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સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

ડિસેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

Our mortal vision peers with ignorant eyes; 
It has no gaze on the deep heart of things. 
Our knowledge walks leaning on Error's staff, 
A worshipper of false dogmas and false gods, 
Or fanatic of a fierce intolerant creed 
Or a seeker doubting every truth he finds, 
A sceptic facing Light with adamant No 
Or chilling the heart with dry ironic smile, 
A cynic stamping out the god in man; 
A darkness wallows in the paths of Time 
Or lifts its giant head to blot the stars; 
It makes a cloud of the interpreting mind 
And intercepts the oracles of the Sun. 
Yet Light is there; it stands at Nature's doors: 
It holds a torch to lead the traveller in. 
It waits to be kindled in our secret cells; 
It is a star lighting an ignorant sea, 
A lamp upon our poop piercing the night. 
As knowledge grows Light flames up from within: 
It is a shining warrior in the mind, 
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart, 
An armour in the fight, a bow of God.

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 626

KNOWLEDGE
By Knowledge we mean in yoga not thought or ideas about spiritual things but psychic understanding from within and spiritual illumination from above. SA

The knowledge that seems to come to you from outside is only an occasion for bringing out the knowledge that is within you. Let all circumstances, all happenings in life be occasions, constantly renewed, for learning always more and more. TM

True knowledge is precisely knowledge by identity, and wisdom is the state one attains when one is in this true knowledge. TM

Flower Name: Leucaena leucocephala
Lead tree, White popinac
Significance: Knowledge
Is conversant with all sides of a question, whatever it may be.

Wanderer human wonders ...

Spirituality brings closer to the life!

Vision, reason, passion to survive...

Quietly, in inherited qualities for life,

Potential - proposition combination alive...

Firmly in centre! Ready for the life!

Grow and culminate whatever in stride...

Wanderer human wonders all the life!

There the force lies that ignites...

Unknown, unaware throughout the life

Once the cord is in hold, sphereheads the time...

"If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting experience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.

Spirituality can only come by opening of the mind, vital and physical to the inmost soul, to the higher Self, to the Divine, and their subordination to the spiritual forces and instrumentation as channels of the inner Light, the higher Knowledge and Power.

All perfection of which the outer man is capable, is only a realising of the eternal perfection of the Spirit within him. We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature.

The spiritual man is one who has discovered his soul: he has found his self and lives in that, is conscious of it, has the joy of it; he needs nothing external for his completeness of existence.

Spirituality is in its essence an awakening to the inner reality of our being, to a spirit, self, soul which is other than our mind, life and body, an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to be that, to enter into contact with the greater Reality beyond and pervading the universe which inhabits also our own being, to be in communion with It and union with It, and a turning, a conversion, a transformation of our whole being as a result of the aspiration, the contact, the union, a growth or waking into a new becoming or new being, a new self, a new nature." SA

Flower Name: Sansevieria
Bowstring hemp, Snake plant, Mother-in-law's tongue
Significance: Power and Joy of Spirituality
True spirituality transforms life.
The reward of sincere efforts

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ગેરહાજરી, અભાવ, શૂન્યમનસ્કતા, અનુપસ્થિતિ, અસાવધતા, નિહેતુક, બેદરકારી, બેફિકરાઈ, નિશ્ચિંતતા…

સામાન્ય સંદર્ભમાં આ શબ્દાર્થો મર્યાદા સૂચવે છે પણ આધ્યાત્મની પૃષ્ઠભૂમિમાં શ્રદ્ધાને મજબૂતાઈ આપતા ભાવાર્થો છે.

અડગ વિશ્વાસ જતાવતાં...જાણે!

જ્યાં સંદેહની છાંટ સુદ્ધાં નથી…

અરે! શંકાને બેફિકરાઈ ભર્યો પડકાર છે…

કહે છે ને ’ જા, થાય એ કરી જો’...એવું જાણે!

