Tuesday, 7 November 2017

સ્મરણો ...


સ્મરણો સપાટી પર આવે,
એક પછી બીજી તખ્તી ચાલે,
ઊપસી જ્યારે આમ ઊગે 
આવે છે સભાન થવા કાજે...

ન પુનરાવર્તન આ ફેરે
કે વળી પાછા એ જ ચકરાવે,
એ જ ઘટના કે ઘટનાક્રમે!
આવે છે નિર્મૂળ થવા કાજે...

ન મમળાવા વારેવારે!
ન ભાવે ભીનવવા ફરી મૂળે,
ધ્યાનથી ભૂસાવા વિગતવારે
આવે છે અર્પણ થવા કાજે...

સંલગ્ન ભાવ-વિચાર ખુદના ને
અન્ય સાક્ષી-પક્ષ-વિપક્ષી જેતે
તંતુ અહીં તહીં પથરાયેલ સર્વે
આવે છે પરિવર્તિત થવા કાજે...

મૂકવું સમગ્ર સમર્પણે, વિશ્વાસે,
શ્રદ્ધા ઊગશે સમય આવ્યે
મૂલ્ય સમજાશે જાગૃતિ સાથે
આવે છે સઘળું પ્રગતિ કાજે...

જય હો...પ્રભુ!


On a dim ocean of subconscient life 
A formless surface consciousness awoke: 
A stream of thoughts and feelings came and went,
A foam of memories hardened and became 
A bright crust of habitual sense and thought,
A seat of living personality 
And recurrent habits mimicked permanence.
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 477 478

A vast subliminal is man's measureless part. 
The dim subconscient is his cavern base. 
Abolished vainly in the walks of Time 
Our past lives still in our unconscious selves 
And by the weight of its hidden influences 
Is shaped our future's self-discovery. 
Thus all is an inevitable chain 
And yet a series seems of accidents. 
The unremembering hours repeat the old acts, 
Our dead past round our future's ankles clings 
And drags back the new nature's glorious stride, 
Or from its buried corpse old ghosts arise, 
Old thoughts, old longings, dead passions live again, 
Recur in sleep or move the waking man 
To words that force the barrier of the lips, 
To deeds that suddenly start and o'erleap 
His head of reason and his guardian will. 
An old self lurks in the new self we are; 
Hardly we escape from what we once had been: 
In the dim gleam of habit's passages, 
In the subconscient's darkling corridors 
All things are carried by the porter nerves 
And nothing checked by subterranean mind,Unstudied by the guardians of the doors 
And passed by a blind instinctive memory, 
The old gang dismissed, old cancelled passports serve. 
Nothing is wholly dead that once had lived; 
In dim tunnels of the world's being and in ours 
The old rejected nature still survives;
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 483


SUBCONSCIENT
"As there is a superconscient (something above our present consciousness) above the head from which the higher consciousness comes down into the body, so there is also a subconscient (something below our consciousness) below the feet. Matter is under the control of this power, because it is that out of which it has been created — that is why matter seems to us to be quite unconscious. The material body is very much under the influence of this power for the same reason; it is why we are not conscious of what is going on in the body, for the most part. The outer consciousness goes down into this subconscient when we are asleep, and so it becomes unaware of what is going on in us when we are asleep except for a few dreams. Many of these dreams rise up from the subconscient and are made up of old memories, impressions etc. put together in an incoherent way. For the subconscient receives impressions of all we do or experience in our lives and keeps these impressions in it, sending up often fragments of them in sleep. It is a very important part of the being, but we can do nothing much with it by the conscious will. It is the higher Force working in us that in its natural course will open the subconscient to itself and bring down into it its control and light.


The subconscient is to be penetrated by the light and made a sort of bed-rock of truth, a store of right impressions, right physical responses to the Truth. Strictly speaking, it will not be subconscient at all, but a sort of bank of true values held ready for use." SA

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 
નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧

Flower Name: Cynoglossum amabile
Chinese forget-me-not
Significance: Subconscient Remembrance
Must be purified of all that is useless.

