Way powerful than ...

Offering : an active action

Expressed verbally or in silent 

Way powerful than any ritual.

In an acute moment of impulse,

A wave from within surges up,

Ready particularly to be offered.

Do not underestimate as superficial

But from deeply seated faulty corrupt

Now to go forever, to replace with proper.

Aspiration is a part interwoven 

Immediately fills up the space to honour 

The appropriate starts forming up sooner.

Lord! Your mechanism...

Thank you...

April 2019

Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.

The only offering that truly enriches is the one made to the Divine.

Offering: the placing of your entire being, with all its movements true and false, good and bad, right and wrong, before the Divine for transformation.

Offer sincerely to the Divine your obscurities and you will be able to receive the light.

The offering of our being we make to the Divine must be integral and effective.
24 August 1954

Integral offering: the surest road to realisation.

Unconditional integral offering: the joy of offering oneself without asking for anything in return.

*Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 14, pp. 103-112

I think it would be better to say that there is a certain state of consciousness – which one can acquire by aspiration and a persistent inner effort – in which joy is unmixed and light shadowless, where all possibility of fear disappears. It is the state in which one does not live for oneself but where whatever one does, whatever one feels, all movements are an offering made to the Supreme, in an absolute trust, freeing oneself of all responsibility for oneself, handing over to Him all this burden which is no longer a burden.

It is an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think of oneself. It is so dull and monotonous and insipid to be thinking of oneself, to be worrying about what to do and what not to do, what will be good for you and what will be bad for you, what to shun and what to pursue – Oh, how wearisome it is! But when one lives like this, quite open, like a flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries – that is the ideal condition.

*Questions and Answers (1929-1931)

All work done for the Divine, from poetry and art and music to carpentry or baking or sweeping a room, should be made perfect even in its smallest external detail, as well as in the spirit in which it is done; for only then is it an altogether fit offering.

*Letters on Poetry and Art

Flora Name: Thunbergia alata
Black-eyed Susan vine

Significance: Obscurity Offers Itself to be Transformed
Obscurity tired of being obscure.

પૂર્ણતા ...

વિલુપ્તિમાં નથી સમાઈ પૂર્ણતાની ચાવી

નિષેધથી નથી ઓળખાતી પૂર્ણતા સાચી

ત્યાગમાં નથી મેળવાતી પૂર્ણતાની પ્રાપ્તિ 

તર્કવાદથી નથી સમજાતી પૂર્ણતા સર્વાંગી

રિક્તતા નથી પર્યાપ્ત, હતી પૂર્ણતા પુરાણી

એકલતા નથી માન્ય. ન ઝંખે પૂર્ણતા પ્રાર્થી

પલાયન નથી પર્યાય. પૂર્ણતા વીર વ્યાધિ

નીરસતા નથી માર્ગ. પૂર્ણતા સુચારુ વૃૃૃત્તિ.  

અધુરામાં નથી સમાધાન. પૂર્ણતા પૂર્ણસ્થિતિ.

સમસ્તમાં પૂર્ણ ચરિતાર્થ. પૂર્ણતા સ્વભાવ કુદરતી.

પ્રભુની કૃતિ પ્રભુ ચરણે...

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૯

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect outflowering of the Divine in humanity.

This outflowering has its two terms; first, comes the growth out of the separative human ego into the unity of the spirit, then the possession of the divine nature in its proper and its higher forms and no longer in the inferior forms of the mental being which are a mutilated translation and not the authentic text of the original script of divine Nature in the cosmic individual.

In other words, a perfection has to be aimed at which amounts to the elevation of the mental into the full spiritual and supramental nature. Therefore this integral Yoga of knowledge, love and works has to be extended into a Yoga of spiritual and gnostic self-perfection. As gnostic knowledge, will and ananda are a direct instrumentation of spirit and can only be won by growing into the spirit, into divine being, this growth has to be the first aim of our Yoga. The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in the soul of the individual its gnostic outflowering. That is the reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct means for the soul in mind to rise to its highest intensities where it passes upward into the divine oneness.

*The Synthesis of Yoga

Flower Name: Beloperone guttata
Shrimp plant, Mexican shrimp plant. Shrimp bush, False hop

Significance: Thirst for Perfection
Constant and manifold aspiration.

And that's how goes on...and on...

Not a solo journey 

Though begins as, is.

Received in one's within...

Not limited to the world subjective

By nature, percolating 

In and out, the spread is the key...

Not confined to the particular any

Whoever wherever receptor receptive

Boundless, timeless, spaceless infinity...

