From Light to Delight

Varadharajan

The Mother had declared 1971 as 'A sweet year' and Auroville is a special beneficiary of that sweetness.

In the new millennium, as a manifestation of the recapturing of that sweetness, a 'Remembering the Mother' and 'Remembering Sri Aurobindo' programme was started in the beginning of 2001 and continued till the end of 2004, the leap year. Each time it was a special occasion. This book is a collection of many of these sharings.

We hope that through all these remembrances that are gathered here, the Sweet Presence of our Mother and Sri Aurobindo which was felt during the happenings is recaptured again and is carried on to the Future.

Remembrances are both subjective and objective. The speakers who consented to publish their precious intimate moments had one primary concern—to pass on with gratitude what they received from Her to those who are ready and aspiring. Each speaker tried to convey his inmost soul feelings through an external medium—English—and we did not 'englicise' his spiritual meanings that are well conveyed as it is. Everything is undergoing a churning and metamorphosis, including the language of communication...

We are beginners in the Auroville adventure...

We are Her children in Her vast kindergarten, even now... 'Pioneers' in Her compassionate word... and in the world. Kindly use your imagination to fill up any deficiency on our part.

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We join with Saint Thyagaraja who has sung in his pancharatna kriti —

"Yendaro Mahanu Bhavulu Andariki Vandanamulu."

(Many are the great: Salutations to all.)

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Emotional remembrance

Only the circumstances that have helped us in our search for the Divine should be the object of this remembrance. Dicentra spectabilis. Rose pink.

I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers

Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life

Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;

Forerunners of a divine multitude,

Out of the paths of the morning star they came

Into the little room of mortal life.

Book III, 4

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