Hymn to Forest-Range RIGVEDA Mandala X: Sukta 146 (I) FOREST-Range! Range of Forest! Ever forward you seem to move! Wherefore do you not enquire for a village? Are you not afraid? (2) Here bellows the bull, there in answer chirps a grasshopper –­ A musical chord, as it were, playing the glory of the woodland! (3) These seem to be cattle grazing and those are huts for habitation; and at eve-tide there seem to file out of the forest a caravan of carts. (4) A call, as though, it is for a straying calf or perhaps a tree is being cut down, Page-26 Or even as we are in the wood

Narada - Sanatkumara (Chhandogya Upanishad) RISHI Sanatkumara was once approached by Narada (evi­dently not yet become a Rishi), who said, "Lord, I desire to be taught by you. Please teach me." The Rishi replied, "Very well, but first tell me how much you know; then I shall tell you if you need more." Narada thereupon made out an inventory of his learning; it was a formidable list. "My Lord, this is what I have learnt: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, the Fifth Veda comprising History and Mythology; next, Grammar, Mathematics, Logic and Politics, the Science of Computing Time, Theology, Fine Arts and the Ritual Lore; Demonology, Astrology, and

O, Wake Up from Vain Slumber I BRING no magic herbs, I bring only the blood of my veins— ­O, wake up from vain slumber! If I am struck blind, If these eyes see no more your face, If the whole earth is locked out utterly, Well, let it be so ­— If you only open wide your fiery eyes. If I turn deaf, let it be so: In the molten fire of your voice If I cannot bake the ribs of my breast, Well, let it be so -. . O, only keep open your sharp ears. If I am silenced forever And struck dumb, If all the gathered words of my life remain Entombed, coursing within the sands of my bosom, Well, let it be so ­— If y

Satyakama and Upakoshala (1) SATYAKAMA was now a Rishi, a brahmarsi, a sage and seer who had realised the Truth. He was himself a teacher now, had his own Ashrama where the seekers and aspirants came to receive his instruction and guidance. Today I shall tell you something of the aim and method of Satyakama's work as teacher. Upakoshala Kamalayana, the son of Kamala, resided with Satyakama as a student of sacred lore for twelve years, tending his fires. What this tending of the fires really meant we shall learn as we proceed. There were other resident pupils along with Upakoshala; and after they had finished their twelve-year course, they were permitted to re

Hymn to the Pillar (Skambha) ATHARVAVEDA Kanda X: Sukta 7 [The ritualistic or the naturalistic symbolism. of the Veda is at its minimum in this hymn of the Atharvaveda, trans­lated almost literally. The Pillar, it is explicitly said, is the Brahman, the Supreme Reality. It is sarvadhara, the contain­er of all, the total or integral existence. It upholds the crea­tion, it has entered into the creation and it has become the creation. It is the tree, the Aswattha tree as the Upanishad also describes, with its branches spreading out, i.e. all the multiple aspects of the creation. Even the gods, all of them, find shelter here in one form or other. All gods it is: A

OBSERVATIONS AND NOTES Observations I GRACE is the Divine made earthly and human. And that is our Mother. The Mother's body was not meant to give us, to make a gift to us of a transformed human body, for our contemplation, our delectation. It had a more serious purpose. It was to furnish the material stuff for the manifestation, the incarnation of the subtle Divine body preparing behind. . Humanity in its present embodied manifestation cannot be immediately changed, transmuted into the supramental body. That body must descend or reveal itself or clothe itself with a new material substance. That new material substance was being prepared in the Mother's body

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SUPPLEMENTARY I SWEET MOTHER (New Series) The Golden Harvest The poet-saint Ramprasad says: “O my man, you do not know how to till! If you knew! Oh, you have such a piece of land – This human life of yours! You could have reaped gold from it.” Indeed this human body is the precious land from which one could reap a harvest of gold. For this body has the proud privilege of receiving the golden touch of the Divine materially and to hold it and maintain it. This materialisation of the Divine is the supreme alchemy of which the body is capable. There are other forms of union with the Divine, all forms of consciousness, of the mind, of th

A Vision The Mother says: “Just see. Look at me. I am here come back in my new body, – divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merge into my being, lose yourself into my love, with your love. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else, forget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love…. ” ¹One is reminded of Rabindranath Tagore's Lo, from within our heart, 0 Mother, thou hast come forth in this wonder-form of yours! I gaze and gaze