Daily Prayers

Mother Divine, Mother of Light and Delight

Maa may all grow conscious with the true consciousness. May all grow happy with the true happiness. May all find true Peace and repose in Thee.

Maa, this world suffers due to the thick crust of ignorance and its offsprings ego and desire. These are the original children of Diti, the mother of division and falsehood. These deviate us from the true path through false whispers, wrong promptings and the lures that misguide the soul. May these and all other enemies of the soul that obstruct the way to the true spiritual life be slain with no possibility of being revived by the sanjivani of the Asuras, the dark illusion that prolongs the hold of the ignorance. Maa, Thou art our true Mother, our mother and father and friend and master and teacher and beloved. May all our relations and attachments be consumed and absorbed in our manifold rainbow hued relation and attachment with Thee, until nothing else remains but Thee alone, everywhere and in everything, Thee, Thee alone.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet Mother, Maa whatever we may do wherever we may be, may we be carried by Thy Presence, surrounded by Thy Peace and Light and Grace and Love, a pure and perfect channel and instrument surrendered in Thy Service for Thy Forces to pour upon all.

Maa, our sweet and infinite Mother, may we carry Your Presence everywhere and become Thy ideal children, radiating Thy Peace and Light and Sweetness and Harmony and Love everywhere.

May Thy Will be fulfilled in us and in all. May all taste Thy Peace and Joy, the Peace, the Joy, the Strength, the Sweetness, the Love that flows ceaselessly from Thy Heart and is the share of all who surrender themselves at Your Feet.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Maa, Mother Divine, life can be and aught to become a perpetual miracle. At one level it is already a miracle. In fact each moment is a miracle and a wonder, our very breathing and heartbeats are a miracle. The wheeling of the suns around their fixed orbits, the motion of the stars, precise and accurate leading the cycles of creation, the journey from dust to man, the emergence of thought and the birth of faith and aspiration, the will to struggle and hope and dare and conquer is each a miracle and a marvel. In fact the whole creation speaks of Thy Grace and Love for those who can perceive.

Yet there is something that deflects this beautiful blossoming with ease and simplicity and peace, turning or perhaps cursing all life with pain. It is as if a shadow straddled across the sunlit fields of God clouding our vision and confusing the path. But with Thy Presence, Light returns, the shadows are dispelled and all becomes a perpetual miracle again.

May the miracle of Thy Grace unfold in everyone’s life and creation move and progress once again harmoniously, gracefully and smoothly to the rhythm and the tune of the eternal Dancer.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Om Mother Sri Aurobindo
Om Mother Sri Aurobindo
Om Mother Sri Aurobindo

Maa, Sri Aurobindo is the Soul of Matter lifting the terrestrial creation and our material life ever higher and higher towards the highest heights. He moulds all by His luminous and powerful gaze, changes the fixed course of things by His silent Will. Thou art His Force labouring since old to bring our material creation progressively nearer to the Divine Idea embedded in each atom of existence. We too being Thy children born of Thy Power carry something of Sri Aurobindo, the Lord and Thyself, the original Power, within us. But this truth is veiled by our mind and ignorance. All our knowledge based on the apparent facts of existence are an illusion that our mind creates and then our soul is trapped in these theories and systems as if these were settled facts and final things.

But the doors of Wisdom open by Thy Grace and we see that all these laws and ways of being is a habit and the pressure of Thy Force can change it all. Maa Thou art our refuge, our hope and our strength. Maa, at Thy Feet is our Peace, in Thy Service is our Joy, in Thy Love is our supreme consummation. Take us entirely in Thy arms of Mercy and Love. Keep us forever in Thy heart.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Maa, Sweet Mother, Mother Divine

Always we see freedom walking along with the Law. On the one side the fixity of cosmic sequences ties us hand and feet as a cog tightly fixed in the wheel. On the other hand You are always with us and, since the world is nothing else but Thy objectivisation in Time and Space, You can change, modify, deflect or even completely annul the law of Cause and Effect. Just as a writer can change the events in a story he is writing without affecting the theme or the plot so too You can change the circumstances without creating any disturbance to the original Will. It is so because Thine is the original Will and the Knowledge at work everywhere and in everything. Since You are everywhere and in everything when You shift people and events then the whole chain and all the links are automatically adjusted and reset without disturbing the overall harmony, bringing the maximum good for all.

But as soon as we start meddling, then, focused almost exclusively on our little ‘separate’ surface personality and its likes and dislikes, we almost always disturb the chain, create more disharmony leading to even more suffering than we imagined we would avoid. Therefore the best course is always to surrender ourselves to Thee, to do our best as one plays an assigned role without letting the stress of ego and desire overtake us and then leave everything in Your hands.

