Light - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
Light
Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more,
Life's ignorant gulfs give up their secrecy:
The huge inconscient depths unplumbed before
Lie glimmering in vast expectansy.
Light, timeless Light, immutable and apart!
The holy sealed mysterious doors unclose.
Light , burning Light! fom the Infinite's diamond heart
Quivers in my heart where blooms the deathless rose.
Light in the rapture leaping through the nerves!
Light, brooding Light! each smitten passionate cell
In a mute blaze of ecstasy preserves
A living sense of the Imperishable.
I move in an ocean of stupendous Light
Joining my depths to His eternal height
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Sri Aurobindo
the destined souls
The courageous soul
The yoga cannot and must not be forced on people.
Some souls are destined to do yoga.
There are two signs, one negative and the other positive.
In the first case one is totally disgusted with the utter absurdity of the present life
in the human society led by the blind egocentric mental-vital consciousness.
The awakened soul desperatly seeks a solution
and is willing to pay any price to get out of this general insanity.
This quest leads straight to the spiritual path.
In the other case, the soul is aware of its mission on earth,
the very meaning of its birth in a human body.
It is aware of the absurdity, the ignorance and suffering in the world but it knows fully
that only by discovering the spiritual Reality one would find the true liberation
There are some rare souls audacious and daring who are not satisfied with their own liberation
but they want to change the unhappy tragic conditions of life through spiritual means .
These are the souls who would eagerly accept the yoga of Sri Aurobindo - the yoga of transformation.
This particular yoga is for the souls fired by the invincible flame of aspiration
and in contact with their inner psychic being
"This yoga cannot be won by the weak" says The Mother
But in spite of all the difficulties on the way,
if we are really sincere, She will take us safely on the other shore.
We are all imperfect and the Mother accepts us as we are.
All She demands from us is sincerity.
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N.Guha Roy
Transformation of desire in aspiration
Desire is the tyrannical king of all human beings
Desire is the fire put in man by God in His divine wisdom.
Man roams ceaselessly in search of happiness, always disappointed.
The smoking black fire grows, becomes intense, more and more clear.
Man abandons hunting for a short lived material happiness.
The desire becomes more refined, it pursues a less fragile happiness.
One day when man has tasted, exhausted all the known happiness,
He turns his glance to the unexplored Infinity, to the unknown.
The earthly fire becomes a sacred flame which rises towards the sky.
Desire is transformed into a burning aspiration for the eternal joy,
World is supported by the divine Felicity hidden in the atoms.
Attracting by His irresistible bliss, the supreme Divinity
Leads all the creation towards the sublime metamorphosis.
The being who tasted only once the nectar of immortality roams no more.
The long , mad, painful search stops.
All in him burns as a single flame, a single appeal
" Come my love, O Lord of bliss. "
The ant does not look any more for sugar
It swims in an ocean of bliss.
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N.Guha Roy
Some words from Sri Aurobindo
A veil behind the heart,
a lid over the mind divide us from the Divine.
Love and devotion rend the veil,
in the quietude of the mind the lid thins and vanishes.
To know the highest Truth and to be in harmony with it
is the condition of right being,
to express it in all that were, experience and do
is the condition of right living
the emergence of the psychic being
The integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the yoga of the future,
is based on the emergence of the psychic being.
As soon as the psychic being comes out even so little
he brings with him the love or rather the adoration
for the Supreme and His incarnations.
This love-adoration is part of the very substance of the psychic being.
Not to feel that love is a sure sign
that the psychic being has not yet emerged.
It will come in time as it is the destiny of everyone.
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Niranjan Guha Roy
Rose of God - Poem of Sri Aurobindo
Rose of God, vermillion stain on the sapphires of heaven,
Rose of Bliss, fire-sweet, seven-tinged with the ecstasies seven!
Leap up in our heart of humanhood, O miracle, O flame,
Passion-flower of the Nameless, bud of the mystical Name.
Rose of God, great wisdom-bloom on the summits of being,
Rose of Light, immaculate core of the ultimate seeing!
Live in the mind of our earthood; O golden Mystery, flower,
Sun on the head of the Timeless, guest of the marvellous Hour.
Rose of God, damask force of Infinity, red icon of might!
Rose of Power with the diamond halo piercing the night!
Ablaze in the will of the mortal, design the wonder of thy plan,
Image of Immortality, outbreak of the Godhead in man.
Rose of God, smitten purple with the incarnate divine Desire,
Rose of Life, crowded with petals, colour's lyre!
Transform the body of the mortal like a sweet and magical rhyme;
Bridge our earthood and haevenhood, make deathless the children of Time.
Rose of God like a blush of rapture on Eternity's face,
Rose of Love, ruby depth of all being, fire-passion of Grace!
