The Lotus bud
Thy Will be done, Thy Will is the Supreme Benediction, Thy Will is the Divine Love in action.
At every moment the world moves forward a little towards peace and harmony and a greater awakening.
Man as long as he remains man, a mental vital being, a thinker in an animal body is bound to his nature. He is unaware of his soul, unaware of his true mission in life.
The mind substance is too opaque to express the bliss of Oneness, too murky to let through the light, the peace and harmony, the joy and beauty. The spiritual equality cannot settle in his agitated mind and turbulent heart.
Man must renounce his humanity in order to become divine. One cannot be on two banks at the same time, the two banks of the river that separates mind from the Spirit.
Though man is unaware of the Divine, of the spiritual Reality, he has the possibilty of discovering God hidden in the mystic lotus of the heart, deep within.
Everyday somewhere in the world a new lotus bud is blossoming by the touch of the Divine Force radiating from the Mother.
A new Light has illumined our gloomy house of life. All the long accumulated junk and filth have to be thrown away to make room for the haevenly guests wanting to stay with us. Every nook and corner of our being must be thouroughly wiped clean again and again to blot out the least trace of the past ages.
Psychic aspiration brings down from the highest haevens the Force of the Divine Mother which gradually burns and transforms the clay-jar into an unbreakable golden calyx filled with nectar.
Even if we do not see or hear the Mother, She is always in front of us. As our love grows, we feel Her in a hundred ways, gentle and strong.
Om Douce Mère, Thy will be done, Thy Will is our protection
Om Sri Aurobindo saranam mama
Niranjan Guha Roy
Trust in the Mother
Let the Mother enter your life like a swift river
and let Her wash away all your human belongings and attachments
and gradually release the Godhead imprisoned in the mud.
We must allow Her to build in us Her Temple
by removing brick by brick the old human structures
and replacing them with new bricks from the kiln of God.
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We must trust Her, She will carry us to the summits.
Let us keep quiet and not be afraid, let us not look behind.
Trust Her.
As a flash of lightning we will pass through fields of fire and icy zones
Let us not bre afraid and have peace.
Soon we shall be on the other bank forever luminous.
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Remembrance - To Douce Mère
Douce Mère
Once in an evening class, You mentioned that You were no poet.
But when I read Your prayers ,
I feel the rythm, beauty and imagery of the noblest poetry,
Transporting the soul on its inspired wings to the heart of Mystery.
When I think of Your simple acts and gestures,
I see in them the majesty and greatness of a mystic ritual
Having incalculable spiritual consequences in the history of Time.
When I look at Your drawings and sketches,
I see the soul emerging by the prodigious economy of a few master lines.
When I listen to Your music,
I feel that each phrase is a divine motif for a magnificent symphony.
When I think of You,
All I know is that the Mother is noble and that I belong to Her forever.
I haven't seen any piece of sculpture done by You,
But I meet constantly living souls sculptured by Your hand.
I haven't seen any architecture designed by You,
But I get a glimpse of the wonderful New Haeven that You have created in Your vision.
My whole being lies prostrate at Your feet.
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Niranjan Guha Roy
To the Awakened Soul
Frightened souls in search of Light
Fall very often in misleading steps,
Get lost, intoxicated in enchanted labyrinths.
Bright reflexion in a dewdrop of a hidden sun
Holds them prisoners.
O you, awakened soul, call the Haeven to guide you.
The road is long, hard, strewn with a thousand dangers.
Be without ambition, transparent as a diamond.
Examine yourself mercilessly, throw far away your old coat.
Plunge inside, far, far, far in the depths of your mystic heart,
There, find the sacred divine Fire.
Let the divine Force transform the natural man into a rising god.
Become the flame which lights the inanimate candles,
The lighthouse which brings hope in the hopeless night,
A constant link between the haeven and the earth.
Even though our days are counted,
It is necessary to dig, to dig, and to dig again.
The Mother waits for us with all Her sweetness.
You are an immortal soul in a temporary mould.
Even though the body falls exhausted, it does not matter, O pilgrim.
Your soul will return in a more resistant sheath,
Will resume the unfinished task , to dig , to dig.
May your beautiful and generous soul
Emerge henceforth in the Eternity.
Watched by the white peaks, the huge lilies of Himalayas.
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Niranjan Guha Roy
The Psychic Being
The psychic being will radiate the divine peace and harmony as a rosebush fills the garden with its fragrance.
The only way to become so is a total and unreserved surrender of our whole being to the Mother Divine.
