Daily Prayers

Mother Divine, as we contemplate upon this very special day, words, feelings, all fall short before the profundity and solemnity of the moment. Nothing seems adequate. All that we can do is bow down before Thee with all our being surrendering all that we are conscious of and all that we are not yet conscious of, all that we are and all that we yet shall be. In that state of complete surrender, as complete as possible, we offer at Thy Feet all our life and lives to come in Thy Service, in Thy Love, in utter gratitude.

May all in us be full of love for Thee. May each cell of our body be a hearth of Thy flame of love. May each feeling be a winged hymn carrying Thy Love everywhere. May each thought be a burning shaft of Thy Love filling the quarters with Thy radiance and bliss. May our heart beat with Thy Love and each breath be a cry of Love for Thee.

O Supreme Mother May we be always conscious of Thee, everywhere and in every being. In each voice may we hear Thy Voice. In each form may we behold Thy Form. In each contact may we experience Thy thrill. In each embrace may we discover Thy Sweetness and Joy. May all things unfold Thy working and all become means to touch Thee, find Thee, discover Thee.

O Supreme, who would say Thou art not here when Thou art indeed here, there, everywhere. May we have the eyes to see Thee, the heart to feel Thee and the mind that knows Thee and Thy Ways and Thy Workings.

O Love Supreme, to Thee our infinite love and gratitude.

Om Anandamayee Chaitanyamayee Satyamayee Parame.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, may our life be meaningful and purposeful, true and high and noble and beautiful, dedicated to Thy service.

May we be generous givers to all and everything around us as the river, the sun, the trees, the flowers.

May we support the growth and blossoming of all creatures as the earth.

May we be as the sky, vast enough to include and accommodate everything, yet arranging it all according to the law of Truth and the vision of the highest Light.

May we become Her radiant torches in the world of darkness, Her lamps of Light on the pilgrim path through which men pass, Her sweet nectarous streams for tired thirsty souls, Her healing hands to comfort and succour.

May our life be no more spent on personal satisfaction nor wasted on vain self glory and idle pursuits.

And when we pass to higher spheres to rest with Thee, may we return stronger and wiser, better equipped to serve Thee, better able to love Thee and do Thy Work.

May we see Thee in all things and everywhere.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Mother of our souls, our true companion and eternal Guide. Thou art in us as the transmuting power of Divine Love, as the force of Divine Will urging us to move forward ever forward.

Maa, may our aspiration climb higher ever higher as an ever mounting flame ascending to the Heavens. May we soar beyond all earthly contingencies, beyond all attachments, beyond all that we know, beyond all that we can imagine and conceive. Take us higher and higher, O Supreme Benefactor until all in us fuses with Thee and is new born in Thee and is reborn for Thee.

May we have no other aim or purpose, no other goal or preoccupation save the fulfilment of Thy Will upon earth and in humanity.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet and infinite Mother, Mother Divine, tangled are the ways of works and hard is the passage through which the upward journey moves. Danger and difficulty stalk the human soul, old nature calls as a phantom on the way. Yet Thy Presence is the surety and the ultimate security. With Thy Presence, surrounded by Thy Love armoured with an absolute faith and holding the sword of courage and the shield of Thy Name one can walk anywhere and through everything.

The transmuting touch of Thy Love, the alchemy of Thy Grace turns obstacles into stepping stones, the barbs and thorns of the world into fragrant flowers.

Maa, give us the absolute faith that no gloom or doubt can touch, the bhakti that sees Thee everywhere and in everything, the sincerity that lights up the path so that nothing is concealed to the sight.

With a profound adoration and gratitude we bow to Thee.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa as the sky lights up with the morning glow, may our mind be lit up with the flame of Thy Love and all our thoughts fly towards Thee like swans winging in the sky in search of the lotus nectar.

May our life awaken to the New Light and all our movements and activities have Thee for our goal. May a million beautiful flowers bloom in the house of life in honour and in consecration to Thee.

