"It seized on speech to give those flamings shape,...
And spoke immortal things through mortal lips....
Her mouth was seized to channel ineffable truths, Knowledge unthinkable found an utterance." Savitri-553
Saturday Study Circle
(Supreme Mother said to King Aswapati)
"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
(King Aswapati said to Savitri)
"For somewhere on the longing breast of earth,
Thy unknown lover waits for thee the unknown.
Thy soul has strength and needs no other guide
Than One who burns within thy bosom’s powers.
There shall draw near to meet thy approaching steps
The second self for whom thy nature asks,
He who shall walk until thy body’s end
A close-bound traveller pacing with thy pace,
The lyrist of thy soul’s most intimate chords
Who shall give voice to what in thee is mute....
One force shall be your mover and your guide,
One light shall be around you and within;
Hand in strong hand confront Heaven’s question, life:" Savitri-374-375
(Narad said about the nature of Satyavan)
"Delightful is the soul of Satyavan,....
His eyes keep a memory from a world of bliss....
His speech carries a light of inner truth,
And a large-eyed communion with the Power
In common things has made veilless his mind,
A seer in earth-shapes of garbless deity." Savitri-430
(Savitri spoke about herself)
"Once my heart chose and chooses not again.
The word I have spoken can never be erased,
It is written in the record book of God.
The truth once uttered, from the earth’s air effaced,
By mind forgotten, sounds immortally
For ever in the memory of Time.
Once the dice fall thrown by the hand of Fate
In an eternal moment of the gods.
My heart has sealed its troth to Satyavan:
Its signature adverse Fate cannot efface,
Its seal not Fate nor Death nor Time dissolve." Savitri-432
(Supreme Lord said to Savitri:)
"O Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power,
The revealing voice of my immortal Word,
The face of Truth upon the roads of Time
Pointing to the souls of men the routes to God." Savitri-703
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"A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:" Savitri-67
"My (Savitri's) soul and his indissolubly linked....
To bring God down to the world on earth we came," Savitri-692
Through Saturday Study Circle we pay God's debt and through Sunday Study Circle we call down Divine energy. Both are an extension of self-discipline of the Vedic Sacrifice, Prakriti Yajna.
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“It is always better not to listen to talks especially on so-called spiritual matters. Each one must follow his own way and the others have nothing to do with it.”
The Mother
TMCW-14/Words of the Mother-II/p-204
“One drop of true knowledge can create a revolution if it falls into a world of ignorance.” “I am given the awareness of how huge this thing (the descent of Supramental Truth) is one drop at a time…so I won’t be crushed,”
The Mother
The Mother’s Centenary Works (second edition)Vol-10/360,
The Mother’s Agenda, July 15, 1961,
“Sri Aurobindo was very, very conscious of this general confusion, and so he didn’t much like … he wanted absolutely no propaganda, but he also didn’t much like attempts to “explain things” to people and make them “understand,” because he very well knew how useless it is. He very, very often said it to me: no propaganda whatsoever, of course, and above all, above all, no attempt to make people understand: the maximum effect one can obtain is the effect of the Consciousness at work in the world (universal gesture), because in everyone it produces the utmost the person can do – the utmost of what he can understand, he understands through the influence of the pressure of the Consciousness. As soon as words intervene, the whole mind makes a mess of it.”
The Mother
The Mother’s Agenda/Vol-10/p-60,
“I don’t believe in advertisement except for books etc., and in propaganda except for politics and patent medicines. But for serious work it is a poison. It means either a stunt or a boom—and stunts and booms exhaust the thing they carry on their crest and leave it lifeless and broken high and dry on shores of nowhere or it means a movement. A movement in the case of work like mine means the founding of a school or a sect or some damned nonsense. It means that hundreds and thousands of useless people join in and corrupt the work or reduce it to pompous farce from which the Truth that was coming down recedes into secrecy and silence. It is what has happened to the ‘religions’ and the reason of their failure.”
Sri Aurobindo
02.10.1934, SABCL/26/p-375
“And the effort of transformation limited to a small number becomes something FAR MORE precious and FAR MORE powerful for the realisation. It is as if a choice had been made of those (few) who will be the pioneers of the new creation. And all those idea of “spreading” [the ideal], of “preparation” or churning Matter – childishness. It is human agitation.”
The Mother
The Mother’s Agenda/27th November, 1965
(The above message hints that instead of propagating Their Teachings, those who put their concentration into living Their Teachings are instruments of Truth. Then that Influence will automatically spread over the earth. That is what we understand as self-expansion, which is an outcome of self-concentration.)
"What is the true method for studying Sri Aurobindo’s works?
(The Mother's reply) The true method is to read a little at a time, with concentration, keeping the mind as silent as possible, without actively trying to understand, but turned upwards, in silence, and aspiring for the light. Understanding will come little by little....And later, in one or two years, you will read the same thing again and then you will know that the first contact had been vague and incomplete, and that true understanding comes later, after having tried to put it into practice."
The Mother
The Mother's Centenary Works/Vol-12/On Education/p-204
“Who can understand Sri Aurobindo? He is as vast as the universe and his teaching is infinite...The only way to come a little close to him is to love him sincerely and give oneself unreservedly to his work. Thus, each one does his best and contributes as much as he can to that transformation of the world which Sri Aurobindo has predicted.”
The Mother
TMCW-12/On Education/p-397, 2 December 196
"We sat together in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the company of our soul, and we witnessed the gates of Eternity opening wide before us.... It is in silence that the soul best expresses itself.... It is in the silence of complete identification with the Divine that true understanding is obtained... With words one can at times understand, but only in silence one knows..... Silence: the condition of the being when it listens to the Divine. "
The Mother
The Mother's Centenary Works/Vol-14/Words of the Mother-II/p-143
“Not inexplicable certainly; it was the condition of silence of the mind to which he (Sri Aurobindo) had come by his meditation for 3 days with Lele in Baroda and which he kept for many months and indeed always thereafter, all activity proceeding on the surface; but at that time there was no activity on the surface. Lele told him to make namaskar to the audience and wait and speech would come to him from some other source than the mind. So in fact, the speech came, and ever since all speech, writing, thought and outward activity have so come to him from the same source above the brain-mind.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-36//Autobiographical Notes/p-111