Niranjan Guha Roy
When the spell of Maya is broken
If the manifestation depended on men, their goodwill, badwill, their refusal or their violent opposition, then nothing would change here. But happily nothing depends on man, his yes or no, his whim or fancy .Man forgets his Creator , forgets that he is only a puppet , a creation. He is unaware of the secret Divinity who guides his destiny. He is blinded by the power bestowed on him by his generous creator. He weeps, shouts, rebels, fights in a mortal combat God, his persecutor.
The Divinity within remains unshaken, full of love and compassion. Then one day in a moment of grace, he suddenly has a revelation. - He is nothing, no one, he has no power, he has nothing of his own. He cannot stop his teeth from falling, nor lift his fingers at will! If he desappears from the scene, the world will go on unaffected. Nothing depends on him. Something else drives him through life. His success and failure are worked out by a Power not his own. The Lord has broken the spell of Maya, now he is really free. There is no one here or anywhere except the unique Divine. This manifestation is His progressive Self-realisation in time. All the beings, forces, events and circumstances are His reflections. His single undivided, undeviating Will is the sole Creator. Man through an integral surrender of his life, mind and body can become a ray of His blissful Sun, a strain of His music.
Niranjan Guha Roy
Concentrate on the Mother
As we concentrate more and more on the Mother
She will pour Herself in our consciousness
as light, joy, peace, energy and all the riches unknown to us.
When our soul will be like a hot and dry desert aspiring for rain,
then Mother will fill us to the brim and over flow
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To be what the Mother Divine wishes us to be is the ultimate Felicity.
A musical instrument for Her use or a carpet under Her feet.
The Eternal Mother is eternally present.
One day we are bound to see Her and remain spellbound
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The awakening of the consciousness
is our passport
to the new world
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N.Guha Roy
21 February
If we set the compass of our life
Pointed to Her alone
She will lead us by the hand
Into her infinite eternal domains of glory
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Douce Mère, Thank You
The attitude of the seeker
The attitude of the seeker should be simple -
I do not want to become the Divine , that is an impossibility, but I have the aspiration to come out of this obscure , ignorant, sorrowful life of unconsciousness.
I aspire for the Divine so that He may gradually replace my limited, blind human consciousness by His luminous eternal consciousness.
My action does not rise from a sense of superiority but it is the basic need of my being, the primordial urge of my life.
I will do whatever is necessary, however difficult, illogical, absurd or ridiculous it might seem to others.
I am not guided by any moral or ethical sense, even patriotic or religious ideals.
I will do only what I feel is helpful for my growth, compatible to my aspiration.
I shall be uncompromising in my inner attitude towards everything that binds me to my humanity and prevents me from receiving the Divine Love
To pray for the divine Presence is a very powerful method.
Then a great purity and adoration seize our heart and being, and an intense love unite us with all.
We will be in the very Heart
N.Guha Roy
Behind eveything is the supreme Consciousness,
The true sadness is the sadness of separation. We want to go back to the Source but we do not know how. As if we have a vague memory ....And one day we hear the Call and from then on, all we do is in response to that irresistible call. This yoga is precisely for people who have seen all, have had all from the human life. As if for them the human adventure is definitely finished. Then they can throw themselves into the adventure of the future : the adventure of the incarnation of the Spirit in matter
It is an adventure of the joy of discovery. One has to become silent, still the inward struggles, recognise the animal in oneself, and discover in his secret heart, the solar plexus, the source of all divine beauty, joy, purity , liberty, then listen to the Voice of the Guide, the Friend, the Father, the Mother, the Master. First this Voice seems to come from far, but the more we are eager to listen and obey to It, the more the Voice becomes clear, intimate, near. We begin to feel the Person who speaks . It is the Infinite, the Eternal who draws near and comes into our life. Slowly the contents of the Infinite itself fill us with his peace, joy, infinity without barriers, limits in time and space.. The mortal discovers his immortality in the Spirit.
It is the path that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have traced for us. In the terrestrial evolution, the time has come, the moment is auspicious. After millenia of struggle, anxiety and frantic seekings, man is on threshold of a wonderful life.
You who feel the sadness , be happy. You who feel empty, consider yourself fortunate. The call of the Spirit is on you.
The ways to reach the Infinite are infinite. Give yourself with love to "This", the Source, then your life will be fulfilled. The great Mystery will penetrate you, will be all around you. A common plastic necklace will put you in contact with the abyss of the wonder of the Mystery. Because it is also a momentary incarnation of the Eternal. The" Divine Folly" will possess you
Look all around..nothing was there, nothing will remain as it is. Everything changes. But who changes? Behind eveything is the body of the Infinite, Eternal, the supreme Consciousness, the Ocean with its changing, noisy, luminous waves.
Once we have felt the Infinite, its benefic and auspicious Presence will take charge of us and of our future.
N.Guha Roy