Just a matter of awareness!

The 'era' of the Consciousness has begun

Though due to it all, always and there since...

One may sit back and let it randomly hit

Or come forward, embrace the existence indeed.

Just a matter of awareness! If not there still!

Useless then, will look the current grab, foolish!

Domination of the Nature is gone, replaced with...

Used to rule the world through the animal instinct!

The Nature now safe, back to its own divinity

In proportion to the requisites of the day and the deed...

To reveal the hidden game, the Cosmos is ready 

Wants to manifest the Eternal Consciousness in the entirety.

O Lord! Thank you beloved Mother!

'Morli'

September, 2018

Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it - not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.

Consciousness is made up of two elements, awareness of self and things and forces and conscious-power. Awareness is the first thing necessary, you have to be aware of things in the right consciousness, in the right way, seeing them in their truth; but awareness by itself is not enough. There must be a Will and a Force that make the consciousness effective. SA

The only thing that is truly effective is the change of consciousness; it is inner liberation through a close and constant union, absolute and inevitable, with the vibration of the supramental forces. The preoccupation of every second, the will of all the elements of the being, the aspiration of the whole being, including all the cells of the body, is this union with the supramental forces, the divine forces. And there is no longer any need at all to be concerned with what the consequences will be. What has to be in the play of the universal forces and their manifestation will be, quite naturally, spontaneously, automatically; there is no need to be concerned about it. The only thing that matters is the constant, total, complete contact - constant, yes, constant — with the Force, the Light, the Truth, the Power, and that ineffable delight of the supramental consciousness. TM

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

Significance:Power of Consciousness
All the powers of controlling and governing the lower movements of inconscient nature.

સાચી ભક્તિ ...

સાચી ભક્તિમાં નથી વૈરાગ્ય, ત્યાગ, 

હા, ઓજસનો જરૂર તેજસ્વી પ્રકાશ

ને અંદરૂની નિરંતર સમર્પણ ભાવ.

ઠોસ ઉદ્દેશે ભળે મન-મતિ-દેહ-પ્રાણ.

સાચી ભક્તિ, મોકળાં કરે છે માપ

સદંતર બાહ્ય આડંબર ને દેખાવ

જીવનસરણીમાં બે ધારો વ્યવહાર-

માંથી હવે સાચુકલો નર્યો અંતરિયાળ.

સાચી ભક્તિ એટલે જ દમનવિનાશ.

જબરજસ્તીનો સ્વ પ્રતિકાર કે વિરાગ

કે નથી હવે જરૂરી જતાવાતો આચાર

અભિગમે વસે ભક્તિમય મંત્રોચ્ચાર.

સાચી ભક્તિ ભરી તાકત અપ્રમાણ.

આંતરિક મજબૂતી દેતી હર પળ અપાર

અસીમિત પ્રવૃત્તિમય જીવનીએ ડોકાય

ઉર્જામય આવર્તનો અંદરથી બહાર છલકાય.

'મોરલી'

સપ્ટેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૮

A devotion that keeps concentrated and silent in the depths of the heart but manifests in acts of service and obedience, is more powerful, more true, more divine, than any shouting and weeping devotion.

Sincere devotion is much more effective than the Ganges water.

Worship: the form or outer expression of your devotion.

True worship: total and constant without demand or exigence.

True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya.
26 April 1937

* Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition,

Volume 14, pp. 103-112

The nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship, self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union.

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent.

In the way of ahaitukī bhakti, everything can be made a means – poetry and music, for instance, become not merely poetry and music and not merely even an expression of Bhakti, but themselves a means of bringing the experience of love and Bhakti.

These are the exaggerations made by the mind taking one side of Truth and ignoring the other sides. The inner bhakti is the main thing and without it the external becomes a form and mere ritual, but the external has its place and use when it is straightforward and sincere.

What is meant by bāhyapūjā [external worship]? If it is purely external, then of course it is the lowest form; but if done with the true consciousness, it can bring the greatest possible completeness to the adoration by allowing the body and the most external consciousness to share in the spirit and act of worship.

the deeper the emotion, the more intense the Bhakti, the greater is the force for realisation and transformation. It is oftenest through intensity of emotion that the psychic being awakes and there is an opening of the inner doors to the Divine.

* LETTERS ON YOGA Volume 2. Part 2

7. Sadhana through Love and Devotion

Flower Name: Aegle marmelos
Bael tree, Bengal quince

Significance: Devotional attitude
Modest and self-effacing, it yields remarkable fruit.

