ખૂંદી વળ આકાશો...

રે માણસ! 

તું જિંદગી આખી શાને કોશેટા ચણતો?

સમયભંગૂર દિવાલો! સ્વ સીમિત બંધનો!

પતંગિયાસમ જન્મ! પશ્યાત કાળકોશેટો

શાને તું દેહધરી બનતો વળી વળી ખોખલો?

ખોલ પાંખ! ને ઊડવાને જન્મ આ મહામૂલો.

યોગ્ય બન જરૂર! પણ વિહીન ગત ચણતરો.

ન કાયમી સ્થિતી. ખરતી રહેતી એ દિવાલો.

એક ધક્કો અંદરથી ને ખૂલતા થશે પડળો.

ખુલ! અંતરે - બાહરે! ન ઘડ વ્યર્થ ઘડતરો. 

વ્યોમ ધરવા આ જન્મ. ખૂંદી વળ આકાશો...

આભાર પ્રભુ!

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૮

Opening is a release of the consciousness by which it begins to admit into itself the working of the Divine Light and Power. TM

In this yoga the whole principle is to open oneself to the Divine Influence. It is there above you and, if you can once become conscious of it, you have then to call it down into you. It descends into the mind and into the body as Peace, as a Light, as a Force that works, as the Presence of the Divine with or without form, as Ananda. SA

What you should do is to throw the doors of your being wide open to the Divine. The moment you conceal something, you step straight into Falsehood. The least suppression on your part pulls you immediately down into unconsciousness. If you want to be fully conscious, be always in front of the Truth - completely open yourself and try your utmost to let it see deep inside you, into every corner of your being. That alone will bring into you light and consciousness and all that is most true. TM

Flower Name: Barleria

Significance: Opening
The help is constant in all domains. It is for us to know how to benefit from it.

Smile ...

Smile is a weapon 

Smile is an armour 

Sharp, edgy or the shield calmer... 

Smile is to swallow 

Smile is to mellow 

Burial bittery or to forget sorrow...

Smile is a mask

Smile is unasked 

Saviour shadowy or spontaneous spark. ..

Smile is ultimate

In ways, means, to originate

Godly beauty in expressiveness...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

March, 2018

An incense floated in the quivering air,
A mystic happiness trembled in the breast
As if the invisible Beloved had come
Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face
And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet
And the world change with the beauty of a smile.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 290

“You know, when I say, "The Lord smiles", that means something; it is not that I see a smiling face, but it is ... it is a solar vibration. You know, the sun is flat and dull and cold and almost black in comparison.

But this Presence in all things... it is a vibration, but it is a vibration that contains everything, a vibration that contains a kind of infinite power, infinite delight, infinite peace, and vastness, vastness, vastness: there are no limits.
And how often, how often the impression . . . there is no form — there is a form and there is no form, it cannot be put into words. And the impression of a look and there are no eyes - there is no look, but there is a look, a look and a smile, and there is no mouth, there is no face! And yet there is a smile and there is a look. But He laughs, you laugh, you are happy.” TM

Flower Name: Michelia alba
Champaca, Fragrant champaca

Significance: Divine Smile
We can contemplate the smiles of the Divine when we have conquered our ego.

અહો હ્રદય મહાન!

હ્રદયને ક્યાં જોઈએ મંજૂરી કે થાપ!

એને તો ધબકવું! ધબકવું આપોઆપ!

ન કારણ કે વિચાર! ન સંલગ્ન સવાલ!

એને તો વહેવું! બસ વહેવું બેશુમાર!

ન અલગાવ, પથરાળ! પોતીકો સ્વભાવ!

એને તો વિસ્તરવું! વિસ્તરવું ચોપાસ!

ન શમે ન ઝબુકે! અસ્ખલિત પ્રકાશ!

એને તો ઊગવું! બસ ઊગવું તેજસવાર!

અંતરઆત્માધારી! સંવેદક સ્થાન!

એને તો વિરમવું બની પરમ નિવાસ!

અહો હ્રદય મહાન! તું મનુષ્યને સોગાદ!

તવ સ્પર્શ થકી ઊજળે દર કર્મ મહાન...

આભારી આ હ્રદયધારી...

ધન્ય પ્રભુ...જય હો....

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૮

But Savitri replied to mighty Death:

"My heart is wiser than the Reason's thoughts,
My heart is stronger than thy bonds, O Death.
It sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,
It feels the high Transcendent's sunlike hands,
It sees the cosmic Spirit at its work;
In the dim Night it lies alone with God.
My heart's strength can carry the grief of the universe
And never falter from its luminous track,
Its white tremendous orbit through God's peace.
It can drink up the sea of All-Delight
And never lose the white spiritual touch,
The calm that broods in the deep Infinite."

BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 635 636

For your heart to remain happy keep it always filled with gratefulness. Gratefulness is the surest way to the Divine.
THE MOTHER

Flower Name: Ravenia spectabilis

Significance: Happy Heart
Smiling, peaceful, radiant, without a shadow.