Arise from the heart of the yearning that sobs in Nature's abyss;
Make earth the home of the Wonderful and life Beatitude's kiss
Sri Aurobindo
Messages from the Mother
Blessed are those who take a leap towards the Future
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Don't speak - Act
Don't announce - Realise
What is Yoga
In India from the most ancient times, the view is held that one needs many, many years to be in contact with the Divine. One has to do a long and difficult sadhana to arrive even at a partial realisation.
We can read the lives of great Saints in all countries, the God-lovers, and they all tell us the same thing: there is no easy road to Heaven. The greatest and the most arduous effort with limitless patience and endurance is promised to those who would undertake the discovery of the Divine. We want something that would radically change the human life into a spiritual li.fe The call on us is a rare privilege granted to daring and dedicated souls.
With all the hope and ardour and love we have to look up at the golden sun and open ourselves, all our centers, all the cells of our body to its transforming, divine rays. This is the true liberation, true regeneration. The plant is a visible symbol of the spiritual aspiration. How it reaches out to the sunlight, how it depends on the light for its existence, how it struggles to catch a glimpse of light of the sun.
For the sadhak of the integral yoga, there is no repose, no rose-bed, no cosy inn or tavern where he can rest too long. We have many battles to wage, many wars to face. So let us steer our determination, march forward unburdened by the load of desires and attachments, fired by the inextinguishable flame of divine conquest. This is the role that has been assigned for the disciples of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Too often, there are some persistently wrong ideas about yoga. The yoga in India means union with the Divine or the Absolute and the discipline followed in order to arrive at the Realisation. The aim of personal happiness, to be happy, to love and distribute love all in a human way belong at best to ethics and has nothing to do with the yoga.
The Gita is the synthesis of all forms of yoga practiced in India. Sri Aurobindo's yoga begins where the Gita ends. To be aware of the Divine, the spiritual reality, to be aware that all is divine, to be aware that the earth and the evolution are a conscious self-manifestation of the Divine, to become aware of the One Divine and his will in the world, to be moved by Him, to live in Him, to be possessed by Him, to be progressively transformed by the divine consciousness into a divine being, these are the steps in ascension towards the divine life. This is a vast and complex subject.
More than any intellectual knowledge contained in a thousand books, a single true and profound experience, the touch of grace is far more convincing to the seeker of truth. One should constantly cultivate humility, self-offering to the Divine. Submission and a glad surrender to the divine guidance, once He is seen and recognised, is the most secure way for the seeker. Only the fortunate soul which has been prepared through a thousand births can readily take this path of dependence on the Divine and surrender to his will, love and knowledge.
ut we can all prepare ourselves, make ourselves fit for the state of grace which the surrender brings, the presence of the Eternal, his possession of our being, our life and action.
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N.Guha Roy
Prayer for the animals
Om Douce Mère
May Your protection be with all the animals on this earth.
Shelter them all in Your Heart and give them the protection
And love they need on this violent earth.
True Humility
Humility in spiritual life is the synonym of receptivity. It is a state when one is open and willing to receive and retain
When we do not know, when we do not have the pride and arrogance of knowing, then only, knowledge can come. Pride, arrogance, feeling of self-suffciency, obstinacy, refusal to admit a superior truth, a greater power, a blind resistance, an obstinate limiting self-confdence are, what can be called the opposites of humility. On the other hand, mere politeness, modesty, tepid acquiescence or acceptance of falsehood through fear or in order to avoid diffculty, agreement without understanding are far from true humility.
True humility is a spiritual state:
When we are thoroughly convinced of our ignorance, then only the knowledge comes in.
When we are utterly aware of our impotence, then only, the power comes in.
When we are truly empty, then only, we have the possibility of becoming full.
At its highest, humility reveals to us that we are nothing; we can do absolutely nothing.
When we are face to face with God, the Eternal, the mysterious One, when we will be able to say in absolute sincerity, in all humility, like the Mother in an evening class: “I am nothing, absolutely nothing, I know nothing, absolutely nothing,” then only we will realize our indivisible unity with God, the Eternal, the Absolute. That is why in all religions the great leaders have said: “Only the humble shall see the Face of God.” And, we have found that all those who are truly great are very humble. The Mother mentioned that there could be no one more humble than Sri Aurobindo.
True humility prepares the being for a state of constant self-surrender to the Divine.
Humbly, we admit also our ignorance and also the help and the protection of the Divine in all our past and present ignorant thoughts, emotions, actions, without trying to justify them. This is the hardest diffculty to face and to admit even to ourselves that we were wrong, that we are wrong. But if we can do this in a true spirit of humility, then a huge load is taken off our consciousness and we can enter into a state of self-surrender far more easily. Truly, there cannot be any justifcation for our ignorant actions as long as we are in the ignorance, and humility helps us to emerge from the ignorance into light.
True humility widens the seeker, increases our capacity of receiving and makes it possible for the Infnite to pour itself into a finite being, into a living ardent vessel.
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Niranjan Guha Roy