Rise to arise ...

Convert that 'want' for superficial materiality

To the warm dedicating connect of aspiring.

Same track but the scale higher, thus the feel

The former ends where the later then, begins. 

The Want is a very primitive lower vital origin

The Aspiration is a call from here to the Origin.

By the time one reaches to the aspiration stream

Grown way beyond petty wants, desired, clings.

Rise to arise to aspire to the great beloved Supreme

The only extension worth to realise, thereby to live...

Thank you, Lord! Your blessings through this...

'Morli'

September, 2018

Well, it takes away your quietude, that is the first effect. It makes you agitated, nervous, impatient and dissatisfied when you don't immediately obtain what you have asked for, and usually as vehement in your despair and dissatisfaction, with a strong sense of your helplessness.

Desire is altogether something else. Desire is something which acts completely horizontally. [old p. 337]

In your ordinary consciousness you want something; you do not have the least idea of aspiring for some existing thing or some progress or a higher knowledge or greater realisation. You see [new p. 337]an object in a shop and want it. That's it. Or it crosses your mind that it would be good to eat a certain thing, and you want it. These are desires; they concern things on the same plane as you. Moreover, in desires also some people are obstinate, vehement, and some have fugitive and weak desires. There are both types.

...

And to tell the truth, very few people have a very pure aspiration. An aspiration, a will to progress, just that; it stops there. Because one aspires for progress and then, there we are, let us not go farther. We want progress. But usually there get mixed up with it all kinds of desires for the results of this progress. And so desire comes in, you see; this brings exactly what he says, a consciousness which is impure and muddy, and inside this nothing higher can come. This must be completely eliminated to begin with. If one looks at [old p. 338]himself very sincerely, very straightforwardly and very severely, he very quickly perceives that very few things, very few movements of consciousness are free from being mixed with desires.

Even in what you take for a higher movement, there is always... no, [new p. 338]happily not always, but most often there is a desire mixed. The desire of the sense of one's importance, if only this, that kind of self-satisfaction, the satisfaction of being someone superior.

* WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER

© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Pure aspiration

22 September 1954

“...the thirst for progress, the thirst for knowledge, the thirst for transformation and, above all, the thirst for Love and Truth...Truly a thirst, a need, All the rest has s no importance; it is that one has need of.
To cling to something one believes that one knows, to cling to something that one feels, to cling to something that one's loves, to cling to one's habits, to cling to the world as it is, is that which binds you. you must undo all, that, one thing after another. Undo all the ties.... No more bond-free, Always ready to change everything, except one thing:
to aspire, this thirst.... [for] the 'Something' one is in need of, the Love one is in need of, the Truth one is in need of, the supreme Perfection one is in need of and that is all.... a need, which the Thing alone can satisfy nothing else, no half-measure, only that. And then, you go!"

*M C W Vol. 11, p. 6

Flower Name: Tectona grandis
Teak, Indian oak, Saga, Saigun

Significance: Renunciation of Desires
The essential condition for realisation.

નથી ભરવાની ઉત્તરવહી ...

પરીક્ષા, ચકાસણી, કસોટી

કે નથી ભરવાની ઉત્તરવહી

આત્મજ્ઞાન તો સ્વ-પ્રાપ્તિ 

ને પરમ પ્રભુ છે કરુણામૂર્તિ.

ફરતી હોય છે જરૂર વલોણી

યોગ્યતાની યોગ્ય ફેરબદલી

નવેસરથી અનુકૂલન બાંધણી

વિશેષ ચેતના સ્વાગત તૈયારી.

ઇન્દ્રિયવત મનની સાફસૂફી, 

સ્વચ્છ સ્વસ્થ થતી પ્રાણવૃતિ,

શારીરિક કોષોમાં સંચારસમૃદ્ધિ,

આત્મસ્થ થવાને નવ ગોઠવણી.

એક માર્ગ સમજાય છે સુરક્ષિત.

જો સદૈવ પ્રભુમય, મય દોરવણી

આગ્રહ ધરે, ટકાવી રહે પસંદગી

ને અભીપ્સુ રહે નિષ્ઠ સમર્પિત. 

પછી ન કોઈ ખાણ, ખડક કે ખીણ

સરળ સહજ રસ્તે, આત્મ ચીંધ 

વિના કોઈ વિરોધી ઘડતર કે બીક

અડગ ચાલી રહે, એ ખોજ ને ભડવીર...

