ભીતિ મૂકી આવકારી રહે...

આ કંઈક વિશેષ...શું ?

આ, નવીન લયસ્તરોનું સ્થાપન છે,

અકલ્પ્ય ઉદ્-ઘાટિત આરંભ છે.

વીતી વિગતનું ક્યાં પ્રસ્થાપન છે? 

આ તો સર્વાંગ સમેટતો ભાવોદય છે.

આ, એક નહીં અનેકવિધ છે,

સહસ્ત્રાર દિશાએથી સહસ્ત્રદિપ્ત છે.

ગતગતિ ક્યાં દિશાદીપ છે? 

આ તો નવેસરથી અજોડ ઐક્યાવૃત છે.

તો હવે, ભીતિ મૂકી આવકારી રહે,

સમ્મિલીકરણે સ્થિતિસ્થાપક રહે,

પરિવર્તનને સ્થિતપ્રજ્ઞ સાથ દે,

ને પૃથ્વીને એ થકી નવ અવતાર દે...

આ તો પ્રભુકૃપા અવતરણનો પ્રભાવ છે...

જય હો પ્રભુ...

મે ૨૦૧૯

Flower Name: Antigonon leptopus

Coral vine, Confederate vine, Mexican creeper, Chain of love

Significance: Integral Harmony

Harmony between things, harmony between persons, harmony of circumstances and, above all, harmony of aspirations — all leading towards the Supreme Truth.

One is no-where!

Whatever happens;

Nobody's share

Or nobody's at the stake 

It's Divine plan

The best that manifests...

One may find faults endless

Make responsible one or another there!

Little play of conditioning game

Vanity takes up the shape!

In quiet mind and silence untinted 

The nature reveals the layered stacks 

The unnecessary pileup due to interruption.

The surface sees as a consequence!

Learn to flow and be fluid unintent

Primary contribution and needed respect 

Learn to remember - just a socket!

One is no-where! Just because bodied, thus visible.

All the credits and contraries at the Divine Lap...

Thank you...

May 2019

Flower Name: Strophanthus

Significance: Radiation of the Manifestation

The Divine Manifestation is spreading.

નથી કોઈ એકનો સવાયો.

ખરો ખરો - ઈશ્વર, ભગવાન નથી અલાયદો 

મારો કે તારો કે નથી કોઈ એકનો સવાયો.

કર્મકાંડ, વેદી વિધાનનો નથી હેવાયો

નથી રીતરસમોની ક્યારીમાં પોષાતો.

ડરભયનાં આવેગોમાં નથી પોસરાતો 

નથી શ્રાપ શિક્ષા થકી પ્રકોપ ઉતારતો 

નથી બાંધતો ભક્ત કે કોઈ અનાદરતો

કે મનુષ્યવત્ વૃત્તિ પ્રતિ પસંદ કે વેરભાવો

સર્વજીવે સમ - સજીવે, નિર્જીવે એકધારો, 

વિશાળ જ્યોતિર્મય આલિંગનમાં સમાવતો.

સદાય અનુકંપામય પ્રેમાળ પાલ્ય પ્રભો...

નતમસ્તક આભાર...

મે ૨૦૧૯

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. With a more advanced mentality, he conceives of the action of life as reposing on a certain principle of divine justice, which he reads always according to his own ideas and character, as a sort of enlarged copy of his human justice; he conceives the idea of moral good and evil and looks upon suffering and calamity and all things unpleasant as a punishment for his sins and upon happiness and good fortune and all things pleasant as a reward of his virtue. God appears to him as a king, judge, legislator, executor of justice. But still regarding him as a sort of magnified Man, he imagines that as his own justice can be deflected by prayers and propitiation, so the divine justice can also be deflected by the same means. Justice is to him reward and punishment, and the justice of punishment can be modified by mercy to the suppliant, while rewards can be supplemented by special favours and kindness such as Power when pleased can always bestow on its adherents arid worshippers. Moreover God like ourselves is capable of wrath and revenge, and wrath and revenge can be turned by gifts and supplication and atonement; he is capable too of partiality, and his partiality can be attracted by gifts, by prayer and by praise. Therefore instead of relying solely on the observation of the moral law, worship as prayer and propitiation is still continued.

Along with these motives there arises another development of personal feeling, first of the awe which one naturally feels for something vast, powerful and incalculable beyond our nature by a certain inscrutability in the springs and extent of its action, and of the veneration and adoration which one feels for that which is higher in its nature or its perfection than ourselves. For, even while preserving largely the idea of a God endowed with the qualities of human nature, there still grows up along with it, mixed up with it or superadded, the conception of an omniscience and omnipotence and a mysterious perfection quite other than our nature. 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: Bougainvillea

Significance: Protection of the Gods

Luminous and clear-visioned.

Goodness and its spread...

Only the Divine Goodness

Maa Kali blessed, removed all the 'against's

O Mother Earth! Absorb this state

Project, by then, only pristine progress

Allow that emergence everywhere 

In atomic - living or statice - boundless 

Penetrate in every possible movement:

Frequency, vibration, condition, domain!

Nature of every existence natural

In sheer joy of Goodness and its spread...