May our body full of dust lying prostrate at Thy Feet be redeemed by Thy touch and this dust be in Thy service to carve a temple for Thy Abode.

O Mother, Mother, Mother let all our being flow into Thee as the river rushes to the sea after all the wandering and meandering as our final destination and goal.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet Mother, Mother Divine, how much time is wasted in all these scholastic discussions and academic research, these debates and discussions, when a drop of Your Love, a single Ray of Thy Light can reveal in a moment what volumes of library cannot. Perhaps all this is needed at a stage to churn the dull inert mind into thinking. If the mental substance is ready it may lead sometimes to mental wideness and suppleness. This in itself can prepare the mind so that when Knowledge awakens or is received, the mind is ready to express it. But how vain and foolish it would be to believe that reading books alone or discussing the concepts can be knowledge. For true Knowledge is like concentrated Light within us. It leaps if the door is open. Then later it assumes words and figures of speech. But its birthplace is in the silent sanctuary of the Soul where it comes from its high Origin beyond the Mind.

Maa let the door of true Knowledge open for all so that man may be freed from ignorance and Thy Light flood the earth, reign upon the world and, darkness may be removed from the lives of men..

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa when we glimpse the places that man has not yet made his habitation and compare it with human settlements, one can see what the mind has done with nature and with life upon earth in general. Worse still, what man has done to himself, his own life. Our mental intelligence colluding with an animal nature has made human life so much worse. There are medicines and sophisticated surgery but less and less natural immunity. There are complex designs, bridges and buildings but man lives within these as if trapped in the prison of his ego. He has gathered so much knowledge of the processes of life but not yet its purpose and, while his knowledge has helped him in certain ways, it is at the expense of other, often more crucial things. His means of communication has only estranged him further as he finds himself alone in a world full of people. A multiplication of comforts have robbed him of inner Peace and the joy of being in nature. To acquire more comforts and latest gadgets he is caught in a race held in the noose of money that has become the measure of success and even the basis of relationships.

Poverty, poverty, what an abject darkness and poverty this civilisation has been plunged into in the name of success and progress. On the brink, it is staring at the abyss. What a net of falsehood that has wired the cities with all its amenities and comforts. Yet amidst all this, Thou art here, Sri Aurobindo is here, and Your immortal message that beckons us to rise to a greater higher diviner life. O Hope of hopes, O hope of this lost civilisation, in the name of Earth and its creatures, we implore Thee to save us from this self-chosen doom.

O Hope supreme, O refuge of the lost world and a humanity that has strayed from its straight path. Pull us out of these artificial glares we mistake for the Sun.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, let us nestle in Thy arms of Love, free from all fears and cares for Thou art here. Behind all the turbulence and the turmoil You are here with Your hand lifted in a gesture of benediction liberating us from all anxiety and fear to which this human creature is most prone. Though at the apex of earthly creatures, man is also perhaps the most miserable because he, of all beings, carries the burden of an unseen future. Yet behind all the struggles and difficulties there stands Your luminous smile that saves and heals. Amidst all the bitterness and cruelty to which human beings subject themselves and others, You are here lavishing Your boundless Grace upon all if only man could get rid of his self-conceit and open to Thee with humility and learn to receive.

You are here and Your Presence is the assurance that all will be well and that mankind has a beautiful future despite the present clouds and dark appearances.

May all open to Thy Grace. May all respond to Thy Love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Mother of Love and Beauty and Harmony, Maa may life blossom harmoniously in all its complexity and beauty. May all discordant notes dissolve in the sweet harmony of love. May all that resists and grates and opposes be washed away in the swelling tide of Thy Love. May all be smoothened and released from smallness in the expanding circle of Thy Love. May all division be healed by the sweet and soothing smile of Thy Love. May all that is crude and ugly be refined and purified by the dissolvant of Thy Love.

May Thy Love open for us the way and lead us all the way.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa