House of All-Delight
All it became that figures the absolute,
A high vast peak whence Spirit could see the worlds,
Calm’s wide epiphany, wisdom’s mute home,
A lonely station of Omniscience,
A diving-board of the Eternal’s power,
A white floor in the house of All-Delight.
Here came the thought that passes beyond Thought,
Here the still Voice which our listening cannot hear,
The Knowledge by which the knower is the known,
The Love in which beloved and lover are one.
[Savitri: Book Two Canto 15]
Prayers and Meditations
Thy Divine and Unchanging Smile
June 12, 1914
O my sweet Master, eternal splendour, I can only unite with Thee in silence and peace, saying that Thy Will may be done in every detail as in the whole. Take possession of Thy kingdom, master all that revolts against Thee, heal the souls who do not know Thee and the intellects that do not want to submit and be consecrated to Thee. Awaken our slumbering energies, stimulate our courage, enlighten us, O Lord, show us the Way.
My heart is overflowing with a sovereign peace, my thought is calm and silent.
At the core of all that is, of all that will be, of all that is not, is Thy divine and unchanging smile.
[Prayers and Meditations of the Mother]
From Their Writings
Is It Always the Best That Happens?
Is it really the best that always happens?… It is clear that all that has happened had to happen: it could not be otherwise — by the universal determinism it had to happen. But we can say so only after it has happened, not before. For the problem of the very best that can happen is an individual problem, whether the individual be a nation or a single human being; and all depends upon the personal attitude. If, in the presence of circumstances that are about to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible—that is, if you put your consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can happen to you. But as soon as you fall from this consciousness into a lower state, then it is evidently not the best that can happen, for the simple reason that you are not in your very best consciousness. I even go so far as to affirm that in the zone of immediate influence of each one, the right attitude not only has the power to turn every circumstance to advantage but can change the very circumstance itself. For instance, when a man comes to kill you, if you remain in the ordinary consciousness and get frightened out of your wits, he will most probably succeed in doing what he came for; if you rise a little higher and though full of fear call for the divine help, he may just miss you, doing you a slight injury; if, however, you have the right attitude and the full consciousness of the divine presence everywhere around you, he will not be able to lift even a finger against you.
[The Mother: CWM 3]
Songs of the Soul: December 1, 2024
Maa, our sweet and infinite Mother, Mother of Light and Might, Thy Name is the best protection against all the storms and cyclones of life. The storms do arise, driven by the momentum of our past. They come because of blind unconscious spots within us that open the doors. They arise because we move out of Thy Protection through our actions and thoughts. Yet if through the passage we hold on to Your Name then we are carried by Thy Love through it all. And if we can continue to serve Thee with faith in Thy Grace, then not only do we escape through the storm but when it abates we find that we have actually taken a leap, that some dark spot where the dirt of lives had accumulated has been cleared, we feel lighter as if a great load has been lifted, we grow in fact stronger and wiser through it all. All that is required is to endure the passage with faith, with complete trust and confidence in Thy saviour Grace. But we are only quick to disown the greatest treasure of faith, quick to give up, quick to doubt, quick to complain. Hence the misery prolongs, the storm turns into a hurricane driving us far from our goal, or changes into a tornado causing much destruction and devastation in its passage.
If only we could learn to endure with complete faith. If only we learn to remain open to Thy Grace through it all, surrendering to Thy Will.
Grant this faith and certitude to all, this faith which is the greatest guide in the darkest days.
Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa
Notes and Reflections
Places specially charged with the supramental vibrations
The Mother has created spaces charged with Her Consciousness so that those, who wish to remain enveloped in Her atmosphere and breath Her air, can go there, ‘recharge their batteries’ and return back rejuvenated. Herein we find the significance of the Ashram with the Samadhi, charged with the supramental vibrations, a fact to which countless sadhakas would testify. There are other places as well, such as Auroville and Centers, especially Relic Centers that provide a luminous divine ambience for the sadhaka to practice the yoga. It is up to each of us to use them to strengthen our core that is turned towards the yoga through faith, devotion and aspiration. It is a great mistake of the modern mind to regard these places as some kind of a cult or sect. Cults and sects exist in the mind of man, and a person living alone may live under a sectarian belief, whereas one engaged in constant prayer and worship turned towards the Master may be freed completely from all man-made and mind-made bonds of ignorance, including limitations of belief and practices. His sheer love for the Master that has drawn him even outwardly, converts his limited human consciousness into a communion and consequent union with the Divine Consciousness of the Master.
Question of the Day
Can my chronic disease be a part of my yoga?
Yoga is a journey towards the Divine. And the journey includes the bags and baggages that we cannot leave behind. But if we are earnest in our pursuit, especially if we have full faith, then the Divine either takes up our baggage or lightens up its weight gently leaving it by the side if necessary or else transforming what we consider as a difficulty into an opportunity for progress or even an instrument for His service and action.