In every creation breaths,

Manifests in myriad many

From one being to every open possibly...

And that's how goes on...and on...

How Amazing Lord!

March 2019

Flower Name: Hydrangea

Significance: Collective Harmony
Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; it alone has the power to realise it.

ખરી રોપણી

અનુભૂતિથી પૂર્ણ સાક્ષાત્કાર તણી
આધ્યાત્મિક સાધનાની પ્રગતિ ગતિ.

અનુભૂતિ દર્શાવે આંતરિક તૈયારી

છૂટીછવાઈ કે થકી વારંવાર હાજરી.

વિસ્તરતી વિલોમતી અવતરે શક્તિ

નિમ્ન સામ્રાજ્ય ભેદતી શોષતી

સાક્ષાત્કારે થતી કાયમી ચિરસ્થાયી

ચેતના પ્રતિપાદીત મહીં અસ્તિત્વદેહી. 

તત્ પશ્યાત સામાન્ય અવસ્થા સ્થાયી

નવ ચેતનાસ્તરથી પ્રસ્થાપિત જીવની.

પરિવર્તિત સિદ્ધ જીવન - ખરી રોપણી

વ્યવહારે પ્રભુદ્રષ્ટિ ને નિશ્ચિત દિવ્યકરણી.  

પ્રભુ સાક્ષાત...સર્વેમાં તમામ...

આભાર...

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૯

Experience is a word that covers almost all the happenings in yoga; only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi; e.g. peace when it comes and goes is an experience – when it is settled and goes no more it is a siddhi. Realisation is different – it is when something for which you are aspiring becomes real to you; e.g. you have the idea of the Divine in all, but it is only idea, a belief; when you feel or see the Divine in all, it becomes a realisation.

…

All this is to make unnecessary distinctions. An experience of a truth in the substance of mind, in the vital or the physical, wherever it may be, is the beginning of realisation. When I experience peace, I begin to realise what it is. Repetition of the experience leads to a fuller and more permanent realisation. When it is settled anywhere, that is the full realisation of it in that place or that part of the being.
...

It is spirituality when you begin to become aware of another consciousness than the ego and begin to live in it or under its influence more and more. It is that consciousness wide, infinite, self-existent, pure of ego etc. which is called Spirit (Self, Brahman, Divine), so this necessarily must be the meaning of spirituality. Realisation is this and all else that the experience and growth of this greater consciousness brings with it.
...

The yogi is one who is already established in realisation – the sadhak is one who is getting or still trying to get realisation.

*Letters on Yoga

Volume 2. Part 3

Experiences and Realisations

In a more deep and spiritual sense a concrete realisation is that which makes the thing realised more real, dynamic, intimately present to the consciousness than any physical thing can be.

Realisations are the reception in the consciousness and the establishment there of the fundamental truths of the Divine, of the Higher or Divine Nature, of the world-consciousness and the play of its forces, of one's own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner life and existence, - as for instance, the realisation of the Divine Presence, the descent and settling of the higher Peace, Light, Force, Ananda in the conscious- ness, their workings there, the realisation of the divine or spiritual love, . . . the clear perception of the relation of all these things to our present inferior nature and their action on it to change that lower nature. SA

Flower Name: Delonix regia
Flamboyant, Peacock flower, Flame tree, Royal poinciana

Significance: Realisation
The goal of our efforts.

The Truth has its way...

No matter, how much the truth tastes bitter

No falsehood can wear a truth's robe and stature 

The falsehood would reveal it's weak structure 

Eventually give up because of its fake foundation.

The falsehood can not sustain for long stronger

In essence, it is fundamentally superficial

How ever hard it tries to pull off the gesture

But the hollowed centre doesn't stay hidden

May succeed initially through escapes alert

Loses, as gets streatched, sooner or later 

While facing the falsehood face, stay patient

Retain integrity and normalcy unperturbed.

A big blow it gets through response indifferent

Looses excitedly anticipated momentum subsequent...

Game over!

Thank you...

March 2019

Once falsehood is conquered, all difficulties will go.

In all human beings is not falsehood always mixed with Truth?

Falsehood is the great ally of Death.

There is one Truth but a million ways of distorting it in the attempt to express it.

Hypocrisy and pretension are the homage ignorance pays to the truth.

Hypocrisy and pretension are the first signs of the inconscient’s aspiration towards consciousness.

Simultaneous with the progress and intensification of the sadhana, there is increasingly felt the imperative need that all hypocrisy and compromise should stop.

