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"All ocean lived within a wandering drop,"
Savitri-101
Flower Offering on 27th October 2026
Past Editions
"If the chamber’s door is even a little ajar,
What then can hinder God from stealing in
Or who forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul?
Already God is near, the Truth is close:" Savitri-649
“A Power into mind’s inner chamber steal,
A charm and sweetness open life’s closed doors And beauty conquer the resisting world,
The Truth-Light capture Nature by surprise,
A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss
And earth grow unexpectedly divine." Savitri-45
November 2025
“Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldorados of splendour and ecstasy
And temples to the godhead none can see.” Savitri-46-47
“If once it met the intense original Flame,
An answering touch might shatter all measures made
And earth sink down with the weight of the Infinite.”
Savitri-18
October 2025
"Even in our sceptic mind of ignorance
A foresight comes of some immense release,
Our will lifts towards it slow and shaping hands. Each part in us desires its absolute." Savitri-170
“Awake not the immeasurable descent,
Speak not my secret name to hostile Time;
Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight.
Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth.”
Savitri-335
December 2025
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Bonne Fete Saswati
Announcement 1:
Sri Matriniketan Ashram Silver Jublee, 01.02.2028
Proposed 115th issue of The Descent on 01.02.2028 in the link: Earth_spiritual_history | Matriniketanashram
“If you want to know what is really happening in the world, you should not read newspapers of any sort, for they are full of lies."
“To read a newspaper is to take part in the greatest collective falsehoods.”
The Mother
TMCW-17/More Answers from the Mother/p-323
“One drop of truth is worth more than an ocean of false information.”
The Mother
TMCW-14/Words of the Mother-II/p-201
(Integral Yoga proposes that ordinary life can be transformed into Divine life by rejecting the former. Those who attempt to reconcile ordinary life with Divine life, waste their valuable time. The above message hints that those who see entertainment and news channels in the popular net service afflict life with inferiority and are far from becoming instruments of Truth.)
“Question by a disciple: Z told me that if I had no time to read newspapers, I should at least glance at them. I asked him, “Is it a law that we must read newspapers?” He answered, “I have to know what is going on in the world too; I am not a sannyasi.”
Answer given by The Mother: I am not a sannyasi and I never read a newspaper! ... I don’t have time for it. It is difficult to read newspapers without having the consciousness descend to a very ordinary level. Only when the consciousness is firmly established in union with the Divine is it possible to read newspapers without any risk of falling into a lower consciousness.”
The Mother
TMCW-17/P-19, 5 December 1933
"Sweet Mother,
How can we know the truth of the facts when reading newspapers? What is the best way of knowing the truth of the world?
The best way is to find the truth in ourselves — then we shall be able to see the Truth wherever it is.... Blessings."
The Mother
TMCW-16/Some Answers from the Mother/P-419,
“Rules like these [not reading newspapers, eating a fixed diet, keeping only a few things] are intended to help the vital and physical to come under the discipline of sadhana and not get dispersed in fancies, impulses, self-indulgences; but they must be done simply, not with any sense of superiority or ascetic pride, but as a mere matter of course. It is true also that they can be made the occasion of a too great mental rigidity — as if they were things of supreme importance in themselves and not only a means. Put in their right place and done in the right spirit, they can be very helpful for their purpose.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-29/Letters on Yoga-II/p-383,
“If one is always in the inner consciousness, then one can be not dispersed even when doing outward things — or if one is conscious of the Divine at all times and in all one does, then also can one read newspapers or do much correspondence without dispersion. But even then though there is not dispersion, yet there is less intensity of consciousness when reading a newspaper or writing a letter than when one is not putting part of oneself into quite external things. It is only when the consciousness is quite siddha that there is not even this difference. That does not mean one should not do external things at all, for then one gets no training in joining the two consciousnesses.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-31/Letters on Yoga-IV/p-324-325
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