Daily Offerings
Blissful Nothingness
A fruitful world-wide Ignorance foundered here;
Thought’s long far-circling journey touched its close
And ineffective paused the actor Will.
The symbol modes of being helped no more,
The structures Nescience builds collapsing failed,
And even the spirit that holds the universe
Fainted in luminous insufficiency.
In an abysmal lapse of all things built
Transcending every perishable support
And joining at last its mighty origin,
The separate self must melt or be reborn
Into a Truth beyond the mind’s appeal.
All glory of outline, sweetness of harmony,
Rejected like a grace of trivial notes,
Expunged from Being’s silence nude, austere,
Died into a fine and blissful Nothingness.
[Savitri: Book Three Canto One]
What Has to be Done Will be Done
July 5, 1914
All that belongs to the outer, lower being which is still obscure, prostrates itself before Thee in a mute and fervent adoration, calling with all its strength Thy purifying action which will make it fit to manifest Thee fully.
And in this adoration is found perfect silence and perfect beatitude.
Thou repliest mercifully to the call: “What has to be done will be done. The necessary instruments will be prepared. Strive in the calm of certitude.”
[Prayers and Meditations of the Mother]
Recreating Life in Terms of the Spirit
No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history of the world but always through the Overmind. It is the direct descent of the Supramental Consciousness and Power that alone can utterly re-create life in terms of the Spirit. For, in the Overmind there is already the play of possibilities which marks the beginning of this lower triple world of Mind, Life and Matter in which we have our existence. And whenever there is this play and not the spontaneous and infallible working of the innate Truth of the Spirit, there is the seed of distortion and ignorance. Not that the Overmind is a field of ignorance; but it is the border-line between the Higher and the Lower, for, the play of possibilities, of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things.
The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent. And what exactly differentiates our Yoga from attempts in the past to spiritualise life is that we know that the splendours of the Overmind are not the highest reality but only an intermediate step between the mind and the true Divine.
[The Mother: CWM 3]
Songs of the Soul: December 22, 2024
Mother Divine, Maa, all the various inner and outer bonds that link us to the world and its countless people and elements are, when seen superficial, bonds of attachment and hence a bondage. But when we dive deeper, we discover behind them all threads of Thy Sweetness and Love that links life in a beautiful oneness that springs from Thy heart. Let us therefore not be bewildered by appearance nor deluded by attachment. Let us see instead the Sweetness of Thy Love passing through the core of everything and weaving creation in a beautiful dance as worship of the Divine in Matter. When we are attached only to the outer form and forget Thy Presence and Thy Force that upholds it, then we miss the steps, get wrongly attuned, the dance becomes increasingly chaotic and disorderly. Experiencing this, many declare that love itself is a source of bondage and suffering! But when we see Thee in everyone and everything and connect with all through Thy Love and join with all in Thee then the illusion vanishes and all suffering is replaced by the sweet delight of Thy Oneness, Thy dance of beauty and bliss.
Maa, offering at Thy Feet all who are linked to us in different ways and through each other, the entire world. May all wake up to Thy Harmony, Thy Oneness, the Sweetness of Thy Love. Maa, may our steps be fully attuned to Thine and the dance of the earth and humanity grow beautiful and harmonious centered around Thee.
Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa
Jealousy
Jealousy is like a wasp-sting, seemingly small but which can have a devastating effect. It is like a poison whose one drop is enough to destroy harmony and peace.
Its perfect antidote is true love. One moment of true love can cleanse the heart of this poison and fill it with sweetness and joy.
But true love must be discovered. It is there in everyone but behind the veils of outer nature. It is at our core within our soul. There we must dive to discover it and once found treasure it like a priceless pearl.
What is the difference between the central being and the soul?
The word soul is used in a general way to mean the immortal divine element in man. It is a spark of the Divine that does not die with the death of the body. In its course of passage through lives this immortal divine element, the soul, evolves and puts out of itself a psychic personality. It is our true individuality and as it grows it begins to replace the ego individuality which is a construct of Nature. The lines along which each psychic being must grow and manifest the latent divinity in it is already mapped out as a blue print in the central being. However, the Central Being always remains above the play. It enters into the play of Time and Space by sending only a portion of it. This is the individual soul. It is this soul that will eventually grow and crystallise into a psychic being putting forth a psychic personality out of itself. The fully developed psychic being then fuses with the central being from where it had emerged as a soul-spark. Once this happens then the soul now grown into a psychic being becomes fully conscious of its work and mission and goes about fulfilling it.
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