The following is a video based on the lavishly illustrated Amar Chitra Katha rendering of the story of Savitri as narrated in the Mahabharata.
Q: What should the Ashramites, if they truly wish to transform themselves, do in order to make things easy for themselves, for others and for The Mother as well?
By definition, the ashramite has resolved to dedicate his life to the Divine Realisation. But to be true to his resolution he must be sincere, faithful, modest and grateful in his consecration, because these qualities are indispensable for all progress and progress, a steady and rapid progress is indispensable to follow the pace of nature’s evolutionary advance.
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No matter where you open, no matter where you read, it’s wonderful! Immediately it’s wonderful … Wonderful!
13 March 1963
I know that light. I am immediately plunged into it each time I read Savitri. It is a very, very beautiful light.
18 September 1962
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate upon Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
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This powerful and inspired composition of Amal Kiran’s appears to refer directly to “the golden sphere” that dominates the lead image of this new avatar of MoT. It is the “sun beyond this sun above the mind” that “waits in a mystery beyond the blue: A night more vast than the blind distances between our reveries and the flame they reach” and reminds us of Sri Aurobindo’s description of the Mother in the Savitri as “The Sun from which we kindle all our suns“. It seemed only fitting that this should be one of the first posts here.
The golden sphere of the sun in earthly skies
Echoes a globe of God whose self is light
Hung over mortal mind in a blue of bliss.
Even as the soil’s cry feels in the warm day
A wonder-seed within whose circled deep
Glows a great life which answers all its need,
So the mind’s longing sees in that far Eye
All knowledge rounded to a rapturous whole.
What is meant here is the Divine in its essential manifestation which reveals itself to us as Light and Consciousness, Power, Love and Beauty. But in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient—the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe—or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat. The Ignorance which is the characteristic of our mind and life is the result of this origin in the Inconscience. Moreover, in the evolution out of inconscient existence there rise up naturally powers and beings which are interested in the maintenance of all negations of the Divine, error and unconsciousness, pain, suffering, obscurity, death, weakness, illness, disharmony, evil. Hence the perversion of the manifestation here, its inability to reveal the true essence of the Divine. Yet in this very base of this evolution all that is divine is there involved and pressing to evolve, Light, Consciousness, Power, Perfection, Beauty, Love. For in the Inconscient itself and behind the perversions of the Ignorance the Divine Consciousness lies concealed and works and must more and more appear, throwing off in the end its disguises. That is why it is said that the world is called to express the Divine.
Is it enough to let oneself be filled with That, is there nothing else to do?
I think, I think that it is the only thing. I am repeating always: “What Thou willest, what Thou willest, what Thou willest… let it be what Thou willest, may I do what Thou willest, may I be conscious of what Thou willest.”
And also: “Without Thee it is death; with Thee it is life.” By “death” I do not mean physical death—it may be so; it may be that now if I lost the contact, that would be the end, but it is impossible! I have the feeling that it is … that I am That—with all the obstructions that the present consciousness may still have, that’s all.
I will try to remember this great Truth whenever I am able to (which may not be very often), but at the very least every time I look at Sri Aurobindo’s symbol and remember who He and the Mother really are, not just Yogis or Gurus, Saints or Mystics, but the progenitors of a whole new Divine World, here to initiate and give birth to a perfect creation that shall fulfill and justify all the struggle and the suffering of the present imperfect one.
Mirror of Tomorrow 