Monday, 6 November 2017

... in a mode 'derive' ...


Keep the uncertainty alive 
Little nervouness in pipeline
Indicates openness, not system blind...

A bit of alert in state mind 
Readily spontaneous in time
Indicates the being receiver undivide...

Yet assured about surprise
Unfolding of due that is in line
The joyful delight that to touch the life...

The being in a mode 'derive'
Knows for sure, the Divine decides
With open arms, humble, as sincere child...


The condition keeps one assured, in calm certain yet ready and watchful...

Though there is inner quietence which does not allow anything to move yet not overpowered by that certainty but with that little "let's see"!

The outer action related being is definitely relying on that inner confirmation but doesn't see that surface involvement immersed and carefree.

But like a safety net - weaved, hollow yet holder with flexibility...

Centred, allowing, receiver and with all potential, ready to deliver as and when asked...

Maximum learning happens here, in there and then...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 
November, 2017

Flower Name: Ipomoea lobata [Mina lobata]
Spanish flag
Significance: LEARNING
Thirst to Learn
One of the qualities that facilitate integral progress.



But never can we know and truly live 
Till all have found their divine harmony. 
Our life's uncertain way winds circling on, 
Our mind's unquiet search asks always light, 
Till they have learned their secret in their source, 
In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home,
In the joy of the Eternal sole and one. 
But now the Light supreme is far away: 
Our conscious life obeys the Inconscient's laws; 
To ignorant purposes and blind desires 
Our hearts are moved by an ambiguous force; 
Even our mind's conquests wear a battered crown. 
A slowly changing order binds our will. 
This is our doom until our souls are free.
BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 153 154
They trusted in the uncertain environment 
And waited for death to change their spirit's scene.
BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 641

Sunday, 5 November 2017

સત્યને હોય અવધિ...


સત્યનાં સાતત્ય અંગે...

માનવ માપદંડ પર્યાપ્ત શું?
મર્યાદિત મનથી શક્ય શું?

સમાજ સ્વીકાર સૂચક શું?
જ્ઞાન આધાર પ્રમાણ શું?

શિખર સફળતા માપ! શું?
દુન્યવી ઘટમાળ! પૂર્ણ શું?

અન્ય 'હામી' પ્રતિપાદિત શું?
ધર્મ, વિચારધારા આધાર શું?

ભેદભાવી મર્મવાદ શું?
વ્યક્તિગત અલગવાદ શું?

સાતત્યની પરિભાષા શું?
સત્યને હોય અવધિ, અર્ધાધાર શું?


માનવજગતમાં પ્રવેશ્યા પછી સત્યની પોતાનાં જ તત્ત્વ સાથે લડાઈ છે. 
સાતત્યની સતતાને પડકાર છે...

એનાં માપદંડ હોવાં, 
પરખનાં પાસાં હોવાં, 
કસોટીનાં માંચડે ચકાસવાં...
અને અંતે નિદાન સત્યથી અજાણ પક્ષપાતી મનોવલણથી થવું...

આજે આ પરિપેક્ષની મંજૂરી તો કાલે બીજાં?

બધું જ સત્ય જ છે તો પરિપેક્ષો અને બાજુઓ કેમ છે?

કશુંક એવું ન હોય જે છે તેમ જ તેને સ્વીકારાય અને કોઈ પૃષ્ઠભૂમિનાં સંદર્ભમાં નહીં. 

રંગે - રૂપનાં બદલાવ હોઈ શકે છતાં સતતા હોય...
નિરંતરતામાં અટકાવ ન હોય!


સત્ય, સૌંદર્ય, આનંદ... એ સર્વ દિવ્ય તત્ત્વો છે એનાં સાતત્યને પક્ષમાં મૂકીએ તો મનુષ્ય, બ્રહ્માંડ અને એ બંને સાથે સંકળાયેલ દર જોડાણને પ્રશ્નમાં મૂક્યો કહેવાય...