This earth is still governed by ignorance and falsehood. But the time has come for the manifestation of Truth.
9 August 1954

May the Truth be invincible, overwhelming, all-powerful, leaving no room for falsehood anywhere and for ever.
1956

Such is life!
The world is a place of falsehood and it is only in the silent depths of the Divine that one can find the peace of truth.
15 December 1964

Truth is stronger than falsehood. There is an immortal Power that governs the world. Its decisions always prevail. Join with it and you are sure of the final victory.

Worship Truth.
It will cure you of Falsehood.

When men will be disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready for the reign of the Truth.
14 August 1971

Before dying falsehood rises in full swing.
Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe.

Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth?
So I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be.

It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed.
26 November 1972

For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood here is the way

Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord.

Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him.

As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood.

There is only one solution for falsehood:

It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.
31 December 1972

Let us offer our falsehood to the Divine so that He may change it to joyous Truth.

Flower Name: Dillenia suffruticosa

Significance: Effort towards the Truth
Should exist in all men of goodwill.

Your motive ...

Hey Human!

Your mission is upward

Not to act like animal!

Your motive is beyond the current

Not to confined to 'Thought world'.

You are given purpose 

Not to limit to the conditions prevalent.

Yours is a scale different 

Not defined by the boundaries of Reason.

You goal is to identify with the master

Not remain the petty virtuous or sinner.

Your journey is enroute through Intuition 

Get up! And look in to the Inner.

You are destined the Divine communion

Start shading the past, animalistic ignorance...

Lord! Be the guide...

Thank you...

March 2019

Man cannot be final, he is a transitional being. This is very clear from the incompleteness and imperfection of all his powers of consciousness; he can only arrive at some limited form of temporary and unstable perfection by much labour and struggle; and yet the search for perfection is ingrained in his nature. There is something that he is not yet which he has to be; he is reaching always towards the something yet unrealised; his whole life and nature is a preparation, an endeavour of Nature towards what is beyond him.

The human consciousness is limited in every direction; it does not know itself, it does not know the world around it, it does not know the origin and meaning and use of its existence.  But it strives always to know, to find the truth of its being, the right use of its life, the end towards which Nature in him is tending; this it does with a seeking and blundering movement; man's consciousness is an ignorance struggling towards knowledge; it is a weakness training itself for power; it is a thing of pleasure and suffering that tries to lay hands on the true delight of existence.
...

The evolution has been an ascension starting from forms that seem to be inanimate and inconscient objects, for in them the spirit in things is asleep, through a leisurely waking in plant and animal till it reached with difficulty a beginning of self-awareness in man the mental being, the first and only speaking, thinking, reasoning creature. But there is no ground for the idea cherished by this imperfect human being that he is the summit and last word of the evolution. Humanity is one step in the destiny of the evolving spirit, the last before it assumes something of its own divinity delivered and apparent; his imperfect life and consciousness must develop itself into the type of the fully conscious being, after man or out of him must be born the superman.  This consummation can only take place by an evolution of the consciousness of the individual and humanity beyond its present stage of development; it can take place only if man is ready to take the turn towards which Nature has been slowly leading him, to discover himself, to know himself as soul and spirit, to see and lay firm hold on the Reality behind world and life and things after which he has been seeking through the ages. Nature's first evolution has been an evolution of Matter, of physical objects, of the stage, scenery, external conditions and instruments of the drama of an evolving conscious Life in Matter. In life itself she has been content at first to organise a physicality, an externality of life; the evolution of the body has been the sign, the instrument, the apparent cause of the evolution of consciousness. Even when she has arrived at the evolution of Mind, the mind of a humanity which is capable not only of knowing outwardly the external world but of going within itself, of knowing itself, of knowing the secret things, powers, forces which are behind itself and behind the works of a surface external Nature, still she has been most careful to organise a surface Mind dealing with surface and external things and an organisation of personality which is superficial and not the whole of ourselves, a wave only of the ocean of our hidden being, our secret reality.

To build an ego which will deal with material life and nature as its user but also as its subject, a life that is bound by matter, a mind that is bound by both matter and life has been her main preoccupation. But still the evolution of consciousness is the real and central fact which gives a significance otherwise altogether lacking to the mechanical structure of the universe. Man is here not merely to utilise his world for the service of his individual and collective ego; he is here as a medium in which the Spirit within, the secret growing Consciousness can evolve farther its self-manifestation, arrive from a partial to a complete consciousness and, since life itself is there only as a means of this evolution and an image of it, at a complete and perfect individual and social life. If the psychological truth of our being is the real and central truth, more central and important than the physical, this must be its true nature, a conscious being growing towards its own completeness of consciousness and growing too towards its expression and formation in a complete individual and social life.

