OM in the Epic Savitri

Escape brings not the victory and the crown!

Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,

But nothing is finished and the world goes on

Because only half God's cosmic work is done.

Only the everlasting No has neared

And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:

But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,

And immortality in the secret heart,

The voice that chants to the creator Fire,

The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,

The bridge between the rapture and the calm,

The passion and the beauty of the Bride,

The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,

The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?

This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life.

With the help of OM

one can realize the Divine.

 OM has a transforming power.

OM represents the Divine...

If anything goes wrong,

repeat OM, all will go well.

OM IS THE SIGNATURE OF THE LORD.



Divine Petals

"Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them," the Mother said. "It is a subtle and fragrant language." As if to provide a key to this language, she identified the significances of almost nine hundred flowers. In this book, The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Pondicherry, India, gives significances to these flowers and their meanings which are presented in the light of her vision and experience. Mother says that by entering into contact with the nature of the flower that she feels it's inner truth and knows what it represents; from entering into contact with it she gives it a precise meaning.


Divine Petals is a collection of almost 900 species of flowers arranged by spiritual significance. 

Verses to Ensure a blissful Dawn- Sri Aurobindo

Into being’s gap scooped out as empty Space

In which she had filled the place of absent God,

There poured a wide intimate and blissful Dawn;

Healed were all things that Time’s torn heart had made

And sorrow could live no more in Nature’s breast:

Division ceased to be, for God was there.

I smite the Titan who bestrides the world

And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den.

I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong,

And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate;

I wear the face of Kali when I kill,

I trample the corpses of the demon hordes.

Sri Aurobindo

O mortal, bear this great world’s law of pain,

In thy hard passage through a suffering world

Lean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,

Turn towards high Truth, aspire to love and peace.

A little bliss is lent thee from above,

A touch divine upon thy human days.

Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,

For through small joys and griefs thou mov’st towards God.

Sri Aurobindo

Only when we have climbed above ourselves,

A line of the Transcendent meets our road

And joins us to the timeless and the true;

It brings to us the inevitable word,

The godlike act, the thoughts that never die.

The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of realisation.

Nature shall live to manifest secret God,

The Spirit shall take up the human play,

This earthly life become the life divine.

In her the conscious Will took human shape:

She only can save herself and save the world.

O soul, intruder in Nature’s ignorance,

Armed traveller to the unseen supernal heights,

Thy spirit’s fate is a battle and ceaseless march

Against invisible opponent Powers,

A passage from Matter into timeless self.

On the alter throwing thy thoughts, thy heart, thy works,

Thy fate is a long sacrifice to the gods

Till they have opened to thee thy secret self

And made thee one with the indwelling God.

This world was not built with random bricks of Chance,

A blind god is not destiny’s architect;

A conscious power has drawn the plan of life,

There is a meaning in each curve and line.

The mind of mortal man is led by words,

His sight retires behind the walls of Thought

And looks out only through half-opened doors.

A Magician’s formulas have made Matter’s laws

And while they last, all things by them are bound;

But the spirit’s consent is needed for each act

And Freedom walks with same pace with Law.

All hear can change if the Magician choose

The supermind shall claim the world for Light

And thrill with love of God the enamoured heart

And place Light’s crown on Nature’s lifted head

And found Light’s reign on her unshaking base.

“Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep

Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time

For the magnificent soul of man on earth.

Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy.”

This in us laughs and weeps, suffers the stroke,

Exults in victory, struggles for the crown;

Identified with the mind and body and life,

It takes on itself their anguish and defeat,

Bleeds with Fate’s whips and hangs upon the cross,

Yet is the unwounded and immortal self

Supporting the actor in the human scene.

