At the Feet of The Mother
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
BOOK TWO: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds.
CANTO VI: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life.
The first class of the Aug 2016 session of the Savitri Study Camp with Alok Pandey. The introductory session is primarily an overview of the Book 7 Canto 2, which was a subject of the previous Study Camp.
"... passages of exquisite beauty and power and grace that bring out this vision of the One to our mist-laden eyes ever struggling to make sense of the evil that one sees within and around oneself. Our eyes see only division while Truth is supreme unity and sublime Harmony. God and the World, Soul and Nature, Spirit and Matter are not two eternally separate but are two poles of a single unity"
Part 5 of an article on different aspects of fulfillment of the Integral Yoga, including physical transformation of the body.
An audio recording of the Mother's conversation in English and French, as quoted in the text, is included.
A portion of the audio recording of the talk at Savitri Bhavan (1999) with recollections and Savitri recitation. A full transcript of the talk is offered.
video
"...Unborn I sit, timeless, intangible:
All things are shadows in my tranquil glass.
My vast transcendence holds the cosmic whirl;
I am hid in it as in the sea a pearl."
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
BOOK TWO: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds.
CANTO VI: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life.
AUDIO
"Voice of Infinity, sound in my heart, -
Call of the One!
Stamp there thy radiance, never to part,
O living sun."
AUDIO
On December 31, 1934, Sri Aurobindo wrote to his secretary that the just-typed “Rose of God” could be “circulated first as a sort of New Year invocation”.
"... the central figure, the transmuting alchemist power is the Power and Grace and Love of the Divine Mother, incarnate in the being and persona of Savitri. Satyavan has merely consented to her working, he has surrendered himself in the safe hands of the Incarnate Mother, the power that alone can change all things."
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
BOOK TWO: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds.
CANTO VI: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life.
For me faith is not intellectual belief but a function of the soul; when my belief has faltered, failed, gone out, the soul has remained steadfast, obstinately insisting, "This path and no other: the Truth I have felt is the Truth whatever the mind may believe."
"Hardly anyone is strong enough to overcome by his own unaided aspiration and will the forces of the lower nature; even those who do it get only a certain kind of control, but not a complete mastery"
A Talk in Hindi (video)
An talk in Hindi to a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, 2016 (the last, 4th, part)
"Savitri is the story of the Divine Mother. But since the Divine Mother has become the creation itself, Savitri is also the story of creation, in fact of all of us, since that is what we are in our secret self - a portion of the Divine Mother who has entered into Time and Space to play with fate and circumstance."