Blessings all through...

Thank you...

May 2019

Always be kind, stop engaging in bitter criticism no longer see evil in anything, obstinately force yourself to see nothing but the benevolent presence of the Divine 'Grace, and you will see not only within you but also around you an atmosphere of quiet joy, peaceful trust spreading more and more. And not only will you feel quiet and happy, but most of your bodily ailments will disappear. TM

Flower Name: Trifolium

Clover, Trefoil

Significance: Kindness of Nature

She is kind when she is loving.

દ્રઢતા અને ધૈર્ય ...

દ્રઢતા અને ધૈર્ય એકમેકને ગોઠે 

પરિપૂર્ણ ઉદ્દેશનાં ભાવિ પકવે.

નિષ્ક્રિય ઈંતેજાર ન લક્ષગતિ ઘડે 

કે ના શંકાનાં ઘોડાપૂરથી યે કંઈ વળે!

લક્ષ્યભેદ જ રાહ ને 'ની રાહી બને

જો દર ડગ નિષ્ઠાપૂર્વક, એ પ્રતિ માંડે,

લક્ષપ્રયાણ, ગણી પળ પળ જીવે,

ક્રિયા કે પરિણામ! ન થકવેે ન ડગવે,

સમય - સ્થળ - સમાધાન ન ચૂકે,

પ્રત્યેક ફક્ત ઉદ્દેશ્ય ભણી પલટે.

ન છોડે ન મૂકે ન ભાગે ન હારે

સક્રિય અભિગમે નિશ્ચિંતપણે ડટી રહે.

ધૈર્યવાન દ્રઢતા મજબૂત ભાવિ ચણે...

પ્રભુને પંથે...

મે ૨૦૧૯

Even the most beautiful thoughts will not make us progress unless we have a constant will for them to be expressed in us through nobler feelings, more exact sensations and better actions.

18 November 1951

What are Your conditions?

1) to be convinced that you can change.

2) to will to change without accepting the excuses of the lower nature. [new p. 159]

3) to persist in the will in spite of every fall.

4) to have an unshakable faith in the help you receive.

7 April 1969

Perseverance: the decision to go to the very end.

Perseverance is patience in action.

Perseverance breaks down all obstacles.

Persevere and all obstacles will be conquered.

Persevere--it is the surest way to success. What you have not been able to achieve in you last year, you will do this year.

With my love and blessings.

Persevere in your aspiration and effort, do not allow yourself to be discouraged by setbacks. This always happens in the beginning. But if you continue to fight without paying any attention to them, a day will come when the resistances give way and the difficulties vanish. My help is always with you, but you must learn to use it and to rely on it rather than on your own resources.

29 May 1956

What you are not able to do today, you will achieve tomorrow. Persevere and you shall conquer.

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. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.

1961

What is obstinacy? How can one use it best?

It is the wrong use of a great quality--perseverance.

Make a good use of it and it will be all right.

Be obstinate in your effort towards progress, and your obstinacy will become useful.

29 May 1971

I already told you that my help is with you and will continue to be so--you are sure to reach the goal but you must be very perseverant. To be constantly in contact with the Truth is not easy and needs time and a great sincerity. But you can be sure of my guidance and my force.

With love and blessings.

1971

Endurance

Endurance: going to the very end of the effort without fatigue or relaxing.

Endurance is the capacity of bearing without depression.

Cheer up, all will be all right, if we know how to last and endure.

To know and be able to bear and endure, undoubtedly produces a firm and fixed joy.

The most important is a steady, quiet endurance that does not allow any upsetting or depression to interfere with your progress. The sincerity of the aspiration is the assurance of the victory.

A quiet endurance is the sure way to success.

14 June 1954

The things we cannot realise today we shall be able to realise tomorrow. The only necessity is to endure.

20 August 1954

The victory is to the most enduring.

6 September 1954

Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring.

And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible.

My force and love are with you.

At the end of the struggle there is Victory.

7 January 1966

In silent endurance, one step forward towards victory with the help of eternal love.

Open to the Divine Grace and thou shalt endure.

Patience

Patience: indispensable for all realisation.

Patience: the capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come.

Accomplishment is without any doubt the fruit of patience.

With patience one arrives always.

It is not in a day that one can overcome one's own nature. But with patience and enduring will the Victory is sure to come.

With patience any difficulty can be overcome.

9 March 1934

Everything will come in its time; keep a confident patience and all will be all right.

9 August 1934

With patience and perseverance all prayers get fulfilled.

4 February 1938

With sincerity, make an effort for progress, and with patience, know how to await the result of your effort.

21 October 1951

To know how to wait is to put Time on your side.

I worry myself over being exact and regular and punctual. If I ever miss being so, even a little, I get upset and feel that I must hurry all the more. In matters of the inner life also, I incline to do the same. [old p. 177]

I think this tendency is to be discouraged.

Yes, it is not good to be impatient and agitated--you must do everything peacefully and quietly without excessive haste.

If the mind remains quiet in all circumstances and happenings, patience will be more easily increased.

Yoga cannot be done in a hurry--it needs many many years. If you are "pressed for time" it means that you have no intention of doing yoga--is it so?