Life is not meant ...

Life is not meant to hide and live

Manifesting Divine in everything...

If truely surrendered and in will

Every unfolding is divine happening...

Not in the show or a trace of flaunting 

But sincerely only in 'Her' workings...

No personal agenda no hidden thing

Then the life gets attuned to divinity... 

Out pours remain only of blessings

For the divine by the divine, the living...

Lord...your take...always!

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

March, 2018

“We are united towards the same goal and for the same accomplishment - for a work, unique and new, that the Divine Grace has given us to accomplish. I hope that more and more you will understand the exceptional importance of this work and that you will feel in yourselves the sublime joy that the accomplishment will give you. The Divine force is with you - feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. Feel, wish, act, that you may be new beings for the realisation of a new world, and for this my blessings shall always be with you.

Some give their soul to the Divine, some their life, some offer their work, some their money. A few consecrate all of themselves and all they have — soul, life, work, wealth; these are the true children of God.” TM

Flower Name: Dendranthema Xgrandiflorum Chrysanthemum Xmorifolium
Florists' chrysanthemum

Significance: Life Energy
Powerful and manifold, meets all needs
Conversion of the Aim of Life from the Ego to the Divine
Instead of seeking one’s own satisfaction, to have service of the Divine as the aim of life.

આ તે કેવી...!

આ તે કેવી પક્ષપાતી ગોઠવણી

આવશ્યક સ્પર્શ દુ:ખની ચોટી

તત્ પશ્યાત જ સુખની અનુભૂતી!

આ તે કેવી કુદરતની હેરાફેરી

અશ્રુધારા એ ભાવની અભિવ્યક્તિ

વેર, જલન, પીડન, કરુણા કે ખુશી!

આ તે કેવી જન્મદત્ત વારાફરતી

નિર્દોષતા, પકટતા, વયોવૃદ્ધિ

શૈશવસ્થ: આરંભે વૃત્તિ ને અંતે સ્મૃતિ!

આ તે કેવી પાર્થિવ ગતિવિધિ 

સઘળી નોંધાતી અન્યોની ખોટી

સ્વઅંતરે જીવે એ જ પ્રતિસ્પર્ધી!

આ તે કેવી ભવોભવ બાંધણી 

મનુષ્યમાં ધરબાઈ વસે અદિતિ

યજમાન થઈ ખોજ માંડે લખચોરાશી!

અંતે તારી જ યુક્તિ, પ્રયુક્તિ કે મુક્તિ

ભળી ભોગ, ભાગ, ભુક્તિ કે ભક્તિ, 

પ્રભુ! તારી જ થતી, તને સમર્પિત... 

જય હો પ્રભુ...

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

માર્ચ,  ૨૦૧૮

Flower Name: Chrysanthemum

Significance: Specialised Detailed Energy
Nothing is too small to merit its attention.

O Reason!

O Reason! 

How pitiful is your situation?

Reason out and doubt go together?

As soon as through reason confirms

Simultaneously, the doubt happens!

Thoughtful, logical reason you centre

In a moment, the doubt sets the presence!

Ideate and conceive and you come forward

Immediately, the doubt gets permission to enter!

Looks like you cannot live without the counter

Thus doubt by befault is in your character.

Emerge from the psyche and no opposition

Flow there harmony of every element possible...

How true! 

Thank you Lord!

- Morli Pandya 

March, 2018

Where Day and Night had wedded and were one:
It was a tract of dim and shifting rays
Parting Life's sentient flow from Thought's self-poise.
A coalition of uncertainties
There exercised uneasy government
On a ground reserved for doubt and reasoned guess,
A rendezvous of Knowledge with Ignorance

* BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 239

Its highest, widest seeing was a half-search,
Its mightiest acts a passage or a stage.
For not by Reason was creation made
And not by Reason can the Truth be seen
Which through the veils of thought, the screens of sense
Hardly the spirit's vision can descry

* BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 256

"O Death, who reasonest, I reason not,
Reason that scans and breaks, but cannot build
Or builds in vain because she doubts her work.
I am, I love, I see, I act, I will."

* BOOK IX: The Book of Eternal Night 594

Flower Name: Artabotrys hexapetalus
Climbing ilang-ilang

Significance: Reason
An excellent instrument when it is at the service of the Divine.

... ને સમજાશે, ખરું કોણ હઠીલું!

હઠને કહો "હું સહ્રદય સ્વીકારું,

લે, આ ખંતમાં તને નવાજું.

દુરાગ્રહ તારો, તું માને આવકારું?

જરૂર! ધૈર્યમાં તરબતર આવ, ડુબાવું.

જિદ છે તારી ને સ્વભાવે જિદ્દી તું!

લે, પ્રયાસો નિરંતર કામે લગાડું.

મમત ન બનાવ, એ નિરર્થક નકામું!

ધીરજની ધાર ન બૂઠ્ઠી જાણ તું.

આ તત્ત્વ નથી અમસ્તું, સાદું.

ધરપત વસે છે જ્યાં આત્મન નિરાળું.

