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| At the beginning of each far-spread plane Pervading with her power the cosmic suns She reigns, inspirer of its multiple works And thinker of the symbol of its scene. Above them all she stands supporting all, The sole omnipotent Goddess ever-veiled Of whom the world is the inscrutable mask; The ages are the footfalls of her tread, Their happenings the figure of her thoughts, And all creation is her endless act. His spirit was made a vessel of her force; Mute in the fathomless passion of his will He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer. Then in a sovereign answer to his heart A gesture came as of worlds thrown away, And from her raiment’s lustrous mystery raised One arm half-parted the eternal veil. A light appeared still and imperishable. Attracted to the large and luminous depths Of the ravishing enigma of her eyes, He saw the mystic outline of a face. Overwhelmed by her implacable light and bliss, An atom of her illimitable self Mastered by the honey and lightning of her power, Tossed towards the shores of her ocean-ecstasy, Drunk with a deep golden spiritual wine, He cast from the rent stillness of his soul A cry of adoration and desire And the surrender of his boundless mind And the self-giving of his silent heart. He fell down at her feet unconscious, prone. Sri Aurobindo Savitri, Book II, Canto XIV, pages 295-296 |
Mistakes can be EffacedIf errors and mistakes could not be effaced at every moment, there would be no hope of salvation for the world. ******************** Do not give too much importance to the little incidents of life. ******************** For the Supreme Lord, sin does not exist — all defect can be effaced by sincere aspiration and by transformation. ******************** One must not torment oneself over errors that one may commit, but one must keep a perfect sincerity in one’s aspiration and in the end everything will be all right. ******************** Thinking too much about one’s impurities does not help. It is better to keep the thought fixed on the purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire. ******************** When a mistake is made, it must always be used as a means for progress; once the necessary change is realised, the mistake and its cause disappear and there can be no repetition. The Mother Words of the Mother II, CWM Volume 14, pages 234 – 238. |
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