Ramprasad   (1)   This time I have found the secret.¹ One who has the secret has taught me the secret. ² I have found a man who comes from a land        where there is no night. Day or evening, both are equal to me now.        Lo! Evening is a barren lady. Sleep has fled, no more shall I sleep.        I am awake through all the ages. Now I have handed over sleep to him to whom it belongs: I have sent sleep to sleep. I have mixed borax and sulphur and, like a goldsmith, I have brought out the purest gold And I shall scrub and clean the temple of jewel. Prasad says: Devotion and Liberation I carry on my head,

A Canadian Question   Question:     IT is written in A Practical Guide to Integral Yoga¹:   The physical nearness to the Mother is indispensable for the fullness of the sadhana on the physical plane. Transformation of the physical and external being is not possible otherwise.   My question is: How are we to interpret these words in the light of the Mother's recent passing? Does this mean that a full transformation is no longer possible to the aspirant? Or has discipleship on the material level in the path of the Integral Yoga come to an end?   Answer:     Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed – not cancelle

Modern Poems   O GODDESS, VENDOR OF LIBERTY   O goddess, vendor of liberty! Bind me not in thy boundlessness; And in the unending path of destiny Happy be thy unmoving voyage.   Goddess, veiling the Love Eternal, Come to our mortal land, here bring Heaven's nectar, To this transient pilgrim life; O Guide eternal! draw the pause of our tiresomeness.   O Mind of magic! A stirless stream art thou upon our stilled earth, As though the sweet enchanted ocean engulfing a golden boat – O I kiss the Twin Hearts!                    THE VIGIL (A Surrealistic Poem)   Twigs and straws, broken bits, strewn abou

SWEET MOTHER   The Mother, Human and Divine   IN our human frailty we regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We are apt to seize ex­clusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the other term which is equally important. We demand from her the same reactions of motherly love as we expect from a human mother. Our love for her is human, human in the ignorant way – full of passion and craving, hunger for appropriation, considering her as nothing else than food for our egoistic desires. She is the mother indeed, but the Divine Mother. She wishes us to come to her in the divine way and not in the human way. For it is in the di

THE FOOL                                                                                                              [1]   Long is the night to him who is awake, long is a league to the weary. Long is the cycle of life to the senseless person who knows not the true Law.  Page – 206 [2]   If one does not find in his quest someone superior or even equal to himself, then he must resolutely go on all alone; no help can come from the senseless person.   [3]   I have sons, I have riches – so says the senseless man and worries himself. Even one's own self does not belong to oneself, how can then sons and riches so belong?   [4]  

ON HAPPINESS   [1]   Let us live happily without enmity among enemies; Among men inimical let us dwell without enmity.  Page – 223 [2]   Let us live happily without affliction among the afflicted; Among men afflicted let us dwell without affliction.   [3]   Let us live happily without greed among the greedy: Among greedy men let us dwell without greed.   [4]   Let us live happily we who have nothing, nothing at all: We shall feed upon delight even like the gods.   [5]   Victory breeds enmity, the victim lies in distress; The tranquillised soul dwells in happiness abandoning victory

OF HELL   [1]   One who says of a thing that was not that it was goes to hell, also one who does a thing and yet says he has not done. Both of them on leaving the world will share the same fate else­where, for they are men of vile action.   [2]   Many with the yellow robe on do evil without restraint. They are evil men who, because of their evil doings, take birth in Hell.   [3]   Better it were to swallow a flaming iron-ball than to eat of alms quested while leading a dissolute life.   [4]   Four are the realms where the foolish who desire another man's wife are relegated: the realm of no merit, the realm of on sleep, the realm of cen

The Mother Abides   IF it is a 'pralaya', even a 'mahapralaya', all is not lost, all is not washed away. Something remains, untouched, deathless, the divine part in you, the Mother's part in you, the consciousness incarnate and articulate. Indeed it was your soul that she salvaged out of the inconscience and established in you as a living reality. That was her first and primary task and She has fulfilled it. It was there always, true; but it was a far-off, very distant and almost inactive point of light, an unknown and an uncharted star not yet come into the ken of human measure and potency. She has brought it nearer home and established in our living and dynamic consci

THE BRAHMIN   [1]   O Brahmin! Struggle hard, seal off the stream, drive away desires. Knowing that all elements of existence have dissolved, you will know the Uncreated:   [2]   When the Brahmin has gone beyond the dualities, then he attains knowledge and all his bondages disappear.   [3]   Him I call a Brahmin for whom there is neither the shore nor the shoreless, for whom both are non-existent, one who is free from fear, free from attachment.   [4]   Him I call a Brahmin who is given to meditation and is free from impurities, who has settled down and done what is to be done, the sinless who has attained the supreme Good.  P

THE GOLDEN JOURNEY   HE AND SHE THE MUSICIAN ANGEL FOUR GODS OR GODDESSES FOUR CHILDREN FOUR MAID SERVANTS Two INITIATES THE CROWD OF EARTHLY BEINGS THE NEW BEING   The Two-in-One play all the roles in the eternal round of a manifestation which enriches itself ceaselessly – the Golden Cycle.     It is He: the child, the traveller, the lover, the disciple, the triumphant, the holocaust – the One, the Beloved.     It is She: the mother, the tree, the comrade, the bride, the master, the adversary – the One, the Beloved.   The New Being incarnates, in a new cycle, their manifestation in a single body.  Page – 290