The mysterious call
Why do I want the Divine, what is my aim?
The noblest and truest aim of the yoga is the irresistible attraction that one feels somewhere deep in oneself, an attraction for the Mystery, for the Origin, the Source of our existence, God, the Eternal, the Mother who calls us from beyond, a call so irresistible that no price is too high to pay, no attachment too great to break, no undertaking too heavy to undertake.
We are ready to do anything and everything, whatever is required from us, however long the journey might be, however difficult the path might be. We feel the irresistible urge to leave behind everything, to follow blindly, joyously the supreme Piper of Hameline. Then, we are sure to reach Him. Unless we have heard his call, the strains of his flute playing his music; unless we have felt his intoxication, that mysterious call which goes out to the explorers for the adventures, for the fathomless Infinities; unless we have had a glimpse of his ravishingly beautiful face and limbs molded from the substance of delight; unless we have heard his voice which takes away all smug peace , his command, which is a persecution and a frightful torment unless executed; unless the Eternal has touched us with his magic wand, we cannot be awakened, we cannot pursue the path.
So, for this yoga, one has to be absolutely sure that one has been called, that one is predestined, that one has eventually no other work, no other commitment, no other duty except to follow the yoga, to serve the Divine, to become a simple and pure instrument. This must be the goal, whether achieved in a short time, or even in a few lifetimes.
But if one has even in the smallest degree the aspiration to belong to the Divine, to obey and serve the Divine, to surrender to Him his life and works, his past, present and future, a willingness to be broken and gradually remolded by his vision and power, a yearning to be close to Him, to live in his Presence, to serve and love Him, to possess nothing, to be nothing, then also is justified the undertaking of the yoga - for the little submerged aspiration will grow with the true attitude, a glowing fire of self-sacrifice.
The right attitude is so important in this yoga that we have to constantly re-establish it in various parts of our being until finally our whole being would be in a state of glad surrender and total submission to the Divine. We must have patience for it is a long and difficult work
The Success is for the one who can endure says the Mother
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N.Guha Roy
gratitude to the Mother Divine
O Mother Divine, you have lifted the curse of evil fate over my soul
My heart kneels down before you in gratitude.
Inside, outside, above and below wherever I look I meet Your reassuring eyes.
Peace has flowed into my body, life , mind and soul.
In all contacts I feel Your gentle hands
Everywhere I find the same familiar Person made up differently for the play.
There is no more need of a distant heaven or extinction.
A handful of sand withholds in it unborn divinities
O Mother Divine, my life is now an unbroken song of glory
Pulsating somewhere in the immeasurable Spirit-space.
Mystery beyond all existence You are the resplendent Reality.
My heart kneels down before you in loving adoration.
All faces are Your reflections, countless rays of an original Sun.
All sounds weave the universal symphony of delight
Under the ever shifting wizard fingers of the lone Organist
You live in all forms, in all dimensions from matter to the absolute.
In all mouvements, changes, dissolution and transformation
You are the Truth, the Stable, the Permanent, the Immortal One,
The constant Friend and Companion in life and death through eternity
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N.Guha Roy
blessed are the souls
Blessed are the souls
Who have recognised the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, the Avatars of tomorrow
Who have consecrated their heart, mind, body and soul to Them
Who do their yoga and aspire for a life divine
Who feel inspired by their words , uplifted by their touch
Bless them
Who have given everything to follow the light of the Supreme
Who feel zero and God is all, One in all.
Who are willing to play their part in the divine symphony
Who see , hear, touch smell enjoy God in all
Adore Him and serve Him in all existence even in nothingness
Who find their joy, their strenght their hope only in the Divine
Who see the emerging God in all efforts high and low
Bless them
who bring peace and harmony in a world of agony,
Who have become happy responding harps in the hands of the Mother Divine .
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N.Guha Roy
Lila
Behind each name and form is the absolute Presence of the Eternal
unaffected, undiminished, untarnished by the actual names or forms
There is magic all around us. The All Powerful Being becomes anything and everything.