એક કૂણી હુંફાળી ધરપત સાથે...શુભેચ્છા સાથે...સર્વકંઈ સારાવાના થશે…

અભાવ છે તો અહિતનાં અંદેશાનો….કશુંક પાછળથી ચેતવતું નથી. પણ સ્વસ્થ સમર્પણમાં છે.

Absence in assurance…

Assurance thus absence…

જય હો પ્રભુ...

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 
નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

A lustre of some rapturous Infinite, 
It held in the splendour of its golden laugh 
Regions of the heart's happiness set free, 
Intoxicated with the wine of God, 
Immersed in light, perpetually divine. 
A favourite and intimate of the Gods 
Obeying the divine command to joy, 
It was the sovereign of its own delight 
And master of the kingdoms of its force. 
Assured of the bliss for which all forms were made, 
Unmoved by fear and grief and the shocks of Fate 
And unalarmed by the breath of fleeting Time 
And unbesieged by adverse circumstance, 
It breathed in a sweet secure unguarded ease 
Free from our body's frailty inviting death, 
Far from our danger-zone of stumbling Will. 
It needed not to curb its passionate beats; 
Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 233

ABSENCE
There is a sovereign royalty in taking no thought for oneself. To have needs is to assert a weakness; to claim something proves that we lack what we claim. To desire is to be impotent; it is to recognise our limitations and confess our incapacity to overcome them. If only from the point of view of a legitimate pride, man should be noble enough to renounce desire. TM

Flower Name: Atalantia monophylla

Significance: Absence of Desire
Luminous and fragrant, it expresses both peace and joy

Surfaces to become offering...

Some happenings

Not wanted or necessary

Still there in actuality

Are there for 'offering'...

Have come to being

By becoming captivity 

Means their calling

Surfaces to become offering...

Now ready - to get deleat,

Not to be in cyclical repeat

As if was for final notice - 

To surrender through offering...

Relax and let go in thin, vanish

Sincerely offered at the Divine feet

Job is over once did

This way happens some offering...

Certain incidences happen...knowingly unknowingly one can not delay, delete or divert them. 

They are ment to happen. 

Fair enough! As far as learning comes with it. 

But important to delete before becomes cycle and repeats itself tirelessly...

Thus, offer sincerely...

Let it go from the self and surround...

As it has proved it's share and now on no more require...

To have an eye of utilizing the context to grow...no matter what is happening...

Stay clear...Stay ready...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

November, 2017

It was a vain unnecessary world 

Whose will to be brought poor and sad results 

And meaningless suffering and a grey unease. 

Nothing seemed worth the labour to become.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 137

Flower Name: Emilia sonchifolia 'Lutea' (Javanica)
Flora's paintbrush, Tassel flower

Significance: Prudence
Very useful for weakness since weakness needs prudence; strength does not need it.
Enlightened Prudence
Looks carefully before going forward.

અંઙ્ગુષ્ઠ સમ ફાંકડો ...

ચૈત્ય નામધારી પાવરધો,

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આત્માનો ગતિમય ટૂકડો,

જગાવ અંતરે સાચ્ચો ...

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આ ભવે આવ્યો સન્મુખ વારો

નિરાળો દર્શક, પ્રભુ-સાંધો...

શત શત નમન ઓ દિવ્યવારસો!

ભવ શરણે ને શરણે આખો

સ્વરૂપધારી આત્મા અમૂલો,

ચેતના ચૈત્યી ને ચૈતન્યો....

જય હો પ્રભુ...

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

"The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.

The true soul of man is ... in the true invisible heart hidden in some luminous cave of the nature: there under some infiltration of the divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports this obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of the heart reflect its divinations and impulsions that man becomes more and more aware of his soul, ceases to be a superior animal, and, awakening to glimpses of the godhead within him, admits more and more its intimations of a deeper life and consciousness and an impulse towards things divine. It is one of the decisive moments of the integral Yoga when this psychic being liberated, brought out from the veil to the front, can pour the full flood of its divinations, seeings and impulsions on the mind, life and body of man and begin to prepare the upbuilding of divinity in the earthly nature.

