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- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

Here too its bud is born in human breasts; 
Then by a touch, a presence or a voice 
The world is turned into a temple ground 
And all discloses the unknown Beloved. 
In an outburst of heavenly joy and ease 
Life yields to the divinity within 
And gives the rapture-offering of its all, 
And the soul opens to felicity. 
A bliss is felt that never can wholly cease, 
A sudden mystery of secret Grace 
Flowers goldening our earth of red desire.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 278

Once in the immortal boundlessness of Self,
In a vast of Truth and Consciousness and Light
The soul looked out from its felicity. 
It felt the Spirit's interminable bliss, 
It knew itself deathless, timeless, spaceless, one, 
It saw the Eternal, lived in the Infinite. 
Then, curious of a shadow thrown by Truth, 
It strained towards some otherness of self, 
It was drawn to an unknown Face peering through night. 
It sensed a negative infinity, 
A void supernal whose immense excess 
Imitating God and everlasting Time 
Offered a ground for Nature's adverse birth 
And Matter's rigid hard unconsciousness 
Harbouring the brilliance of a transient soul 
That lights up birth and death and ignorant life.

BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 454

Offer, O King, thy boons to tired spirits 
And hearts that could not bear the wounds of Time, 
Let those who were tied to body and to mind, 
Tear off those bonds and flee into white calm 
Crying for a refuge from the play of God.

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 647

OFFERING
Yoga means union with the Divine, and the union is effected through offering — it is founded on the offering of yourself to the Divine. . . . You must feel at every step that you belong to the Divine; you must have the constant experience that, in whatever you think or do, it is always the Divine Consciousness that is acting through you. You have no longer anything that you can call your own; you feel everything as coming from the Divine, and you have to offer it back to its source. When you can realise that, then even the smallest thing to which you do not usually pay much attention or care, ceases to be trivial and insignificant; it becomes full of meaning and it opens up a vast horizon beyond. TM

Flower Name: Alcea rosea
Hollyhock

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

Offering of All Obscurities
Offer your obscurities sincerely to the Divine and you will be able to receive the Light.

Psychic Offering
It is the spontaneous attitude of the psychic towards the Divine.

Offering of the Emotions
Emotions put the service of progress.

Offering of the Vital
The immediate result of conversion.

Integral Offering of the Vital
An important stage on the way to transformation.

Offering of the Material Vital
Indispensable for conversion.

Offering of the Most Material Vital
The first step towards transformation.

Offering of the Pysical
The proof of the resolution to liberate oneself from the ego. 
Let the physical offer itself sincerely to the Divine and it will be transformed.

Combined Offering of Two parts of the Being
This heralds the progress and effectiveness of the being.

Integral Offering
The surest road to realisation.