All around is a sacred greatness, the marvellous face of the mysterious Mother.
In the color of the rusty leaves, in the fireworks of a sunset, in the iris of a stranger,
we catch a glimpse of a Mystery which forever eludes us,
yet irresistibly draws forever the same love and beauty of a mysterious Presence.
The One is continuously taking all these million forms.
There is no haste, there is no death, there is only change, transformation., transmutation.
In a dim light you see only a little around the room, in the starlight a little more and in the sunlight the clear continents.
But there are eyes which go through wall after wall in unexplorable mystic dimensions
Let your mind be strong, your heart steady, your nerves and body peaceful
then you will not be afraid when the Eternity from its fathomless depths will begin to look at you .
When Moses saw the Divine he too was afraid.
The Eternal has to hide Himself from our eyes for a long, long time.
He has to strenghten our path, fortify our spirit and steel our nerves s
So that one day we can bear His compassionate touch.
Niranjan Guha Roy
Work and Spirituality
The spirituality is not a rejection of the world but a complete mastery over the materiel world over the material life inspired guided and realised by a higher spiritual consciousness;
To sit quietly and do a meditation is not so difficult but to work and call in the peace, the energy and the consciousness from above and to work in the spirit of sacrifice as an offering to the Divine is a challenging and effective means to do the yoga.
we should consider all work as belonging to the Divine and remember that whatever anyone is doing, the work is appointed by the Divine.
One day we will see that at each instant eveything in the universe is determined by the Divine
N.Guha Roy
The Power of Peace
There is a state where we see that everything is accomplished by the Divine. It is the eternal play of the infinite Divine who unveils Himself in space and time. There is a total indivible Unity and a divine Love which is infinitely superior to any human love and there is a divine action acting by the power of Peace. This power of Peace will first progressively eliminate the asuric forces incarnating the force of violence and division and disturbing the peace. Then slowly it will act on the totality of consciousness on earth in order to eliminite all obscurity, violence, perversity in the race. But naturally it will take a long time.
There is another aspect of Peace which is a fundamental realisation. Once this peace is established, one is entirely liberated from all relative cosmic movements and manifestation. One loses one's identity in the Divine beyond and above all creation. One becomes a zero, inexistent. There is no longer any personal choice, liking or preference. There is no haste or struggle or even effort to achieve or realise anything for the Eternal is constantly present in the consciousness. The Divine was not unhappy yesterday. He will not be happier tomorrow than He is today. He is ever fulfilled in His delight of existence.
Once we truly ealise the Peace, we are liberated from the grip and strain and stress of time and cosmic movement, and all action proceeds from this state of liberty. There is actually nothing to achieve, nothing to accomplish. The realisation of Peace is the key for any action in the world. If one does not have this realisation, one cannot undertake any divine work. The Divine is the doer but is no longer hidden by his action to the soul liberated in Peace.
The more there will be beings who could incarnate that Power of Peace, living in union with the Divine, the more the process of pacification and purification and awakening will be hastened. Therefore the best way to serve humanity is to give ourselves more and more to the Divine who is far beyond all religions, even far beyond the traditional spiritual experiences , well beyond the frontiers of the highest degree of mind.
The is a KIngdom of Golden Sun where there is no night, no obscurity nor suffering, no division, where there is only the infinity of God, the unfatomable Mystery.
N.Guha Roy
The descent of the Divine Force in us - the permanent High Way
The Mother of Beauty and Harmony descends on earth through the sunlit Haevens
Opens the golden gate at the summit of man's ascension
Shattering the high fortress walls that protect us from Self-vision.
The little pond is merged on the Ocean, the spark in the conflagration.
Our errant thoughts now extend their probe in the far corner of Infinity
And return through the sacred air laden with exotic perfume.
Our reason that seldom arrived at the right conclusion
Now sees the divine intention in a trembling leaf.
There is no more clash or striving, nature obeys the Lord's Will?