ન કનડે જરીયે એ અંધત્ત્વ તારું!

ઓગાળીશ, ને સમજાશે, ખરું કોણ હઠીલું."

વાહ...પ્રભુ! જવાબ લાજવાબ!

હઠને ધૈર્યનો જવાબ.

આ રસાકસી છે દર મનજીવનમાં!

ખુદની કે અન્યની કે વૈશ્વિક હઠ, મમત, દુરાગ્રહ સામે કંઈક ધૈર્યો, પ્રયાસો ધરપત ધરીને સમયને સહકાર આપતાં રહે છે. 

હઠ જ્યારે ન હઠવાની લડત માંડે છે

ત્યારે એનો વિચ્છેદ કરી વ્યક્તિ, સંબંધ અને શાણપણને એનાં ઘા ઝીલવા પડે છે 

એટલે એ ચૂપચાપ ખંતને આગળ ધરે છે.

ધરપત માનવ ઊર્જિત નથી. 

કંઈક ઘણું ભીતરે ઊલેચાઈને કેળવાયું હોય છે. વિરોધહીન પૃષ્ઠભૂમિ સર્જાઈ હોય છે. 

એટલે જ તો દ્રષ્ટિ, સમજણ અને આંતરબળ ઊદભવ્યા હોય છે, કે અહીં એ સ્થિતિમાં સ્થિર રહેવાનું છે. 

અલબત્ જિદ કે હઠનાં ઈરાદે નહીં પણ ધૈર્યમાં પલટાવીને...

ધરપતને હઠની તાકાત આપીને...

પછી હીરો જ હીરાને કાપે!

જય હો પ્રભુ!

સાદર...

- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

માર્ચ, ૨૦૧૮

Our being must move eternally through Time;
Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease;
A secret Will compels us to endure.
Our life's repose is in the Infinite;
It cannot end, its end is Life supreme.
Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk:
Some ancient deep impulsion labours on:
Our souls are dragged as with a hidden leash,
Carried from birth to birth, from world to world,
Our acts prolong after the body's fall
The old perpetual journey without pause.
No silent peak is found where Time can rest.
This was a magic stream that reached no sea

* BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 197

“The most essential quality is perseverance, endurance, and a — how to put it? — a kind of inner good mood that helps you not to get discouraged, not to become sad, and to face all difficulties with a smile. There is an English word which expresses this very well - cheerfulness. If you can keep this within you, you resist much better, you fight much better, in the Light, these bad influences which try to prevent you from progressing.

It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring.

Perseverance is patience in action.” TM

Flower Name: Calendula officinalis
Ruddles, Common marigold, Scotch marigold, Pot marigold
Significance: Power of Perseverance (Continued perseverance and action)
The decision to go to the very end.
One continues the work begun for as long as necessary.
The perseverance that overcomes all obstacles.

O Creatrix! The Mediatrix!

O Creatrix!

The Mediatrix!

In your light 

Let every life enshine...

In your compassion

Let every love rise in its kind, high... 

In you perseverance 

Let every obstincy veporise...

In your emanation

Let every manifestation divinise...

In your grace

Let every stumble be otherwise...

In your beauty

Let every sight improvise...

In your will

Let every action summerise...

In your force

Let every being live life...

In your creation

Let every existence be truely 'YOU' like...

O Lord! O Mother! 

You and Your world Divine...

Thank you...

- Morli Pandya 

March, 2018

"The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.

…

Even in the movements of the Ignorance the soul of the seeker becomes aware of her conscious guidance supporting his steps and leading them slowly or swiftly, straight or by many detours out of the darkness into the light of a greater consciousness, out of mortality into immortality, out of evil and suffering towards a highest good and felicity of which as yet his human mind can form only a faint image. Thus her power is at once liberative and dynamic, creative, effective,— creative not only of things as they are, but of things that are to be; for, eliminating the twisted and tangled movements of his lower consciousness made of the stuff of the Ignorance, it rebuilds and new-makes his soul and nature into the substance and forces of a higher divine Nature."

* The World-Mother 47   

A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;
Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.
A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death;
To err no more was natural to mind;
Wrong could not come where all was light and love.
The Formless and the Formed were joined in her:
Immensity was exceeded by a look,
A Face revealed the crowded Infinite.
Incarnating inexpressibly in her limbs
The boundless joy the blind world-forces seek,
Her body of beauty mooned the seas of bliss.
At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time's dragon base.
Hers is the mystery the Night conceals;
The spirit's alchemist energy is hers;
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The joy that beckons from the impossible,
The Might of all that never yet came down.
All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.
All here shall be one day her sweetness' home,
All contraries prepare her harmony;
Towards her our knowledge climbs, our passion gropes;
In her miraculous rapture we shall dwell,
Her clasp shall turn to ecstasy our pain.
Our self shall be one self with all through her.

* BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 314

Flower Name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
Chinese hibiscus, Hawaiian hibiscus, Rose- of-China

Significance: Dynamic Power
Indispensable for progress.