It is not the soul, but the ego and its pride that feel "defeat and humiliation".

10 November 1961

One goes much faster when he is not in a hurry.

To really move forward, one should feel, with complete confidence, that eternity lies before him.

4 July 1962

Sweet Mother,

Too often the feeling of incapacity and of being far from You comes to discourage the will. I am tired of my way of living, of feeling--and it seems to have no end.

To realise anything one must be patient. And the vaster and more important the realisation, the greater the patience must be.

Blessings.

19 May 1968

Mother, when I write to You, there is always this "I"; I know that I have no right to write like this--it is so egoistic. I don't know how to overcome this difficulty. I know that it is not a big difficulty, but it is like a little pebble which one stumbles over even though one sees it.

One must be patient and stubborn in order to reach the goal.

8 May 1971

*Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 14, pp. 167-178

Flower Name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

Chinese hibiscus, Hawaiian hibiscus, Rose- of-China

Significance: Power of Perseverance (Continued perseverance and action)

The perseverance that overcomes all obstacles.

The trap 'old is gold' ...

The little mind wants,

The old, the familiar though cold

The static, the trimmed though bored

No need to expand and score

And climb to the heights unknown

Just sit and stay! No matter which board

The leap is scary and out of zone

The comfort against the unforeseen odd

The challenge to the trap 'old is gold'

Remember Human! That universe

Creation of you. You leashed. Your nod.

Just shift. That 'little' one has power of Gods.

It's time...

Rise high and master...

Lord!

Thank you...

May 2019

A slave of a fixed mass of absolute rules,
It sees as Law the habits of the world,
It sees as Truth the habits of the mind.
In its realm of concrete images and events
Turning in a worn circle of ideas
And ever repeating old familiar acts,
It lives content with the common and the known.
It loves the old ground that was its dwelling-place:
Abhorring change as an audacious sin,
Distrustful of each new discovery
Only it advances step by careful step
And fears as if a deadly abyss the unknown.
A prudent treasurer of its ignorance,
It shrinks from adventure, blinks at glorious hope,
Preferring a safe foothold upon things
To the dangerous joy of wideness and of height.
The world's slow impressions on its labouring mind,
Tardy imprints almost indelible,
Increase their value by their poverty;
The old sure memories are its capital stock:
Only what sense can grasp seems absolute:
External fact it figures as sole truth,
Wisdom identifies with the earthward look,
And things long known and actions always done
Are to its clinging hold a balustrade
Of safety on the perilous stair of Time.

*Savitri

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds

CANTO X: Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

245 246

Flower Name: Cassia
Senna, Shower tree

Significance: Attentive Mind
The mind attains its full utility when it knows how to listen to the higher inspiration.

આનંદ ... ખુશી ...

અંતરેથી અનર્ગળ  ... આનંદ

બાહ્યહસ્તક્ષેપ આધારી ... ખુશી

આત્માએ સ્થિત ... આનંદ

કામનાસંતુષ્ટિથી ... ખુશી

નિર્બાધ સ્વતંત્ર ... આનંદ

વિધ્નાતીત નિર્ભર ... ખુશી

સ્થળકાળ અબાધિત ... આનંદ

સંજોગવત્ ક્ષણબાધ ... ખુશી

સ્થિર નિરંતર ખળખળ ... આનંદ

કારણવશ માત્રામય ... ખુશી

પસંદ, અનુકૂલન પરે ... આનંદ

આગ્રહી ઇચ્છાપૂર્તિ તો  ... ખુશી

અનાયાસ નિજઅવસ્થા ... આનંદ

પ્રયાસ શ્રમ પરિણામી ... ખુશી

અવિરત આપમેળે પ્રસાર ... આનંદ

પરિઘપસંદ સંકુચિત ... ખુશી

અન્યોને પ્રેરણાત્મક  ... આનંદ 

દ્વેષ દાઝ વિકાર મિશ્રિત ... ખુશી

અખંડ અદ્વૈત અપૂર્વ નીરવ આનંદ

ખંડિત દ્વૈત અપૂર્ણ વાચાળ ખુશી

બંને પ્રભુની માનવજાતને દેન...

બંનેનાં મૂળસ્ત્રોતસ્તર અલગ...

જય હો!

મે ૨૦૧૯

Ananda is the very essence of the Brahman, it is the supreme nature of the omnipresent Reality.

The world lives in and by Ananda. From Ananda, says the Veda, we were born, by Ananda we live, to Ananda we return, and it adds that no man could even have the strength to draw in his breath and throw it out again if there were not this heaven of Bliss embracing our existence as ether embraces our bodies, nourishing us with its eternal substance and strength and supporting the life and the activity.

According to our own philosophy the whole world came out of ananda and returns into ananda, and the triple term in which ananda may be stated is Joy, Love, Beauty. To see divine beauty in the whole world, man, life, nature, to love that which we have seen and to have pure unalloyed bliss in that love and that beauty is the appointed road by which mankind as a race must climb to God. SA

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

Significance: Ananda
Calm, tranquil, equal, smiling and very sweet in its truly simple austerity.