It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the Divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or progressing towards divinity and draws back from all that is a perversion or a denial of it, from all that is false and undivine. Yet the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness .... It is only when the life turns towards the Divine that the soul can truly come forward and impose its power on the outer members; for, itself a spark of the Divine, to grow in flame towards the Divine is its true life and its very reason of existence.

The first [step of self-realisation] is the discovery of the soul, not the outer soul of thought and emotion and desire, but the secret psychic entity, the divine element within us. When that becomes dominant over the nature, when we are consciously the soul and when mind, life and body take their true place as its instruments, we are aware of a guide within that knows the truth, the good, the true delight and beauty of existence, controls heart and intellect by its luminous law and leads our life and being towards spiritual completeness. Even within the obscure workings of the Ignorance we have then a witness who discerns, a living light that illumines, a will that refuses to be misled and separates the mind's truth from its error, the heart's intimate response from its vibrations to a wrong call and wrong demand upon it, the life's true ardour and plenitude of movement from vital passion and the turbid falsehoods of our vital nature and its dark self-seekings. This is the first step of self-realisation, to enthrone the soul, the divine psychic individual in the place of the ego." SA

Flower Name: Dodonaea viscosa
Hopseed bush

Significance: Psychic Awakening in Matter
Matter opens itself to the spiritual life.

... towards that infinite, indeed...

A step, a sprint or a leap

All about 'as sow as one reaps'

But evolutionary progress indeed...

From here to somewhere, still

A tiny! A little! could be!

But certain is the process, indeed...

An inch or few cycles omit

A shift! A change necessary!

But through learning instill, indeed...

Any and possible every

In a way in invisible journey!

But towards that infinite, indeed...

Perfection is the key!

Innate hunger and thirst in every

But the drive constructive, indeed...

A march, every progressive!

Living, non living or each possibly

But, is and with purpose, indeed...

Complete or on the way vanish!

Through surrender or self belief

But, merger in the sum Supreme, indeed...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

November, 2017

The Absolute, the Perfect, the Immune, 
One who is in us as our secret self, 
Our mask of imperfection has assumed, 
He has made this tenement of flesh his own, 
His image in the human measure cast 
That to his divine measure we might rise; 
Then in a figure of divinity 
The Maker shall recast us and impose 
A plan of godhead on the mortal's mould 
Lifting our finite minds to his infinite, 
Touching the moment with eternity.

BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 67

All we attempt in this imperfect world, 
Looks forward or looks back beyond Time's gloss 
To its pure idea and firm inviolate type 
In an absolute creation's flawless skill. 
To seize the absolute in shapes that pass, 
To fix the eternal's touch in time-made things, 
This is the law of all perfection here.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 108

To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls. 
A kindling rapture joins the seer and seen; 
The craftsman and the craft grown inly one 
Achieve perfection by the magic throb 
And passion of their close identity. 
All that we slowly piece from gathered parts,
Or by long labour stumblingly evolve, 
Is there self-born by its eternal right.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 112

This greater life is enamoured of the Unseen; 
It calls to some highest Light beyond its reach, 
It can feel the Silence that absolves the soul; 
It feels a saviour touch, a ray divine: 
Beauty and good and truth its godheads are. 
It is near to heavenlier heavens than earth's eyes see, 
A direr darkness than man's life can bear: 
It has kinship with the demon and the god. 
A strange enthusiasm has moved its heart; 
It hungers for heights, it passions for the supreme. 
It hunts for the perfect word, the perfect shape, 
It leaps to the summit thought, the summit light. 
For by the form the Formless is brought close 
And all perfection fringes the Absolute.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 179

A mute material Nature wakes and sees; 
She has invented speech, unveiled a will. 
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives, 
Something surrounds her into which she grows: 
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God, 
To exceed herself is her transcendent task. 
In God concealed the world began to be, 
Tardily it travels towards manifest God: 
Our imperfection towards perfection toils, 
The body is the chrysalis of a soul: 
The infinite holds the finite in its arms, 
Time travels towards revealed eternity.

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 623

Flower Name: Rondeletia odorata

Significance: Mahasaraswati’s Perfection in Works
It is not satisfied with makeshift.