Essays Divine and Human

Writings from manuscripts 1910-1950

Man and Superman

The Emergence of the Superman

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Flower Nsme: Crossostephium artemisioides
Chinese lavender

Significance: Thirst to Understand
Very useful for transformation.

દરિદ્રતા : ચેતનાની પેદાશ ...

દરિદ્રતા ફક્ત ચેતનાની પેદાશ 

સમૃદ્ધિની ઉણપનો સતત તણાવ

વૃદ્ધિની તક તણી ન દ્રષ્ટિ ન ભાવ

નિરાશાને તાણી જતી આશઅભાવ 

હાર પલટાવતી ગતિનો અસ્વીકાર 

નુકસાનની યાદને મમળાવતો સ્વાદ

ઠોકરથી ડરાવતો પરાજય વાદ

ફરી ઉઠી જીવવામાં દેખાડતો થાક

બાંધછોડ ને સમાધાનમાં સંતુષ્ટજ્ઞાત

પરિપાટીને નિશ્ચિત ગણતો વ્યવહાર

ઉત્ક્રાંતકતા નગણ્ય ને એ ભાવિને નકાર

નિષ્ક્રિયતા જીવાડતો તામસિક તાપ

પારબ્ધની માયાજાળનો કેદી હતાશ

માન્યતાઓથી પીડિત પ્રભાવીત પુણ્યપાપ

કંઇક અસંખ્ય વલણો કારણો પ્રકાર

આધારભૂત સમીકરણો રચે પર્યાપ્ત

સ્થિતિ ને સંગતિ જેમાં રાચે એ ચેતનાપ્રકાર.

પ્રભુ રક્ષક કલ્યાણ...

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૯

But our attitude is that humanity cannot grow out of its limitations by the ordinary means adopted by the human mind, politics, social reform, philanthropy, etc., — these can only be temporary or local palliatives. The only true escape is a change of consciousness, a change into a greater, wider and purer way of being, and a life and action based upon that change. It is therefore to that that the energies must be turned, once the spiritual orientation is complete. This implies no contempt, but the preference of the only effective means over those which have been found ineffective.

CWSA Vol 29 Pg 43

The greatest service to humanity, the surest foundation for its true progress, happiness and perfection is to prepare or find the way by which the individual and the collective man can transcend the ego and live in its true self, no longer bound to ignorance, incapacity, disharmony and sorrow. It is by the pursuit of the eternal and not by living bound in the slow collective evolution of Nature that we can best assure even that evolutionary, collective, altruistic aim our modern thought and idealism have set before us. But it is in itself a secondary aim; to find, know and possess the Divine existence, consciousness and nature and to live in it for the Divine is our true aim and the one perfection to which we must aspire.

CWSA Vol 23 24 Pg 359

As for the poor, Sri Aurobindo says that to come to their help is good, provided that it is not a vain ostentation of charity, but that it is far nobler to seek a remedy for poverty so that there may be no poor left on earth.

31 Oct 1969,

CWM Vol 10 Pg 266

If there were no misery to soothe, the philanthropist would no longer have any reason for his existence — he is so satisfied with himself, he has so strong an impression that he is not selfish! I knew such people who would be very unhappy if there were no more misery upon earth! What would they do if there were no longer any misery to relieve, what would be their activity and what their glorification? How would they be able to show people “I am not selfish!”, and that they are generous, full of kindness?

03 Feb 1951

CWM Vol 4 Pg 66

Humanity is a sick child always wanting what is bad for him. Philanthropy is like a mother who, in order to satisfy her child’s demands, would give him the very thing that will make him worse.

It is a mistake to consider service to humanity as the highest expression of service to the Divine. To do so is to remain far too confined within the limits of an exclusive human consciousness.

CWM Vol 14 Pg 276

Most spiritual disciplines insist on a complete self-control, detachment and renunciation of all bondage to wealth and of all personal and egoistic desire for its possession. Some even put a - ban on money and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental way for the Sadhaka. . . . The ideal Sadhaka in this kind is one who if required to live poorly can so live and no sense of want will affect him or interfere with the full inner play of the divine consciousness, and if he is required to live richly, can so live and never for a moment fall into desire or attachment to his wealth or to the things that he uses or servitude to self-indulgence or a weak bondage to the habits that the possession of riches creates. The divine Will is all for him and the divine Ananda. SA

Flower Name:Nymphaea
Water lily

Significance: Wealth
True wealth is the wealth that one offers to the Divine.