... can not be the reference ...

Past can not be the reference

Not even the present much

When the march is upwards...

The future's fresh paradigms 

Never even, at all, be similar

That journey opens to new ones...

No experience is ever repeater

If not new, no point or purpose

Surely the grounding for the another...

Reference, experience, occurrence 

There to firm up the fundamentals

May have hints but never actuals...

Never search for what all to happen...

Let that be virgin of confirmation

In-store comes up with its own flavour...

Enjoy the present...

Respect the past...

Be child like for future...

O Lord! Let the time reveal your reference...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

December, 2017

This is the new adventure to which Sri Aurobindo calls us, an adventure into man's unknown. Whether we like it or not the whole earth is passing into a new groove, but why shouldn't we like it? Why shouldn't we collaborate in this great, unprecedented adventure? Why shouldn't we collaborate in our own evolution instead of repeating the same old story a thousand times, instead of chasing hallucinatory heavens which will never quench our thirst or otherwordly paradises which leave the earth to rot along with our bodies? "Why should life have begun at all if it is only to be climbed out of?" exclaims the Mother, She who continues Sri Aurobindo's work. "What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, in its outer appearance at least is so tragic, so dramatic, if it is only to learn how to climb out of it - it would have been better if it had not been started at all …

Evolution is not a tortuous path which brings us back, somewhat battered, to the starting-point. It exists ", says the Mother, "quite on the contrary, in order to teach the whole of creation the joy of being, the beauty of being, the grandeur of being, the majesty of a sublime life and the perpetual development, perpetually progressive, of this joy, this beauty, this grandeur. Then everything has a meaning. " [Talks/Questions and Answers 1958: 12.11.58

And Sri Aurobindo says: "Nor let worldly prudence whisper too closely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the unexpected." [The Hour of God, p. 4]

Satprem

December 9, 1971

This article was written for All India radio, broadcast on 1st February 1972, on the occasion of Sri Aurobindo's Birth centenary.

[translated from the French by Maggi Lidchi, Pondicherry]

Flower Name: Gaillardia pulchella
Indian blanket, Blanket flower, Fire-wheels

Significance: Successful Future

Full of promise and joyful surprises.