There is a psychic sorrow which usually comes when the soul feels how strong is the resistance in the vital and how much the Forces in it rage against the Mother, or when some similar feeling is in or behind the consciousness.
At the Feet of The Mother
Life indeed is a magician builder as Sri Aurobindo puts it later in this passage. There is no end to the varieties of forms and energies and powers it brings forth into creation.
How I busy myself in vain and useless efforts pretending that I am doing God’s work! ... What a relief it is to be freed from the restless activity of the mind and the body, and to fall into the stillness of the soul! But all my efforts in this direction have failed again and again.
Did material substance exist before the descent of Divine Love?
I don’t think it could be said that there was a material substance.... I don’t know how to explain this to you. If there is a negation of something, it is truly the Inconscient, it is the negation of everything. It has not even the capacity of emptiness.
Surrender to the Divine Being (in our yoga to the Divine Mother in Her embodiment) makes the process safe and the journey smooth.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
Earth-nature stood reborn, comrade of heaven.
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Now the waste-land, now the silence;
A blank dark wall, and behind it heaven.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
All the high qualities towards which man aspires dwelt there harmoniously in that world immune from sorrow and error and grief.
During his years of self-imposed seclusion in Pondichery, Sri Aurobindo was engaged in tapasya whose results were to have far reaching consequences on humanity.
“Once more in the land of the saints and sages will burn up the fire of the ancient Yoga....” Here we have at once a prescience and a prophecy of the colossal work ... The integral Yoga was to transform human nature into Divine Nature and human life into Divine Life.
In the inner organisation of my own self I have much more intensive and interesting work than when I was a helpless slave in the grip of alien forces.
Fourteen prayers were selected by M P Pandit from writings by T. V. Kapali Sastry, and are available as Sanskrit original and its' English translation. The post contains prayers 5 - 8.
If you look from one plane of consciousness, the individual will appear to you as if he were not only an instrument and recorder, but a creator. But look from another and higher plane of consciousness with a wider view of things and you will see that this is only an appearance.
A wide massive opening, a harmonised concentration of the whole being in all its parts and through all its powers upon the One who is the All is the larger action of this Yoga without which it cannot achieve its purpose.
As Savitri says, with our present imperfect consciousness, immortality would be a hell, not a heaven. So first of all we need to realise the immortality of our soul. Once we have realised the immortality within, then we need to transform our body[...]
We can see how Sri Aurobindo is taking us step by step towards higher divine worlds and describing the life there. The union of Knowledge and Power is the characteristic of Supramental life. Beyond it are the worlds of Ananda. It is the original Delight that has gone into creation.