Mortals share the Immortal's vision and God acts through men.
Awakened the coiled serpent energy at the base of the spine rises higher and higher
To greet the majestic, luminous descent.
The golden cascade comes down the column of soaring fire ,
Descends down the legs into the soil of the planet,
Digs deeper and deeper through layers of stark resisting darkness,
Pierces the rocky shoals to reach the hidden fountain of the Night,
Transforms the sleeper in the unconsciousness into a wakeful adventurer,
Rises with its divine message through the twelve doors of the soul
And builds the permanent High Way joining the far ends of the being.
Our bodies become the lodge of the Spirit.
Our speech and chants shall give an audible form to the intangible Mystery,
Incarnate bodiless beauty in song and poetry
And deliver the Psyche imprisoned behind the tangle of our emotions
The immortal Flame burning on the altar of the marble Chapel
Where Thou abidest with flowers on Thy hand
Will show us the way
Niranjan Guha Roy
The Real Idea
The Mother is an embodiment of perfection in the world of relativity
Whatever She does or She says is a frontal aspect of truth.
All Her words, if ever even a fragment is conserved by a chronicler, are statements of the Supreme Truth.
Each word, each action is an eternity expressed in the infinitesimal.
Whatever She does is to prepare us, to lead us to light.
There is nothing like "rejected by the Divine," because there is nothing which is not Divine.
I can see in the space-time continuum, in this cosmos of relativity and mutability,
each point in time and space has got the Real-Idea working in its heart .
Only in time in the field of space, the Real-Idea slowly reveals itself eternally and ever progressing.
At each point I see the eternity and the infinity.
I see such a concrete and massive unity that nothing is really separate and there is nothing like separate movement.
It is utterly one movement, supported by one consciousness and working out one purpose.
In this field of unity, that which helps to maintain the separative knowledge or knowledge of a limited self
to the exclusion of all others is the Maya, the Yoga Maya of the Divine.
This is the splendour of splendours,
the supreme miracle being one and yet to be entirely, exclusively and eloquently separate and different,
to be concentrated on a simple self in a field of myriad selves.
Niranjan Guha Roy
The Eternal Soul
The Eternal Soul
Without mask nor veil, bare
Pure
Like a flame
Free
Like the wind
On the Ocean without shore
Happy
ike the sand dunes burning in the sun
Indifferent
Like the white summits
Far away from the world.
Silent
Like an immense Cathedrale
Carved in ice
This is my soul
Your soul
The Soul of the Universe
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The bells announce the Victory
Far away from this civilisation
Where money is the king, pleasure the only aim, and success the highlight of life.
Far away from the relentless fights,suicidal competitions, from the passion of the blind pride,
Far away from a society dominated by the lord of falsehood,
Invisible, not recognisable, a group of beings of another race, superhuman, still children grows in the Light
Without disturbing desires, they do not look for either money or human comfort,
Conscious of their divinity, they suffer in the animal body.
As man is not jealous of the cow grazing the luxuriant herb, these beings watch with dismay
people running everywhere like fools in search of money, pleasure and imaginary power.
Man, tormented by his animal nature,
His mental consciousness closed to heaven is incapable to see the universal unity.
Conflicts, fights, divisions, , barriers, oppositions, contradictions of others are real to his spirit.
Collaboration, association, true brotherhood, union are foreign to him.
He is at ease inside his limits; his happiness lies in a restricted enclosure.
But Nature is never at rest,
she lets the people sing their requiem, bathe in the warmth sun of the mortal golden decline.
She lets them play in an alley without exit,and advances in giant steps
Towards the glittering future of a happy earth burning with a mystic fire.
The knell rings for the opponent
The bells announce the victory of the Mother.
Nature is only an opaque facade of the eternal Mother,
The supreme force has always directed in detail the great earthly evolution.
She leads all the creation from division towards the unique Origin, the One
From suffering and death towards the immortal felicity of the divine life.
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N.Guha Roy