ઉત્ક્રાંતિક કૂદ સહુ પ્રકારે...

દિવ્ય ઉદ્દેશ ચરિતાર્થે

સર્વે વિકાસશીલ રૂપે

એક અનેક પદ આગે

ઉત્ક્રાંતિક કૂદ સહુ પ્રકારે...

પ્રાણી મહીં માનવત્વે

માનવ દેહે દેવ પ્રગટે

દેવ દૈવધાર ઓળંગે

ઉત્ક્રાંતિક કૂદ સહુ પ્રકારે...

સદા દિવ્ય રાગ રંગે

મર્યાદિત ક્ષમતા સમુચ્ચયે

રૂપાંતરિત પગલે પગલે

ઉત્ક્રાંતિક કૂદ સહુ પ્રકારે...

પરિવર્તિત જે કંઈક પ્રવર્તે 

તત્ત્વ, ઊર્જા, રૂપ - અરૂપે

રાહ,  દિશા દિવ્ય અભિમુખે

ઉત્ક્રાંતિક કૂદ સહુ પ્રકારે...

જય હો પ્રભુ...

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

“Gods can be said to be Cosmic Powers, the beings of divine origin who have been charged with supervising, directing and organising the evolution of the universe; and more specifically, since the formation of the earth they have served as messengers and intermediaries to bring to the earth the aid of the higher regions and to preside over the formation of the mind and its progressive ascension. It is usually to the gods of the overmind that the prayers of the various religions are addressed. These religions most often choose, for various reasons, one of these gods and transform him for their personal use into the supreme God.”

Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 16,  27 November 1959

Thus came this warped incomprehensible scene
Of souls emmeshed in life's delight and pain 
And Matter's sleep and Mind's mortality, 
Of beings in Nature's prison waiting death 
And consciousness left in seeking ignorance 
And evolution's slow arrested plan. 
This is the world in which thou mov'st, astray 
In the tangled pathways of the human mind,
In the issueless circling of thy human life, 
Searching for thy soul and thinking God is here.
But where is room for soul or place for God 
In the brute immensity of a machine? 
A transient Breath thou takest for thy soul, 
Born from a gas, a plasm, a sperm, a gene, 
A magnified image of man's mind for God, 
A shadow of thyself thrown upon Space. 
Interposed between the upper and nether Void, 
Thy consciousness reflects the world around 
In the distorting mirror of Ignorance 
Or upwards turns to catch imagined stars. 
Or if a half-Truth is playing with the earth 
Throwing its light on a dark shadowy ground, 
It touches only and leaves a luminous smudge.
Immortality thou claimest for thy spirit, 
But immortality for imperfect man, 
A god who hurts himself at every step, 
Would be a cycle of eternal pain.

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 617 618

Yet in the exact Inconscient's stark conceit, 
In the casual error of the world's ignorance 
A plan, a hidden Intelligence is glimpsed. 
...
These million discords dot the harmonious theme 
Of the evolution's huge orchestral dance. 
A Truth supreme has forced the world to be;
It has wrapped itself in Matter as in a shroud, 
A shroud of Death, a shroud of Ignorance. 
It compelled the suns to burn through silent Space, 
Flame-signs of its uncomprehended Thought 
In a wide brooding ether's formless muse: 
It made of Knowledge a veiled and struggling light, 
Of Being a substance nescient, dense and dumb, 
Of Bliss the beauty of an insentient world.

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 658

"You have to regard yourself as a soul and body created for [the Divine Mother's] service, one who does all for her sake. Even if the idea of the separate worker is strong in you and you feel that it is you who do the act, yet it must be done for her. . . . There must be no demand for fruit and no seeking for reward; the only fruit for you is the pleasure of the Divine Mother and the fulfillment of her work, your only reward a constant progression in divine consciousness and calm and strength and bliss. The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker." SA

"There is no greater joy than to serve the Divine." TM

Flower Name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
Chinese hibiscus, Hawaiian hibiscus, Rose-of-China
Significance: Power in Service of the Future
Without haste, but sure of its success.