O Mother, let our surrender be true and complete, full of trust, full of a complete acceptance and adherence to Thy Will in our life, whatever it may be, full of a luminous trust and peace knowing that You know what is best for us, better than what we, with all our thoughts and imagination, can ever conceive. The highest wisdom, even practical wisdom is to entrust ourselves and our destiny to Thee and face the unfolding events and circumstances with a serene and glad equanimity that is the result of a complete surrender to Thy Will. At each instant may we lay ourselves entirely bare and open at Thy Feet so that Thy Will may be done and not mine. In surrender and acceptance of Thy Will in our life lies complete safety and total peace. Indeed surrender to Thee is the great secret, the greatest of all secrets.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, let the rejuvenating streams of Thy Love pour upon earth and fill it it with Thy fragrance and delight.

Let Thy Peace enter the hearts of men and Thy sweet harmony awaken in all.

Let Thy law of Truth manifest despite all oppositions and resistance.

Let our minds be illumined with Thy Light and all creatures disclose Thy unseen Presence.

Let our sight behold Thee everywhere and in everything.

Let our very senses extend beyond their limits and perceive Thee in all experiences.

Thou art in all things, all is in Thee and Thou art the All. There is nothing else but Thee. May this become our constant experience.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Maa, Mother Divine, Thou art the sole doer, the accomplisher of all Thy works, the giver of all fulfilment. Nay, Thou art the fulfilment for to find Thee in our inner depths, to discover Thee in our inmost being, to be one with Thee in our soul is to turn existence into a rapture and life into a perpetual marvel. On the other hand, to forget Thee, to lose contact with Thee, to live for the petty satisfactions of the ego rather than in Thy Service is the greatest single sorrow from which all suffering stems. We offer to Thee this hymn of adoration by the Lord Sri Aurobindo which is and should become the deepest cry of our being.

“O Truth defended in thy secret sun,
Voice of her mighty musings in shut heavens
On things withdrawn within her luminous depths,
O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe,
Creatrix, the Eternal’s artist Bride,
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time,
As if Time dare not open its heart to God.

O radiant fountain of the world’s delight
World-free and unattainable above,
O Bliss who ever dwellst deep-hid within
While men seek thee outside and never find,
Mystery and Muse with hieratic tongue,
Incarnate the white passion of thy force,
Mission to earth some living form of thee.”

Come, O Mother, come! We are not ready, the earth is not ready. But can it ever be ready, can man ever understand Thy Glory or become a fit receptacle of Thy Force or manifest even a Ray of Thy Glory without the benediction of Thy Grace?

Come, Mother Come! Fill our life with Thy Breath, redeem our earthly matter by Thy touch, break the seals upon our soul with Thy kiss, save us by Thy smile of Love.

Come, Mother Come!

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Supreme Mother Thou who art beyond the Being and the Non-Being, beyond the Manifest and the Unmanifest, beyond the creation and the Creator, beyond all that we know and all that we can never know, let Thy Will prevail upon our life. Let Thy Law of Truth govern this earth rather than the Law of Ignorance with its results of suffering and pain.

Maa the two thieves that deviate us from the straight sunlit path are ego and desire. Purify us, O Divine Mother of all egoism. Cure us of all littleness that comes from the sense of I-ness and my-ness. Let this mud engine of the human body be turned to heaven use, a chariot of the gods for Thee to course around the world and to wage Thy earthly battles. Let our mind and thought be the harness of Thy chariot so that all our speech be the blowing of Thy conch shell scattering all clouds of doubt and doom, or a flute drawing countless souls together in a harmonious unity around Thee. Let our heart become Thy temple and abode carrying Thy marvellous Presence everywhere and our will become Thy instrument, Thy Sudarshan Chakra, the discuss divine to cleave all darkness and to establish Thy Light everywhere. Make me Thy supple and plastic instrument, the flute and lyre of Thy Love, the weapon and spear of Thy deathless Light.

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine the events and circumstances of our life are like so many dots scattered in Space and Time that seem to be disconnected from each other. Yet there are subtle links that join the dots, these subtle links are not outside but in the hidden motives that drive our actions. Since these motives are covered and sealed to our eyes we find them disconnected. Yet they are like an unfolding script of the story of our soul whose far ends are hidden from our sight. But Thou art the All-knower, the sole Omniscient and Omnipotent Goddess, Mother Divine who holds these links in an unbroken chain extending from the hidden past to the unseen future. Therefore must we lay bare before Thee all that is happening in our lives so that their secret truth may emerge and the seemingly chaotic and apparently disconnected events may each find their true place and the right rhythm in the great flow. 

Maa, all is laid bare before Thee without calculation or reserve. Let each element find its true place according to the Law of Truth and not according to our human attachments and preferences.

All is Thine.  All events and circumstances are nothing but an incomplete and clumsy or distorted expression some truth that is known only to Thee. To Thee is offered all, to Thee is offered each detail of our life as well the whole.  All is Thine, all is in Thee, Thou art in all, all is indeed Thyself and there is nothing else but Thee. 

In Thee is our supreme safety. In Thee is true repose. In this is the freedom from the chain. In Thee is the Knowledge and the Power needed for Thy Manifestation. Let Thy Will triumph everywhere and in all things.