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NEW TRANSLATIONS WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS MA non so qual divin romor benigno vada tonando nei mortali cuori come canta divinamente il cigno, lasciando il suo corpo nei freschi fiori. Puri pensieri, d'un gran impeto il segno, speranze benvenute, come cori di voci amabili, fan l'uomo degno del ciel, vincendo peccati e timori. Sri Aurobindo Page – 62 AN ITALIAN STANZA I KNOW not what godly blissful sound Goes thundering in mortal hearts Like the swan singing divinely When it leaves its body amongst fresh flowers. Pure thoughts, mark of a great urge, Welcome hopes, like a chorus of kindly voices, Make m

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On the Brink (I) One of its legs she Swan does not lift. as it soars upward out of the waters; if perchance it lifted that also, there would then neither today nor tomorrow, nor would there be day nor night nor would there be dawning any more. Atharvaveda, 11.4.21 THUS the vedic Rishi. ¹ Even so when Mother withdrew physically form this earth we presumed that she did so with one foot only, the other foot she left planted here below for us to worship. Well, was that only a presumption or things have changed since? Here on this earth, we know, a battle was raging is still raging between the Gods and Asuras: men are their agents and instruments.

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HYMN TO DAWN Lo, DAWN, the Beloved, appears in her gleaming young body. She impels all life on the path towards the goal. Fire, the Divine Force, is born to be kindled in man. Dawn drives away all Darkness and fulfils herself in creating Light. She, the Goddess rises lifting her forward gaze towards the Vast, the Universal. She has put on the robe of Light and displays the white brilliance of her subtle norms of Truth. Heaven-gold. is her hue, her vision is all-round seeing: verily, she is the mother of the herd of brilliances of know­ledge, a leader of our bright days; her luminous body is disclosed. The Goddess, All-Enjoyment she is: she comes carrying the Sun, th

FORWARD FORWARD! ... March on, ever forward! Mother's army we are! On to the battle for her final self-revealing! If ourselves we do not fall back, Who can stop our drive? We are the bridge between earth and heaven, God's labour fulfilled. Hard is the path, ever harder, but on we go with energy undaunted: 'We shall seize the all-swallower and lay him low at the feet of the All-victorious! We shall never fail, We spring from the Mother's Force: On we drive over towering boulders of danger and difficulty! Mother is our Home of Joy, Mother our Mantra; Victory is ours, sleepless we shall battle and bring to Her the Victory. We hur

Page - 82 WHEREFORE THIS HURRY? WHEREFORE this hurry? The last bus about to start? What does it matter? What is the harm? If the bus goes? there is the train; If the train goes, there is the plane. Even if that fails, where's the worry? Stay down! You will surely find a nook behind, And perhaps your mind and many another thing, who knows what.... A dream or diving drowning sleep Or red showers of Thought Or a sudden wild gust hurtling through clattering windows Or fleecy clouds flowing over Heaven's dome Or a lone darkness echoing - OM OM OM. Gouri Dharmapal Page – 83

The Mother – The Nature of Her Work IT seems I am to tell you something about the Mother – a bit of her life, a bit of her activities. Well, the first part of her life, as you all know, the Mother passed in France, she was born in France, in Paris. So, naturally it was very often pointed out to her that she was French, she was European. To this, however, she was always protesting, saying, "I am not European, I am not French." It would indeed sound somewhat strange to say that her family came in fact from Egypt. Her parents, her father and mother went to France just a year before she was born, a year only. And in Egypt, her family, it seems, belonged to a