Book II Chapter XXVII pp. 1008-1009

The three powers which present themselves to our life as the

three keys to its mystery are the individual, the cosmic entity and

the Reality present in both and beyond them. These three mysteries

of existence would find in the life of the supramental being a

united fulfilment of their harmony. He will be the perfected and

complete individual, fulfilled in the satisfaction of his growth

and self-expression; for all his elements would be carried to a

highest degree and integrated in some kind of comprehensive

largeness. What we are striving towards is completeness and

harmony; an imperfection and incapacity or a discord of our

nature is that from which inwardly we most suffer. But this

is because of our incompleteness of being, our imperfect self

knowledge, our imperfect possession of our self and our nature.

A complete self-knowledge in all things and at all moments

is the gift of the supramental gnosis and with it a complete

self-mastery, not merely in the sense of control of Nature but

in the sense of a power of perfect self-expression in Nature.

Whatever knowledge of self there would be, would be perfectly

embodied in the will of the self, the will perfectly embodied in

the action of the self; the result would be the self’s complete

dynamic self-formulation in its own nature. In the lower grades

of gnostic being, there would be a limitation of self-expression

according to the variety of the nature, a limited perfection in

order to formulate some side, element or combined harmony of

elements of some Divine Totality, a restricted selection of powers

from the cosmic figure of the infinitely manifold One. But in the

supramental being this need of limitation for perfection would

disappear; the diversity would not be secured by limitation but

by a diversity in the power and hue of the Supernature: the

same whole of being and the same whole of nature would express

themselves in an infinitely diverse fashion; for each being

would be a new totality, harmony, self-equation of the One

Being. What would be expressed in front or held behind at any

moment would depend not on capacity or incapacity, but on the

dynamic self-choice of the Spirit, its delight of self-expression,

on the truth of the Divine’s will and joy of itself in the individual

and, subordinately, on the truth of the thing that had to be done

through the individual in the harmony of the totality. For the

complete individual is the cosmic individual, since only when

we have taken the universe into ourselves—and transcended it

—can our individuality be complete.

 

Book II  Chapter XXVII  pp.  1008-1009

Power of Action- A Divine Force

A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell

And take the charge of breath and speech and act

And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns

And every feeling a celestial thrill.

Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men

To greatness: an inspired labour chisels

With heavenly cruelty an unwilling mould.

………………

Although the shaping god’s tremendous touch

Is torture unbearable to mortal nerves,

The fiery spirit grows in strength within

And fills a joy in every titan pang.

The Life Divine

For in fact both individual and universe are simultaneous

and interrelated expressions of the same transcendent Being;

even though in the Ignorance and under its law there is maladjustment

and conflict, yet there must be a right relation,

an equation to which all arrives but which is missed by our

blindness of ego, our attempt to affirm the ego and not the

Self one in all. The supramental consciousness has that truth of

relation in itself as its natural right and privilege, since it is the

supermind that determines the cosmic relations and the relations

of the individual with the universe, determines them freely and

sovereignly as a power of the Transcendence. In themental being

even the pressure of the cosmic consciousness overpowering the

ego and an awareness of the transcendent Reality might not of

themselves bring about a dynamic solution; for there might still

be an incompatibility between its liberated spiritual mentality

and the obscure life of the cosmic Ignorance which the mind

would not have the power to solve or overcome. But in the supramental

being, not only statically conscious but fully dynamic and

acting in the creative light and power of the Transcendence, the

supramental light, the truth light,

rtam jyotih , would have that

power. For there would be a unity with the cosmic self, but

not a bondage to the Ignorance of cosmic Nature in its lower

formulation; there would on the contrary be a power to act in

the light of the Truth on that Ignorance. A large universality

of self-expression, a large harmonic universality of world-being

would be the very sign of the supramental Person in his gnostic

nature.

 

Book II  Chapter XXVII  p. 1010

The Divine Compassion is limitless.

Be Noble and Belong to Her!

And after all, it is perhaps the last test which the Divine gives to anyone: “Now that you are noble, you are disinterested, you have no egoism, you belong only to me, I am going to make you triumph. We are going to see if you will hold out.”

The Mother

Regards