પૂર્ણ માનવજાતને સમર્પિત...

પ્રભુ! જય હો...

'મોરલી'

સપ્ટેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૮

Faced with the sense of a Power or perhaps a number of Powers greater and higher than himself by whom his life in Nature is overshadowed, influenced, governed, man naturally applies to it or to them the first primitive feelings of the natural being among the difficulties, desires and dangers of that life, — fear and interest. The enormous part played by these motives in the evolution of the religious instinct is undeniable, and in fact, man being what he is, it could hardly have been less; and even when religion has advanced fairly far on its road, we see these motives still surviving, active, playing a sufficiently large part, justified and appealed to by Religion herself in support of her claims on man. The fear of God, it is said, — or, it may be added for the sake of historical truth, the fear of the Gods, — is the beginning of religion, a half-truth upon which scientific research, trying to trace the evolution of religion, ordinarily in a critical and often a hostile rather than in a sympathetic spirit, has laid undue emphasis.  But not the fear of God only, for man does not act, even most primitively, from fear alone, but from twin motives, fear and desire, fear of things unpleasant and maleficent and desire of things pleasant and beneficent, -therefore from fear and interest. Life to him is primarily and engrossingly, — until he learns to live more in his soul and only secondarily in the action and reaction of outward things, — a series of actions and results, things to be desired, pursued and gained by action and things to be dreaded and shunned, yet which may come upon him as a result of action. And it is not only by his own action but by that also of others and of Nature around him that these things come to him. As soon, then, as he comes to sense a Power behind all this which can influence or determine action and result, he conceives of it as a dispenser of boons and sufferings, able and under certain conditions willing to help him or hurt, save and destroy.

In the most primitive parts of his being he conceives of it as a thing of natural egoistic impulses like himself, beneficent when pleased, maleficent when offended; worship is then a means of propitiation by gifts and a supplication by prayer. He gets God on his side by praying to him and flattering him.

...

A confused mixture of all these motives, variously developed, often modified, subtilised or glossed over, is what constitutes nine-tenths of popular religion; the other tenth is a suffusion of the rest by the percolation into it of nobler, more beautiful and profounder ideas of the Divine which minds of a greater spirituality have been able to bring into the more primitive religious concepts of mankind. The result is usually crude enough and a ready target for the shafts of scepticism and unbelief, — powers of the human mind which have their utility even for faith and religion, since they compel a religion to purify gradually what is crude or false in its conceptions. But what we have to see is how far in purifying and elevating the religious instinct of worship any of these earlier motives need to survive and enter into the Yoga of devotion which itself starts from worship. That depends on how far they correspond to any truth of the Divine Being and its relations with the human soul; for we seek by Bhakti union with the Divine and true relation with it, with its truth and not with any mirage of our lower nature and of its egoistic impulses and ignorant conceptions.

* The Synthesis of Yoga – II: The Motives of Devotion

Flower Name: Acanthus ilicifolius
Sea holly

Significance: The Guardian
Vigilant and thorny, it knows how to protect what it guards.

Your singular creativity...

Lord! Thank you...

For this world in forms and boundaries 

Thus, the Delight exists of the Unity.

With variations, divisions, portions all in

With specifications, peculiar identities...

Through colors, shapes, types, sizes

Labels, purposes, contexts, utilities...

How all that merge, emerge continuously

Through circulation of progression systematically!

This vision! The experience! Your ultimate gift.

Always the reference. Your singular creativity...

a big big Bow at your lotus feet...

'Morli'

September, 2018

All existence is one; it is existence of the One Being, divine, infinite, eternal, absolute.

What we see as the Many, is the multiplicity of the One. All these apparently separate persons and objects are also the one existence; they are beings of the One Being. For That is their one self; in their spiritual essence they are That, even in the play and form of their being they are That; they are personalities of the one Person, they are manifestations of the one Existence, they are so many realities of the only Real. In no way are they separate and independent from It, but in every way live by It, are of It, can be nothing else. All forces are powers of the one Force, the sole Power of the One Being; there is no other force than his. All objects are formations of the one Existence; there is nothing that exists in itself and apart from That, nothing that is of an individual essence other than the one Essence of the universe.

