tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492774704026276830.post7413253655900430714..comments2010-04-21T00:31:40.936+05:30General Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08357387091233027707noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492774704026276830.post-42763594788350655882010-04-21T00:31:40.936+05:302010-04-21T00:31:40.936+05:30I find it amazing that PH,a person who spent 4 decades &#39;studying&#39; Sri Aurobindo has such a shallow understanding of Integral Yoga. I have read his earlier short biography of Sri Aurobindo, and was pretty impressed with it.. But reading the extracts of this longer biography on this site makes me ponder what happened to PH?Yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08027345866622751663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492774704026276830.post-66912343718655198402008-11-06T01:18:00.000+05:302008-11-06T01:18:00.000+05:30About the Ascent to Supermind, I may add the following:<BR/><BR/>That work of integral manifestation begins with the Mother meeting Sri Aurobindo on the epoch-making 29 March 1914. She writes in her diary that his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light. And when asked about this meeting, reciprocally, Sri Aurobindo writes that in her he saw surrender to the Divine to the last bit of the physical possible. In it the work begins.<BR/><BR/>Later, the Mother told something significant. When she met Sri Aurobindo she was in deep prayerful concentration. In it she saw things in the supermind; she was seeing things that were to be but somehow were not manifesting. She told it to Sri Aurobindo and asked him if they would manifest. He just said, “Yes.” And immediately she saw that the supramental had touched the earth and was beginning to be realized! <BR/><BR/>The supermind had touched the earth on 29 March 1914. The yogic effort was now directed to fix it permanently in the earth’s physical. The Mother’s total surrender to the Lord is the only means to achieve the miracle. The change has already occurred. The Mother writes:<BR/><BR/><BR/>29 March 1914: O Thou whom we must know, understand, realise, absolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and illuminest us, who movest and inspirest us, grant that these weak souls may be strengthened and those who fear be reassured. To Thee I entrust them, even as I entrust to Thee our entire destiny.<BR/><BR/>30 March 1914: He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall indeed be established upon earth.<BR/><BR/>1 April 1914: I feel we have entered the very heart of Thy sanctuary and grown aware of Thy very will. A great joy, a deep peace reign in me… now all is changed: a new stage has begun.<BR/><BR/>2 April 1914: … the new period opening now before us… a period of expansion rather than of concentration. It is in the activity of each moment that we must serve Thee and identify ourselves with Thee rather than in deep and silent contemplation or in meditation…<BR/><BR/>3 April 1914: It seems to me that I am being born to a new life… I know that I must now definitively give myself up and be like an absolutely blank page on which Thy thought, Thy will, O Lord, can be inscribed freely… Oh, to belong to Thee without any darkness, without any restriction!<BR/><BR/>In the Prayers and Meditations there are a few themes which constantly recur. Her one concern is the Soul of the Earth. She invokes peace and in it entrusts herself to the Will of the Lord. She says: “May Thy peace reign over all.” Whatever has to be got done can be done only in that benign peace. Peace is the foundation for all enduring work.<BR/><BR/>The Mother met Sri Aurobindo and a resplendent change took place in her. It was the direct contact with him that had brought it about. She says she was born to a new life. <BR/><BR/><BR/>RY DeshpandeRYDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10619346864770502159noreply@blogger.com