કોઈ વાન કે વાઘા વગર... 
અસ્તિત્વનાં અસ્તિત્વને અનુલક્ષીને...સન્માનીને...માનીને...!

સાચું સાચું ને ખરું ખરું...બસ!

જય હો...પ્રભુ!

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 
નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧

Flower Name: Acalypha wilkesiana
Jacob’s coat, Fire dragon
Significance: Material Continuity
Powerful, enduring, solid

Saturday, 4 November 2017

Come down to ...


Do not harbour on the mental picture
Come down to the chest region!

Ask there and wait for confirmation
Sincere ones get the soft assurance.

That's the point to long for, forever
Suggests best suits with sustenance.

Any time one goes back to inquire
Same assurance everytime delivered.

Relay on this inner reliable reservoir
One's very own psyche supple silent!


Even if the nature has not turned towards the soul and the soul nature has not come forward, this indications are accessible if at all one is careful and concerned.

Kind of initiation if practiced! 

Quieting for a while and not running here and there and exploring with ideas and analysis...

Rather than trying hard with mind's wander, stay within - without any activity...

And if one is concentrated and sincere...with faith if wait ... with all its soft touch and serene identity the voice, the indication, the answer is heard, gets cleared or confirmed.

And one gets assurance!
"Aha! Yes, now I know"

Then one can imagine what shall be the conduct if psychic takes charge?

May the Divine Mother bless all...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 
November, 2017


The truth mind could not know unveils its face, 
We hear what mortal ears have never heard, 
We feel what earthly sense has never felt, 
We love what common hearts repel and dread; 
Our minds hush to a bright Omniscient; 
A Voice calls from the chambers of the soul;
We meet the ecstasy of the Godhead's touch 
In golden privacies of immortal fire. 
These signs are native to a larger self 
That lives within us by ourselves unseen; 
Only sometimes a holier influence comes, 
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives 
And a diviner Presence moves the soul; 
Or through the earthly coverings something breaks, 
A grace and beauty of spiritual light, 
The murmuring tongue of a celestial fire. 
Ourself and a high stranger whom we feel, 
It is and acts unseen as if it were not; 
It follows the line of sempiternal birth, 
Yet seems to perish with its mortal frame.
BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 48


Flower Name: Yucca
Significance: Initiation
It is unique in the whole existence of the plant.

Friday, 3 November 2017

ત્યાં ભીતર! આત્મા!


હે મનુષ્ય...

રાખ હસ્તક કે અર્પણે પધરાવ
આવ્યું છે ક્યાંકથી જવાને ક્યાંક 
પકડ, મથ, પલટ દઈ તારું નામ
અહંની હેરાફેરી! શાને સ્થાયી માન?

મન માને અમૂલ્ય પોતીકી સોગાદ!
ચોડી છાતીએ! જાણે ખુદની પેદાશ!
આ અછણતા લસરકા ને ક્ષણિક સાથ!
ઓળખનાં નગારાં! શાને ગુંજવે ચોપાસ?

બુદ્ધિ માને, દીધું મહામૂલું યોગદાન!
ન તોલે કોઈ કે પહોંચે કોઈ એ સ્થાન!
ન જાણે કે ક્ષણભંગુર આ આદાનપ્રદાન.
શ્રેષ્ઠ ભંડાર! શાને સંઘરે જ્ઞાનનો ભાસ?

ઈચ્છા, વિચાર! મન-મતિ જણે હજાર! 
ફક્ત રમાડતાં રમડકાં! હણે જીવનસાર.
ખોલ દ્રષ્ટિ ને ખુદની ખુંદીને લે ભાળ!
ત્યાં ભીતર! આત્મા! ધર્યા છે સત્યો અપાર...

જય હો...પ્રભુ!