What we see as finite is not other than the Infinite. All is in the Infinite, all exists by the Infinite, all is of the stuff of the Infinite. No object or person could come into being or remain in being by its own finite and individual power; none exists by its own limited substance and essence other than the substance and essence of all others; all are at bottom indissolubly one. There is effective determination, definition, demarcation, diverse formation in the universe but no essential separation or division.

A tree is separate as an object or phenomenon, but it is not a separate existence divided from all around it; there is a one-existence and a one-energy that has taken form of tree, constitutes every atom, molecule, fibre of it, pervades and is its whole structure of being and this existence, this energy not only abides in all of it and flows through all of it but extends everywhere around and is, constitutes, energises all other objects in the cosmos. Each finite is in fact the Infinite; all apparently separate or divided existence is only a front of the Indivisible.

All that we see as temporal is not other than the Eternal. The form of that which is in Time is or appears to be evanescent, but the self, the substance, the being that takes shape in that form is eternal and is one self, one substance, one being with all that is, all that was, all that shall be. But even the form is in itself eternal and not temporal, but it exists for ever in possibility, in power, in consciousness in the Eternal. Form is manifested and withdrawn from manifestation; it may be manifested by immediate apparition or it may be manifested by construction and withdrawn from manifestation by destruction or disaggregation, but in either case it exists beforehand in the consciousness and being of the Eternal. If it did not so preexist in power and possibility, it could not be created in actuality. For the actual proceeds from the possible and the possible is always a possibility of the truth of the Eternal.

* ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN
WRITINGS FROM MANUSCRIPTS. 1910 – 1950

God: The One Reality

Ekamevadvitiyam: One Without a Second 12

If man could realize, a perfect spiritual
unity, no sort of uniformity would be
necessary; for the utmost play of diversity
would be securely possible on that found-
ation.
... in this harmony between our unity
and our diversity lies the secret of life.
... We shall find that a real spiritual and psychological unity can allow a free
diversity...
If a real, a spiritual and psychological unity were effectuated, liberty would have no
perils...

*The Ideal of Human Unity. 403

Flower Name: Gaillardia pulchella 'Picta (Sweet)'
Indian blanket, Blanket flower, Fire-wheels

Significance: Cheerfulness
A joyful smile of nature.

સદૈવ પિપાસુ... ચાતક ભાવ ...

સ્ફૂરણાને જોઈએ નીરવ આધાર 

ગ્રહણશીલ ખુલ્લો ચાતક ભાવ

સદૈવ પિપાસુ. સંગઠિત, એકધાર 

ઉત્સુક. નમનીય એકનિષ્ઠ ધૈર્યવાન.

અવતરણ હો શબ્દ ચિત્ર કે છાપ

સ્ફૂરણા ધરે અભિવ્યક્તિ હજાર.

પસંદગી યોગ્ય ફક્ત યોગ્ય પાત્ર.

તૈયારી કરાવે છે પ્રભુ સાક્ષાત.

આ એ નથી - જે મનપ્રદેશની પેદાશ, 

એ તો આખો સ્થૂળ મન-મતિ ભાગ.

નથી હોતો સુષુપ્તમનથી મનનો સંવાદ

ને થકી ખેંચાતો જબરજસ્તીનો અહંકાર.

નથી - શંકા જગતમાંથી નીકળતાં જવાબ,

કે ઇન્દ્રિયોવત સંગ્રહનો છૂપો  ભંડાર, 

રટણ પ્રતાપ કે અદલાબદલીનો પ્રાણ,

પ્રશ્નપ્રથા થકી કે વ્યથા વ્યથિત - ઉદ્ગાર.

છે, સમુચ્ચય સત્યપ્રદેશનો સાક્ષાત્કાર.

આધારે ધર્યો હોય છે એ ગંતવ્ય પ્રવાસ.

દિવ્યશક્તિ વરસાવે કૃપા વરસાદ

પરિણામે અવતરે સત્ય સ્ફૂરણ અમીછાંટ.

પ્રભુ...તવ ચરણે તમ પ્રભાવ...

સદૈવ આભારી.

'મોરલી'

સપ્ટેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૮

Disciple : When the Mind is transformed by the action of the Higher Power what are the changes that take place in the Mind?

Sri Aurobindo : Which part of the mind ? The thinking mind ?

Disciple : Yes.

Sri Aurobindo : The reasonings and the fanciful constructions of the mind cease : there remains only a play of intuitions.

Disciple : Does not reason remain, at all ?

Sri Aurobindo : When the whole mind is intuitionised, it knows directly and therefore needs no reasoning. I see you before me; so, why should I argue whether you exist or not ?

