Prayer to Sri Aurobindo

June 10, 2000

Sri Aurobindo, Lord, how can we coalesce the disparate strands of our diffused and hardly conscious lives other than by surrender in gratitude? How many millions of lives hast Thou touched, how many souls have been guided by Thy love to tread the path leading to superhumanity. O Lord Thou hast established a new principle on earth, the true unifying field, the truth-consciousness, with the force to change physical matter and to remould man in the divine image.

How many of us have strayed only to be led gently back by the sweetness of Thy infinite love for earth and mankind? I believe that even those unaware of Thee yet open to the new light on earth are as much the recipients of Thy force and action and Mother’s Grace as are those of us who would call ourselves Thy disciples. I for one acknowledge that I am undeserving of such an honorific as devotee or disciple, but having felt Thy awakening touch and my soul’s eternal and grateful memory of Thy visits, a memory emblazoned in my depths for all time and beyond the scope of time, and the complete love, grace and protection of the Mother – through all my wayward adventures of the ego-driven vital life – I pray that I may one day be worthy to call myself Thy child and disciple.