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 
નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧


With raw material drawn from the outside world, 
The patterns sketched out by an artist God. 
Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares 
Admitted by a silent office gate 
And passed through the subconscient's galleries, 
Then issued in Time's mart as private make.
For now they bear the living person's stamp; 
A trick, a special hue claims them his own. 
All else is Nature's craft and this too hers. 
Our tasks are given, we are but instruments; 
Nothing is all our own that we create: 
The Power that acts in us is not our force. 
The genius too receives from some high fount 
Concealed in a supernal secrecy 
The work that gives him an immortal name. 
The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace 
Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire; 
A sample from the laboratory of God 
Of which he holds the patent upon earth, 
Comes to him wrapped in golden coverings;
He listens for Inspiration's postman knock 
And takes delivery of the priceless gift 
A little spoilt by the receiver mind 
Or mixed with the manufacture of his brain; 
When least defaced, then is it most divine. 
Although his ego claims the world for its use, 
Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work; 
Nature does most in him, God the high rest:
Only his soul's acceptance is his own. 
This independent, once a power supreme, 
Self-born before the universe was made, 
Accepting cosmos, binds himself Nature's serf 
Till he becomes her freedman — or God's slave.
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 542


Flower Name: Scabiosa atropurpurea
Mournful widow, Sweet scabius, Pincushion flower, Egyptian rose
Significance: Blessings on the Material World
Puissant and innumerable, they answer all needs.

Thursday, 2 November 2017

Attained inner-outer peace!


Nonreactive to any provocation
Real attainment of calm quietence...

If corresponding inner then question -
Why quiet within responsive to stimulus?

If constant offering, being surrendered
Sincerely sinceres never prompt or pop up

Steady in contact with inner kingdom
Win over inner chatter of back and forth manner

Established silence of that stature 
Attained inner-outer peace! A real indicator...

Thank you...


"A blank pure consciousness had replaced the mind. 
Her spirit seemed the substance of a name, The world a pictured symbol drawn on self, 
A dream of images, a dream of sounds 
Built up the semblance of a universe 
Or lent to spirit the appearance of a world. 
This was self-seeing; in that intolerant hush 
No notion and no concept could take shape,
There was no sense to frame the figure of things, 
A sheer self-sight was there, no thought arose. 
Emotion slept deep down in the still heart 
Or lay buried in a cemetery of peace: 
All feelings seemed quiescent, calm or dead, 
As if the heart-strings rent could work no more 
And joy and grief could never rise again. 
The heart beat on with an unconscious rhythm 
But no response came from it and no cry. 
Vain was the provocation of events; 
Nothing within answered an outside touch, 
No nerve was stirred and no reaction rose. 
Yet still her body saw and moved and spoke; 
It understood without the aid of thought, 
It said whatever needed to be said, 
It did whatever needed to be done. 
There was no person there behind the act, 
No mind that chose or passed the fitting word: 
All wrought like an unerring apt machine. 
As if continuing old habitual turns, 
And pushed by an old unexhausted force 
The engine did the work for which it was made:
Her consciousness looked on and took no part; 
All it upheld, in nothing had a share."
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 545 546



Flower Name: Guettarda speciosa
Significance: Peace in the Nerves
Indispensable for good health.

Peace was the very first thing that the yogis and seekers of old asked for and it was a quiet and silent mind - and that always brings peace -that they declared to be the best condition for realising the Divine.

Peace is a deep quietude where no disturbance can come- a quietude with a sense of established security and release.

Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda. SA

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

ખરી ખરી સ્વતંત્રતા ...


ખરી ખરી સ્વતંત્રતા આત્મા તણી
ન મોક્ષ કે ન મુક્તિ શકે અવેજી...

આજન્મા ને જન્મે જન્મા સભરતી
સઘળું સમાવિષ્ટ સર્વ અવસ્પર્શી...

નડતર, અટકળ, ખૂંચ, ન ખલેલતી
ન હઠ, દબાણ કે પરતંત્રે જન્મી...

ન ખાસ વિચાર, આચાર, કર્મધારી
ન મનમુક્તિ કે પ્રાણમય એકાકી...

ન ડર, ભય, ઘૃણા કે અસલામતી 
સ્વ નિયંત્રિત, સંતુલિત ને સાયુજ્યી.

