There is a morning twilight of the gods;
Miraculous from sleep their forms arise
And God’s long nights are justified by dawn.
There breaks a passion and splendour of new birth
And hue-winged visions stray across the lids,
Heaven’s chanting heralds waken dim-eyed Space.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book X, Canto I, page 601.
Getting up and before going to sleep
Sweet Mother,
Just as there is a methodical progression of exercises for mental and physical education, isn’t there a similar method to progress towards Sri Aurobindo’s yoga? It should vary with each individual. Could you make a step-by-step programme for me to follow daily?
The mechanical regularity of a fixed programme is indispensable for physical, mental and vital development; but this mechanical rigidity has little or no effect on spiritual development where the spontaneity of an absolute sincerity is indispensable.
Sri Aurobindo has written very clearly on this subject. And what he has written on it has appeared in The Synthesis of Yoga.
However, as an initial help to set you on the path, I can tell you: (1) that on getting up, before starting the day, it is good to make an offering of this day to the Divine, an offering of all that one thinks, all that one is, all that one will do; (2) and at night, before going to sleep, it is good to review the day, taking note of all the times one has forgotten or neglected to make an offering of one’s self or one’s action, and to aspire or pray that these lapses do not recur.
This is a minimum, a very small beginning — and it should increase with the sincerity of your consecration.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother, CWM volume 16, pages 315 – 316.