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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/Paintings.htm
PAINTINGS
During her free time Janina
devoted herself to painting, drawing inspirationfrom the works of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The colours that she choseare symbolic
of a state or plane of consciousness. Later she painted
severalseries of pictures to illustrate certain spiritual themes
such as the adventureof the soul, the divine Play and the story
of Creation.
PAINTINGS
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_22.12.1957.htm
Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
22.12.1957
Now I want to tell how it is with this difference here - the substantial difference. When I was outside the Ashram I had faith - now I
know. Every day the vibration from Mother's eyes enters my eyes when She gives darshan and it spreads all over the body. Now I understand that when one is outside one has no idea in a way of what is going on here. Yes, theoretically one knows - but coming here proves that it is ju
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_31.5.1958 .htm
Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
31.5.1958
Since the lesson She gave me during the movies I know that I could never find Her if the element of outer appearances were allowed to remain in my attitude towards Her. But as my love for Her is great it all developed in such a wonderful way. I felt that I myself can do nothing and She made me come to the point where I could take all my love for Her into my hands and offer it to Her for purification and transformation.
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_20.1.58 .htm
Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
20.1.58
It is like being flooded. She pours and pours in and spreads Herself to all the corners, holes and caves of the being. And it is a continuous fever of self-giving and a continuous imploring and calling Her to come. The self-giving seems to be so insufficient and so poor when it faces the Grace. And when She comes, She becomes so near that I at last begin to feel free with Her, to talk to and adore Her in Her manifested bo
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_6.2.1958 .htm
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Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
6.2.1958
I understand and feel what Sri Aurobindo said about not being concerned with one's own perfection. I simply forget all about it. I just have a kind of fever to be able to serve Her and nothing else. There is no place for anything else. Only to do Her will.
Do you know what happened yesterday? Mother sent me a sadhika whose husband was very ill, he almost died, but Mother kept him alive. Now he is out of the hospit
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_24.2.1958 .htm
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Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
24.2.1958
It is now necessary that I drop my mental as completely as possible. So She wants it. But it is not easy and for a time I shall stop formulating what is going on with me. This will help me. I want just to live in self-giving only, just to close my eyes and plunge myself into Her.
There are such wonderful articles in all three monthlies and quarterlies, Advent, Bulletin
and Mother India, that I am sending you th
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_2.4.1958 .htm
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Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
2.4.1958
Oh, this can only be compared to changing the element in which one lives, from water, for example, to air. Everything is new. And the essence of my life changes. Because now there seems to be really nothing more than sacrificing continuously. This will be the main occupation, probably the only one. I do not know. She often gives me new
realisations. This one withdraws and comes back and so it goes. But I am born a
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_13.4.1958 .htm
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Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
13.4.1958
I feel that I should not resist
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in a way - any wave. I mean, when Mother sweeps this house I must keep myself transparent and accept all the dirt and dust - accept but not hold it, even for a moment - only immediately pass it on, which means to Her. Almost automatically and with great speed. It is like physical exercises or a game. If I do not do it quickly enough, She cannot go on "throwing" it at me, like ba
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/letter_30.12.1957 .htm
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Below are extracts from
letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and
later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about
her life experience in the Ashram.
30.12.1957
During Darshan this morning She showed me what is a kind of knack in the process of surrender. I have nothing to give, ever. But every time my act of self- giving is sufficiently strong She gives and acts in me and through me. It is like a rhythm: a movement in me to Her - a movement of Her in me. And the moment I think of giving or want to give, the contact is lost. It is a real school exercise - a
school of Di
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Janina/English/Janina Stroka - An Artist and a Yogi/3 Prayers.htm
Three Prayers
while waiting for Thee, Mother
1
While I was waiting for Tee, O Light,
To appear on the balcony,
I prayed:
Before the Lord descends in the firsr ray of Thy gaze,
O Mother, chase away the clouds that cover my soul
As Thou art lifting at dawn the mist-veil
From the immaculate face of that deep Black Lake
In my Tatry Mountains (the highest mountain range in
Poland)
And then, when the Lord will come,
The luminous beam will pierce my bare being
Unto its very depths and fill it with bliss.
And the Lord will be pleased,
And He will look around Him on His happy property
At the bottom of my soul.
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