Disciple : As regards mental constructions, – are they always incorrect ? May not they be inspired by the Truth ?

Sri Aurobindo : Mind may build on its intuitions, but there is every likelihood of its committing mistakes or errors. Mental transformation is a gradual process. First, the reasoning and constructions are silenced. Then the mind becomes intuitionised. Then one feels that there is something above which is much more than intuition. Intuition goes downwards and the higher Truth takes the place of intuition. At present, you find it difficult to understand how all reasoning and constructions of the mind can cease. That can be understood when you know what is intuition.

Disciple : I understand that reasoning and constructions are obstacles to the coming of the Truth.

Sri Aurobindo : Yes, if you go on eternally with them the Truth will not come.

Disciple : Then one must correct these things before the higher Truth can come down.

Sri Aurobindo : You cannot do that ; it is only the Truth which can change the nature and activities of the mind. You can only quiet them so that the Truth may come down and take up the Transformation.

Disciple : If the mind is silenced, will the Truth come down ?

Sri Aurobindo : If you do nothing else but merely silence the mind you will have a silent mind and nothing else.

Disciple : When a developed mind opens to the Truth and an underdeveloped mind opens to it which will be the richer of the two ?

Sri Aurobindo : First you have to see whether the under-developed mind can open itself to the higher Truth ; generally it cannot. Then, it may have a narrow opening and the result will be limited. The higher Truth may afterwards develop the mind but if the mind is already developed, there is already a rich material upon which the Truth can work. But the too much developed mind is also an obstacle. It has its fixed habits, its fixed grooves to which it sticks tenaciously. With the coming down of the Truth the mind may suddenly develop new powers – painting or poetry etc.

*A.B. Purani. Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p 122

Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light.

*The Life Divine - II: The Ascent towards Supermind

Flower Name: Caesalpinia coriaria
Divi-divi

Significance: Intuitive Knowledge
Innumerable and vast for exploration, it is pure and fragrant.

Never a permanent host!

Against the Divine is a hostile force

Once registered, offer from the root to all.

It creeps in, settles slowly, takes the mind control

Just a tiny hole and spreads in the whole.

Intentions, expressions or even thoughts, 

Reactions, perceptions, actions get toxic from.

Awareness can point out whenever pops

Just a glance! Reject and let go to absolve.

In heightened state, before enters, can be caught

Pick, pluck or pamper! It can never be a permanent host.

Period!

'Morli'

September, 2018

The forces that stand in the way of sadhana are the forces of the lower mind, vital and physical nature. Behind them are adverse powers of the mental, vital and subtle physical worlds."

* Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., p. 635

"... there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world."

* Questions and Answers 1950-51, M C W, Vol. 4, pp. 251-52

The reality of the Hostiles and the nature of their role and trend of their endeavour cannot be doubted by anyone who has had his inner vision unsealed and made their unpleasant acquaintance."

*Letters on Yoga, Part One, p. 24

It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher spiritual nature it is known that they pull different ways and the lower is strongest at first and the higher afterwards. It is known that the hostile Forces take advantage of the movements of the lower nature and try to spoil through them, smash or retard the siddhi.... But it has also always been known that those who are sincere and faithful in heart and remain so and those who rely on the Divine will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls."

* Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., p. 1731

You ought to realise that these things are attacks which come on you... When it comes, you have to realise that it is an attack and refuse instead of accepting it.... This state which tries to come upon you and seize is not part of your true self, but a foreign influence. To yield to it and to express it would therefore be not sincerity..."

*Ibid., pp. 1752, 1749

They [the hostile attacks on the outer being] are felt as suggestions, or a touch on the surface mind, vital, physical or as movements in the atmosphere (the personal or the general environmental consciousness) but for the inner being it is like gusts or storms outside. If they penetrate by chance into the house, they are immediately ejected and the doors and windows banged on them there is nothing that accepts them or tolerates them inside."

* Ibid., p. 1757

"The only way to fail in your battle with the hostile forces is not to have a true confidence in the divine help. Sincerity in the aspiration always brings down the required succour. A quiet call, a conviction that in this ascension towards the realisation you are never walking all alone and a faith that whenever help is needed it is there, will lead you through, easily and securely."

* MCW, Vol.3, p. 34

Flower Name: Codiaeum variegatum
Croton

Significance: Power to Reject Adverse Suggestions
The power that comes from conscious union with the Divine.