditions of matter and earthly life.
In the perfect silence of my contemplation all widens to infinity, and in the perfect peace of that silence Thou appearest in the resplendent glory of Thy Light.
"Well, his body did not seem to be made of flesh and bone but of some ethereal substance, so supple, so elastic, so resilient that nothing offered any resistance to it. It could pass through like a beam of the invisible light."
Without the emptiness there can be no fullness.
How is it possible to have fullness and emptiness at the same time?I meant that in the higher consciousness that simultaneous experience was quite natural. It is the same with complete rest and full activity, — experience of infinite impersonality and of the true person. All these (and many other things also) are to the mind incompatible, but in the higher consciousness they go together.