Even as we step into the New Year, it will be good to remember that this Light that we take for granted, has been prepared by those who kept a vigil while we slept peacefully in our comfort zones.
There are three main reasons that negative thoughts and patterns repeat themselves even though something within us recognises them as such and feels the need to get rid of them.
When God roused India, in the first flush of her awakening the flaming power of the national consciousness began to flow swiftly in the veins of the nation.
As always, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo open for us a wonderful door of Light that reveals to us the mystery of Death as seen by the very highest spiritual consciousness.
What is described now is the birth of Savitri which is indeed a very special moment, a divine moment so to say since it is the birth of the Divine upon earth.
The return of the Light, though seemingly a repetition, is yet, like the changing of the seasons through blossoming in spring time, toil and effort during summer and the cleansing rains during the monsoons before the slow withdrawal during winters, also a forward movement.