સમગ્ર આવરતી સહયોગી સર્વાંગી.
 નીરવ સમત્વ ભરી સ્વસ્થ શાંતિ...

અસ્તિત્વે સદા દિવ્યતત્ત્વ નિવાસી
તેજ પાથરતી આત્મત્વ દોરી જીવની...


મુક્તિ (liberation) અને સ્વતંત્રતામાં (freedom) ફરક છે.

મુક્તિમાં છેડો છૂટે છે. 
સ્વતંત્રતા નિર્મૂળ કરે છે. તત્ત્વનું અને સ્વમાં એ તત્ત્વને જે જોડી રાખતું વલણ અથવા જરૂર કે જે છેડો છે એ સહુનું પરિવર્તન કરે છે. એટલે સદંતર સદાયને માટે એ સમૂહની લુપ્તિ...

નથી એને આમંત્રિત કરતું અંદર કુદતું કે નથી એ આમંત્રણની રાહ કે સ્વીકાર આતુર તત્ત્વ બચતું.

મુક્તિમાં ડર પર વિજય જરૂર છે પણ સ્વ તંત્રમાં એ ડરનું પ્રેમમાં પુનરાવર્તન થયેલું છે એટલે ડરનો સદંતર નાશ અને રૂપાંતર...

સ્વ ત્યારે જ સ્વાયત્ત થઈ શકે જ્યારે એની ગતિવિધિઓને સમજીને ધાર્યો બદલાવ લાવી શકે.

નાની અમથી બાહ્ય કારણોસર ઉદ્દભવતી ઉત્તેજના પણ સ્વતંત્ર તંત્રને અવરોધક હોય છે. 

મુક્તિમાં સ્વને પ્રમુખ સ્થાન છે અને અન્ય સહુ ગૌણ અથવા અર્થવિહીન છે. સ્વતંત્રતા જાણે છે કે સર્વે જનોને એ અધિકાર મળવો કેટલો જરૂરી છે અને એટલે જ એમાં સમત્વ પણ રહેલું છે. ક્યાંક ઊણપ કે કચાશ રહેવી એ સ્વતંત્ર ની સાચી ઓળખ નથી.


પુરેપુરી સ્વતંત્ર સિદ્ધિ તો દિવ્યતત્ત્વની હાજરી જ આપી શકે...

જય હો...પ્રભુ!

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 
નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧

Flower Name: Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus, Australian gum, Gum tree, Ironbark, Stringybark
Significance: Abolition of the Ego
One exists only by the Divine and for the Divine.
Our ego, boasting of freedom, is at every moment the slave, toy and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, influences in universal Nature. The self-abnegation of the ego in the Divine is its self-fulfilment; its surrender to that which transcends it is its liberation from bonds and limits and its perfect freedom. SA


I trample on thy law with living feet; 
For to arise in freedom I was born. 
If I am mighty let my force be unveiled 
Equal companion of the dateless powers, 
Or else let my frustrated soul sink down 
Unworthy of Godhead in the original sleep. 
I claim from Time my will's eternity,

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 652

Freedom is this with ever seated soul, 
Large in life's limits, strong in Matter's knots, Building great stuff of action from the worlds 
To make fine wisdom from coarse, scattered strands 
And love and beauty out of war and night, 
The wager wonderful, the game divine. 
What liberty has the soul which feels not free
BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 653


A flood of freedom and transcendent bliss 
Into immortal lines of beauty rose. 
In him the fourfold Being bore its crown 
That wears the mystery of a nameless Name, 
The universe writing its tremendous sense 
In the inexhaustible meaning of a word. 
In him the architect of the visible world, 
At once the art and artist of his works, 
Spirit and seer and thinker of things seen, 
Virat, who lights his camp-fires in the suns 
And the star-entangled ether is his hold, 
Expressed himself with Matter for his speech: 
Objects are his letters, forces are his words,
Events are the crowded history of his life, 
And sea and land are the pages for his tale.
BOOK XI: The Book of Everlasting Day 680